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Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 14:35:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> 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.
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> Has anyone else ever had damaged Lego in sets?
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> Scott A
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 plastic. So, there was one extra slope. This was easily
remedied with an Xacto knife to seperate the pieces.
-Chris
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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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| "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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| 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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