What is your favourite LEGO colour? Blues
Posted by CapnRex101,
From the conversation on recent reviews, certain LEGO colours seem remarkably polarising, so we are conducting a survey to find out which are the most popular.
Our poll about shades of red, orange and yellow was published a couple of days ago and today we are shifting attention to the nine current shades of blue...
Which colour received your vote? Let us know in the comments and check back for additional polls in the next few days. If you have not done so already, you can vote in our first poll here:
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Teal. Now and forever.
Team Medium Azure!
I asked ChatGPT to describe Blue to a person without sight:
Blue is a hue reminiscent of the sky on a clear day or the depths of the ocean. It embodies a cool, serene quality often associated with calmness and expansiveness.
Pretty much all light blues are terrible for sun discolouration so probably the darker hues.
Not surprised that Light Royal Blue / Bright Light Blue is where it is.
Team Teal!
Teal.
On another note, are Rock Raiders fans numerous enough to warrant a big nostalgia-bait set like LEGO likes to release recently? I would buy one.
Maersk blue!
Dark Azure is a blessing
I have just always really liked set made up of predominantly dark blue bricks.
French racing blue
Through Teal, Rock Raiders will live on!
Sand blue for me! I love sandy colors! ^^
I know this is a bit boring but I really love standard blue, as well as the standard green and yellow.
Metalic Sand Blue is the only real choice.
https://brickset.com/minifigs/sw0056
(Pearl Sand Blue, whatever).
Trans-dark blue is the best blue!
Had to be Teal, in honour of one of my Minis (not that British Leyland Teal Blue bore much relationship to Teal!)
Sand blue is my first pick. Dark azure and teal would be close behind it. And - yes - I agree with some other users to give an honourable mention to classic LEGO blue, one of the colours of our childhood.
Metru Blue ftw, my overall favorite LEGO colour, just slightly beating Keetorange
Team TEAL!
LEGO needs a color between blue and earth blue. Blue is a bit to bright, and earth blue is a bit too dark.
Dark azure no question with earth blue a close second.
now imagine the new modular building in Sand Blue instead of Olive ...
There is a new orangish colour. I want to suggest a new blue between earth blue and sand blue.
Sand Blue is nice, Dark Blue is also nice but kinda annoying in between black parts.
Teal, my beloved!
Bit surprised to see not a lot for medium blue. Am I the only one?
I'm Bionicle-nostalgic, so I really felt inclined to run with Takua-blue. I know dark azure is usually preferred these days, to the point of 40581's Takua having that colour for his mask instead, but I just find medium blue a more gentle colour - which is definitely something I prefer in a shade of blue.
Dark blue because I'm crazy fan of Agents and I'm writing novels partly based on the themes of this series. Besides, I like Sand Blue because I love Alpha Team and the Deep Freeze games. I also noticed, Maersk Blue is missing from the list.
I chose classic blue as two of my favorite 4-wide airplanes are in that color. Delightful.
BLUE
I like dark blue, but went for medium blue as both are nice colours for buildings. But when it comes to minifigures, I prefer something else for skin tones. Teal could disappear again and I wouldn't care.
It was a close call between dark blue, sand blue and teal for me… went with sand blue in the end
Sand blue.
Teal doesn't belong here, it's "Bright Bluish GREEN", after all.
Again a vote for the muted colors: Sand Blue and Medium Blue. :-)
Sand blue all the way. The new Disney Castle’s abundant use of it was GLORIOUS!!!
My favorite is Bright Light Blue. I am clearly in the minority, I’m ok with that. It’s a nice calm color.
Dark Azure is the best. Most of my dark azure is in either minifig parts or the Jazz Club, but it is such a nice color and I wish they'd put it in more sets.
I wish it was Aqua--which was a much nicer tone. It's only Light Aqua that's available, and it's hard to use :-(.
@560heliport said:
"Teal doesn't belong here, it's "Bright Bluish GREEN", after all."
Yeah, I'd group Teal with the greens too.
@Duq said:
"Maersk blue!
"
+1000
Blue has always been my favorite color, so asking me to choose is like asking a loving mother to choose her favorite child. But after much deliberation, I;m going to have to go with Medium Azure, largely due to its use in Friends and Elves. Was tempted to go with Light Royal Blue because 10298 looks so good in that color, though.
@ThatBionicleGuy: 40581's Takua has a Medium Azur mask, not a Dark Azur one.
I've never liked blue as a color (in any shade) so I have to go for Teal. That's closer to green I think, but that's good, because that made this an easy choice. If pressed to choose between the actual blues, it would have to be Earth Blue.
I really like dark blue in the overlord's colour scheme
Dark blue is my favorite. But really I like all the blues. I wish I had more of them.
@Duq said:
"Maersk blue!
"
That was my choice as well.
I’d pick “All of the above” if possible. Teal is of course Number One. Sand Blue, Dark/Earth Blue and Aqua all get Honorable Mentions. Throw in Sand Green, and you have the top five colors in the entire LEGO palette.
Favourite Lego colours: yellow, red, blue, white, black - the original five (+ trans-clear). The others are just to add a bit of detail.
(but I think you have to add grey (and trans-yellow) in there because of SPACESHIP!)
4508 Titan XP made me fall in love with Sand Blue.
Lego has so many shades of blue. And pink. So many shades.
