What is your favourite LEGO colour? Black, Greys and White
Posted by CapnRex101,
It is exactly twenty years since the change from the original light and dark grey colours to bluish shades was discovered and the modern colours appear beside black and white in our latest poll.
Vote for your favourite after the break...
Which colour received your vote? Let us know in the comments and look out for subsequent polls in the coming days. You can vote in the previous polls here:
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Black. It goes with everything.
Given the other article today and the limited number of options, you should have included the two old gray colours.
Black... and sometimes very, very dark gray.
Original grey.
i like all 50 shades
@mafon2 said:
"Original grey."
Agreed. Old yellowish light and dark grey.
I like all four. They all go well together.
My favorite hue of grey is grey! :)
This is like food groups. Say you have: (1) meat and proteins, (2) veggies, (3) grains and cereals and (4) milk and dairies. And I ask you: "From now on, you will only be allowed to eat one of these groups, which one will it be? Not as easy as it looks.
Black and white are definitely necessary (original 7: yellow, red, blue, white, black, trans-clear, dark green). Of the two left over, I suppose I prefer light grey but you still kind of need the two so you can sometimes show a contrast. I picked light grey (because of SPACESHIP!) but that's assuming a ready access to black and white - I build in mostly grey but I hardly ever build in mostly white and very rarely in mostly black.
You forgot glow in the dark white…
Black. I love having black parts of various types.
Light grey. I guess my tendency to choose darker contrasting colours from the other colour families makes sense now.
It’s Blacktron, not DarkBluishGraytron.
- 50 shades of yellow in older sets,
- super-similar-to-old-gray,
- that color that's the boring background color for many modern sets for some reason,
- dust magnet black
Great choices here.
Bluish Grey for me, but these are like the most common pieces I use in my MOCs.
"Black. And sometimes very, very, very dark grey." -- Batman
Black is a nice color to build steam trains in (like I do), but MAN is hard to photograph properly!
You're missing Light Gray, Dark Gray, Very Light Gray, Very Light Bluish Gray from the list
Old Dark Grey! I'm kinda sick and tired of the standard Dark grey, because of all the original era SW stuff.
Pearl Dark Grey. Or as Batman would call it, very, very dark grey.
This is the first one of these surveys that I legit had a hard time picking on. I feel like these colors are definitely more of a favorite/best depending on time and place, as opposed to having a favorite for all the time. I settled on black, because it feels like the one that I 'like' the most as opposed to use at the right time the most, if that makes sense?
@merman said:
"You forgot glow in the dark white…"
Yes! I'd have voted for that one instead.
Also, count me in the list of those who I really like the old dark gray. I wonder if we'll get another poll for all the translucent colors...
How could you not love black? You stare at it for 8 hours a day.
I think technically these are shades, not colours! But you cant beat dark bluish grey, I suppose due to 2x2 tiles and road plates I probably own more of this colour than anything else - plus its far better lasting than yellowish white...
Trans-gunmetal-grey with glitter
@yottabrick said:
"You're missing Light Gray, Dark Gray, Very Light Gray, Very Light Bluish Gray from the list"
I had no idea there was a non-bluish very light gray, and looking at the sets it was in I can understand why.
I knew the bluish grays first, so to me the original versions look brownish. When I was younger I figured they were just dingy and old.
It just hit me how few shades of gray LEGO has. I think we need a couple new shades that are closer to the ends of the spectrum and aren’t chrome or metallic. I can already think of some good uses for such colors.
Old light Gray. Only. For ever.
I came for the "very, very dark gray" comments and am disappointed that there weren't more.
I would vote for the 70’s white if an option; it still looks the same, unlike my yellow republic gunship :(
Black
Black
Black is the color of my true love's hair
Black is the color of my love's true hair
Though her tresses are red as a rose
Black the color of my love's true hair
But only her hairdresser knows
Does she or doesn’t she?
Only her hairdresser knows
@Murdoch17:
When I got my first digital camera, I took over 1000 photos on the first day, and deleted every single one of them. Shiny black LEGO parts is exactly the reason. You need to turn the flash off, arrange some light sources around it, and ideally use a camera that has a monitor so you can see what the photo will look like before you shoot it.
@TheOtherMike:
Once it’s been said, repeating it just makes you look like you didn’t read the comments before posting.
White. The corner stone of Futuron (with trans dark blue, of course)
@PurplDave: Given that I've seen comments by people who apparently didn't even read all of the article that they're responding to, that wouldn't be a barrier to some people.
@GenericLegoFan said:
"How could you not love black? You stare at it for 8 hours a day."
Even more frightening, it stares back at you for 8 hours a day.
White has to be the worst colour of LEGO, simply because of the yellowing. I specifically avoid white sets or at least store them in their boxes becasue they will age like milk.
Nobody mentioned that white and black are not colours? (So, technically grey isn't either).
@jonah2018wsu said:
"It just hit me how few shades of gray LEGO has. I think we need a couple new shades that are closer to the ends of the spectrum and aren’t chrome or metallic. I can already think of some good uses for such colors."
Yeah, that always surprises me too, because my LEGO color knowledge comes from using LDD for many years, and that listed more colors than LEGO currently produces. The new shade of grey you want is 208 Light Stone Grey (Very Light Bluish Grey on Bricklink), which LDD always called a "current color," but it got discontinued around 2010, presumably due to lack of use. That color is the one I most want to see brought back out of all the old LEGO colors - it fits right into the current color system, and honestly could have a lot of uses. In particular, most "white" Star Wars ships (X-wings, Snowspeeders, Republic Gunships, etc.) would look so much more accurate in LSG/VLBG.
