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Re: Nicely now. What do you think of the new colors?
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lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 04:58:24 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Ahui Herrera wrote:
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Thank you TLG for such a change in color and how you did it.
I am sure that when my kids (who are NOT born yet) go to MBA school this
will be a classic case study on how a company goes DOWN the toliet!
In my studys for my MBA I learned how IBM totally messed up by not listen to
the market about the PC, how Xerox failed to understand that “paper” was a
thing of the past and it should have gone digitlal, and how American Airlines
failed to see the need of the local bussiness commuter and how SouthWest
airlines took away market share.
TLG will soon join the ranks of the mighty that FALL!. It saddends me that
those at the very top (thank goodness they are gone) can do so much damage
and not hear the voices of those below. No common sense... I guess all
that $$$ just goes to their heads.
Okay my thoughts on the new colors: WHATEVER!
I “play” with whatever you give me. However, based on all the negative
comments you have gotten here I don’t think it was a wise decision NOT
because ALL us AFOLs are complianing that we will NOT match anymore.
TOUGH LOVE!
But for what Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote here:
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=678
His concern over the general public thinking the color change is a quality
issues is the biggest concern of mine. I know that we (AFOLs) can not
support TGL alone its the general public that keeps TGL afloat. But if they
(the general public) percieve this as a quality issue and move away from LEGO
then we (AFOL) are screwed becuase TGL will go belly up. Granted, I’m sure
the color change alone will not cause TGL to go belly up. It’s just one of
many errors that will lead the TGL to chapter 11.
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Well it’s be over a month since I’ve had the new colors and I think I have to
say I’m sorry for my earlier post. I vented my fustration on the new colors and
how I did not like them. But in this past month I’ve actually used them in some
small model creations. Mind you i am NOT the type to build moc or mix and
match my bricks from different sets. I build a set and display it for the most
part. Mix and match is what we have LDraw for. =)
In any case, I think the new light gray is MORE in line with the other LEGO
colors. It look more like cement than the original ligh grey. As for the dark
grey hum... still “no like it”. The old dark grey was perfect for militray
models like tanks. This new dark gray well it’s just there. No real feeling
for it one way or the other.
I also did a small test with my 4 and 5 year old nieces. I showed them a small
model (a simple house) with the old light grays and dark grays and the same
model with the new light grays and dark grays. They like the new 2nd model (the
one with the new colors). I asked them why they like the 2nd model and the 5
year old said that the 1st model looked too dark. The 4 year old liked how the
yellow and light grey looked on the second model and not the first.
So I guess they win.. =)
-AHui
A&M LWorks
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