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Re: Jake Chat II - Transcript
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
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Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:04:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote:
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This baffles me. Hasn’t the color-consistency of LEGO been praised as one
of the factors setting it above its competitor clone brands? And now we
have more or less official confirmation that color-variance is expected and
(presumably) acceptable? What happened to quality control? And if LEGO
forfeits its vaunted color purity, what’s left?
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OK, to clarify: What I’m saying is not that our quality control has gone out
the window. The point I was trying to make was that plastic molding
technology isn’t a 100% accurate science. NO manufacturer producing plastic
products has ever produced thousands of products that have EXACTLY the same
plastic coloration. Due to all the things I pointed out in the chat and more,
plastics simply aren’t exactly 100% the same color from mold shot to mold
shot. The goal, of course, is to get them as consistent as possible.
This isn’t a LEGO Company issue, it’s a plastics production processes issue.
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Hi Jake!
We can all accept that minor variance may be unavoidable during production, but
in the past a Certain Other Brand has been blasted for failing to maintain
laser-precise color consistency, so it seems that LEGO is getting a pass on this
issue. I don’t blame LEGO for the foibles of cooling ABS, other than to note
that color variance seems to have been on the rise in the past few years. I
think it is a LEGO Company issue to the extent that it’s a QC issue.
Thanks as always for taking my call.
Dave!
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| (...) I read it as regular yellow, not the light yellow. Light yellow could have been one of the pastel colors that was modified. I'll check on this. (...) OK, to clarify: What I'm saying is not that our quality control has gone out the window. The (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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