gylman Posted September 3, 2006 Posted September 3, 2006 Frankly, I have found the swtich to reddish brown more difficult to deal with than the bley problem. It's hard to make decent looking earth and trees out of reddish brown. It just looks wrong! I stockpiled a bit of brown, but nowhere near enough if I need to build something serious. Sign. Quote
Governor Mister Phes Posted September 4, 2006 Governor Posted September 4, 2006 I can see what you mean Mr Glyman, have you seen SkaForHire's Treetop Tower? It uses new pieces onl in colours he acquired from a Pick A Brick. I think the new colour palette looks very childish, or put another way "It looks so Playskool". Quote
El Bucanero Posted September 4, 2006 Posted September 4, 2006 Mmmmmm that's not entirely the reddish brown I mean, the most is even more reddish.. Quote
Governor Mister Phes Posted September 4, 2006 Governor Posted September 4, 2006 Where can I see a picture of this colour? Quote
El Bucanero Posted September 4, 2006 Posted September 4, 2006 here you can see 2 colours brown, the plateau and the fences. The fences have the orange-brown, I'm aiming on the plateau.. Quote
Brick Miner Posted September 4, 2006 Posted September 4, 2006 :| Please not another "Grey rules, Bley sucks" discussion.... |-/this is actually the first discussion i have seen about the topic, so im glad i found it. it good to hear others prespectives on the situation. *y* my view point is of blueandwhile, so i'll just quote him for my opinion. he put it prefectly... Bley looks fine... so long as it isn't mixed with grey. The flip-side of that is that grey also looks fine, so long as it isn't mixed with bley. The results are far less-noticeable with light-grey/bley, as these two colours aren't as potent as dark-grey/bley. Mixing dark-grey/bley successfully is simply NOT POSSIBLE! I think people are still missing the point. Most of us with large collections of classic-grey (particularly dark-grey) aren't too fond of new-grey(bley). We aren't going to contaminate our collection with new grey. Those of you who own only a small amount of classic grey would be wise to move on. Old grey isn't coming back. It isn't going to get cheaper, and it certainly isn't going to become easier to find. Many old-school fans dismiss anything built from new-grey, but it doesn't change the fact that it is the only grey LEGO plans on producing from this point on. The fact that the last of the classic-grey service packs sold slowly in Europe, and are still available in North America doesn't help things for us old-timers either. Changing grey to bley was perhaps the biggest blunder LEGO could have made. Still, its done. Newer collectors can either adapt, or acquire old-grey at an inflated price. Its that simple!!! Who say they (the colors) won't change in the future? But how would black get changed?actually, we have seen another color dropped and replaced just this year. so that makes four now.Glow-In-The-Dark because of this, id say ther is a good chance other colors might change in the near future 8- Quote
Governor Mister Phes Posted September 4, 2006 Governor Posted September 4, 2006 here you can see 2 colours brown, the plateau and the fences. The fences have the orange-brown, I'm aiming on the plateau.. Why thank you Mr Tiber. It doesn't look that bad in that picture but I'm wondering how it would look next to old brown... Quote
El Bucanero Posted September 8, 2006 Posted September 8, 2006 I'm wondering how it would look on a ship, if you don't mix it with old brown, you'll probarly won't notice it. When I was in a toy store some weeks ago, I saw the new viking set, with the blue dragon, I took a look at the box and noticed a treasure chest, In that picture, I couldn't really say wether it was reddish brown or classic brown, to be honest, it looked more like classic brown then reddish! I didn't bought it so I could check it but it looked like classic brown very strong. Quote
oo7 Posted September 9, 2006 Posted September 9, 2006 The lighting in pictures makes it so hard to tell exatcly, but I can assure you, it dosen't look that different. Most of the time I like differnt shades of brown and grey. When making a creation like a stone wall it makes the it look more natural not being all one color, and when making an old and wheathered sailing ship it makes it look better not one color. I'm an outcast here, aren't I? Quote
El Bucanero Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 The new brown couldn't be such a problem as bluish grey, but I still prefer classic brown.... Quote
El Bucanero Posted September 30, 2006 Posted September 30, 2006 Another comparison of bley to grey and rown to brown(rown=reddish brown, I don't know if there is another word for it yet..) The comparisor sais he hates the bley and rown change, wich he shows in this pic, but I can't find the difference in the brown! is it both rown or both classic brown?? Sorry for double posting... Quote
Norro Posted September 30, 2006 Posted September 30, 2006 I believe that would be brown on top, new brown lower (looks like dk red) and tan at the base... God Bless, Nathan Quote
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