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Subject:	Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego
Date:	Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:39:05 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, David Simmons wrote:

Hey all,

Got a lovely selection of holiday loot thanks to my sweetie-pie, and after building the sets I have some impressions. The sets are:

Mars Mission # 7695 MX-11 Astro Fighter

Town City # 7991 Recycle Truck

SpongeBob Squarepants # 3830 Bikini Bottom Express

Mars Mission # 7693 ETX Alien Strike

::snip::

You raise an interesting point about the box art on the Bikini Bottom Express: at what point can it be considered false advertising, since the included model so obviously deviates from that pictured? On boxes of cereal, for example, manufacturers always put a disclaimer to the effect of “Product enlarged to show texture”; has LEGO reached the point of needing to include a disclaimer stating, “Product rendered with CGI to cover flaws of actual model” ? Of course, most of us would simply prefer that the model match the box art as closely as possible. But at a minimum, perhaps LEGO needs to state that the box art is an artistic representation of the actual product.

Incidentally, I used those same windows on a caboose of mine:

The orange panel windows it uses are from an earlier Sponge Bob set, and the color discrepancy was still an issue then, although this latest set really highlights it.

-Jordan Schwarz

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		Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
(...) Indeed, they do! I raised this issue in a previous post when commenting on this set which I'd purchased: (URL) the picture, the front wheels are shown turned to the left, which is physically impossible as they are fixed on the model. I really (...) (16 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

		Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
(...) One issue may be the application of orange paint on a different material. We all know LEGO elements are made of ABS. However, windows are not made of ABS, they are made of polycarbonate(PC). As PC and ABS are different materials, application (...) (16 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

		Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
(...) Perhaps it is due to Flextronics not having the quality control that Lego did. Why they moved production to Juarez Mexico is beyond me. Perhaps very cheap labor, less than $2.00 an hour might be the reason. Shades of overseas clothing sweat (...) (16 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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		Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
Hey all, Got a lovely selection of holiday loot thanks to my sweetie-pie, and after building the sets I have some impressions. The sets are: Mars Mission # 7695 MX-11 Astro Fighter Town City # 7991 Recycle Truck SpongeBob Squarepants # 3830 Bikini (...) (16 years ago, 30-Dec-07, to lugnet.reviews, FTX)

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