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 Author: cosmicray View Messages Posted By cosmicray
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 20:54
 Subject: Re: Dark red, new dark red and new new dark red.
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In Suggestions, Namsey writes:
  The dark red shade produced
between 2009 and 2018 is more opaque and most importantly, more brittle. So I
suggest a new category for this specific shade but I don't know how to rename
it. Please give your suggestions.

One of the questions that falls out this explanation is, what did LEGO customer
service do when someone called them concerning brittle dark red parts in a set,
but only certain parts (of that color) were brittle ? The implication here is
that, at some point, CS was sending out parts that did not exactly match to other
dark red parts.

But the explanation above, may go all the way back to this set
 
Set No: 8009  Name: R2-D2
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8009-1 (Inv) R2-D2
239 Parts, 2002
Sets: Technic: Star Wars: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6
, of
which I parted out quite a few copies, and likely about 15 years ago. Certain
dark blue parts varied widely between translucent dark blue (which isn’t even
a color that BL recognizes) and dark blue. At some point in my current process,
it is possible that I will part out more of that set, and will likely run into
this again. Note tho, that neither shade of dark blue were brittle, so this was
some other cause/effect.

Nita Rae

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View Thread Dark red, new dark red and new new dark red. - Namsey (102)
There is no differentiation between these shades on Bricklink and it had caused me to order the same pieces from different stores several times until I had the correct amount [...]
(11 months ago, Jul 28, 2023, to Suggestions)

4 Messages in this Thread:

 Msg 1 - Namsey (102) 11 months ago Jul 28, 2023 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - DeLuca (289) 11 months ago Jul 28, 2023 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 « - cosmicray (3498) 11 months ago Jul 28, 2023 to Colors
 Msg 4 - ManilaBrick (2734) 9 months ago Sep 1, 2023 to Suggestions

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