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Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 14 Nov 1999 07:07:27 GMT
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I'm just curious if anyone has ever built their newly-bought lego set only
to discover a piece is missing. I've often been positive partway through
that I was missing one, but I always ended up finding it.
On the other hand, I *always* have a small handful of extra pieces. :)
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Paul Davidson, aka Tinman
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"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful
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 | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) Had worse than a missing piece happen tonite. As I was completeing the 4020 Fireboat I was lucky to get in a auction a while ago....I found that the stickers had been cut in half, and they were unusable. ARGH ! ! ! ! ! But at least the 4031 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Ever been missing a piece? Nope!
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| Paul Davidson wrote (...) Never. Not once in over 500 sets over twenty years. That is very impressive quality control. Wouldn't mind that level of attention to detail in some of the businesses I work with :-) Richard Still baldly going... Check out (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Paul Davidson (<FL6EL3.JuE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 07:07:27 (...) Yup. The unthinkable happened to me just recently. It was a white 2x1x1/3 grill from a 4561. On phoning LEGO consumer services, the part was sent immediately. (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| I had a which's castle that had two entrance bars? 6 bricks by 12 bricks but I was missing a castle wall piece. I know that I have had atleast one other one in the last year, but I can't remember it right know. Rose Paul Davidson wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| Only once. I bought a bunch of 8414's, and building one I found a missing bag of pieces. There was a duplicate bag of other pieces though, so upon weighing the set seemed complete. Called customer service and received the missing pieces in three (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) I bought a Magic Flash (5581) a few years ago and discovered that I was missing from 50 to 100 pieces. As near as I could tell, a parts bag left out of the box. The Lego service people worked with me to replace all of the missing parts. (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) I never EVER thought it would happen. Set after set, Q-control from Lego has always been spot-on. (and yes, always with a few extra tiny bits!) Until just a couple days ago! Augh! (funny you should ask right about now). A sealed, mint (so mint (...) (25 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| Yes, but just once so far out of all these sets I've been buying 9several hundren in the last 6 months). It was an arachnoid starbase purchased at Kohls, and it was apparently mispacked at Lego, as is was missing an entire large bag of parts, but (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) I've never been _missing_ a piece, but recently I bought a Gungan Sub (unopened) and it turned out that one of the printed 1x4 dark grey tiles was substituted for a light grey one without printing. Weird. It (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) I've heard of mis-packed lego instances 3 times in all my 23 years of existance: 1: Around '88 or '89, a friend of mine bought the FUTURON monorail. A Trans-blue windshield was interchanged with a Trans-Green one. Status of mistake? Unknown. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) Yes. A whole bunch. My most recent was the Granite Grinder, it was missing one of those 2x2 plates with technic studs on top. An other one was the big red piece on the front of a red stunt plane. And my Insectoids were missing a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) Pulling from memory of the past (which could cause problems itself) sometime probably in the 1970s (or early 80s), but wasn't there a case of a boy who bought some Legos with a piece missing? It received national TV attention and TLG (or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) When I bought my Whirl'n'Wheel Super Truck Model Team set (I don't know the number offhand) way back when it was available, it was missing the black snowplow piece that made the air deflector on the roof. I never called TLC to complain, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) Only once: a blue 1x6 beam 19 years ago. I have received a mis-printed computer screen - the classic space one with the buttons and cross-hairs. The printing on it is all askew. I rather like it, actually. Oh, and a few months ago I was (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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| (...) Well, the weird double think of not actually missing a piece but thinking I had has certainly happened to me, but so has ACTUALLY missing a piece! Sometimes I am sure this is because someone has lifted the piece in question. Other times, its (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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