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In lugnet.color, Ray Sanders wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Burkhard Schloemer wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Jake McKee wrote:
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The reality is that AFOLs, the primary market for these bags, haven’t
bought enough to sell them out. Some bags remain in higher quantities than
others, and MANY more bags were sold in the US than in Europe. I’m not
saying this is good or bad, it just “is”.
Jake
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Ah, so they’re just not sold out yet ... was wondering myself there. I
confess I’m feeling a bit guilty for not buying my share as AFOL. Well ok, I
DID buy around 40 copies of gray baggies and still I could have bought more
... but what would I want with that many plates and bricks with no other
elements availible in light gray anymore, or with an uncertain supply of
elements in that particular color in the future? I already built myself one
DEATH STAR II in light gray ... :)
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Saying that “no other elements availible in light gray anymore” is stretching
the situation a bit. There are reasonably large quantites of both ‘classic’
grays available on BrickLink. The ‘floor sweepings’ tubs/boxes/etc from both
2003 and 2004 have contained a fair amount of the ‘classic’ grays. Other than
a few special pcs (like the 2x2 convex corner slopes, which were always HTF)
the parts *are* generally avaialble. You might have an issue with the price
of a few of them, but they are generally available. In addition, the 2004
‘floor sweepings’ boxes also contain a fair distribution of the new grays.
You might say that TLC is priming the pump a bit to get the creative waters
flowing using the new bits.
Ray
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That is true. I have plenty of “old-gray” bricks, and there will probably be
plenty “old-gray” elements on bricklink for a long time to come, but my main
issue is that elements introduced after the color-change (like the 3x12
wedge-plate) will NEVER be available in “old-gray”. If I come up with a MOC
that I wanted to use the 3x12 plates in I will either have to aquire all the
parts necessary in “new-gray”, build a mis-matching gray MOC, or be limited to
the realm of CAD. In my opinion, that is the true problem with the color
discontinuity. IF TLC was willing to release a very limited quantity of
“old-gray” service packs that made newer elements available every year, I would
be AFOL demand would be much higher for those than the existing “old-gray”
parts-baggies.
That is just my opinion. And I do thank Jake again for attempting to do what he
could to try to help the situation out.
drc
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| (...) Saying that "no other elements availible in light gray anymore" is stretching the situation a bit. There are reasonably large quantites of both 'classic' grays available on BrickLink. The 'floor sweepings' tubs/boxes/etc from both 2003 and (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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