Brick Colours - How many?
Carbon 60
I think that there are more colours coming out every year
So here's a list of the colours properly available (ie. not pre-fabs).
Standard pieces
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Black
Red
Yellow
Blue
White
Green - Originally availbe as only a slim brick - they used to stack them
in 3's some times.
Grey
Dark Grey
Brown - On new Stingrays and Western
Light Blue? - Insectoids
Silver - 5542??? 25th US Aniversary also I think
Belville Pieces - Standard Ones - Dark Pink, also Dark green
Technic Related - Turqoise (SP?) and Purple, Fibre Optic Colour :)
Transparent Pieces
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Plain transparent
Trans-Dark red
Trans Ice Planet Red
Trans Green
Trans Dark green
Trans-light Green
Trans-Yellow
Trans-Dark Blue
Trans-Light Blue
Any others - I know LegoLand DenMark has more - judging from the
pictures, who's been there?
Sorry if I have missed some stuff on this N/G - I'm only getting 5
messages a day. Hmm
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Gold - space faceplates
Matthew
Richard Schamus
That purplely-cromey looking body armor in the Hydronauts set #6110-Solo
Sub.
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Matthew <matthe...@MCI2000.com> wrote in article
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Huw Millington
In article <MPG.f8cd3502...@news1.force9.net>,
sc...@denscicorp.force9.co.uk (Carbon 60) wrote:
> I think that there are more colours coming out every year
> So here's a list of the colours properly available (ie. not pre-fabs).
>
> Standard pieces
> ===============
>
What about sand - there's plenty of that around now!
Now, more interestingly, when did the following colours first appear as
either 'normal' bricks or plates (discounting trees, barrels, oars, spears
etc.)
Green
Sand
Brown
Dk. Grey
My guesses are:
Green - Plates in mid-'80s in castle sets, bricks much later - 1996 Western?
Sand - plates and bricks in 1998, Adventurers
Brown - 1996, western
Dk. grey - plates in 1994 in Spyrius sets, bricks later in 1998
(Stingrays/Adventurers)
Please put me right if I am incorrect!
Huw
Jeff S Markwell
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Huw Millington wrote:
> Now, more interestingly, when did the following colours first appear as
> either 'normal' bricks or plates (discounting trees, barrels, oars, spears
> etc.)
>
> My guesses are:
>
> Green - Plates in mid-'80s in castle sets, bricks much later - 1996 Western?
I have the first Western sets, but I can't recall any green bricks.
Maybe my mind is failing.
> Dk. grey - plates in 1994 in Spyrius sets, bricks later in 1998
> (Stingrays/Adventurers)
here, I would say train track cross pieces (what do you train guys call
them?) THough they are not regular plates, you didn't explicitly
discount them :) .
Jeff S Markwell
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> My guesses are:
>
> Green - Plates in mid-'80s in castle sets, bricks much later - 1996 Western?
> Sand - plates and bricks in 1998, Adventurers
> Brown - 1996, western
> Dk. grey - plates in 1994 in Spyrius sets, bricks later in 1998
> (Stingrays/Adventurers)
>
> Please put me right if I am incorrect!
>
> Huw
>
Sorry...but you are a little bit wrong..:-) sand plates were also avaliable
in 1997, in outback 6490 "amazon crossing"
regards
Selçuk GÖRE
> hmill...@cix.co.uk
> http://www.pncl.co.uk/~huw
>
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Doug Finney
Huw Millington wrote:
>
> Now, more interestingly, when did the following colours first appear as
> either 'normal' bricks or plates (discounting trees, barrels, oars, spears
> etc.)
>
> Sand
> Brown
> Dk. Grey
Brown 1x2 bricks come with most brown horses...
Doug
MAH4546
>Sand - plates and bricks in 1998, Adventurers
You are forgetting WILD WEST. Every 1996 WILD WEST sets fetured a tan base.
Larry Pieniazek
Jeff S Markwell wrote:
> here, I would say train track cross pieces (what do you train guys call
> them?)
East of the big Pond (UK): Sleepers
West of the big Pond (US): Ties
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Brian Muzas
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.980403154739.16683A-100000@eagle>,
mark...@hcs.fsu.edu says...
