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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, (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I believe I read somewhere that the ABS pellets are now transparent, and color is injected during the moulding process? Whereas before, the pellets came colored prior to being used. I could be wrong though. But as for the color variations that (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
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(...) The keynote speech at Brickworld 2007 by Richard Stollery, the head of LEGO community, contained these points and specifically mentioned the orange garbage truck with pieces you could almost see thorough. They had the choice of not producing a (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
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::snip:: (...) ::snip:: I'm sure that packing errors are devastating to kids (who start a model but can't complete it), but I don't mind so much, in light of how I received at least 2 bags of extra parts with my new Town Plan! It seems that (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I find very few, if no packing errors which always amazes me. Thousands of parts in a set and they are always perfect. When I build sets with my Grand daughter she will say this piece or that piece is missing. I tell her to look harder, she (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
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