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Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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lugnet.color
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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:58:32 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Todd Thuma wrote:
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In lugnet.color, John Patterson wrote:
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What bothers me more is that Lego does not seem to
care about or respond to this ongoing problem.
John P
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John,
What would you like LEGO Group to do about the quality? They no longer
manufacture plastic parts. They have contracted with a third party to
manufacture parts who would try to pass as many parts as they can. LEGO might,
by contract, be obliged to allow certain percentage of less than acceptable
parts to pass. Not to mention that parts are being made in 3 countries by
companies not accustomed to LEGO’s high level of quality.
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This is misleading. The following is a statement from the LEGO Community
Development Team:
“Product safety and product quality are factors of the utmost concern for the
LEGO Group and have been so during our entire 75 year history. In order to
ensure product safety, we make sure that safety is in the design. This means
that our product safety experts are involved in the designing process. The
majority of all LEGO bricks are still produced in Denmark and more than 50% of
all LEGO owned mould machines are located in Billund, Denmark. The rest of the
LEGO owned mould machines are placed at external suppliers in Hungary and
Mexico.The final packaging of LEGO products is conducted in Denmark, Hungary,
Poland, Czech Republic or Mexico. At the moment the LEGO Company purchases only
approx. 3% of the entire element volume in China. E.g. some electronic elements,
most parts which are individually packaged in plastic bags and textiles are
purchased in China. Our products are tested both by ourselves and our suppliers,
and in some cases also by external auditors (this applies to China). We use very
special raw materials and we thoroughly control that the received materials are
in accordance with our specifications. Due to legislation in EU we have to state
on the box in which countries the individual parts contained in the box are
manufactured.” LEGO Community Development Team – 30.01.2008
I still question the assertions people make about reduced quality - I still have
many of the bricks I purchased in the late 60s and 70s, and they have colour
differences, the edges don’t line up exactly, and stacks of the same number of
bricks are different heights. I would contend that the quality is NOT
decreasing, it’s just that we, as adults, notice the differences much more than
we did as kids.
I have a collection that is probably pretty average around here, 100-200K or so,
and I have only had:
And all parts were replaced without question by LEGO Australia. I think that’s a
pretty good record.
ROSCO
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) I have found that the newer sets have a problem. Others have seen the difference in colors in several sets. I have had a hard time puting some bricks and other elements together because of the tolerences. I began collecting in the 70's as an (...) (16 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
| | | Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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| (...) It's dropping-- not by huge leaps and bounds as people might lead you to believe, but it's dropping. But there's not much I can say other than "it's worse than it was before". I compare elements molded in roughly 1999 to elements molded today, (...) (16 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
| | | Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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| (...) Ross, Thanks for this! I appreciate someone representing the truth of what's going on, and I admit my statement was over generalized. I would like to point out two things though. Mold making and parts making are being moved out of Denmark. (...) (16 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) John, What would you like LEGO Group to do about the quality? They no longer manufacture plastic parts. They have contracted with a third party to manufacture parts who would try to pass as many parts as they can. LEGO might, by contract, be (...) (16 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
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