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Now that I've had a chance to see the new colors
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Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:49:57 GMT
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All I can say is, “LEGO, what were you thinking??”
You’ve completely wiped neutral grey out of the color palete, and replaced it
with blue-grey.
I did see one piece that looked good in the new blue-grey, the binoculars the
stormtrooper is carrying while riding the dewback. The blue made them look very
metalic.
Of course for those of us who use grey and dark grey to try to model anything
other than metal are basically out of luck! No more grey ‘concrete’, no more
dark grey ‘stones’.
Castle builders? Sorry!
Town builders? Sorry!
Train builders? Sorry!
Congratulations, LEGO. Because some kids in a focus group said they liked these
new colors “better”, you’ve managed to upset your most loyal and fanatical
customers - the people who spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year on
your product. Meanwhile, your ‘average’ customer probably won’t even notice the
chance, or worse they’ll just think that it was a quality-control problem and
they got miscolored bricks.
Looks like I’ll be heading over to the nearest Pick-a-Brick to stock up on the
good dark grey while I still can, and doing my best to avoid any sets that are
predominately the new blue-greys.
JohnG, GMLTC
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Now that I've had a chance to see the new colors
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| In lugnet.general, John Gerlach wrote: snip (...) And while your at it, please shop at BrickLink... I just checked the BL inventory of those two colors (if would only give me a lot total, not a pc count)... 19782 lots of new parts in DkGray 24155 (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Now that I've had a chance to see the new colors
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| (...) No need for sarcasm, John, but I agree with your premise. The department carrying on "focus research" is about as clueless and out of touch as it possibly can be. How can the opinions of a few dozen focus group kids provide any meaningful (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Now that I've had a chance to see the new colors
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| (...) I think that's overstating the problem, just a little. There are plenty of rocks, stones, even castles that are quite a "metallic" colour of grey. Yes, the old dark grey did have a nice "organic" feel to it, but really I don't think that the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Now that I've had a chance to see the new colors
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| (...) I thought of something else that really bugs me about this color change. Harry Potter sets!! Why? Because so far almost all the HP sets have been designed to work together. Look at the poster that comes in the sets - on the back it shows a (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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