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Re: The shades of blue (Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon... S@H FAll 2002)
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Date: 
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 02:49:56 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Papenfuss writes:
> In lugnet.general, Cary Clark writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Erik Olson writes:
> > > Your "medium blue" is what everybody I talk to means by light blue.
> > > In other words, the light blue that is not sand blue in Life on Mars.
> > 
> > There certainly is a good deal of confusion on BrickLink about what is
> > medium blue and what is light blue. I called the 2x4 plate in the #7310 LOM
> > Mono Jet "light blue" because it is certainly lighter than blue. Henry Lim's
> > tower of colors also calls it light blue:
> > 
> > http://www.henrylim.org/LEGOColours.html
> > 
> > And Peeron calls it LtBlue as well:
> > 
> > http://peeron.com/inv/sets/7310-1
> > 
> > Cary
> 
> Well, what would Peeron cal the light blue in this set:
> http://guide.lugnet.com/set/5842 (the rounded bricks in the back)
> 
> I think the colors Peeron uses are not 100% accurate, or up-to-date. There
> are these shades of blue:
> 
> Blue (found everywhere)
> Sand Blue (found in LOM sets)
> Medium Blue (found in racer sets, example - http://guide.lugnet.com/set/4579 )
> Light Blue (found in Belville sets)
> Marsek Blue (found in Marsek sets and a few Duplo sets)
> Auqua (found in Belville sets)
> 
> The 'sand blue' is only in the LOM sets - the color there is NOT medium
> blue. The sand blue is darker than medium blue, and much darker than light
> blue.

The 'sand blue' is in the Martian LOM sets.  Medium blue is in the 'Human' LOM
sets.  Yes LOM actually used 2 non-standard blue colors.

-Mike Petrucelli



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  The shades of blue (Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon... S@H FAll 2002)
 
(...) Well, what would Peeron cal the light blue in this set: (URL) (the rounded bricks in the back) I think the colors Peeron uses are not 100% accurate, or up-to-date. There are these shades of blue: Blue (found everywhere) Sand Blue (found in LOM (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)

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