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| | | Author: | axaday  | | Posted: | Jul 23, 2018 21:39 | | Subject: | Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 112 times | | Topic: | Colors | | Status: | Open | |
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| I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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| | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Jul 23, 2018 22:22 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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My feeling is that Pearl Light Gray kinda looks like it has a clear coat on it
where I can see slightly into the surface of the piece.
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| | | | | | | Author: | LaineeP | | Posted: | Jul 23, 2018 22:47 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, axaday writes:
| | In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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My feeling is that Pearl Light Gray kinda looks like it has a clear coat on it
where I can see slightly into the surface of the piece.
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PLG has a swirling pattern that is fairly easy to identify on plastic parts but
I don't know about the "rubbery" parts.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Jul 23, 2018 23:04 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, LaineeP writes:
| | In Colors, axaday writes:
| | In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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My feeling is that Pearl Light Gray kinda looks like it has a clear coat on it
where I can see slightly into the surface of the piece.
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PLG has a swirling pattern that is fairly easy to identify on plastic parts but
I don't know about the "rubbery" parts.
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Can you come over this evening?
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| | | | | Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 05:19 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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| | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 06:03 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, randyf writes:
| | In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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It would be great if we could simply merge all those "old flat silver" parts
into pearl light gray so we could stop pretending that there is a difference
between them...
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 11:10 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, WoutR writes:
| | In Colors, randyf writes:
| | In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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It would be great if we could simply merge all those "old flat silver" parts
into pearl light gray so we could stop pretending that there is a difference
between them...
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Totally agree. If we can treat all of the TLG Warm Gold variants as one color,
then we should be able to treat all the TLG Silver variants as one color (excluding
TLG Cool Silver, of course).
Randy
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 11:33 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, randyf writes:
| | In Colors, WoutR writes:
| | In Colors, randyf writes:
| | In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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It would be great if we could simply merge all those "old flat silver" parts
into pearl light gray so we could stop pretending that there is a difference
between them...
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Totally agree. If we can treat all of the TLG Warm Gold variants as one color,
then we should be able to treat all the TLG Silver variants as one color (excluding
TLG Cool Silver, of course).
Randy
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At this point, even if we keep Cool Silver in Pearl Light Gray then we will significantly
reduce the confusion.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 14:21 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, WoutR writes:
| | It would be great if we could simply merge all those "old flat silver" parts
into pearl light gray so we could stop pretending that there is a difference
between them...
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My suggestion is to post a well-worded suggestion and let members vote. I know
suggestions seem to go unheeded, but this may speed up the process.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 19:01 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, StormChaser writes:
| | In Colors, WoutR writes:
| | It would be great if we could simply merge all those "old flat silver" parts
into pearl light gray so we could stop pretending that there is a difference
between them...
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My suggestion is to post a well-worded suggestion and let members vote. I know
suggestions seem to go unheeded, but this may speed up the process.
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I have given up on this catalog problem. I do not see this getting corrected.
I would love to be wrong about that.
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| | | | | Author: | leon112 | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 09:49 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| If you are looking for a strategy, this is what I do with those Bionicle pieces.
I too have the same problem and for a while just didn't list them. Get your
magnifying glass out and get the part number. If the part only is in one of the
two colors, I list it as the color in the catalog. Once you do that, you may
very well have a part that only comes in Flat Silver only but sure looks like
the pile of Pearl Light Gray. But I go with the catalog.
Then you can compare the other parts with the same number to see if there is
a variation in color. In some pieces it is obvious. If I can't determine
which color it is I list it as one color and state that it might be the other
color. Not the best method, but after Googling the two colors shows that there's
a great variation of those colors year from year.
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| | | | | Author: | Pippysblocks | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 09:58 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| This is such an issue with Pearl Light Grey and Flat Silver in Bionicle parts,
as most of the elements can come in both colours. I list a lot of Bionicle parts
and keep a sample of several of the parts from new (and known) sources to compare.
I find the Flat Silver tends to be duller compared to Pearl Light.
In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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| | | | | Author: | pikachu3 | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 20:43 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Light Gray vs Flat Silver | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, axaday writes:
| | I realize this is recognized as a difficult one and probably even harder through
the internet, but I was hoping for some advice/strategy on confidently tell the
different on the rubbery Bionicle pieces. I parted out a set that has a vast
number of variants and my gut is saying Pearl Light Gray.
If they were Flat Silver, would they pretty well match the hard plastic flat
silver pieces I get now? I have a lot of those. But I don't have a strong
familiarity with Pearl Light Gray.
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