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| There will be a little while longer with some smooth slopes coming out because they haven't quite got the new moulds ready yet, but they will be switching back to texture for the foreseeable future. hooray! Steve (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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| (...) Hooray! Good work, guys. I'll sure be looking forward to the textured slopes coming back. Now, just bring our 9V Trains back, too! -Jordan Schwarz (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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| (...) ... Well, as said, we asked again, and here is what we've been told to answer: TLG is switching back to textured slopes. So it turns out I was wrong about molds wearing off (and as some poeple pointed, it didn't quite fit anyway); apparently (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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| In lugnet.ambassadors, Ross Crawford wrote: snip (...) If mold deterioration was the case, the "pits and mounds" would appear the same, just "flattened". The parts of the mold that makes the "pits" would be in contact with the molten plastic first, (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) If you look closely at your photo, especially the corner slope, you'll see that the surface is mottled, not smooth like bricks. This seems to confirm that it is a consequence of the deterioration of the molds. But note also this (URL) pic (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.dear-lego)
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