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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 18 May 2000 22:21:28 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
> My beefs aren't with scale. I realize that TLG couldn't make this thing big
> enough, because it would just cost too much.
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> I stand by my comments, however, on the matters of:
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> - color... once again, light blue?!?! why not more dark gray? [Cost to fix
> this: none]
While putting togrther my falcon I noticed a pattern with the different
colored pieces. Example:
All 1x3 plates were brown
All 1x8 tiles were gray
All 1x2 grill tiles were blue
All 1x4 tiles were dark gray
All 2x4 bricks were red
All 3x3 quarter cirdle plates were tan
All 1x2 plates were red
All 1x4 technic beams were blue
All 1x2 sloped bricks were blue
All 1x6 tiles were black
etc etc etc
seeing the pattern?
Now, imagine yourself a child 8-12 or older/younger trying to put the
Millenium Falcon together when all the pieces are gray.
I believe that this might explain the blue and red and other pieces that
make the Falcon look bad.
HTH
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"Live long and build"-Lego Spock
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) True, but I know that when I was a kid, I could distinguish color much better than piece type. For example, I could distinguish red 2x4's from blue 2x4's easier than I could blue 2x4's from blue 2x3's. I looked for color before piece type. So, (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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| (...) I've noticed this in other sets too. If you bought a set to increase your supply of a certain color, it makes it extremely annoying because you end up having tons of one piece in a color but not of a similar yet useful piece...for example, I (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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| (...) Something similar can be seen in most recent sets, ie. the MTT and the ATT. I suppose the LEGO Company manufactures the sets this way to cut costs: If you can cut down the part type/colour variations there is in a set, you can also cut down (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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| <old man voice> When I was a kid, our spaceships were BLUE and GRAY and we LIKED IT. </old man voice> I don't buy that argument. I built my own stuff when I was a kid. IMO, if you have to learn to differentiate between parts, it only makes you a (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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| My beefs aren't with scale. I realize that TLG couldn't make this thing big enough, because it would just cost too much. I stand by my comments, however, on the matters of: - color... once again, light blue?!?! why not more dark gray? [Cost to fix (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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