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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 21:17:19 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Mison writes:
> gianluca morelli wrote:
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> > 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 ?
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> In the US and North America, it's written on the box (I was quite
> surprised to find this out).
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> 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.)
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> I've never seen a piece count on instructions.
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> (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.)
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> :: paul
> :: http://www.songtwo.demon.co.uk/lego/
Actually, in the US it's a Federal law that they have to put the number of
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 most of the boxes for the US market have generic North/South
American packaging, Mexico and Canada get saddled with our silliness, too. I
personally don't get weirded out by the number of languages on System boxes;
the North/South American versions have English, French, Spanish and Portuguese
on them anyway!
-Cheese
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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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| (...) 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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