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(...) Not necessarily true. The entire LEGO color pallete leans well towards the warm side of the spectrum, including colors that you wouldn't immediately think of, like green and white (this probably has something to do with the fact that natural (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I think they're just refusing to admit that one of the reasons for the color change is that they use recycled ABS now for some grey and black (as noted in various articles on the web). Since they seem to LOVE the color blue (ever notice how much (...) (21 years ago, 14-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general) !!
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Great conspiracy theory, but I think it would be too difficult in practice to get the same amount of each color in each batch of recycled ABS - otherwise you'd have variation in the new colors from batch to batch. Oh, wait, haven't we seen that in (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It's not as difficult as it sounds. Well, assuming your recycled material maintains a consistent color (clearly, that's not happening). Plastic colors are minutely fine-tuned, so as long as you know the specific color of the batch (a lot less (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Have you guys called the LEGO S@H service? I talked over half an hour with a lady from LEGO and filed a complaint regarding the new colors. She said that they knew of the situation but they didn't get many complaints. I think that if more people (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep, you put it to the man, dude. Yah! 30 minutes of pure righteous "3vil" fury where it will do the most good: Customer Service! Wooo...ooo! (devil fingers) They are keeping you down, brother! They are keeping your children down, my brother. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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