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Re: How have the new colors affected your recent buying decisions?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:36:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Timothy Carl Buchheim wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford wrote:
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> > Are other people in the same boat? Has the color change truly affected your
> > buying decisions/patterns? (By that I mean not just your attitude, but the
> > actual way in which you are spending your dollars.) Are there people who have
> > learned to love the new colors and are therefore buying the same number or more
> > of new sets than before?
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> I don't expect my buying habits to change at all. Thanks to the aging process
> of LEGO which eventually turns all bricks yellow, I have many different shades
> of grey in my collection. Plus, LEGO hasn't been consistent with colors anyway.
> (Pieces from 1981-1985 space sets have surprisingly large variations in the
> grey, even after one accounts for yellowing. I remember noticing this as a
> child. A few of my "1x1 plate with vertical clip" pieces, for example, are
> about halfway between grey and dark grey!)
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> I expect that I will eventually pick up most of the Harry Potter, Star Wars, and
> Castle sets this year, and probably some of the Pirates and Spider Man sets as
> well.
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> As far as I'm concerned, new colors mean a broader color palette for my
> building. Yes, it's annoying that we won't be able to buy new bricks in some of
> the older colors, but that's OK with me. When I was young I was happy to have 6
> colors (red, yellow, blue, white, black, grey) with a few special pieces in
> other colors (brown, green, plus transparent colors). Now I have dozens of
> colors. I'm happy. Well, the brown may annoy me some. I haven't seen it yet,
> but from pictures it looks too red. And I don't have enough of the old brown.
> But if they start producing the new brown in large quantities, with more pieces
> available (many pieces were never made in old brown, or at least not until just
> before it was dropped) then I won't mind too much.
>
> The non-yellow minifigs are going to be weird, but I don't really play with
> minifigs much. I mostly just build structures, and occasionally add in a few
> minifigs afterwards if I happen to remember. :-)
I really don't care about the colors. I am not into the building for the colors.
I am in the builing for my drug. Yes I said it. Lego is my drug of choice.
T-Shirts to follow. LOL
Color is not a big deal. I would like to see old baseplates be reintroduced. The
16X6 are great. Now that they are rarely in a set it makes it hard to get many
of those. The old city baseplates were and would be great to have.
Larry
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