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Lego colours
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:53:39 GMT
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Someone posted here about a month ago saying that they didn't really like the
Lego colours and would swap all of his for gray bricks given the chance...
There was a show over Christmas in the UK about classic toys and, no surprise,
Lego was mentioned. James May, the presenter, said that the reason Lego bricks
were bright yellow, blue and red was that the Lego founder was a pacifist and
didn't want boys to be building anything that could be seen as military.
Tamaguchi (sorry about the spelling) was also mentioned (NOT as a classic toy).
Has anyone ever tried making a similar thing (look-after-it-or-it-dies) with
Mindstorms?
(By the way, what does MUP stand for?)
Thomas
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| (...) I read that too - but there was a discussion about this on the Lego entry of Wikipedia and it seems that this may just be urban legend. Consider the VAST number of military parts that Lego makes - there are Lego guns, rockets, knives, swords, (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Maybe that was the case many years ago, but things have definitely changed over the years, causing LEGO to adopt new practices. (Just look at the introduction of flesh-toned minifigs, for example) (...) MUP = Mindstorms User Panel. A dozen or (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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