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Re: New colors and other info
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:27:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Anthony Sava wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee wrote:
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Your Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me Brucey-Wan.
All I’ll say about this is that textual lists of leaked set info often cause
more confusion than anything else.
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liason
LEGO Community Development
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These aren’t the sets you’re looking for.
--Anthony
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LOL!
All kidding aside... I actually prefer the non-yellowness of the new greys, and
I only wish they’d come out sooner (before I stockpiled wings and wedgeplates).
However, I do think it’s important to keep the old grey handy for matching
purposes. The bulk brick thing would be a good idea, but make sure the gamut of
parts is represented!
However, as much as I love the new, cleaner greys, I would prefer they be an
addition rather than a replacement... however, before people really panick that
they won’t be able to match their old brick colours anymore, this sort of thing
has happened before... I think it was when LEGO bricks were made from a
different plastic other than ABS, I recall the white looking distinctly more
translucent.
Ironically, I recall the old white being even purer; ie the current one is the
more yellow one. I think the old, old grey (old version of the gears before the
actual Technic line) was also even more yellow than the current (old) grey. I
don’t think anybody freaked out about any of those changes, or when they changed
the back of all plates to the more functional hollow tube design, or when they
phased out all those old rectangular plates with quarter circle edges (used for
curbs waaaaay back when).
One difference is that there was no internet back in the 60’s and early 70’s
(meaning griping wasn’t as easy to do, nor was it as easily visible). But also,
there also weren’t so many parts to have to replace in the ‘new white’. But now,
asking someone to recollect all of the different assortment of parts to recreate
a light grey collection... that’s a bewildering selection of pieces!
In addition to the bulk parts for the old grey, I second the motion of labels on
the boxes indicating which greys (and for that matter, sand blue vs light blue
vs Maersk blue, etc). That’d be nice.
Mark W
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