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| In lugnet.color, Mark Chan wrote: Be honest about what affects you and cut the stuff about kids. Kids don't care too much about colours, and even though I love Lego more than the average person, I can't conceive of using it to teach my daughter (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) That's bringin' out the really big guns! ;] (...) When I said material, I was thinking more generically, to include not only the actual plastic material, but manufacturing process tweaks as well. I'm pretty sure the main material changed at (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yeah. If you try the AFOL approach, then you're into spending a lot of effort convincing people (who may already be convinced) that AFOLs matter, beforrrre you ever get to the colour issue. It's like tackling 2 challenges at once, and the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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