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Re: Shell sets... more non marled slopes
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:30:03 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Whee, just finished building a set of 5 of the Shell promo sets...
> thanks Niko! I noticed something about the slopes in the set, though
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> The ferrari racecar uses a 2x3 low slope without marling (1) that has
> the ferrari prancing horse logo printed on it.
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> The ferrari road car uses a sticker for the hood, but it goes onto a 4x3
> hood slope brick. This slope is also non marled. The sticker no doubt
> sticks better than it would to a marled slope. I wonder if a trend is
> developing here...
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> Lego USED to print on marled slopes.
Look at the printing carefully. I noticed on the McDonalds sets that it
appears that the printing is not the traditional LEGO printing, but a
transfer of some kind. I had posted in lugnet.promo about this but I
guess I should have posted here.
I suspect that this is a development to make it a little cheaper to
produce special printed bricks for promos.
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| Whee, just finished building a set of 5 of the Shell promo sets... thanks Niko! I noticed something about the slopes in the set, though The ferrari racecar uses a 2x3 low slope without marling (1) that has the ferrari prancing horse logo printed on (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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