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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 (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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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 (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I fear that we may already be there. This appeared a while back on Brickshelf: (URL) and yikes, Professor Whateverly (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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