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Re: An Episode I Set Finally Revealed...
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:10:29 GMT
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johnneal@SAYNOTOSPAMuswest.net
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I dunno, Todd. If you check out the scan from the one on auction in Ebay, it
looks pretty much like blue. And that makes me blue...AND a buck poorer:-(
-John
Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.starwars, ekings@us.ibm.com (Eric Kingsley) writes:
> > After looking at this picture I believe that these may very well be purple
> > bricks and here is why...
> > [...]
> > I hope they are purple because then maybe my wife could get interested in
> > Lego and I wouldn't feel even a little guilty buying all this great stuff...
>
> D'ya think it might be not the regular purple as seen in CyberSlam, but a
> new purple? More violet, like the purple/blue rubber hoses seen in the 8250
> Search Sub?
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> I think the new DUPLO Fleshy Dough-Blob Kids (a.k.a. Strawberry Shortcake or
> Little Forest Friends) line uses this purple-blue purple.
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> If it is that purple-blue (hope hope!) and not the regular old magenta-
> purple, then certainly is a way mongo beautiful color shade.
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> I'm *so* looking forward to it, in fact (fingers crossed!) that I added the
> color to the Fibblesnork Backgrounds collection a couple months ago...
>
> http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/backgrounds/bricks-purpblue-40.html
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> I'm not sure I got it close enough though...
>
> --Todd
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| (...) Purple and blue are the two most common colors that 4-color offset printing technologies get wrong when they're not properly calibrated. Most of time, it's blue coming out violet rather than purple. This would lend credibility to the "it's (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: An Episode I Set Finally Revealed...
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| My thoughts on the Gungan Sub: I knew, sadly, that the bricks in question were blue. I was hoping they weren't but, well, there you are. It will be interesting to see how the actual sub compares to the Lego one. What is the "anchor" on the front? (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: An Episode I Set Finally Revealed...
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| (...) D'ya think it might be not the regular purple as seen in CyberSlam, but a new purple? More violet, like the purple/blue rubber hoses seen in the 8250 Search Sub? I think the new DUPLO Fleshy Dough-Blob Kids (a.k.a. Strawberry Shortcake or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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