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| | | Author: | Brick_Buyers  | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2018 07:30 | | Subject: | Lego 10214 Tower Bridge 2 types of blue | | Viewed: | 135 times | | Topic: | Colors | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hi, I recently purchased The Tower Bridge and have noticed that the medium blue
4x8 plates are actually 2 different colour. I have shown pictures below that
outline this. The instructions say there are 18 4587271 plates, actually there
are two slightly darker plates. The lighter 16 say 4-35 on the bottom but the
darker 2 say 2-35. Can someone explain this? It is the same with some of the
other medium blue colours in the set as well.
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| | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2018 07:44 | | Subject: | Re: Lego 10214 Tower Bridge 2 types of blue | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, Brick_Buyers writes:
| | Hi, I recently purchased The Tower Bridge and have noticed that the medium blue
4x8 plates are actually 2 different colour. I have shown pictures below that
outline this. The instructions say there are 18 4587271 plates, actually there
are two slightly darker plates. The lighter 16 say 4-35 on the bottom but the
darker 2 say 2-35. Can someone explain this? It is the same with some of the
other medium blue colours in the set as well.
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Hi there
We just finished parting out 2 of these and there was not the difference you
have had. Could be they came from a different batch of plates;.
Everything we had was the right hand side of your photo. The left acutally looks
like dark azure or ish.
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2018 07:55 | | Subject: | Re: Lego 10214 Tower Bridge 2 types of blue | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, Brick_Buyers writes:
| | Hi, I recently purchased The Tower Bridge and have noticed that the medium blue
4x8 plates are actually 2 different colour. I have shown pictures below that
outline this. The instructions say there are 18 4587271 plates, actually there
are two slightly darker plates. The lighter 16 say 4-35 on the bottom but the
darker 2 say 2-35. Can someone explain this? It is the same with some of the
other medium blue colours in the set as well.
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2-35 and 4-35 are just numbers indicating from which mould and from where in
the mould the piece came.
Either the parts come from two different colour batches, or there was a dye error
(one wrong batch), or it’s a different colour that was wrongly stored.
Anyway, fine example of LEGO quality control 
You can always try and call LEGO, they have a good customer service and might
offer free replacement.
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| | | | | Author: | Give.Me.A.Brick | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2018 08:42 | | Subject: | Re: Lego 10214 Tower Bridge 2 types of blue | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, Brick_Buyers writes:
| | Hi, I recently purchased The Tower Bridge and have noticed that the medium blue
4x8 plates are actually 2 different colour. I have shown pictures below that
outline this. The instructions say there are 18 4587271 plates, actually there
are two slightly darker plates. The lighter 16 say 4-35 on the bottom but the
darker 2 say 2-35. Can someone explain this? It is the same with some of the
other medium blue colours in the set as well.
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That's a huge difference. The one on the left looks like Dark Azure. Is this
a MISB set?
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| | | | | Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2018 09:09 | | Subject: | Re: Lego 10214 Tower Bridge 2 types of blue | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| The left one looks like it might be old (solid) med. blue and the right newer
(semi-translucent) med. blue.
I've often wondered if/how light plays a role in how we perceive the color
these (precolored abs pellets vs. dyed (by Lego?) pellets)
In Colors, Brick_Buyers writes:
| | Hi, I recently purchased The Tower Bridge and have noticed that the medium blue
4x8 plates are actually 2 different colour. I have shown pictures below that
outline this. The instructions say there are 18 4587271 plates, actually there
are two slightly darker plates. The lighter 16 say 4-35 on the bottom but the
darker 2 say 2-35. Can someone explain this? It is the same with some of the
other medium blue colours in the set as well.
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| | | | | | | Author: | samsam2 | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2018 09:41 | | Subject: | Re: Lego 10214 Tower Bridge 2 types of blue | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, tEoS writes:
| | The left one looks like it might be old (solid) med. blue and the right newer
(semi-translucent) med. blue.
I've often wondered if/how light plays a role in how we perceive the color
these (precolored abs pellets vs. dyed (by Lego?) pellets)
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BINGO, I like this explanation. If I look indirectly at them, I see the same
colours. When I look more directly at them, it's the shadow effects that
are different..
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| | | | | Author: | Brick_Buyers | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2018 12:49 | | Subject: | Re: Lego 10214 Tower Bridge 2 types of blue | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| Hi,
Thank you all for your feedback. The set was brand new and sealed from a trusted
seller on ebay. I agree that they are most likely from separate batches which
is annoying and not very fair as close up you can tell they are different. I
have contacted Lego and they are willing to replace the two slightly darker plates
for free. However, I hope they don't just send me another two darker plates
though on accident.
I also noticed the same problem with a few of the other pieces in the set. Oh
well, I got two free plates out of it! Lol.
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