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Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 02:13:56 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Wilkins writes:
> 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.
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 broke
the law?
--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305
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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)
| | | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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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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| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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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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