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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 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Chris Maddison
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | (...) That's interesting! I was under the impression that TLC uses box weight to "eliminate" factory errors; thus sometimes (rarely, but still) people would get a wrong-colored piece, but not very often a different piece altogether. I wonder how an (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Chris Maddison
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| | | | | | | | | (...) No clue. This could also be why we get "extras" with certain sets. Along these same lines, I wonder exactly how they divvy up pieces for each set, and decide what goes in what bag. For example, I have 4 Catapult Crushers, and no two of them (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Peter White
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) would (...) Maybe it was a different production run and they had changed the piece/bag plan. As for the weighing process, anything mechanical can chuck a 'wobbly',when in need of service or experiencing 'problems'. The printing machines at (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) The weight control is somewhat of a statistical thing. Any time you take a measurement of something, given a sufficiently precise (as in digits of precision as opposed to accuracy) measurement device, you will get different measurements each (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Yes - many of the 4291 red tubs had malformed red lattice fences in: there was a gap in the lattice at the same point on every malformed one that I got, so it was probably a mould problem. I had 4 or 5 out of 13 tubs with this problem, and I (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Greg Majewski
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| | | | | | | | (...) I don't know, but I had an extra grey metal detector piece sneak past the box test before. That is the only real time I've had an error in a set. Greg Majewski (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Damian Garcia
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| | | | | | "Xcalabur" <Xcalabur@rocketmail.com> wrote in message news:Fts8Jv.428@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) Not (...) I remember reading about this here a while back. Someone received a magic marker cap and another person had an incomplete Rock Raider (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | | (...) Actually it was Joe Davenport that got both (and a misprinted door in Anikin's Podracer) Alan (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Fredrik Glöckner
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Gary R. Istok
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| | | | | | (...) I too have had very few experiences of mis-shaped bricks/pieces. I have a very large collection, and only about 12 pieces are misshapen. Of these, 5 are from a 1957 set #700 (wooden box), and these 5 are more cosmetic blemishes than actually (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —James Powell
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| | | | | | (...) I have 3 pieces, and some multiples of one of them :) 1. 1x2 brick, 1/2 mold shot from look of it 2. Fence Pieces (multi copies, Lego withdrew the sets after several (3-4 of us) complained about the part being mismolded and gave details of (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Christopher Masi
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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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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | (...) (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Thomas D. Fulk, Jr.
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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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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Kevin Loch
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | Kevin, (...) I'm glad you posted this--I thought I was the only one who wibbled at overly greasy bricks (or got them on a regular basis). I don't know what it was, but I got many Adventurers sets like this--a really bizarre thing. It may be more (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Greg Majewski
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| | | | | | | | (...) thing (...) Come to think of it, that has happened to me also. I had a large white Technic hubcap with streaks of green trailing through it, but they were on the inside and almost too faint to notice just by glancing. Greg Majewski (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | The greasyness of new bricks is something that is a bit annoying to me. My skin seems to be sensitive to the grease, and after sorting a large quantity of LEGO elements, my hands always feel itchy. (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Steve Demlow
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| | | | | | (...) I have found this very annoying of late. The grease can be quite noticable and is hard to remove, and a few small tires can "contaminate" a large polybag full of parts. In reponse to the original aim of the thread, I've found one 1x2 brick (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | Steve Demlow <demlow@visi.com> wrote in message news:Ftw754.A3y@lugnet.com... (...) probably (...) noticable (...) Hmm. I have never noticed this - is it obvious? Perhaps it only effects US/North American production? Scott A (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | No, not a local problem of US. Town tyres especially, are always somehow oily. Selçuk (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I've found it most noticeable on the FreeStyle tires -- especially the bigger ones, but also a big problem with even the small Town tires. For at least the last 2 years we've had to seal every lot of tires we sell separately into a separate (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Jonathan Little
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| | | | | | (...) I've only ever noticed it on the Adventurer's tires. I was very surprised when I opened up my first Adventurer's set. I couldnt' figure out what was all over my fingers. -Jonathan (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Aaron West
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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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| | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Paul Baulch
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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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| | | | | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego? —Gary R. Istok
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| | | | (...) USA since then? In prior years I have noticed no quality problems. Out of 1/2 million bricks (90% of USA origin), I have 12 that are defective. For those of you that are statisticians or quality assurance folks, this sounds like "Sigma 6", as (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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