What will be the Lamy Safari colour for 2009?

[Marvin McMurphy]

Isn't the Al-Star raspberry pinkish? Kinda doubt they'd make a pink Safari, but I might be wrong of course.

 

What were the colours before Lime? I haven't really followed this so far.

[gregamckinney]

Isn't the Al-Star raspberry pinkish? Kinda doubt they'd make a pink Safari, but I might be wrong of course.

 

What were the colours before Lime? I haven't really followed this so far.

 

Before Lime (not 100% sure on the sequence:

- light blue with red clip

- Flame (orange with red clip)

- glossy black / glossy white (both offered same year)

 

To my eye, the Raspberry AL-Star is closer to red than pink.

 

Regards, greg

[J0rdan]

I'd bet on a textured brown or tan color, although a deep dark purple would be nice too. Given that they released the lime green just last year I have real doubts against turquoise.

 

Whatever color they come out with, I'll buy one; I love my Safari.

Edited January 20, 2009 by J0rdan

[antigone]

Does anyone know when the new pen colours will actually be out?

 

They usually present the new colour at the Paperworld in late January and introduce it in the market in spring.

 

http://paperworld.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/home.html

 

 

Yay, Paperworld! It's like Disneyland... :roflmho: :roflmho: :roflmho:

I'll be there, looking out for the new Safari!

 

But I'd guess it won't be brown. The Safari is a school pen and outside the luxury pen sector brown is extremely unpopular in the german pen world. You also won't find Pelikan brillant brown ink too often here.

So maybe the next Lamy LE will be a Al-Star like it was already once somewhere between the Safari Flame (orange/red clip) and the Blue/Red Safari! I'm voting for a SPARKLING AL-STAR, YAY!

Edited January 21, 2009 by antigone

[tadster]

Yeah I know it's been done, but I'd like to see savanna green and terracotta orange again.

[inert gas]

I vote for brown since that would be a color I would actually buy. While I like purple inks, I'm not that keen on purple pens.

[artaddict]

I immediately thought Pink.

[encremental]

Pink was my first thought too. But you do have to have something which would appeal to both sexes, so pink would require a companion colour. Even purple might have a sex-specific loading, and could need some ballast - and the obvious candidate for both colours is, I think some sort of turquoise (but greener if it's purple).

 

I'm sad to hear that Germans don't like brown. I did wonder briefly about a coffee 'n' cream combo, with two pens like the black and white, but if that's out then here's something REALLY radical - maybe we're not thinking in the right direction and the special edition is not going to be a Safari, but

 

 

a VISTA!!!!!

 

 

 

Picture it - there would be the entire spectrum of transparent colours to work with, in the manner of those Pelikan coloured demos. If Lamy haven't considered it, then maybe they should.

 

Blue Ocean Lamys - I'm actually stunned by my own brilliance......

 

John

 

 

[coldwater19]

Any news on this front?

[duna]

Pink (call it fuchsia if it's more fashionable) and some sort of gray. In the same pen or in two pens (but there is already a lot of grey in their safari-alstar line...we'll see).

[Calbei]

Pink (call it fuchsia if it's more fashionable) and some sort of gray. In the same pen or in two pens (but there is already a lot of grey in their safari-alstar line...we'll see).

There is already a grey... I saw one in John Lewis the other day alongside the white one.

[Miss Behaviour]

Does anyone know when the new pen colours will actually be out?

 

They usually present the new colour at the Paperworld in late January and introduce it in the market in spring.

 

http://paperworld.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/home.html

 

 

Yay, Paperworld! It's like Disneyland... :roflmho: :roflmho: :roflmho:

I'll be there, looking out for the new Safari!

 

But I'd guess it won't be brown. The Safari is a school pen and outside the luxury pen sector brown is extremely unpopular in the german pen world. You also won't find Pelikan brillant brown ink too often here.

So maybe the next Lamy LE will be a Al-Star like it was already once somewhere between the Safari Flame (orange/red clip) and the Blue/Red Safari! I'm voting for a SPARKLING AL-STAR, YAY!

 

Paperworld! I had no idea this was on in Frankfurt. I could easily travel there by train from here, but I am currently ill and in bed and have an ungodly amount of work to do this weekend

 

[Edgar Allan Bo]

...any news yet!?!

[diplomat]

The Paperworld opened yesterday, but I guess that whoever is now there will have no time to log here... until Tuesday when the fair will close.

 

 

 

[saintsimon]

Re Paperworld:

 

"The fair is for trade visitors only. Private visitors will not be admitted..."

Edited February 1, 2009 by saintsimon

[Newtown]

Orange.

[PENtup]

In 2007, Lamy brought back a version of their Alpin (white) color from the '80s. I think that there is a good probability that they could do this again and either bring back the orange or the dark green.

[menick]

In 2007, Lamy brought back a version of their Alpin (white) color from the '80s. I think that there is a good probability that they could do this again and either bring back the orange or the dark green.

 

Mmm...

 

But orange was brought back in 2004 I think? And last year was green... nothing like savanna green I agree...

 

still quite curious.

 

nick

[encremental]

Unless this is a bit of cheeky Photoshop, it looks like it's orange, with a silver clip........ talk about an anticlimax

 

John

[encremental]

And here it is again on a Japanese blog......

 

Newtown, - I guess you win! Had you seen the pics or were you just flexing your psychic powers?

 

John