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Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 4 May 2000 00:59:57 GMT
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Scott-A wrote in message ...
> 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?
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 manufactured in the
U.S.
Perhaps quality control is slightly inferior in the U.S. to help keep the
price down... something new to check for when buying a sealed set on eBay,
isn't it? ;-)
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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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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| 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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