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Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:19:44 GMT
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lego@[AvoidSpam]songtwo.demon.co.uk
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gianluca morelli wrote:
> 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?
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> Is the brick number written anywhere on the box or on
> the building instructions ?
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- except (I think) on some Mindstorms sets. (I'd have to check at home.)
I've never seen a piece count on instructions.
(Are US-ers amazed at the number of languages the 'Not for children
under 3 years' appears on System boxes? It's quite a few. I have a
picture somewhere.)
:: paul
:: http://www.songtwo.demon.co.uk/lego/
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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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| 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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