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Subject: 
Re: how odd!!!!
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:58:06 GMT
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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...
> 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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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

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