[whitepotatoe]

I think that if you took the Lady in Red and put her on a cream chip (probably a little darker cream than the Brandy chip) with dark red edgespots and if you put the Yellow Rose of Texas on a red chip with yellow edgespots, I think your problems might be solved. While the pink chip looks great as is, I don't know how many people use lots of pink in their sets. It might be more practical to drop pink for a cream chip. Just an idea.

[psy]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

We have that covered. We're going to install the ring like it's a bezel on a watch. You can rotate it to where you want.

lol!

[dimperdoo]

L O L

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

I'll entertain other ideas though. Color swaps with another girl, since we are happy with eight colors... and we MUST have a red.

I showed these chips to my son today, and he's quite enthusiastic about getting a set. We started playing with the colors, and came up with these ideas:

1. Swap the black and red:


(Red still says "danger", right?)

2. An "American Beauties" set *really* needs red, white, and blue chips.
The best prospect for white seemed to be this one:

So the blue one could be:
or

3. We weren't thrilled with the green chip, so thought about this:


which frees the current green chip to become a brown chip:

[TenPercenter]

Originally Posted by CaptLego

I showed these chips to my son today, and he's quite enthusiastic about getting a set. We started playing with the colors, and came up with these ideas:

1. Swap the black and red:


(Red still says "danger", right?)

2. An "American Beauties" set *really* needs red, white, and blue chips.
The best prospect for white seemed to be this one:

So the blue one could be:
or

3. We weren't thrilled with the green chip, so thought about this:


which frees the current green chip to become a brown chip:

At first glance that black chip looks fantqasic. It caught my eye firtst. BLue becoming white looks good too (blue vs. white... not again!). Not happy with Yellow rose becoming a blue chip. Diner girl becoming brown?... so so. And you added the Marilyn Monroe girl... but that makes nine chips, and I'm having trouble getting eight.

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

At first glance that black chip looks fantqasic. It caught my eye firtst. BLue becoming white looks good too (blue vs. white... not again!). Not happy with Yellow rose becoming a blue chip. Diner girl becoming brown?... so so. And you added the Marilyn Monroe girl... but that makes nine chips, and I'm having trouble getting eight.

Another option for the blue chip would be Mint:



(or she could be the green but then you'd still need a blue)


Brandy could be dropped, or she might make a good red:

[TenPercenter]

Lego, you trying to put Johnny out af a job!?

Let's try to keep to the gameplan as much as possible, we're changing too many colors. I'm losing track of waht the goal was. I think we were just trying to trade red with someone just to get the red lady off the red chip. The black and red swap might be the best bet.

[Audioflow]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

At first glance that black chip looks fantqasic. It caught my eye firtst. BLue becoming white looks good too (blue vs. white... not again!). Not happy with Yellow rose becoming a blue chip. Diner girl becoming brown?... so so. And you added the Marilyn Monroe girl... but that makes nine chips, and I'm having trouble getting eight.

The black is certainly an improvement over the heavily debated 'red on red'. And, moving the old black chip to red keeps the same dark/sexy feel alive but provides the contrast many are looking for.

Now, the way you phrased your comments about Yellow Rose is interesting to me. Why aren't you happy about it? Is it the color scheme? Are you partial to her on Pink? I admit that she looks good on the pink, but here's the logic that spawned he onto blue:
Keeping with the American Beauty theme, red white and blue are mandatory in my mind.
The best chip to become White was the Air-plane girl. (And I think that it turned out quite well)
With blue now vacant the best choice was Yellow Rose (and the more I look at the rendition on the left the more I love it!) She looks great with the light blue background. The pastel color blends well with the wholesome uplifting vibe of the photo. It's not as vibrant as the pink (again, I like the pink) but it seems to me the set needs a good blue chip more than a good pink chip.

Another Blue is on its way (it may even be posted by the time this is)
but I’d rank that 3rd on my list of blues.
1 being Yellow Rose on the left
2 being the girl on the Airplane (I cannot remember her name) but that's a moot point since she's the only suitable white
3 being Mint Julep

Coffee Tea or Me looks much better with the Tan/Brown background. However, as nice as the image is; we probably do not need a brown chip, and this may be one of the first to be cut.

On the topic of cutting the fat (something none of these ladies seem to have) Brandy
I found the orange version to be awkward. At first I thought it was a second red chip. Do we need an Orange?

Red and Yellow versions of her will be coming soon (again, maybe already up depending on which post goes live on the forum first)

I like both of these better, but now there will be some debate as to which red chip to use. I would not be saddened if she had to be left out however. She looks great on yellow, but I have my doubts if it will make the cut.

On the subject of having too many chips: We don’t have to use them all. These should be taken as suggestions open for comment. During the early stages of design it’s good to get as many ideas as we can out there so that we can be sure the cream rises. As I have said, there will undoubtedly be some fat to trim. At least we’re getting the ideas out and flowing.

-J

[Audioflow]

Yo Lego, Where's Yellow Brandy?

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

Lego, you trying to put Johnny out af a job!?

Let's try to keep to the gameplan as much as possible, we're changing too many colors. I'm losing track of waht the goal was. I think we were just trying to trade red with someone just to get the red lady off the red chip. The black and red swap might be the best bet.

Well, I have to credit Audioflow for most of the mockup artwork.

There's actually three different suggestions here:
1. The Lady in Red looks pretty good on a black chip, IMHO. So then you'd need a different red. You could use the lady from the black chip, or you could use Brandy.

2. A Red, White, and Blue (plus the Beauty with the flag) would make a pretty cool set. So you'd need a white chip. The lady with the airplanes seems like a good candidate for white. But than you'd need a different blue. We liked the Yellow Rose for blue, but you could use Mint Julip as the blue.

3. The Diner in green just didn't look so good.... So we suggested maybe using the Marylin lady for the green chip, or if Mint is free (i.e. not blue), she'd make a nice green chip. Mint looks great just as you have her on the lavendar chip, of course, but blue and green seem like higher priorities so she may need to be drafted for one of those.