A dark dark stone grey could be interesting, but I feel like LEGO's instruction team would have a fit over that, seeing as it's already almost impossible to tell Black and Dark Stone Grey apart in the instructions....
This helped me choose ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phnUHcP6oXk
black: it's the only one that doens't discolor
@jonah2018wsu said:
"It just hit me how few shades of gray LEGO has. I think we need a couple new shades that are closer to the ends of the spectrum and aren’t chrome or metallic. I can already think of some good uses for such colors."
Maybe suggest "50 shades of grey" as an Ideas entry (if it hasn't been done before).
White LEGO is among my least favourite colours. Not only does it show up dirt like almost no other colour, it also yellows over time (yes, I know you can re-whiten parts - I’ve done it but it’s a pain).
@PurpleDave, A factoid for you: Elvis’s hair wasn’t naturally black. He dyed it that way. He was actually blonde. He disliked his blonde hair so much that he asked that his roots be blackened if they should be showing after he died. You might say his hair dyed after he died :~P
Black, is probably the most useful brick color.
Two of the sets that reside in my home office, which has west-facing windows (with no curtains, blinds or any other window covering) - 21030 and 21321 - are predominantly white and haven't yellowed a bit. I'm also looking at my guy from 8620 (although he's the version with black arms, rather than blue), who's been hanging out in here since 1986 (yes, my family and I now live in the house that I grew up in), and who doesn't look much the worse for wear, either. I know that yellowing is a thing, but maybe it's a bit overblown?
Nice, my wish has been heard! :-D
At the moment I'm writing this comment, the majority is pretty much equally spread among both greys. Interesting, since people always seem to complain about too much grey in Star Wars. (I'm aware that the only voting alternatives were the equally colorful black & white.)
Uhh... the problematic one. Fitting after today's article about the big color change xD
My favorite would have been (Old) 27 Dark Grey, but that is discontinued. Although I have to admit that this is mostly due to the novelty effect this color had when it first came in larger amounts and greater variety around 1998 (Adventurers and Insectoids ar ealso some factors here).
So oddly I kinda ended up with it's replacement DBG...
There is only one true colour to rule them all.
BLACKtron.
@merman said:
"You forgot glow in the dark white…"
I did think about that and the other 'special' colours, like drum-lacquered silver and gold, but they are not easily comparable with standard colours.
@yottabrick said:
"You're missing Light Gray, Dark Gray, Very Light Gray, Very Light Bluish Gray from the list"
We are only including current colours because otherwise the scope widens enormously and we would have to involve lots of colours with very few appearances. There are well over two hundred from across LEGO's history, not including prototype colours or those produced for Modulex.
Old dark grey. Much prefer the warmer tone of the old grey over the sterile, bleak looking newer colours.
@KingKahuka95 said:
"Old dark grey. Much prefer the warmer tone of the old grey over the sterile, bleak looking newer colours."
This
@GenericLegoFan said:
"How could you not love black? You stare at it for 8 hours a day."
I wish... 5 max!
@bobaphat107: Technically, white is all colors mixed together.
@Wrecknbuild said:
"Maybe suggest "50 shades of grey" as an Ideas entry (if it hasn't been done before)."
Bite your tongue. Off!
If dark bluish gray and black are difficult to distinguish in an instruction book, then light stone gray (very light gray) and silverish colored-pieces are impossible. I made the mistake of getting the Kreo (not-transformable!) Optimus Prime years ago, and it had those two colors (among others). The instructions were impossible.
"I only work in black, and sometimes very very dark grey."
- Lego Batman
I'm a bit surprised white isn't more popular here! It's always been my most handy colour for MOCs and I always find myself buying more. The yellowing can be pretty bad long-term though, so I can understand why it isn't a great colour in that sense.
@TheOtherMike:
I've seen people post who didn't even start the article. Read the headline, straight to ranting. Especially when the comment section blows up, I often don't have time to read _everything_ before I start responding, so I know I've doubled-up on someone else's response before. If I catch it before I post, I do typically delete that part.
Synergy to have this poll up the same day as the colour change anniversary post--all the same topics!
Count me among those who still prefer Old Grey. I don't *hate* the new stuff and I'm past the grieving period, but the timing of the change couldn't be more seismic for me: Old Grey is my childhood LEGO, new bley is adulthood.
@PurpleDave: If an article has enough comments, I don't even bother reading them all. Of course, I almost never bother posting unless I've read all the comments.
@sjr60 said:
" @GenericLegoFan said:
"How could you not love black? You stare at it for 8 hours a day."
I wish... 5 max!"
What's with all that staring at black? You could sleep during that time...
That is by far the most boring poll of them.
How long do we have to wait for the brown?
. . . ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@Graupensuppe said:
"Black... and sometimes very, very dark gray."
Darkness... no parents... (kinda makes it better).
@Yooha said:
"That is by far the most boring poll of them.
How long do we have to wait for the brown?"
If more than 48 hours you should probably see a doctor.
Having built a large MOC in dark grey, like black, I find it shows the scratches and fingerprints up too easily. White varies in colour too much. So it has to be light grey for me.
My answer would usually be black, but it just shows up the dust and fingerprints so much, beautiful high glass though, very good for a gloves only clean room lol
Yes. Black. Black. Black! Like the clouds of death that follow me into the Forest of Doom! And hide in the wardrobe of darkness! Black! Johnny Nice Painter (The Fast Show).
Any of them reprises a colour:
White is just a superposition of the three basic colours and black is its complete absence.
I'd go for old dark grey.
@CCC said:
" @Yooha said:
"That is by far the most boring poll of them.
How long do we have to wait for the brown?"
If more than 48 hours you should probably see a doctor."
You made me legitimately LOL. Kudos to you!