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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 they are made of differing plastics. Perhaps some of
the standard bricks will also be changed to the new plastic for next year?
(Duckie) Dave Till
Todd Lehman wrote in message <38174ad5.366471561@lugnet.com>...
> In lugnet.general, "Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.nospam.org> writes:
>
> > > > and Lego has a subpage http://www.lego.com/mcdonalds
> > >
> > > Hmm. Are those *purple* slope bricks on Grimace's car? Look at toy • #5...
> >
> > Definitely looks like it might be. Plus Purple would go with Grimace.
> >
> > > But we've been beguiled by purple-for-blue miscolorings before...
> >
> > 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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