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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 22:48:18 GMT
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Matthew Wilkins wrote:
> 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. • In Brazil the laws are just like that...
> 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
And Portuguese is spoken only in Brazil, but Lego closed the Manaus
(Amazon) factory.
Paulo
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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