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Re: I feel Blue
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Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:07:56 GMT
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There are two oddities I have noticed. Granted those are Technic-grade Racers
display models rated ages 10+. By the time Nitro Menace came out, Lego is
already using red 2L axle. But strangely all 2L axles in Menace is black,
when the six 2L axles for the huge spoiler should have been red for best
appearance. All other axles used to build the spoilers, however, are indeed
in red. The 1:10 Enzo, OTOH, has two black 7L axles that form the front
windshield.
That means Lego do produce these parts in other colours if the overall
aesthetics call for it (specifically if, and for cost reasons, only if, their
set designers order it). Remember the white axles in , the
red axles in , and all those colourful gears in those
Slizer/Roborider sets?
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Thanks Keith, but if you look deeper you will find all sorts of these type of
oddities in all age brackets, price brackets, sub themes and years of
production.
http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/8479-1.1152084784.thumb2.jpg
green axles
http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/8009-1.1124598945.thumb2.jpg
white 3L axles with studs
http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/8242-1.ImageL.thumb2.jpg
red 3&4L axles
http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/8435-1.ImageL.thumb2.jpg
this set has three different colour bushes, none of which are grey
http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/10144-1.1125514892.thumb2.jpg
white 8 tooth gears
http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/8279-1.1135999011.thumb2.jpg
yellow 12 tooth bevel gears
I think perhaps the matter is that i can’t find a reason to why TLG would create
such an anomoly.
Why produce a one off part, such as the white 8 tooth gears in the sand crawler
in an obscure colour, for only one set, that doesn’t appear to be needed in that
colour combination ? It must be expensive. Perhaps the expence can be negated in
such an expencive set.
Why break all the standardisation rules for white 3L axles with studs in the
R2D2 set for no other reason than asthetics. surely TLG must appreciate
asthetics to some degree otherwise we wouldn’t have seen white,green or red
axles in the shuttle or ferraris.
Why produce three different colours of one part for one set for a part which
alread has a “standard colour” ? Surely TLG must seriously appreciate their
designers and a models appearance. This must be a very important issue to them.
Then why Blue ?
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| "Stump Dunn" <stumpd@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J2ox58.D07@lugnet.com... (...) Neither can BrickLink, apparently, their set inventory lists that part as being light bluish grey. Go figure. (...) I could probably think of one reason why TLG (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Actually grey odd length axles started in 2003. Yes, having all those 2L structural pieces (pins, friction pins, axle pins w/ and w/o friction, 2L axles) in different colours will relieve kids' frustration of picking the wrong parts because (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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