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In lugnet.general, "Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.nospam.org> writes:
> > > and Lego has a subpage http://www.lego.com/mcdonalds
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> > Hmm. Are those *purple* slope bricks on Grimace's car? Look at toy #5...
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> Definitely looks like it might be. Plus Purple would go with Grimace.
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> > But we've been beguiled by purple-for-blue miscolorings before...
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> This is true but this is an official LEGO picture so I would guess that the
> color rendering is better then any of the second hand scans we usually get.
It could certainly be the new blue-purple color -- the one that shows up in
the new DUPLO Dinosaurs sets. It's not purple, and it's not blue, but it's
in-between. It's a *gorgeous* color and it does look great with yellow or
orange. What's got me confused, though, is that the Grimace face on the
stamp in the upper-left corner
http://www.lego.com/mcdonalds/teaser005.asp
is purple, while the Grimace face on the brick on the front of the car in
the photo is bluer than the sloped bricks. Could be due to the printing of
purple onto green[1], although the green shown isn't the classic green,
either -- it looks more like the newer bright green. Guess we'll just hafta
wait and see, huh? :) My bets are on purple-blue, because that's what I'd
love to see. :)
Interesting BTW to see a set with 3 Dark Pink 2x8 plates and 1 Dark Pink 4x4
plate! (I wonder if some of those are really 2x4 plates...)
http://www.lego.com/mcdonalds/teaser003.asp
I wonder what these sets will cost all by themselves (without the Happy
Meal)? Back in 1989 when McD's did the LEGO Motion promotional sets, they
were US$.55 each separately.
--Todd
[1] white comes out as pink when printed on red elements, for example.
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| (...) I wish! I asked about this and it was either $1.69 or $1.79 before sales tax, they weren't sure which yet. I'm hoping they erred on the high side... /Eric McCarthy/ (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| (...) I'm currently leaning towards that, too, but I'm not counting out regular blue yet. However, I do think the green is regular green. I think the lighting is just brightening everything up, 'cause the yellow looks brighter, too. Jeff "I've had (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| I'm guessing that some of the apparent new colours are due to a change in the plastic used by TLG. If you take a close look some of the new bricks in the Star Wars sets, and compare to a standard brick in the same colour, you can sometimes tell that (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| (...) They are "medium" pink - not the light, not the really dark, but a "true" pink. At least on the one on display I saw this morning. (...) I bought 1 while buying 2 HMs, and the HMs were $1.99, the set was $1.83 - so at this point, I'll buy the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Definitely looks like it might be. Plus Purple would go with Grimace. (...) This is true but this is an official LEGO picture so I would guess that the color rendering is better then any of the second hand scans we usually get. Eric Remove (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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