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I've just bought my first sets with the new colours in and the new brown colour
is the same as a popular brand of chocolate (candy) here in the UK. As a safety
engineer I would be concerned about an increase in children eating these bricks,
especially with 1x1 bricks of this colour in set 4410, which is for 4 year olds.
For building realistic models, surely the most useful brown colour would
resemble wood, such as that used for a pedestrian crossing of railway tracks. I
don't think chocolate brown is useful, unless you also bring out a cream colour
so I could make chocolate and cream rail coaches, which was one British train
livery a few decades ago.
The grey colours look less yellow than before. Will sunlight change that? Are
the new colours any more resistant to yellowing? How about supplying bulk
natural ABS colour bricks cheaply (as there would be no dyes, saving money)? It
would be useful for the inner support bricks of statues and scenery, where it
wouldn't be seen.
Perhaps chocolate Lego Bricks would find a niche in the sweets market,
subcontracted out to a suitably ethical sweet manufacturer? It's a bit late for
Easter this year though.
Mark Bellis
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| (...) MMM...MMM! actually chocolate LEGO bricks taste good ;) I just recently ate some in Denmark and will show some pictures when I can get around to it... They don´t say LEGO on them, but they were bought from a LEGO venue ;) From what I know the (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) One can only hope... (...) One can only hope...not. (...) Ugh, no. Not only is natural ABS a rather unpleasant translucent creamy beige color, but it's highly prone to UV damage, causing it to get crusty and brittle. (21 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| FUT: lugnet.general "Mark Bellis" <mark.bellis@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:Hvyyy8.wvo@lugnet.com... (...) colour (...) safety (...) bricks, (...) olds. (...) late for (...) So lets recap... You're "a safety engineer"... You're "concerned (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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