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I also ordered a Mosaic with the below #s, we'll see what happens. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) There may be a problem here. An earlier post referred to Light Gray as being the standard Gray, with the new color being Medium Gray, not (scala) Light Gray. Thus the Scala Gray may not be the new 'gray' used in the Mosaic... (I'm confusing (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Yes, I thought the same thing, but enough of us have already put in orders, though mine was more even in the distribution of colors, that I guess we will have to see when they arrive. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Scala light gray. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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If this helps any-- the new color is a shade *between* the current gray and the current dark gray. It isn't Scala lite gray. (That's the way it was on the example mosaic at the Kidvention) -John (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) WOW!!! So now there are 4 shades of LEGO gray (including the SCALA warm light gray)? Zoinks!! --Todd (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ahhh, just imagine if there were that many shades of every color.... (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup. In fact, if you just saw the new gray by itself, you could easily mistake it for dark gray (I recall thinking) -John (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) I guess it's a good thing that I can use lots of gray on my battleship. Now I'm wondering what color the basleplate is. (John - do you know?) -Jon (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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That's OK - I plan on ordering 4 more Mosaics, switching the 1932 color, once I get the first ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) mistake (...) I'm very curious to see this new grey. I have a 1x1 plate w/side clip which is a grey between the current light and dark (and which I did initially think was dark grey until I matched it up with a real dark grey). I'm getting a (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't remember it being anything special, so I'm thinking that it's just a plain ol' large gray baseplate. -John (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yea, like green... BEN (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well my Mosaic Kit has arrived. I can confirm that the kit has three shades of gray plates (which everyone already knew), a standard dark gray, a standard gray (the same color as the baseplate), and a lighter gray between the regular gray and (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) OK, well, there aren't really 4 shades of gray... at least not publically available (not in Mosaic, at least) But as for Green, there are... 1) Dk Green (aka, standard 'Green') (Bricks, and everything else) 2) Bright Green (used in Baseplates, (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't forget 5) New antique green (from Statue of Lib and new 2001 sets) I have a few of the lime green baseplates, though I always refer to this as mint green. The really like to find bright green foliage pieces. I have several of the large (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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No, the green BURP (and the green ladder in 5855) is darker than standard green. That being said, if anyone wants to sell/trade the green ladders out of 5855, I'm interested - I refuse to buy the whole set for just the ladders. (...) -- | Tom (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) The green ladders I got out of 5855 seem to be the regular green color (and no, they aren't for sale/trade...) Frank (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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CRAP!!! They loaded my box wrong! The instruction sheet for my mosaic clearly shows it is 99.9% #2 lt-lt-grey, yet I only got 2 #2 bags, and 21 #3 bags. <sigh> Time to call S@H on Monday and figure out what to do now. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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CRAP!!! They loaded my box wrong! The instruction sheet for my mosaic clearly shows it is 99.9% #2 lt-lt-grey, yet I only got 2 #2 bags, and 21 #3 bags. <sigh> Time to call S@H on Monday and figure out what to do now. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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S@H is straightening this out and getting me the #2 bags that should have been loaded in the box. S@H rocks! (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Much as I was afraid of. (Note, that I _still_ don't have mine yet...) While I'm glad that they are easliy willing to correct their mistake.... S@H doesn't have the systems to handle customized ordering (bad MRP system). And, they can't afford to (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I don't see why the mosaic should be hard for them to ship. Ultimately, because of how it's packaged, its just a group of sets which are ordered in a somewhat bizarre way. Ok, I guess they do package the thing into a "set" box, and then into a (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hello Mosaicers, (...) What happened is that the set is currently "not available" both in Germany and the US. Let's hope that this is just a temporary shortage. I was just ready to order one or two of them, after having read through the information (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) From an individual's perspective, this would certainly appear as simple as you describe it. But, from an accounting system or MRP systems perspective, this is a ROYAL NIGHTMARE. Look at it this way. (LEGO before Mosaic) My computer system (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I got an email this morning from them warning me that one of my mosaics had been packed wrong. Here's the text: ---...--- Dear LEGO® Shop at Home Customer, Due to a technical problem, your LEGO Mosaic set was shipped with an incomplete assortment of (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I bet they've forecast based on 25 bags. True, many of us will optimize our pictures to get 26 bags, but I bet even with that concerted effort, the difference in margin will be minimal. (...) I thought I saw a picture of what someone got, and (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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I ordered my Mosaic from the Netherlands (shipped from Denmark) and even before I received it, I got an email saying they made an error and will ship the extra parts I will be needing. Eric (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It's a brand-new process for TLC, and they discovered a problem. That's not a big surprise with something like this, for all the reasons you point out. I'm *encouraged* that they discovered the problem, and took proactive steps to deal with (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) My extra parts arrived today, before the mosaics themselves arrived! Paul Sinasohn (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) My extra parts arrived today, too. Unfortunately I am _still_ a bag of #3 short. (It looks as though the software glitch shifting the picture up one line may have cost just enough #3 pixels from my carefully constructed picture to make the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) They have now called me back and tell me that the extra parts will be shipped tomorrow. It wasn't clear whether I will get the extra bag of #3 that I had calculated my pixel counts for, or whether I will get just enough 1x1 plates of #3 to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) The extra parts arrived this morning - a full pack of #3. Kudos to Lego for sorting this out quickly - both the correction packet and the 'correction-correction' packet were sent UPS next day air. Andrew (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I agree. I was just looking at these this morning, and I see no difference between the regular green bricks, the green BURP, and the green ladder from 5855. Tom, do you really have a different shade of green for these? /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) Green BURPS? In what set? I've looked the DB up and down for a Belville set with geen BURPS and I can't find any in any, although I did come across some yellow ones. We are talking about the Big Ugly Rock Piece right? Any help would be (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general, lugnet.belville)
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(...) In 5854 Pony Trekking. Jon, do you really have some that are a different shade than the standard green? /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general, lugnet.belville)
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(...) Thanks! I looked right over it, couldn't see it behind the pony in the small pic on the DB. ~Nathan (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general, lugnet.belville)
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(...) green? Wow, I had thought this thread was dead. I've never picked up that set. But I have it on good authority - Ebay auctions I've seen - that they are indeed Dk Dk Green - Mike Walsh can probably confirm this as well. -Jon (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general, lugnet.belville)
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"Jon Kozan" <jauction@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G4wBwu.EsA@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Wish I could, I don't have any of them myself. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general, lugnet.belville)
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