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| Hi, I just opened a MISB 6952 (1985), and had a great time building it. But I was a little surpriced to find, that there was absolutely no extra bricks in this set, not even 1x1 round plates. So, does anybody know, when TLC started to put extra (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| Odd... I recall several sets from back then having extra bricks... S Arne Lykke Nielsen <arln@wanadoo.dk> wrote in message news:HEEFLp.L8E@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| I remember that there used to always be extras of the 1X1 round plates; especially when the set used an odd number of them. Way back in The Day, the 1X1 round plates came in pairs on a sprue, so a set always had an even number of them. For (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, I think you have found the reason here; 6952 uses 2 1x1 trans-yellow round plates, and they are there as a pair as you described. Still I find it odd that theres no other extras, like the levers, of which the set uses 8; in a modern set, (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.general)
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