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Re: LEGO Quality
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:21:51 GMT
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Interesting..... Only yesterday I opened a 25 years old 396 and had the same
thing: bricks were incredibly stiff. There were no blue 2x4's, but lots of
other blue, and no sign of yellowing. Since it's such an old set, there were
no polybags....
Duq
"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:3A9FA49D.2781@mindspring.com...
> 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).
>
> I wonder if the the packaging (box or plastic bags) has any detrimental
> effects.
>
> --
> Frank Filz
>
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| Duq, I am glad to hear that the 396 sets was one thing that you did leave that store in Germany with. I found 2 of those about 10/12 years ago in a German town called Mittwitz near the former East/West German border. Actually I bought one on 1989 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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