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Re: Misprinted Leonora heads?
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lugnet.castle
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Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:11:17 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Rick Kurtzuba writes:
> > Before I request a replacement for the replacement, I want to ask:
> > has anybody here had the same problem?
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> Don't let them get away with this.
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> The only benefit of Lego over competing brands is the quality of the product --
> if they can't deliver on this, then who needs 'em? And I have had this
> smeared printing problem too, just not with Leonora's head but rather with her
> skirt. Shiri asked about the female astronaut the other day, and I posted a
> picture of it (http://members.aol.com/blueofnoon/lego/images/femastro.jpg) -
> take a closer look, the printing is smudged (look at the hairline, although I
> am not sure it shows in this image -- I might have reduced the resolution so
> that the smudging is no longer obvious). And I have a misprinted Green-haired
> racer chick, and several paradisa babes besides (no hope for the latter
> though, out of production AND as such constituted a misrepresentation on the
> packaging of the Paradisa sets I recently purchased at Toy Liquidators -- the
> box showed open-mouthed paradisa babes, and I got common town cuties instead).
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> Yeeesh! And these figures are so far only appearing in high-priced sets. If
> these figures appeared commonly elsewhere, I'd probably never call the
> consumer affairs people -- I mean, why bother over trivialities? I have a
> misprinted Jet or two, but who cares? She's easy to obtain. But if they are
> going to play hide and seek with these other figures, I expect to get well
> printed elements for sure! Can you imagine tolerating a misprinted C3PO or
> Leia (sp? for SW characters is not a strong point of mine)?
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> The more complicated and finer-lined the features become, the worse the
> printing gets. And if they can't guarantee the printing every time because of
> sloppy quality control, then they should make these minifigures more readily
> available or be VERY accomodating when people file their claims for better
> printed elements.
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> -- Richard
I never had a screwed up smiley head . . in fact I never had any printing
problems untill this year. just a couple of heads that were faded on the
sides. It is a screen printing thing. 1 color no prob. 2 colors that don't
touch: rarely a prob (like the female town face) but when you start having
many colors and intricate pattrens the problems become noticable. I bet the
were the same amount of mis printed heads in the past it just didn't matter
that the head rotated 1 degree during printing ect. Just my two cents.
John
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