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Old Color Changes
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Wed, 26 Nov 2003 07:24:40 GMT
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the following is an email i got that regards a previous change to the color
grey... the names and stuff have been hopefully changed enough to protect me
from getting anyone mad?
don’t know if this is even relevent. but thought you all might like the read and
pic...
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hey XXXXXX
it just occured to me what a prophet you are. All the sudden this
afternoon i had this memory come flooding back to me of you coming out
to a NELUG meeting a few months ago with multiple colors of grey from
the past. Did you ever take a photo of that. Do you remember where
the different hues first appeared or when?
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I was going to take a picture for XXXXXX (one of the XXXXXX guys who does a
ridiculously thorough job of cataloging colors & pieces), but he already
knew about it. In fact... (acha!) he’s got a picture of the color on his
brickshelf account:
Mine now http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/elkane/Misc/greys.jpg
That clip #3 in the picture was (for some reason) seemingly ONLY used in
1x1’s with clips, and only for a few years in the mid 80’s. Later sets had
matching greys.
Supposedly, that color chart that Lego gave out to the Lego community
contains the “old grey” and “new grey”, but I’m not sure if it contains
this “80’s freakshow grey”.
AFAIK there’s:
White,
Uber Light grey (from mosaic sets),
Old Grey,
New Grey,
Freakshow Grey (from the clips above),
Old Dark Grey,
New Dark Grey,
Pearlescant Grey (funky milky grey),
Chrome Grey (technic wheels, etc),
Black
I can see if I can get the 1x1’s all together in order to show the color
variants (might be a little easier to tell). Might be easier to see the
difference there. (Now if only I had some of the ‘new’ grey & dark grey...
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enjoy and dont flame me...
tk
Co-Curator of .Space
CEO Kane StarCrafters
CEO ExtraGlobal Express
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) That picture is a copy taken from my comparison galleries. Would you please forward me the email of the owner of that folder? I would ask it be removed. I do not want my pictures copied or used elsewhere. Here's the original: (URL) The UM on (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Old Color Changes
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| Well, but whats the point? OK, a limited run of 4085a had a messed-up grey, which passed QC unnoticed. But nobody ever expected TLC to run a whole collection of brick in this colour. It only - erronously - appeared for a sigle run. The reason for (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Speaking of old color changes, here are two I haven't seen mentioned anywhere: I KNOW that blue changed sometime over the course of its history. I have a fair mix of two very slightly different blues. I first started noticing it about 2-3 (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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