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Re: how odd!!!!
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Date: 
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:38:21 GMT
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In lugnet.general, James Stacey writes:
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

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 lower pressure, or lower temperature, or something...

Does the plastic seem like the same quality of ABS that goes into 'normal'
bricks?

JohnG, GMLTC



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they appear to be exactly the same as normal bricks, in feel, composition and weight. Just no colour. "John Gerlach" <gmltc_j1@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HDJKJx.t59@lugnet.com... (...) appear (...) a (...) something... (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

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  how odd!!!!
 
have LEGO run out of colouring pigment ?? (URL) 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 -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

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