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Damaged MINT Lego?
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 14:30:29 GMT
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I made myself a cup tea of tea at lunch time and set aside an hour to open
and build my 6557 "Treasure Hunters". I broke the seals and opened the box.
Immediately, I noticed that one of the inverted brown arches was damaged
(the 1*1 brown plate size end was bent up to ~45 degrees). Obviously this
must have been some sort of manufacturing fault.
Has anyone else ever had damaged Lego in sets?
Scott A
The 6557
http://nt1.pncl.co.uk/huw/view.asp?Set=6557-1&f=1&r=1
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Message has 8 Replies:
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| (...) Aye, there's a couple times I've opened a set and found faulty or missing parts. One time, a factory fault was my gain. I bought a Snowspeeder, and somehow during manufacturing, two 1x3 orange slopes got stuck together. Not glue; melted (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I once (12 years ago?) had a mismoulded bevel gear in a set. But things like this don't happen often, in my experience. Fredrik (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| I haven't gotten a bad brick since 1976. My first set had a malformed 2x2 brick, and a 2x4 red gate. I still have the brick--I found it the other day--and I think I will send it back. It is only 24 years old. Chris (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) My 8448 Supercar had a gray pin that had one end mashed flat, then not 1 month later I got a 4561 train that had a green 1x4 tile with what appears to be a piece of metal, fingernail shaped melted into the top of it. Consumer Affairs replaced (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) recognition, obviously a manufacturing mistake. Another type of 'mint' damage is scratching. I opened a new 1789 Star Hawk II with many of the pieces badly scratched, as if from extremely rough handling. The box however had absolutely no (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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| (...) slightly out of shape. They do not sit properly in any case, they will only lock into place if there is nothing behind them. This was only true in one of the ten of these sets that I opened, an obvious factory error. I have not called for (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Scott-A wrote in message ... (...) No, never seen any, not in nearly two hundred sets, but then they've all been made in Europe. From a quick scan of who has posted replies to this thread (quite a few), it's mostly occurred in Lego sets (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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