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Re: Color Change - Final Update —Don Heyse
(...) Yes, please share. I noticed there was never an official denial to the rumor that the real reason was so TLC could recycle blue ABS into the greys, and red ABS into the browns in order to save money. Is this the real reason why you can't go (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

	Re: Color Change - Final Update — Jake McKee
	(...) Consider this an official denial. :) Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Development (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

		Re: Color Change - Final Update —Jindrich Kubec
		(...) Jake, how long would it take to present us with some real reason for doing the change? I can accept something like this: some higly positioned **** in the management thought it was a great idea. There was nobody brave enough to tell him that (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

			Re: Color Change - Final Update —Larry Pieniazek
			(...) Why not? There are always ways to get things. There are always fans that would help out friendly, helpful people in other countries if asked nicely. But thread hijacking, especially hijacking really busy threads that are apparently bringing (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

			Re: Color Change - Final Update —Jason Spears
			(...) Just because you and some others don't accept that Marketing thought it was a good idea to change the colors doesn't make it not the "real reason". (...) I'm sure that some people within the company thought it was a bad idea. But those people (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

			Re: Color Change - Final Update —Leonard Hoffman
			(...) If you accept this theory - then what would make you think Jake is brave enough to publically rebuke said highly positioned ****? If everyone else is afraid, then they have good reason to be afraid (meaning=fired) - and I'd rather have Jake (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

				Re: Color Change - Final Update —Jindrich Kubec
				(...) Because there were some fires in the top management recently, so it's non-zero probability the person is not there or not in that high position ;-) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

		Re: Color Change - Final Update —Ka-On Lee
		(...) OK... that what is the real reason for the change? Please don't tell me TLC is applying patent for the new colour... :p And why can't TLC switch back for the mean line, but can still produce old colour if needed? If the new colour is really (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

	Re: Color Change - Final Update —Jan-Albert van Ree
	(...) You can't simply "mix" ABS like that. The colors will never blend 100% and you'll get swirling patterns such as McDonalds "Flurry" icecreams :) -- Jan-Albert van Ree (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

		Re: Color Change - Final Update —David Laswell
		(...) Yes you can. It's done all the time. Any color of ABS can be easily recycled into black, because the carbon used to color it will overpower any other dyes. Other colors are entirely dependant upon what you want to recycle them into. You can't (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

			Re: Color Change - Final Update —Aaron Muhl
			What colors do you grind up and mix to get Purple Dave? :D "Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:Hx9uMx.15LG@lugnet.com... (...) recycled (...) dyes. (...) into. (...) and/or (...) exactly (...) exactly (...) Once (...) (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

				Re: Color Change - Final Update —David Laswell
				(...) I'm actually quite partial to the standard LEGO purple, though I've noticed that the Throwbot limbs aren't the same shade as all of the other pieces, and they've used three slightly different shades of purple rubber (two shades for purple (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

			Re: Color Change - Final Update —Jan-Albert van Ree
			(...) Wow.... I've been an intern for 4 months at a Dutch injection moulding company but I never knew it was possible, apart from the black (as has been done for years with car bumpers and such) But unless you do this in HUGE quantities, how can you (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

				Re: Color Change - Final Update —David Laswell
				(...) That's part of the problem. You do get much greater accuracy as you increase the size of the batch. It's also probably a lot easier to do with sheet extrusion than with injection molding, where you have a constant flow of a large amount of (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general)

	Re: Color Change - Final Update —Erik Olson
	(...) Now that you got your official denial, consider: Lego makes more black bricks than they do gray bricks. In the recycling article they said recycled plastic goes into black bricks. (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

		Re: Color Change - Final Update —Don Heyse
		(...) I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me. Please explain further. Or maybe I just need some coffee. I really wish they would just tell us the real business decision behind the change. Then we could move on. (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

			Re: Color Change - Final Update —Don Heyse
			(...) Oh wait, I think I get it now. Maybe the first question was too specific. Let's make it a game of it and see if we can gather a few more "official denials". How about 20 questions? Was there a cost savings component in the decision to change (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)