TLG's stupidest decision?

Section8 · January 20, 2008

Pupils on the minfigs. Plus the overly complex faces for simple lines like town. I generally dislike the way the simple smile has been supplanted by more complex, less universal ones like the silver sunglasses one or the grey bearded guy.

hollisbrick · January 20, 2008

I know there worst is galidor and stickers!!!! *n*

Omega 8 · January 21, 2008

Rant-ish Statement .....

I just don't understand the general HATE for bley *wacko* ...... to me the use of both new and old colors in most castle MOCs is more realistic. For a space or possibly town moc I can see the need for uniformity but for Castle building I like the "worn" look of the mixed colors .....

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As for Lego's "stupidest decision"?

GALIDOR. Hands down.

**Hinckley** · January 21, 2008

Hinckley refers to it as frown. The rest of the civilized world calls it rewn :-P

Yes, it's hard to be the only one who's right.

Honestly, I get a little tired of these topics that just want to bash TLC. They always lead back to bley and the whole color change or Galidor and it's just wasted negative energy IMO, and nothing we haven't heard before.

Sorry to rain on your fun rant parade...

lham · January 21, 2008

The dumbest/stupidest decision is always going to be the one that affects you individually the most.
For me, that decision was/is bley. The colour change brought my LEGO purchases to a crashing halt in 2004. I've picked up a few sets here and there, but my overall LEGO buying habits have been dramatically impeded by what I feel is an incompatability issue. I'm a castle fan first and foremost, so this colour change couldn't have been worse. EVERYTHING I build relies on grey. The death of old (earth toned) grey was pretty much the death of my LEGO purchasing. I still buy sets for figs and occasionally just for the build (UCS falcon), but my brick collecting has really hit a wall.

I would've thought that as a castle fan you'd love light and dark bley since they are supposed to be light and dark "stone"...a much more realistic colour for building grey castle walls, also if you combine light/dark grey and light/dark bley you'll have 4 shades of grey for your castle walls allowing yet even more exciting realism :-D

of course when TLC uses dark-bley for exo-force/space/starwars/city cars and trucks the mechas/spaceships/vehicles look like they're made of clay |-/

in 2004 lego made they're traditional grey's a new grey with a bluish tinge. If you compare any grey piece in a new set to one in an old set the difference is obvious. We refer to the new one as bley. They also changed the shade of brown they use for pieces and we generally refer to this new color as frown.

the new brown looks very much like chocolate brown (I'm guessing that's what TLC was aiming for), vibrant and edible/organic!! the previous brown looked very calm and inert, for me it's choco-brown,

yummy :-)

Edited January 21, 2008 by lham

**Hinckley** · January 21, 2008

TLC's stupidest decision was passing up the production of this set:

hollisbrick · January 21, 2008

TLC's stupidest decision was passing up the production of this set:

is it even lego? or just a clone brand?

**blueandwhite** · January 21, 2008

I would've thought that as a castle fan you'd love light and dark bley since they are supposed to be light and dark "stone"...a much more realistic colour for building grey castle walls, also if you combine light/dark grey and light/dark bley you'll have 4 shades of grey for your castle walls allowing yet even more exciting realism :-D

If only :'-( .

As you must be aware, new grey when mixed in healthy portions with old grey makes the old colour look faded or discoloured. It looks like you've mixed two different brands of building blocks together. Still, for folks with smaller collections this probably isn't a big deal.

legotrainfan · January 21, 2008

Hi!

I'm a newbie here but eager to discuss everything that has something to do with my beloved hobby. I usually prefer LEGO train stuff as my user name indicates, but I also have some sets of other themes, of cours, but they are mostly quite old. My love in LEGO space has not been reborn since Blacktron II and Ice Planet. All that came afterwards did not interest me. The same is true for the castle series. I have the Inn and the Black Falcon's Fortress, both legends. I don't have any newer castle sets. So, as I said, I am mostly interested in train sets and city sets to make the whole layout look nicer. By the way, I have 9V trains only and my heart broke into a million pieces when TLC announced that 9V stuff was being discontinued.

I also didn't like the introduction of the new hinges, but I must admit they are more stable than the old ones.

I didn't like it when LEGO introduced the blay colours. Nothing against the new colours if the old ones were still produced. But when blay came out, prieces for old gray bricks on bricklink went up terribly. But I do have some sets with blay in them, of course. The colour change did not make me stop buying LEGO products.

**Hinckley** · January 21, 2008

Hi!
I'm a newbie here but eager to discuss everything that has something to do with my beloved hobby. I usually prefer LEGO train stuff as my user name indicates, but I also have some sets of other themes, of cours, but they are mostly quite old. My love in LEGO space has not been reborn since Blacktron II and Ice Planet. All that came afterwards did not interest me. The same is true for the castle series. I have the Inn and the Black Falcon's Fortress, both legends. I don't have any newer castle sets. So, as I said, I am mostly interested in train sets and city sets to make the whole layout look nicer. By the way, I have 9V trains only and my heart broke into a million pieces when TLC announced that 9V stuff was being discontinued.

I also didn't like the introduction of the new hinges, but I must admit they are more stable than the old ones.

I didn't like it when LEGO introduced the blay colours. Nothing against the new colours if the old ones were still produced. But when blay came out, prieces for old gray bricks on bricklink went up terribly. But I do have some sets with blay in them, of course. The colour change did not make me stop buying LEGO products.

Hello legotrainfan. Welcome to the forum. I like your attitude that it didn't stop you from buying LEGO. X-D *y*