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Re: LEGO Quality
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 3 Mar 2001 13:14:35 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote in message <3A9FA49D.2781@mindspring.com>...
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> Yesterday I opened an older MISB set (3629 to be specific). It was
> almost impossible to build because the bricks were so "stiff", they
> wouldn't sit properly. I've also had an experience with a MISB 70's set
> (664).
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> This is interesting to me since I have plenty of bricks at least that
> old from used sets, and they aren't similarly stiff.
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> In addition to this, the blue 2x4 bricks in 664 were yellowed (so much
> for sunlight being the cause or at least the only cause of brick
> yellowing, at least of blue bricks).
It could depend on where the set had been stored. I found a MISB 6411 that
had been sitting in a shop window for about 6 years. The box was very faded,
so I haggled and eventually bought it for about 75% off. Generally the parts
were ok, though I did notice they were more brittle than usual, and some
parts showed faint signs of yellowing.
It could be that heat also contributes to the yellowing processs?
(Duckie) Dave Till
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| An experience yesterday, and all the hubub recently about the declining quality of LEGO bricks got me thinking a bit about quality... Yesterday I opened an older MISB set (3629 to be specific). It was almost impossible to build because the bricks (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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