I'm wrapping up a massive reorganization project I started a few months ago.
Part of the process is counting/weighing each lot so that I can find pieces
that might have accidentally ended up in the wrong place.
So I'm working down through each Part ID in the digital inventory, checking
the counts when I started to notice several Lots weren't in the system.
The weird thing about it though? It's always blue parts.
Everything is set to retain zero quantity in the stockroom, so it's not like
these were an over or under count, they just never existed in the inventory.
It's happened to approximately 24 different Part IDs for everything from
bricks, plates, tiles... you name it.
It's not the end of the world in the grand scheme of things, but even if
it's user error, what could be going on? It's almost like I looked up
all of my inventory by color, randomly selected a page of blue parts and deleted
all of those lots which would take a bit of effort and manual inputs.
So I'm working down through each Part ID in the digital inventory, checking
the counts when I started to notice several Lots weren't in the system.
The weird thing about it though? It's always blue parts.
Some form of a rare (or common, I don't know) color blindness?
Everything is set to retain zero quantity in the stockroom, so it's not like
these were an over or under count, they just never existed in the inventory.
If you don't have your (like) daily BrickLink XML inventory files,
and manage uploads only with BrickStore so you have a local save of all changes,
then, any human error can have happened.
The old "I'm sure I didn't have them, never uploaded them, never
bla" does NOT work beyond counting on your own 10 fingers.
Well, here's to hoping some of the parts have increased in value while they
were unlisted. yay.
For anyone who has not been paying much attention, except for the line of Classic
sets in the Yellow boxes, LEGO seems to have stopped using regular Blue parts
in sets. Dark Turquoise has taken hold, along with all the others like Dark
Azure and Medium Azure and Bright Light Blue, etc.
If this continues, the overall value of regular Blue parts might increase a bit
over time.
I have not yet studied 2025 Lego sets to see if the trend is continuing. I would
not mind being proven wrong on this. It is just something I have noticed the
past few years.
Well, here's to hoping some of the parts have increased in value while they
were unlisted. yay.
For anyone who has not been paying much attention, except for the line of Classic
sets in the Yellow boxes, LEGO seems to have stopped using regular Blue parts
in sets. Dark Turquoise has taken hold, along with all the others like Dark
Azure and Medium Azure and Bright Light Blue, etc.
If this continues, the overall value of regular Blue parts might increase a bit
over time.
I have not yet studied 2025 Lego sets to see if the trend is continuing. I would
not mind being proven wrong on this. It is just something I have noticed the
past few years.
Well, here's to hoping some of the parts have increased in value while they
were unlisted. yay.
For anyone who has not been paying much attention, except for the line of Classic
sets in the Yellow boxes, LEGO seems to have stopped using regular Blue parts
in sets. Dark Turquoise has taken hold, along with all the others like Dark
Azure and Medium Azure and Bright Light Blue, etc.
If this continues, the overall value of regular Blue parts might increase a bit
over time.
I have not yet studied 2025 Lego sets to see if the trend is continuing. I would
not mind being proven wrong on this. It is just something I have noticed the
past few years.
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I have also noticed this. I have my vintage and modern parts filed separately,
and my blue vintage parts usually greatly outnumber my modern ones, despite being
the subject of far far far fewer part outs and selling in greater numbers. They
just don't seem to use the color much anymore.
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Good lookin' out.
