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how odd!!!!
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:54:01 GMT
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have LEGO run out of colouring pigment ??
http://www.minifig.co.uk/funstuff/oddbricks.htm
they have been well played with, but still have lots of clutch, but appear
to have missed out on colour. Some of them have grey remenents
wierd
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James Stacey
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| (...) Those certainly are strange! My first thought is that they might be what some of my friends call "hand moulds". Apparently when Lego creates/gets a new mould, they test it in something other than a full-blown production machine. Probably at a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Looks like a color change to me. The red and green pieces are tell-tail signs of color change for sure. The more clear stuff looks like a different resin altogether. You would get that from a barrel purge....it's common to use acrylic as a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| Well, whatever else they are, they look like they are quite old. I don't think that the molds for the 2 x 4 bricks have the injection points on the ends like that any more. I can remember when I was a kid, those points ( dots, really) annoyed me (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The uncolored bricks might be transparent bricks that have been very badly yellowed. I have some that are almost that bad. Note that these appear to be very old bricks, due to the mold release point on the ends of the bricks. --Bill. (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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