>here, I would say train track cross pieces (what do you train guys call
>them?)
Ties.
--Muze
Brian Muzas
What about the purple notched trapezoid available in the Giant Model Set? It's
a plate that is 4 wide tapering to two by three high. A 2x1 notch is cut from
the base of the trapezoid. If you'll excuse my poor drawing, it looks vaguely
like this:
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/::\
/ -- \
-| |-
--Muze
In article <MPG.f8cd3502...@news1.force9.net>,
sc...@denscicorp.force9.co.uk says...
>
>I think that there are more colours coming out every year
>So here's a list of the colours properly available (ie. not pre-fabs).
>
>Standard pieces
>===============
>
Brian Muzas
In article <6g6130$l...@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, bkm...@cco.caltech.edu says...
>
>What about the purple notched trapezoid available in the Giant Model Set?
It's
>a plate that is 4 wide tapering to two by three high. A 2x1 notch is cut from
>the base of the trapezoid. If you'll excuse my poor drawing, it looks vaguely
>like this:
>
> --
> /::\
>/ -- \
>-| |-
>
>--Muze
Never mind, you have purple under Technic, but although this piece comes in a
Technic set, it seems to have first originated in System.
--Muze
Mark Essink
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:51:08 -0500, Jeff S Markwell
<mark...@hcs.fsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Huw Millington wrote:
>
>> Now, more interestingly, when did the following colours first appear as
>> either 'normal' bricks or plates (discounting trees, barrels, oars, spears
>> etc.)
>>
>> My guesses are:
>>
>> Green - Plates in mid-'80s in castle sets, bricks much later - 1996 Western?
>
>I have the first Western sets, but I can't recall any green bricks.
>Maybe my mind is failing.
There are some green bricks/pieces in some of the Indian sets.
<snip>
Later,
Mark <--- Who wants everybody to know that 6484 F1 Hauler is a great set!
Bendyarm
>>On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Huw Millington wrote:
>>
>>> Now, more interestingly, when did the following colours first appear as
>>> either 'normal' bricks or plates (discounting trees, barrels, oars, spears
>
>>> etc.)
>>> Green - Plates in mid-'80s in castle sets, bricks much later - 1996
>Western?
There were green plates in the 1960s. Check out
the spare parts packs scans from Bill Katz that
are on Joe Lauher's pages under
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/samsonite.html
for example
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/60s_e3.jpg
You could get green plates in 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, and 2x4
sizes. No green spare parts packs nowadays.
/Eric McCarthy/
bend...@aol.com
er...@reasoning.com
Todd Lehman
Not counting the new Scala colors such as warm light gray, I count 34 unique
colors (that's considering all elements and not just pure bricks). Here's my
list, with abbreviations:
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"Trans" here stands for "Transparent" and is used as a prefix, for example
"Trans-Red" or "Trans-Green." Note that there is no "Trans-Blue" since there
are actually two types of transparent blue in the LEGO world -- transparent
light blue and transparent dark blue.
White White
Gray The lighter of the two Grays -- the classic Gray we all
grew up with
DkGray The darker of the two Grays -- a slightly brownish dark
gray as seen in Space, Time Cruisers, BURPs, etc.
