But most of them are colourless.
In other words, Lego designers made conscious decisions to make parts grey.
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Ding-bats.
Absolutely not.
Grey is like black. It’s a default color. Same thing with light grey. Unless you’re going for an all-black (or black and some color like Orange, light green, etc.) MOC, gray does not detract from the color scheme. Silver has been way overused and is annoying. I mean, every set this wave has silver except Loss.
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@Willess12 Black really isn’t neutral though. If it were, we wouldn’t get black sets. It portrays sophistication, seriousness and sometimes power.
Here is where I must disagree. Black is not a “color”. Black is a total lack of all color. Black has no red, yellow, blue, or grey.
I fail to see your logic. Lego can make a set any color they want, be it a “neutral color” or not.
I think Bionicle ended because Lego’s obsession of grey pieces. I mean people did say Bionicle did say 2008 went dark right?
@Das101fulYT If your talking about when Bionicle went the more dark route, see 2006 and LEGO didn’t end it because of gray, it ended because of cracked joints. 
I’m not saying they can’t I’m saying they haven’t.
I’ve studied colour theory in school. To say that black gives a vibe or has meaning doesn’t make it a colour. At no point did I say it’s a colour. I just explained why it isn’t a neutral colour.
If they weren’t grey we’d be having this same conversation about why they use black or silver so much.
Probably, but MANY other toy companies do not use gray, black, or white nearly as much as lego
Many other toy companies don’t make constraction figures
ok so? they could still put more color in, not much changes
It costs money to make parts in new colors. If all the parts you’re talking about were colored to suit each set, it would cost a lot of money.
Hasbro makes tons of new colored parts for transformers, and iam pretty sure lego has a highier budget, dont quote me on that though
With Hasbro, every part is new. it’s very rare to see individual pieces of one figure as part of another.
well,most of the time