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Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:41:58 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
First set to use dark grey (according to Peeron) is 590 Engine Co. #9 (1977):
http://www.peeron.com/inv/colortable/3024?ip=0

Is that Peeron chart just for a specific part?  It's showing DkGrey and Brown
as making very late appearances...


Yeah, grey *brick* was really uncommon until around 1984 when the castle theme
started using it. Beforehand, it was around in plates mostly, but grey bricks
were only speckled in here and there in various sets.

Yeah, the earliest grey bricks I got were in classic space set 894 Tracking
Station in 1979 (a 2x4 and a bunch of 1x1,2,3).


Heh, hopefully the above works well enough :)

Yup!  Must've been bored!  ;]

Thanx,
KDJ

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(...) Oops, wrong link... (URL) Yeah, grey *brick* was really uncommon until around 1984 when the castle (...) Cross between bored and curious I guess :) Once I realized how to do it rather quickly, it was pretty easy... Though admittedly writing a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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(...) First set to use dark grey (according to Peeron) is 590 Engine Co. #9 (1977): (URL) the Brickshelf scan, it does indeed look like they're dark grey. For brown, I see push-brooms in 1978: (URL) started showing up in "regular" pieces much later. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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