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(...) Boy, talking about communication issues... If the company itself can't pick a single name for a color and stick with it, what else can we trust them with? How someone can call "tan" "brick yellow" with a straight face, I just don't know. -- (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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(...) I don't get it. How has the situation changed since Jake stated that the company wouldn't be switching back? We knew (unless Jake was flat-out-lying, which I seriously doubt was happening) that the people responsible for the color change, and (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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(...) I'm keeping out of the color discussions, but I can answer this one. The 'Beige' on the list IS what we know as Tan. At LEGO, this color is known both as 'Brick Yellow' and also 'Beige' - color number 05 on the LEGO color chip pallette. Quite (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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In lugnet.color, Christian Treczoks wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) For me, you've just lost your credibility. You're saying one thing in one post--'it's all about the communication--if they just said they're sorry but they can't change it now due (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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Dear Leonard, Just a small correction and addition here: The "American Mindset" annotation relates to the example of Davids experience with Lego fixing a problem, and how exited he was that they actually did this, not to the starting paragraph. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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David Eaton wrote: > Actually, is that true? At the time, was JVK in a position to reverse > the color change? He wasn't the CEO back then. IIRC he was a vice > president of some sort? Was he even in charge of that division of > Lego? I honestly (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Yep, 15K in about 4.5 years...but that's not 10 a day average. That's more like 14 per day (considering holidays, weekends, and vacation time - Granted, I work a great many weekends, holidays, and evenings, but I'd rather not start considering (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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(...) I hadn't noticed that, but COOL. That's a very nice set to begin with and this is the icing on top. Hmm, now you've given me an idea about a coal mine for a medieval layout. Thanks LEGO! Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) -snip- (...) Would it change anything if the word was "dispassionate"(1) rather than objective. The idea that David is trying to express is whether an opinion is being clouded by excessive emotionalism. Maybe it is just an uniquely American (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Actually, is that true? At the time, was JVK in a position to reverse the color change? He wasn't the CEO back then. IIRC he was a vice president of some sort? Was he even in charge of that division of Lego? I honestly don't know, I'm just (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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