To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.db.invOpen lugnet.db.inv in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Database / Set Inventories / 290
289  |  291
Subject: 
Re: Another (semi-) standard field for inventories
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.db.inv
Date: 
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:22:44 GMT
Viewed: 
4722 times
  
In lugnet.db.inv, Todd Lehman wrote:

> In lugnet.db.inv, Steve Bliss writes:
> > I'd like to suggest another field that people should consider recording
> > and reporting:  an identification of the bag and/or sub-container that the
> > parts are in.
> 
> A side note:  The contents of any particular bag in a medium- to large-sized
> LEGO set can change over time on different production runs.  I've seen it
> happen many times -- one copy of the set has, say, a 2x3 black brick in the
> same bag as a 2x4 yellow brick, another copy from a different production run
> (sometimes even bought at the same store at the same time) has the 2x3 black
> brick in a different bag as the 2x4 yellow brick.

Very interesting.  I was wondering if bag-contents changed over time.  But I
could only think of one or two people who I was fairly certain would know the
answer, and I wasn't sure they'd feel like sharing.  So thanks for passing on
that bit of wisdom.

> The first time that happened to me, it scared me off enough not to bother
> tracking the contents of the bags.  After another 10-20 times, it really
> sunk in.

Of course, even set-content can change over time or markets.  Like the two
versions of the Explorien 6938 set.

> Sub-containers are a bit of a different story, though -- things like the
> sub-box in 8277, and the multiple sub-sets of 7171, and the multiple sub-
> polybags of 8002 and 6326.  AFAIK, the contents of those don't change over
> time...

AFAIK2

Steve



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Another (semi-) standard field for inventories
 
(...) Hmm. Who doesn't want to share? I'll share. The most recent set I noticed this phenomenon in was the 5978 Sphynx Secret Surprise. It was pretty annoying since a bag was missing from one of the sets I got. I wanted to know what pieces I was (...) (27 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Another (semi-) standard field for inventories
 
(...) A side note: The contents of any particular bag in a medium- to large-sized LEGO set can change over time on different production runs. I've seen it happen many times -- one copy of the set has, say, a 2x3 black brick in the same bag as a 2x4 (...) (27 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)

11 Messages in This Thread:



Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR