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 Author: Brickman4you View Messages Posted By Brickman4you
 Posted: Aug 17, 2023 07:49
 Subject: identify color please
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Brickman4you (1979)

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top left(blue), right (dark Blue), bottom right (?)
 
 Author: tec View Messages Posted By tec
 Posted: Aug 17, 2023 08:58
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tec (68)

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UV-damaged blue I guess
 Author: Brickman4you View Messages Posted By Brickman4you
 Posted: Aug 17, 2023 09:04
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Brickman4you (1979)

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In Help, tec writes:
  UV-damaged blue I guess

not damaged as backside / all edges are same color.
 Author: MadiganStation View Messages Posted By MadiganStation
 Posted: Aug 17, 2023 09:19
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MadiganStation (842)

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I'm going to go with "Poor Quality Control Dark Blue" on this one.

Nate

In Help, Brickman4you writes:
  In Help, tec writes:
  UV-damaged blue I guess

not damaged as backside / all edges are same color.
 Author: hpoort View Messages Posted By hpoort
 Posted: Aug 17, 2023 09:19
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hpoort (427)

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In Help, Brickman4you writes:
  In Help, tec writes:
  UV-damaged blue I guess

not damaged as backside / all edges are same color.

tec means what on Bricklink is also called 'brittle blue'. It is basically
normal Blue, but changed in color by a degradation process. This is not necessarily
related to UV influence but is similar to the yellowing of white bricks.
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
 Posted: Aug 17, 2023 10:14
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Stuart9 (1296)

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Looks like brittle blue to me too.



In Help, hpoort writes:
  In Help, Brickman4you writes:
  In Help, tec writes:
  UV-damaged blue I guess

not damaged as backside / all edges are same color.

tec means what on Bricklink is also called 'brittle blue'. It is basically
normal Blue, but changed in color by a degradation process. This is not necessarily
related to UV influence but is similar to the yellowing of white bricks.
 Author: Akir View Messages Posted By Akir
 Posted: Aug 18, 2023 09:51
 Subject: Re: identify color please
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Akir (143)

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Me too - I really like the color though. And in most cases the discoloring is
really uniform all over the piece, not patchy like the white discoloring. I wonder
if there's a chance to list this as a separate color so they can be traded?
I've considered building something in brittle blue, as I said, I think it's
pretty. Probably not, right?

In Help, Stuart9 writes:
  Looks like brittle blue to me too.



In Help, hpoort writes:
  In Help, Brickman4you writes:
  In Help, tec writes:
  UV-damaged blue I guess

not damaged as backside / all edges are same color.

tec means what on Bricklink is also called 'brittle blue'. It is basically
normal Blue, but changed in color by a degradation process. This is not necessarily
related to UV influence but is similar to the yellowing of white bricks.
 Author: rylie_aitch View Messages Posted By rylie_aitch
 Posted: Aug 18, 2023 14:16
 Subject: Re: identify color please
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rylie_aitch (287)

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In Help, Akir writes:
  I wonder if there's a chance to list this as a separate color so they can be traded?

I doubt it — it's not a completely consistent color, there's a whole
gradient from Bright Blue to the darkest Brittle Blue. And sometimes Bright Blue
still decays into Brittle Blue over time — I once built a blue Tardis with half
the parts being Brittle Blue and didn't even notice until I took it apart
years later, when the color difference was stark!

Sellers can always (and SHOULD) put it in the description of course.