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Re: Universal Color List...finally
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lugnet.color, lugnet.lego
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Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:46:41 GMT
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Burkhard Schloemer wrote:
> In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote:
> > I hate wading back into the color
> > change waters
> I wonder why? Doesn't it feel good to have been proven right? After all, the new
> BRIGHTER sets were a raving success for LEGO, weren't they? LEGO sale numbers in
> Northern America were skyrocketing this year, and retailers have doubled or
> trippled their shelf space reserved for LEGO all across the world! Everybody
> loves (and buys) the wonderful new colors!*
Yea! More new colours! More shades of pinkish violet-green, 'cause the
kids love them!
This list, however universal it is deemed now, still has some drawbacks.
The main problem I see is with these ugly new greys, which are on the
list, and which horribly clash[1] with classic colours like white, which
is also on the list. So they put an inconsistent list into granite.
So this leaves the following options:
- live on (play on) with an inconsistent palette (and hope that
nobody notices it)
- scrap the universailty of the list and change white, and
propably some other colours like yellow and blue, too (which
would propably result in spontaneous visits of AFOLs in Billund,
torches and pitchforks included :-)
- reintroduce and add the original grey to the list (something most
of us could agree to)
I can understand that Jake really does not like to be caught in
presenting this whole mess to the very concerned and involved part of
the market. I think, nobody would. Accept my deep sympathy, Jake.
Yours, Christian
[1] give it a try: stack some new grey, new dark grey and some fresh
(not yellowed) white bricks, and check them side by side. Especially the
new dark grey makes even the freshest white blocks look stained like
they were ten years old.
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| (...) I wonder why? Doesn't it feel good to have been proven right? After all, the new BRIGHTER sets were a raving success for LEGO, weren't they? LEGO sale numbers in Northern America were skyrocketing this year, and retailers have doubled or (...) (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, FTX) !!
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