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Anyone else notice the difference in the grey between, oh, say the Land Speeder in set
#4501 and oh...perhaps EVERY OTHER GREY LEGO? Aside from 7119's weird red colour bricks - which I have no idea where I stored, this is driving me insane as I dumped them all together in one bin. Is this a Star Wars only thing? They seem to have a bluish tinge to them.
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DaveE
That's when the 2004 sets started hitting the shelves in the lead-up to Christmas that year!
Supposedly, some fans had gotten wind of it a few months earlier when talking to builders in LEGOLAND, but had been asked not to say anything (IIRC, LEGO said something like "it's so subtle, the fans may not even notice").
Of course, what followed was probably the biggest hissy fit in AFOL history-- some people even went so far as to try boycotting LEGO, vowing never to buy another new LEGO set again. For years, whenever a new set was coming out, LEGO designers asked for feedback, which ALWAYS consisted of some AFOLs asking "Will it have old gray?"
DaveE
If you were more a space or castle fan it affected you much more than say town folks.
They labeled the new color "bley" (bluish-grey) and among old time AFOLs that name has stuck.... actually the uproar was labeled the "bley wars". Dark grey and brown were also affected.... and the new colours of those are now known (unaffectionately) as dark bluish grey and reddish brown.
And... as has always been the creed of TLG... they never threw anything away... so for many years you would get new and old colours mixed together in the same sets... again pouring more flames onto the proverbial fire.