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Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:27:40 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
In lugnet.color, Kyle D. Jackson wrote:
There is a factual error here.  Dark grey and brown have not been around for
20 years.

Well, they've been around for MORE than 20 years (1977 for dark grey and 1974/77
for brown, if you count the maxifig hair which probably wasn't ABS).

Really?  What sets had the dark grey?  And yeah, I forgot about the maxifig
hair for brown (or minifig tools, etc.).  I was thinking of largely common
elements when I considered when a colour first "appeared".  From my
recollection neither dark grey nor brown appeared in common elements (e.g.,
basic bricks) until, what, the 90's?  But regular grey was around for quite
a long time in common elements (70's at least).  Can you point to the
specific sets/years when the colours first appeared as any element, and
then when they first appeared in common elements, e.g., basic bricks?

KDJ

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  Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
 
(...) First set to use dark grey (according to Peeron) is 590 Engine Co. #9 (1977): (URL) the Brickshelf scan, it does indeed look like they're dark grey. For brown, I see push-brooms in 1978: (URL) started showing up in "regular" pieces much later. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
 
(...) Well, they've been around for MORE than 20 years (1977 for dark grey and 1974/77 for brown, if you count the maxifig hair which probably wasn't ABS). So, yeah, maybe saying "more than 20 years" or "more than 25 years" (nice round number). (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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