a strange blue window

[MightySlickPancake]

hi where this is worth posting or not i was looking on brickshelf and found

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=308909

(if pic is to big tell me and i will take it off)

i wonderd about if for a while but couldn't figure it out cause lego don't sell it in blue but it doesnt look painted either.

looking at the other things that seb928 has made i got very suspicious.

the reason i am asking is that if he (or she) can make a custom then i would really like one as the lego red,black,grey and green isn't great . and i wanted to make a freightliner class 66 (i have made a ews one and it will soon pop up here when pics are ready) the frieghtliner has yellow windows as theirs is blue.

if anyone can help i would be very great full

cb

[Hinckley]

I imagine he has access to someone who works in one of the Model Builder's shops. They have access to virtually all pieces in all colors...

[Skipper 24]

Well I'm not expert but it does look pretty real. The colour looks slightly different on that piece though but it could just be the light. Alternatively I think Hinckley/Zornckley could be right.

Edited April 15, 2009 by Skipper 24

[Freddie]

If you check out the rest of his gallery, you'll notice he has several train windshields and windows in unreleased colors:

I suspect it might be a very high quality repaint. It's either that or he has contacts.

Edited April 15, 2009 by Freddie

[Mariann Asanuma]

I imagine he has access to someone who works in one of the Model Builder's shops. They have access to virtually all pieces in all colors...

Sorry to break it to you Zornckley, but that isn't true. At one time, it used to be the Model Shops did have access to pieces that the average consumer did not, but that was over a decade ago when that stopped.

Even then, it wasn't "all pieces in all colors." What the Model Shops had was the more commonly used special elements like headlight bricks, profile bricks, etc. in all of the standard 10 colors (red, blue, yellow, green, black, white, old grey, old dark grey, brown, and tan) even if they had never been produced in a set. They also had a wider assortment of Maresk blue and clear bricks and plate than was ever available to the public. The brick assortment they had was so that they could more accurately produce the models for the LEGOLAND parks and display models.

But as I said, that was all in the past. When I worked in the Model Shop at LEGOLAND California (2003-2007) we could only order the bricks that were being produced for current LEGO sets, and that still holds true to this day. Granted, the Model Shops can order a lot more of one element (even some of the more rare ones that only come 1 to a set), but at the same time, Model Shops only order what will be useful in build models for the theme parks or to go on display.

Also, because the Model Shop at LEGOLAND CA was set up in 1998, anything that was more than a 2-3 years older than that would not have been available to order at all. The Model Shops in Denmark and England have a little bit wider range, since they have been operating longer. And, any new bricks that are just starting to be available in sets, the Model Shop often doesn't have, because they haven't ordered them yet. So just as often as not, the Model Shops wouldn't have some of the bricks that a LEGO collector would have.

I know its a bit off-topic, and I apologize for that, I just thought that people might like to know.

[Hinckley]

Sorry to break it to you Zornckley, but that isn't true. At one time, it used to be the Model Shops did have access to pieces that the average consumer did not, but that was over a decade ago when that stopped.

I hate to break it to you, but you're very very wrong about that.

[prateek]

I suspect it might be a very high quality repaint. It's either that or he has contacts.

or that he has liquid ABS and a mold

[Mariann Asanuma]

I hate to break it to you, but you're very very wrong about that.

What do you mean?

[Siegfried]

What do you mean?

The logical assumption is that he knows what he says due to first hand experience (that is a friend got some parts for him) but can't say any more. Thus unless one of you can produce recent proof it's all come down to "Who do you believe more?"

[Ricecracker]

The logical assumption is that he knows what he says due to first hand experience (that is a friend got some parts for him) but can't say any more. Thus unless one of you can produce recent proof it's all come down to "Who do you believe more?"

And even though you (Mariann) were a model builder, since Hinckley is more well known, and has the third largest post count on Eurobricks, people are more likely to believe him.

[Mariann Asanuma]

The logical assumption is that he knows what he says due to first hand experience (that is a friend got some parts for him) but can't say any more. Thus unless one of you can produce recent proof it's all come down to "Who do you believe more?"

I see. Well I was just saying what I knew from the time that I was at LEGOLAND, if its different now or whatever, that's fine. It was just my experience that I was commenting on.

[Svelte]

Well, it wouldn't make commercial sense to let Model Builders have access to unlimited parts in an unlimited palette - not to mention the inadvisability of letting the kid loose in the candy store argument

We see many rare and exotic parts for sale on bricklink that were never officially released in any set. Heck, Horncklez even ran a competition not long ago featuring such supposed impossibilities. If Lego really was doing production runs especially on the request of Model Builders I am sure we would see some leakage of these rareties - and more discussion of them as well.

However, I am sure that certain useful parts *are* produced in bulk on the request of builders - like the three-pronged tan old-skool hinges used for Miniland-scale hands, as featured in the most recent issue of Brickjournal.

Mariann, your professional insights are very interesting so do keep posting your thoughts. Like fans of anything, we all like to glean as much inside information about the 'other side' of our interest as we can.

I am going to choose option 'C' and believe everybody!

[Hinckley]

I see. Well I was just saying what I knew from the time that I was at LEGOLAND, if its different now or whatever, that's fine. It was just my experience that I was commenting on.

I'll concede that they don't have that in California as long as you can concede that they might have it in the model shop in Billund...

[Siegfried]

Mariann, your professional insights are very interesting so do keep posting your thoughts. Like fans of anything, we all like to glean as much inside information about the 'other side' of our interest as we can.

I am going to choose option 'C' and believe everybody!

Yes, I pick Option "c" too! The more opinions the better!

[Mariann Asanuma]

I'll concede that they don't have that in California as long as you can concede that they might have it in the model shop in Billund...

Okay. I don't know what the rules in Billund are, even though I do have a friend there. Maybe I'll have to ask him about that.

[Jipay]

I second Hinckley. For instance I got my hands on those wheels, and brickshelf is full of special colors items :

And that's not from Billund, but another park.

[Hinckley]

Okay. I don't know what the rules in Billund are, even though I do have a friend there. Maybe I'll have to ask him about that.

And it seems they have a lot of pieces in many colors, perhaps not ordering up any in any but everything that you could think of you can find... (in the miniland models, of course. I'm just inferring...) And if they aren't allowed to do it anymore, then I bet they have a lot of stock left over from when they could.

We should PM about this perhaps...

[CopMike]

Oops :

CopMike

[Hinckley]

Oops :

CopMike

Oh good. You stopped by and didn't yell at me.

[Ralph_S]

I have visited the model shop in Windsor. They do have a stash of elements that never appeared in sets, quite possibly from the time when there were fewer limits to what they could order. Examples would be trans clear 1x4 tiles, green finger hinges and green train windows. The Windsor creation centre has a model of a Boeing 747 in the colours of Virgin Atlantic suspended in its lobby. It's mostly built with pearlescent grey parts, which were ordered from Billund specifically for this purpose. They can still order certain elements from LEGO that you can't get in current sets. They are known as "Q-list elements". The selection is fairly restricted though.

Cheers,

Ralph