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Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 20:57:58 GMT
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David Eaton wrote:

In lugnet.general, John J. Ladasky, Jr. writes:
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.

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 pieces).

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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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