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Re: Universal Color List...finally
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lugnet.color, lugnet.lego
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Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:06:50 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.color, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
> > In lugnet.color, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > > In lugnet.color, Paulo Renato wrote: • [Snip - quality issues]
> Hi Ben, while those stacks look bad, I don't see any stacks of older plates
> beside them to compare. I stacked my older bricks and found much variation, I
> would be interested to see your findings.
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> A lot of people say LEGO tolerances have become worse over time, but I have not
> seen anyone actually check the tolerance of older bricks, except my limited
> investigation here http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=2163
Hi Rosco,
I can imagine, that a wild mix of used bricks from 196x till nineties have
different clutch forces and similar tolerance spread as the plates now.
But if you took only bricks of one colour and type out of one type of set (from
any year within 70ies or 80ies) I am 100% convinced these are better than the
bricks now.
I do believe 100% in the word of Tormod Askildsen (working as head of the LEGO
community development). He is a very kind and trust worthy person - polite but
now and then shocking open in his statements.
He admitted TLC actually _has_ decreased their _too high_ quality to a level
which is still high, but no longer extraordinary high (they do not use the
slogan: "just the best is good ebnough for our children" any longer as well). He
was of the opinion, that most buyers do not care as much about quality as I (and
a few others do).
I am not happy about such an information, but I have to accept it of course. TLC
has trouble with losses, so they try to reduce the costs. The other side of the
medal are more and more disappointed customers (especially in old Europe, where
quality seems to be much more a topic than in the rest of the world.)
So please take it as a fact: the moulding cycles of the machines actually got
shortened and therefor the production output higher (=cheaper), but of lower
form tolerance.
Kind Regards,
Ben
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> ROSCO
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| (...) That's fine, but the bricks I used were all from the period 1970-1980, as they were put away when I began my 20 year dark age in 1981, and I have since always kept them separate from my new bricks. I actually picked out the bricks that looked (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Hi Ben, while those stacks look bad, I don't see any stacks of older plates beside them to compare. I stacked my older bricks and found much variation, I would be interested to see your findings. A lot of people say LEGO tolerances have become (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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