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Re: Color confusion regarding 4755 Kinght Bus
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Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:06:11 GMT
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In lugnet.harrypotter, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.harrypotter, Ray Sanders wrote:
> > In lugnet.harrypotter, Mark & Milissa Millère wrote:
> > > What bothers me more then that is the color differences. Take a
> > > close look at this pic posted by Tom S.
> > > http://www.alteredstatesmag.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=toyfair-2004-lego-harry-potter&id=Harry_Potter_01
> > >
> > > TWO different shades of purple!
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> > Is it really purple ? My take is that there is some kind of effect
> > lighting shining on the bus (notice the color glints on the brick
> > edges). The fig is another story tho... the box shows a flesh-tone
> > fig, but the actual fig looks almost yellow. Hrmm. But.. but... the
> > torso printing on the actual fig doesn't even match the box
> > artwork. Something strange here.
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> Forget about the box art and the fig. Look closely at the bricks
> on the bus. Two different shades of purple. No doubt the bricks
> are the old purple we've grown to love, and the windows are the
> new improved purple. Get used to that look, because we're going to
> see a lot of it in MOCs from now on.
>
> Don
OK, I would find it a bit of a leap that TLC would ship it like that. I can see
where some parts did not prev exist in purple and had to made just for this set
(which would mean new shade of purple or even violet) and that the parts in the
other shade were some that the model shop already had some in stock (old color).
If this is truly how it will look when shipped, then TLC has sunk to a new low
in quality, but I still don't buy it.
What I do believe is that the 'unusual' colors that came out in the 4400 tub
(the 300 pcs not depicted on the tub label) along with the 'unusual' colors
being sent to PaB are ways of unloading excess stock in colors or shapes that
TLC does not expect to use again. With respect to PaB, there will be some common
stuff there, but the 'unusual' stuff is TLCs version of dross. Remember, there
was a fair amount of 'vintage' DkGray and LtGray in the 4400 tub. People
wondered why that was in there with lime and purple.
Ray
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| (...) (snip) (...) (snip) True...the first official pics of the new Millenium Falcon that showed up online (on FBTB, I think) had both new and old dark grey in the same image, especially noticeable on the alternate model for the back of the box. And (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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| | Re: Color confusion regarding 4755 Kinght Bus
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| (...) Forget about the box art and the fig. Look closely at the bricks on the bus. Two different shades of purple. No doubt the bricks are the old purple we've grown to love, and the windows are the new improved purple. Get used to that look, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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