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Subject: 
Aging pieces with printing and logos
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 7 Oct 2000 11:53:11 GMT
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I'm amazed that my old shell, taxi, police, lego, legoland and the 1*4
headlight picese look really good after 25 years...
Hey, even the 2*4 yellow spirit of st loiuse piece looks good considering
it's only a sticker.

My old space pieces with logos and the minifig torsos does not look good at
all, after only 15 yers.

Anyone with intresting theories or some other knowledge about it? Some of
the pieces do have stuff "pressed" in to the plastic and therefore lasts
longer. But the shell pieces do have regular printing as of today.
(Even the stickers from the 80,s does not look as good after a couple of
years as the old ones...)
Why?
/Joakim



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  Re: Aging pieces with printing and logos
 
(...) Obviously the bricks with "engraved" lettering have a better chance of lasting a long time since the "engraving" protects the paint. On the other hand, I think these bricks are just painted with normal paint. The newer way that TLC does (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

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