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Re: I Just Don't See It
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Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:48:12 GMT
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I bought 5 5230 Explore tubs from Boscov's. They are supposed to have 10 orange or
med yellow orange 2x2 duplo bricks in them.
One tub had 10 all the same color.
The other 4 tubs ALL had 8 "light orange" and 2 "orange".
What was worse was when I put the 2 "orange" from those tubs in a stack, there were
at least 2 distinct shades. I really don't know which is the "real" orange and
which is not.
QC on those tubs SUCKED. I have no problem with them all being orange even if the
label shows med yellow orange. I have a problem with 2 shades when the tub sticker
shows one.
I decided not to inventory the tub for BL because the colors were off too much - the
green bricks were sorta "bright green", definitely not "green" (WAY lighter than the
green from a different Explore tub). But it was the orange that killed any chance
of inventorying it.
I often stack bricks from tubs to save room (compacting 70 tubs when you don't even
have room for 10-20 is kinda necessary). When I stack them, the dark grey and grey
almost always have variations. Yellow sometimes does too.
Chris Phillips wrote:
> So I've tried to forget about the color change and focus on sorting my LEGO and
> building some new models. While sorting, I've been keeping in the back of my
> mind what many have said: that LEGO has always had color variances in the
> pieces.
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> Well after parting out a couple dozen sets, I've gotta say that I just don't see
> this. Sure, baseplates have always come in a couple shades of green, and I've
> even noticed that some of my tan baseplates are very slightly darker than
> others. But with regular brick I only found one piece that was a noticeably
> different hue than the rest, and it turned out to be a Tyco brick that somehow
> got mixed into a bin of loose brick. (Not counting bricks in the new 2004
> colors, of course, which are just different enough that you only notice the
> difference AFTER you drop them into a bin of supposedly same-color pieces.)
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> Now granted, the vast majority of my LEGO collection was purchased new in the
> last five years, and has never been abused with direct sunlight. But I have a
> small amount of brick that is at least 20 years old, and the colors are still
> the same.
>
> So what are you guys talking about?
>
> - Chris.
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| (...) I encountered one of these tubs at a CVS store today and picked it up. All the 'orange' 2x2s and 2x4s are the color that BL calls 'Medium Orange'. A few other parts in this color were found in the recent Walgreens boxes. (...) The greens in (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| So I've tried to forget about the color change and focus on sorting my LEGO and building some new models. While sorting, I've been keeping in the back of my mind what many have said: that LEGO has always had color variances in the pieces. Well after (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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