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Re: rare colours in: Life on Mars
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:24:20 GMT, "Christian Gemuenden"
<GECH1@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > And does 7314 use the Paradisa light pink in it, or is it a new slightly
> > lighter red? Sounds good whatever it is.
> From what I can see this "pink" is not from the Belville or Paradisa line
> (and I own a lot of these). Instead, my guess is that it's one of the
> 'unpink' light red Scala colours that were released in 1997 and 1998 which
> were then replaced by much stronger colours like orange, swamp green etc. A
> good example of the two 'old' red Scala shades can be found in set 5404 (or
> heck in nearly all Scala sets from 1997 and 1998). Just type in 5404 in the
> pop up box above and you'll see what I mean. I have never seen these
> non-pink light reds in any set besides Scala.
>
> I am much more curious about the light purple. It could be the Belville
> light purple that is mostly used for the large round Belville plates/bricks,
> but could be a new one as well.
> The light green (as seen in 7311) could be the new
> *putinyourfavouritenamehere* green, but as it's not very grey-ish, I still
> think it's the light green that has been used for Belville already.
> More rare colours are swamp green (used for some alien bodies) and a new
> blue-green that is used for some aliens as well: Look close enough at the
> one in 7311 and you'll notice that this one comes from the Scala line as
> well.
> Wou will find it in 3108 (as well as the light purple) looking at the left
> part of the image.
>
> From what I can see, the LoM sets could easily be considered as 'rare colour
> element packs' (well most of 'em) and therefore I can't wait to open any of
> these!
>
> > And 7312 is a really cute design, I'll definitely be making my own version
> > of that one.
> It comes with this round smoke grey element and light grey wheels.
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> > Purple 8x8 dishes! D'ohhh, why couldn't they have used a few more purple
> > elements in the other sets? Sadly the purple spaceship is still a long way
> > off...
> Hey, 3713 comes with a lot of useful light purple elements as well. Look
> close and you'll notice two purple 'small space wings' as well as a light
> purple 'windshield element' (I don't know the actual name but if you look at
> 3066 you will notice what I mean). You will find that piece right in the
> cockpit of that mech. And don't forget all the slope bricks and the grill
> tiles that can be found in there as well. They're certainly light purple.
> >
> > Hmm, I'm sure this has been said before somewhere, where is everyone
> > discussing the Mars play theme? I thought it'd be in .space.
>
> I think this discussion should also be cross-posted into lugnet.colours :) .
>
> Todd, any thoughts of creating that newsgroup. There might be subgroups like
> lugnet.colours.greenish etc. :) .
>
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> > LUGNET member 164
> > http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
> >
> >
> >
Looking at it in person I'd call the new 'red' Dusty Rose or some
such.
Mike
--
All other themes are just spare parts for Castle! :^)
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