Teal hoarder reporting in xD
I never could decide between green and blue as my favorite colors (outside of Lego), so teal/turquoise just became it very early on. And 107 Bright Bluish Green aka Dark Teal just exacty nails the perfect shade for me. I had to collect the entire Cyber Slam theme just because of it (although these sets are actually quite fun...).
It probably also played a huge role in my fascination for the Rock Raiders theme and why I never got that excited about Power Miners...
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"Bit surprised to see not a lot for medium blue. Am I the only one?"
No, you're not the only one, it's my favourite of the options. I get the sense it's on the way out. Fingers crossed it's not. It seems that in places where Medium Blue might otherwise have been used, Light Royal Blue and Dark Azur are getting used, IMO.
teal all the way
did they get it mixed up with aqua? they shouldve been swapt if i didnt know wut the color already looked like i wouldve picked aqua
@TheOtherMike said:
" @ThatBionicleGuy: 40581's Takua has a Medium Azur mask, not a Dark Azur one."
Oh right... clearly I've been paying attention xD;; I knew it was one of the azures because it was specifically mentioned in a designer interview, but I guess I misremembered which azure it was. Either way, I personally prefer its classic medium blue, but that's just me.
Thanks for the correction ^^
Nobody knows the colors I’ve seen! Nobody knows the colors…oh, wait, wrong blues.
Instead of going dark blue like I did dark red....I went sand blue for Shark Army. All the dark colors, red, blue, orange, green, all fantastic!
I always preferred the sand colors over the regular colors. One of my favorite greens which is my favorite color is sand green.
My favorite blue is definitely sand blue. It just looks really cool on the Tie Striker from Rogue One. Honestly Rogue One might be the greatest thing Disney has ever created. The only downside to it is it made an old video game non existent.
Surprised at the current results based on the number of people posting they like Dark Azure & Teal. I'm going with team Dark Blue.
@PurpleDave: So your vote is one of the blues used in 10312 or 21334?
@Endermen39: Two things. I'd put Solo above Rogue One if we're raking Disney Star Wars movies. Two, Dark Forces (I assume that's what you were referring to?) still exists, it's just not canon anymore.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave : So your vote is one of the blues used in 10312 or 21334 ?
@Endermen39 : Two things. I'd put Solo above Rogue One if we're raking Disney Star Wars movies. Two, Dark Forces (I assume that's what you were referring to?) still exists, it's just not canon anymore."
I couldn’t find the right words. Thanks. Also very few people know of Dark Forces. I know it’s a 1990s game but I hear of it way less than some of the other games that were released for the Nintendo Switch Star Wars Aspyr bundle
Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?
@HOBBES said:
"Favourite Lego colours: yellow, red, blue, white, black - the original five (+ trans-clear). The others are just to add a bit of detail."
I can’t find the set inventory anymore, but I’ve run across one on BL that showed medium-blue was used in 1954, one year before primary-blue was introduced. Regardless, they eliminated several colors to get down to the Mondrian palette.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave: So your vote is one of the blues used in 10312 or 21334?"
71002-12, because you can put a blue feather-flame in Joliet Jake’s saxomophone, and he can literally play the blues. Or you can use dark-blue, if he’s _really_ feeling it.
@Endermen39:
Oh, people still know about Dark Forces. Most just don’t have a viable system to play it on. It was a PC game. Also, no lightsabers or Force powers, so even when it was fairly recent, it kinda got abandoned when Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, and the awkwardly-named Jedi Knight II came out.
Medium blue was used for the 2009 medieval village.
I think its a really nice color for buildings and it associates itself really well with Reddish brown.
I find it really difficult to pick a favorite color in general, It depends on the setting. They all have their uses. So instead I voted for the one I would least want to lose.
I guess there are a lot of other colors in that tier, but personally I would have expected to see aqua and teal among the greens. But maybe that's just me?
Sand blue. I remember being very impressed when I first saw the Good Wizard from set 5614 which was among the first minifigures that was that colour. Still have that minifigure in my display collection: https://brickshelf.com/gallery/AmperZand/Fantasy/wizards_2.jpg
I voted medium azure, but I also really love dark azure, and an honorable mention should go to medium blue. I honestly don't understand the love for teal. It's an okay color, i but don't think it's that great.
@ozbrickcreator said:
"Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?"
Always good to see another ELO fan!
Dark Azure is my favorite color in all of LEGO, so that was an easy pick. Not surprised to see Dark Blue and Sand Blue leading the charge - those are both great! On the other hand, good ol' classic LEGO Blue is my absolute least favorite of the blues by far, so I'm just glad we have more alternatives.
@Murdoch17 said:
" @ozbrickcreator said:
"Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?"
Always good to see another ELO fan!"
Please turn me over....
I will just say there is WAY too many blues in lego.
I would bring back snd blue, because it does stand out from others.
My personal top 8 shades of LEGO blue:
1. Classic Space (regular) blue!
2. Lego (Space) Trans(-dark) blue.
3. Sand blue (Life on Mars)
4. Dark blue (Galaxy Squad; Star Wars)
5. Trans-light blue (Alien Conquest; Galaxy Squad; Star Wars)
6. Dark Azure (Alien Conquest; Galaxy Squad)
7. Teal (Life on Mars)
8. Medium blue (Life on Mars)
I like my blues in Space, but it's obvious I choose the regular blue for this poll.