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Subject: 
Viking Fortress Colour Oddity
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lugnet.color, lugnet.vikings
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Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:48:13 GMT
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Hi,

I sorted a:


    7019 Viking Fortress against the Fafnir Dragon
1019 elements, 6 figures, US$70, 2005
LEGO > SYSTEM > Vikings

...and oddly, the treasure chest had an old brown base, and a new brown lid. Weird.

First time I’ve noticed a mix of old and new in a set, but also odd in that it would seem that treasure chests and treasure chest lids would be produced and sorted together - I don’t think there’s a incidence of them appearing seperately in sets, but I could be wrong.

All the other brown in the set (as far as I noticed) was new brown.

Cheers

Richie Dulin



FUT .color



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  Re: Viking Fortress Colour Oddity
 
(...) You remember how the Bonus Box sets all had way more left side wings, or right-side wedges or whatever? I think it's like that, the bases and the lids are probably produced separately. (18 years ago, 4-Aug-06, to lugnet.color, FTX)
  Re: Viking Fortress Colour Oddity
 
(...) The first ones I noticed were in Knight's Kingdom sets (8875), with a mix of greys. All of the 1x8 bricks were in old grey, while the remainder of the pieces was new grey. Since then I've noted the discrepancy in a few sets, although I don't (...) (18 years ago, 4-Aug-06, to lugnet.color)

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