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Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 29 Feb 2004 03:25:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Huw Millington wrote:
> The first of the new Harry Potter sets is now available in the UK. the 4755
> Knight Bus has arrived, but, as others have noted in .harrypotter, quality
> is definitely slipping.
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> The instructions seem to printed on a much inferior paper stock, but that's
> nothing to the differences in colour of the purple parts. The image posted
> elsewhere taken of the set at the toy fair showed this problem, but now I
> can confirm that the set as shipped suffers from this:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/hmillington/Misc/purple.jpg
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> Some parts are redder than others, as you can hopefully see, and what's odd
> is that the some of the 1x10 bricks are OK (in that they match the majority
> of the other parts) but two are not. The 1x6 and 1x2's seem to be off-colour
> too.
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> The purple itself is, I believe, a new colour.
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> I have to say though, that the flesh minifigs are growing on me, and the set
> contains a new animal: a large dog (it's almost shoulder-height!)
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> Huw
Dangit, this is the one HP set I wanted to buy this year.
Are you sure that the (average) color of these parts isn't Violet? Hard to
tell, even from the relatively good scan...
--D
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