Subject:
|
Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Fri, 4 Feb 2000 01:50:24 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1763 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.general, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.general, John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > 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.
>
> Or perhaps the wording of the law provides a loophole for things like S@H
> overflow. What comes immediately to mind is that European overflow was never
> "intended for sale in the US" which might let it slip by...
>
> James
I would say that this is probably the case; if TLG can provide documentation
that the piece count in the non-North American localized version is the same
as that in the North American version, they would be allowed to sell the non-
North American localized version as the North American one.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
|
| (...) <snip> (...) There is something very related. Look at that pictures. (URL) box is plain European one (note German, Dutch and pan-european languages) and there are stickers affixed on them mentioning the piece count and classic age (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
|
| (...) Or perhaps the wording of the law provides a loophole for things like S@H overflow. What comes immediately to mind is that European overflow was never "intended for sale in the US" which might let it slip by... James (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
|
16 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
