Boy, stone characters have had it rough, and that's an understatement. One minute, they're a nice Metru-brown, the next they've been turned into some random shiny brown colour found only in two sets in the entire history of LEGO, then they're Keetorange for a year and a half, then orange, and finally Mata-yellow. Not only is the indecision irritating, it also pans out badly for us MOCists.

Why am I stating the obvious? You see, I've been fiddling with this really awesome leg design I made (almost entirely custom), and I've been working to adapt it to a Toa Dlakii design. I've been doing quite well with it, but upon designing the torso, I hit a slipup. There were nowhere near enough Keetorange to make a decent torso design; what I have is horrendously blocky and is interspersed with too much black.

So, why can't LEGO pick one colour for something and stick with it? I'd have been relatively happy with Keetorange - sure, not as happy as if the old brown still remained, but that's a different story.

On a slightly related note, why is it so hard to uniformify purple?