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Hi all, this is Gianluca Morelli from Italy ; my question is: is there a way to know how many bricks a set contains without consulting Pause magazine's archives or counting the bricks one by one? Is the brick number written anywhere on the box or on (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In the US and North America, it's written on the box (I was quite surprised to find this out). In Europe, however, there is no piece count, possibly because of the sheer number of languages they'd have to put 'pieces/pcs/....' in after it- (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) pieces contained on the outside of the box. It was part of a "truth-in- packaging" set of laws passed in the late 1960's. They are also not allowed to show on the outside of the box models created with pieces that are not in the box. Since (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In Brazil the laws are just like that... (...) And Portuguese is spoken only in Brazil, but Lego closed the Manaus (Amazon) factory. Paulo (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Really?!? I just ordered two 6441 sets. I was a bit puzzled to see that the piece count, which the LUGNET database lists as 433, was *not* on the outside of the box as I'm used to seeing. Both boxes were the same -- no piece count. So, TLG (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Possibly the fact that you got them from S@H makes a difference. Since it's not a traditional retail store, it may not be bound by the same laws. Or no one is enforcing a good law in a silly circumstance. Did you enjoy the non-North American (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Or perhaps the wording of the law provides a loophole for things like S@H overflow. What comes immediately to mind is that European overflow was never "intended for sale in the US" which might let it slip by... James (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've seen non-US sets (without piece counts) at ZanyBrainy and KB retail stores. (I got a European 8480 Technic shuttle at ZB and saw some non-US model team sets at KB) (...) The best is the Legoland brochure that I got in a European 6091 .. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As a matter of fact, I picked up some boxes at a KayBee store not too long ago that also didn't have a piece count on the box. It was a Night Lord's Castle (6097), and contained a different set of catalogs than I was used to as well (having (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Can anyone substantiate this law? Can you point to a reference to it on the web? I know model kits usually don't give piece counts, and puzzles give only approximate piece counts (your 1000 piece puzzle probably doesn't have exactly 1000 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Fair labeling requirements (was Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?)
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(...) Ask and ye will receive: (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Will, you're a genius. When I made my wild claim above, I was pulling the data out of my sleeve. Thanks for your support! -Cheese (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I would say that this is probably the case; if TLG can provide documentation that the piece count in the non-North American localized version is the same as that in the North American version, they would be allowed to sell the non- North (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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In the case of TLG products, what actual benefit to consumers is this law providing? All sets with 100 pieces are not somehow fungible, the pieces are different from one set design to the next. As usual, a hard to read law that ultimately is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) There is something very related. Look at that pictures. (URL) box is plain European one (note German, Dutch and pan-european languages) and there are stickers affixed on them mentioning the piece count and classic age (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:389A3C31.DF107D...ger.net... (...) I kinda like knowing ahead of time how many pieces will be in the set. It helps me determine if the set is a good deal or not, especially sets on clearance, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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