Black Black
Blue Blue
LtBlue Light blue -- as seen on the Street Sweeper brushes
Teal Blueish-Green -- as seen in new 1998 Technic sets and
on various 1997 torsos
Green Green -- classic green as seen in foliage and baseplates
Pastel Green Old Paradisa Green, before the switchover to LtGreen
LtGreen New Paradisa/Belville Light Green
Yellow Yellow
LtYellow Light pastel Yellow, as seen in Belville
Tan Tan (very light brown), as seen in Wild West, Divers,
and Outback; not to be confused with LtBrown, which is
darker and richer than tan but lighter than Brown
LtBrown Light brown -- a color resembling butterscotch-candy --
as seen in DUPLO Dinosaur sets; not to be confused with
Tan, which is lighter yet than LtBrown
Brown Brown (dark brown), as seen in Wild West, Adventurers,
and various other places such as minifig hair
Orange Orange -- as seen on decorated tiles and other
decorated elements and in the DUPLO Brotosaurus
and in certain new 1998 Belville elements
Red Red
DkPink The darker of the two pinks -- a reddish/mauve color as
seen in Belville
Pink Light pastel Pink as seen in Paradisa (note that there
have been two light pastel pink formulations; the old
one was abandoned around 1994 and wasslightly lighter)
LtPurple Light Purple, as seen in Belville (not the same as the
Purple seen in 8277 or CyberSlam)
Purple A magenta-ish purple as seen in the 8277 Giant Model Set
and CyberSlam
PurpleBlue A purple-ish blue as seen in pneumatic tubing in the
Technic 8250 Search Sub
Gold Gold, as seen in bugles, coins, and Launch Command
Astronaut visors
Silver Chrome-Silver, as seen in swords, harpoons, knives,
hyrdolator crystals, and shiny Model Team elements
LtBlue-Chrome Light-Blue Chrome-Silver, as seen in Hydronaut suits
Glow-in-the-Dark Glows when charged under incandescent light or held in
black light, as seen in ghosts and 5-star magic wands
Clear Totally clear -- no pigment
Trans-LtBlue Transparent Light Blue, as seen primarily in Town
Trans-DkBlue Transparent Dark Blue, as seen primarily in Space and
Aquazone
Trans-Green Transparent Green, as seen in Space, Aquazone, Town,
etc.
Trans-GrYellow Transparent Fluorescent Greenish-Yellow, as seen in
Space and Aquazone
Trans-Yellow Transparent "Beer" Yellow, as seen in Space, Town, etc.
This is different from the "neon" greenish-yellow.
Trans-Orange Transparent Fluorescent Orange, as seen in Space and
Time Cruisers
Trans-Red Transparent Red, as seen in Space, Town, etc.
--Todd
Grahame Reid
Todd Lehman wrote:
How about trans-black as used in visors ?
Grahame Reid
Mark Koesel
In article <DvBX.61$cH.3...@ptah.visi.com>,
Todd Lehman <leh...@visi.com> wrote:
> PurpleBlue A purple-ish blue as seen in pneumatic tubing in the
> Technic 8250 Search Sub
I wonder if it makes sense to think of this as a separate color.
I mean, If you look at the black and grey pneumatic tubing, neither of
those are really the same color as the black and grey bricks. Also if you
look at flex tubes the same phenomena arises -- the colors are different
from the brick colors. In fact there are at least two different colors
of yellow and of grey flex tube (the slightly different colors also seem
to have slightly different rigidities in this case.) Another example is
the red technic piston heads. They are a muddy red, but again probably
due to slightly differing types of ABS mixture - they are not really
meant to be a different color of red.
Just my 2 cents on what is otherwise apparently a perfectly accurate
list.
--
Mark Koesel
koe...@umich.edu
Larry Pieniazek
Todd Lehman wrote:
> LtPurple Light Purple, as seen in Belville (not the same as the
> Purple seen in 8277 or CyberSlam)
Is this the almost white, somewhat greyish color?
> Gold Gold, as seen in bugles, coins, and Launch Command
> Astronaut visors
>
> Silver Chrome-Silver, as seen in swords, harpoons, knives,
> hyrdolator crystals, and shiny Model Team elements
>
> LtBlue-Chrome Light-Blue Chrome-Silver, as seen in Hydronaut suits
I am not sure I agree that these are colors. I would tend to think of
them as treatments, as they are plated on. Colors are molded in. I do
agree they need *names* though, to avoid confusion. I just wouldn't call
them colors.
Thanks for the list!!!
Todd Lehman
All the black-ish visors I've seen are opaque black. What set has
trans-black visors?
--Todd
Todd Lehman
Larry Pieniazek <lp...@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> writes:
> > LtPurple Light Purple, as seen in Belville (not the same as the
> > Purple seen in 8277 or CyberSlam)
>
> Is this the almost white, somewhat greyish color?
It's the Belville pastel purple, which is almost exactly the same color
as a purple SweeTart(R).
--Todd