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| In lugnet.color, Mark Chan wrote: Be honest about what affects you and cut the stuff about kids. Kids don't care too much about colours, and even though I love Lego more than the average person, I can't conceive of using it to teach my daughter (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) That's bringin' out the really big guns! ;] (...) When I said material, I was thinking more generically, to include not only the actual plastic material, but manufacturing process tweaks as well. I'm pretty sure the main material changed at (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yeah. If you try the AFOL approach, then you're into spending a lot of effort convincing people (who may already be convinced) that AFOLs matter, beforrrre you ever get to the colour issue. It's like tackling 2 challenges at once, and the (...) (22 years ago, 1-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. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Really? What sets had the dark grey? And yeah, I forgot about the maxifig hair for brown (or minifig tools, etc.). I was thinking of largely common elements when I considered when a colour first "appeared". From my recollection neither dark (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Statue of Liberty #3450 Status
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| I've just heard from a colleague that in Europe, we are about to sell through the Statue of Liberty (#3450) set. It's had an amazing run, and was the second LEGO Direct exclusive set. There's a lot of history wrapped up in that set. There are no (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce)
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| (...) Haha that reminds me - the only 2004+ set I have is 4492 MINI Star Destroyer. It's sitting here in the original plastic container, minus all the non-bley pieces. I'd be happy to send this back to TLC with a letter to help prove our point! (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) This is a GREAT suggestion. I would part with a few new gray plates and a couple of 1x2 "old gray" plates, to make the point. I would add, why not put in some pics of various MOCS that have been displayed at shows, and on the WEB, that make (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Great points. Facts=Good. Pictures=best way to represent color facts. Actual parts are even better than pictures. We'll have to think of some way to incorporate your idea above. (Kind of like "Exhibit #1" at a court trial - I like it) I think (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, they've been around for MORE than 20 years (1977 for dark grey and 1974/77 for brown, if you count the maxifig hair which probably wasn't ABS). So, yeah, maybe saying "more than 20 years" or "more than 25 years" (nice round number). (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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