tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post839210972706550533..comments2024-03-28T22:25:17.706+00:00Comments on New Elementary: LEGO® parts, sets and techniques: Fabuland Lives On: the coloursAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188856208086872634noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-79384873354612616132019-05-14T17:48:47.748+01:002019-05-14T17:48:47.748+01:00Seems I guessed right. Grey-Tron (or Greytron, Gre...Seems I guessed right. Grey-Tron (or Greytron, Grey:Tron etc) was apparently a small MOC:ing niche for a while, inspired by that prototype image.Håkan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00767889630145885090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-44840230745441626052019-05-14T13:42:23.533+01:002019-05-14T13:42:23.533+01:00Grey-Tron, I guess it might refer to this prototyp...Grey-Tron, I guess it might refer to this prototype. (The image is a bit blurry, though, so it's not crystal clear which exact nuances that are used.)<br /><br />https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/1/16/Space_Proto2.png<br /><br />There's also Another prototype posted, although there, the main color appears to be Sand Purple or Bricklink Purple.<br /><br />https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/4/43/Space_Proto.png<br />Håkan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00767889630145885090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-82568287713308004152019-05-12T15:59:30.386+01:002019-05-12T15:59:30.386+01:00@Evans:
Grey-Tron?@Evans:<br />Grey-Tron?Purple Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-64479076282316372262019-05-11T22:23:50.913+01:002019-05-11T22:23:50.913+01:00The first buildable Dk.Gray parts realeased in set...The first buildable Dk.Gray parts realeased in sets, besides accesories were 2x6 and 2x8 plates, that were a part of the 12V switches, from 1980. We had to wait until 1991 to have a 1x8 tile (in harbors), and the 90's space themes like Spyrius to give more parts. It's funny, because early 90's prototypes themes were rather extensively using Dk.Gray, like the 9V Inter-City train that already had 1x4x3 train windows and bricks. Same with Grey-Tron, or Castle themes.<br />Althrough, there was already Brown 1x2 bricks in 1985, that were used for horses, so there was some building possibilities... as long as you could afford buying sets just to get that single 1x2 brick....Evanshttp://www.clabrisic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-1108676258620525462019-05-11T16:11:05.189+01:002019-05-11T16:11:05.189+01:00@Håkan S.:
Yeah, probably. I mostly remember it b...@Håkan S.:<br />Yeah, probably. I mostly remember it being the color of arms and armor for Castle, BURPs, LURPs, and Unitron torsos. Eventually it ended up being the color of cannons in Pirates, firearms in Western, sharks and falcons, and minifigs from three of the Aquazone factions. Stingrays even started using it in the models, though there wasn't much variety. I'm really not sure when it started being used as a main component of models, but it wouldn't shock me if it lasted until SW or HP came out in the early 00's.Purple Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-21789223421948280372019-05-11T09:32:05.643+01:002019-05-11T09:32:05.643+01:00Even Dark Grey was pretty rare until somewhere aro...Even Dark Grey was pretty rare until somewhere around late 80's-Early 90's, I guess...Håkan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00767889630145885090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-84013534429299233092019-05-10T22:29:00.084+01:002019-05-10T22:29:00.084+01:00It's not really the same thing, though. Fabul...It's not really the same thing, though. Fabuland did have lots of new colors, but you couldn't really build much with them at the time. As you can see in the pictures, there are Fabuland heads, accessories, a chair, and a fence. No bricks. They've come out with some fancy painted colors...if you don't mind them being restricted to Dwarf helmets and axe blades.<br /><br />More importantly, if you bought every theme _but_ Fabuland back then, you would still never have seen most/all of these colors anywhere besides the pages of a catalog. For much of my childhood, the themes I actually got for birthdays and Christmas probably contained no more than nine of the opaque colors: the Mondrian 5, green, light-grey, dark-grey, and brown. And probably not a lot of brown, either.Purple Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-66482436808083294812019-05-09T22:21:22.389+01:002019-05-09T22:21:22.389+01:00I spent most of my life thinking that the "or...I spent most of my life thinking that the "original" five colors were the actual original colors, but then I discovered crumble trees. These had brown trunks that were dipped in some sort of solvent and then dipped in unprocessed green resin pellets to add the leaves. And they predated my birth, which means those two colors got cut from the palette at some point. It wasn't until a few years ago that I finally found out what happened. Unfortunately, searching high and low I still can't find the site where I first read this, but I believe it was Godtfred Kirk's wife, Edith, who found inspiration in one of Piet Mondrian's "de Stijl" color block paintings and got her husband to reduce the color scheme to those five famous colors. The twisted irony is that part of the logic behind this move was that it would make the LEGO System look more modern. Kinda blows your mind to think that now building in those same five colors makes your model look antiquated and toylike compared to what can be achieved with the full range of colors that has been expanded since then.Purple Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-52896480852953612482019-05-09T16:02:08.406+01:002019-05-09T16:02:08.406+01:00In general I feel like a lot of people who feel li...In general I feel like a lot of people who feel like LEGO was vastly different in the 80s than today forget about Fabuland, which was ahead of its time in a lot of ways.<br /><br />Fabuland made use of several colors besides the standard ones of the time, had named characters and extensive story-driven media, introduced lots of specialized parts both to make System building less intimidating to a younger audience and to allow for more varied subject matter than basic bricks could allow (let's not forget how Fabuland jail cell doors remained the standard for all System themes well into the late 90s), and even made heavy use of stickers.<br /><br />You'd think that compared to Fabuland, AFOLs would be much more accepting of themes like Juniors which use the same figure design and colors as other themes of their time, focus largely on open-ended play rather than "scripted" scenarios, are designed for compatibility with standard System window and door pieces, feature SNOT connections and small elements like plates/tiles that Fabuland more often avoided, and even at their most specialized don't resort to a single piece to represent an entire room or garage!<br /><br />But there's something about Fabuland's quaint Richard Scarry aesthetics that helps many AFOLs to see more of a point to its existence, even if they are in denial about there being any other value in having an "intermediate" theme between Duplo and System.<br /><br />I suppose I can't blame people for being nostalgic for it… I'm sure I'd have enjoyed Fabuland if it had existed when I was the right age for it. But it foreshadowed a lot of the stuff AFOLs complain about in today's sets/themes more than many tend to admit.Skye Barnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12504300686346575904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276033407505619194.post-30181564560515720952019-05-09T12:27:45.805+01:002019-05-09T12:27:45.805+01:00Some colors like Tan or Old Dark Gray were already...Some colors like Tan or Old Dark Gray were already existing in Lego bricks form in 1968. In fact, these parts were used for Legoland billund Miniland, as we can see on postards from that period. When Legoland Sieksdorf closed, some of the remaining stock of Tan, Dk Gray and Green parts were lost in the wild, so I have some pat.pend. green bricks, and some people have tan and Dk.gray pat.pend. parts. These were still produced in the late 70's, ad there is a big exhibition model of Brussels townhall that used mainly Tan parts, with Dk Gray, in 1980.Evanshttp://www.clabrisic.comnoreply@blogger.com