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| | | The first of the new Harry Potter sets is now available in the UK. the 4755 Knight Bus has arrived, but, as others have noted in .harrypotter, quality is definitely slipping. The instructions seem to printed on a much inferior paper stock, but (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general) !!
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| | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Cary Clark
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| | | | | (...) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LEGO Introduces New Collectable Colors Billund, Denmark -- The LEGO Group has taken collectability to a new level by varying the colors slightly, but perceptably, in its newest sets. "We've had an enormous response from (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general) !
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| | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —James Stacey
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| | | | | | | The truly sad thing about your press release is it is believable. A couple of years ago I'd have laughed at the concept, nowadays its almost believable. I feel sorry for Jake. Every stride forward made in fostering closer relations with the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) Cary, That's about the best laugh I've had all week. Disturbingness of its inspiration completely aside, it's brilliant. LFB (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Dave Lovelace
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| | | | | (...) Dangit, this is the one HP set I wanted to buy this year. Are you sure that the (average) color of these parts isn't Violet? Hard to tell, even from the relatively good scan... --D (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Huw Millington
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| | | | | | "Dave Lovelace" <dave@umop.com> wrote in message news:HtttII.C6p@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) It's a new, or otherwise previously rare purple. See this comparison picture: (URL) the new dog: (URL) multi-coloured bus: (URL) picture makes is look (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Thomas Stangl
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| | | | | | | Jake, Would you PLEASE bring this up with the head office ASAP? I can't believe they would release a set with such *sloppy* color control. This is insane. Just how far is quality going to slip at TLG before someone wakes up? I was probably going to (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | | | (...) OK, what does the picture on the box look like ? If the picture on the box shows a smooth single-color bus and the bricks inside vary that much, this almost sounds like grounds for a recall. At the very least it would tread dangerously close (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Ley Ward
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| | | | | | (...) I'm assuming that those plates are violet and purple (left to right.) It appears as if they dumped some purple into the violet vat and then didn't stir it enough.(1) 'Tis a shame, if that's the direction things are heading; it would have been (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —John Barnes
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| | | | | | (...) This issue added to the "new gray" issue makes me wonder; Is the new gray just one color, or will we look back in a few months time to see a whole range of new grays, just as we are now seemingly getting a range of purples :) JB (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Ley Ward
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| | | | | | (...) I fear that we may already be there. This appeared a while back on Brickshelf: (URL) and yikes, Professor Whateverly (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Skin tone figs (was Re: The Knight Bus has arrived...) —Nathan Wells
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| | | | | (...) You know, those skin tones aren't bad at all... Infact, I kinda like them... *runs and prepares to be pelted with megabloks* Nathan (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Skin tone figs (was Re: The Knight Bus has arrived...) —Dawn Sullivan
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| | | | | | (...) Eggnog anyone.....? Dawn (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Bill Vollbrecht
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| | | | | (...) The purple in question is indeed a new color. Along with light grey, dark grey, brown, light pink, magenta, our dear purple is also one of the old colors to fall victim to "improvments". All of those colors have been permamently retired and (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | "Bill Vollbrecht" <mwv1970@juno.com> wrote in message news:HtwrD8.x49@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) grey, (...) to (...) retired (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Can you comment on Maersk Blue (the light blue color only available to model (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Bill Vollbrecht
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| | | | | | | | (...) (URL) out the above link for the story on Maersk blue! (if ya hadn't seen it already!) Bill (20 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | | (...) Two years ! So this means that the color swap planning goes back to almost the same time (2002 model year) that they dropped the TECHNIC moniker from Star Wars, Bionicle, et al sets. Interesting. Sounds like there was a sea change back then (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —David Laswell
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| | | | | (...) Just on a sudden hunch, has anyone compared the Knight Bus purple against the color used for Vince Carter's Toronot Raptors uniform from the #3462 NBA #3 minifig pack? (20 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Ley Ward
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| | | | | | (...) Well I don't have the Knight Bus, but I can tell you that Vince's uniform very closely matches the violet plates that I have. There is an almost imperceptible variation; the uniform might be one percent more red, but you wouldn't notice it (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news —Stefan Garcia
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| | | | Is it possible that the variation is intentional? Even with a new purple, there were other purple shades before. Are the variations in different parts in different sets? Just wondering. -Stefan- (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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