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Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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Sat, 5 Jan 2008 04:50:11 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, John Patterson wrote:
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You raise an interesting point about the box art on the Bikini Bottom
Express: at what point can it be considered false advertising, since the
included model so obviously deviates from that pictured? On boxes of
cereal, for example, manufacturers always put a disclaimer to the effect of
“Product enlarged to show texture”; has LEGO reached the point of needing to
include a disclaimer stating, “Product rendered with CGI to cover flaws of
actual model” ? Of course, most of us would simply prefer that the model
match the box art as closely as possible. But at a minimum, perhaps LEGO
needs to state that the box art is an artistic representation of the actual
product.
Incidentally, I used those same windows on a caboose of mine:
The orange panel windows it uses are from an earlier Sponge Bob set, and the
color discrepancy was still an issue then, although this latest set really
highlights it.
-Jordan Schwarz
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Perhaps it is due to Flextronics not having the quality control that Lego
did. Why they moved production to Juarez Mexico is beyond me.
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(Note that I don’t know, and that I’m not wearing my Ambassador’s hat here). I
would guess that costs are a major consideration, and that the NAFTA has had a
bearing on this - keep in mind that the USA is LEGO’s biggest market.
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Perhaps very cheap labor, less than $2.00 an hour might be the reason.
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Well, labour costs would have a bearing, no doubt. But less than $2 an hour? Who
knows? Don’t forget that cost is not necessarily an indicator of quality. I’ve
seen a lot of shoddy work done in a number of fields for a lot more than $2 an
hour.
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Shades of overseas clothing sweat houses.
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This I doubt. Unless LEGO are assembling sets by hand.
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Check the box next time you buy a Lego. “Components made in Denmark,
Austria, Hungary, Mexico and the Czech Republic” John P
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Excellent. An internationally produced product for an international market.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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| (...) I live in El Paso and that is the wage in Juarez, or less. I would doubt that it is too international. Nothing is made in the US, Germany, England, New Zealand, or Australia. Though some things are made in China. I would say that the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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