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After spotting another blooper in a LEGO catalogue from a number of years ago I wondered if anyone had ever thought of creating a website to showcase mistakes that TLG has made in promotional materials, instructions, catalogues etc (all in the name (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Timmy could be the host. -Tom McD. when replying, note that spamcake was an official ingredient in Desert Storm MRE's. (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi Sanjay, I could contribute 2 out of this year, but whats the use just for fun ? Some mistakes are explained by the production technics RTL uses. The production of the catalogs is centralised in Denmark afaik. And they print catalogs in different (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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I was thinking more along the lines of image bloopers rather than text bloopers. One example is the instructions for the Mercury II Transport which has a curious "error" in one of the final steps. Another example is a wrongly (1) assembled #6378 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, there have been some this past year, too. Note the catalogues with the first glance at the Snowspeeder set, where the side assemblies (the wing bits) weren't ratcheted down on the hinges, so they stuck straight out, looking nothing like (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not only that, but that is not the production-run model. Note there is red in it, not orange. Jeff P.S. This is only in the mini catalog, and not the full catalog that comes with large sets. (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I discovered a major blooper back in the 1980's. Set 517 (the smallest of the basic sets back in the early 1980's) had 3 variations of the same set. Supposedly this set had (2) 1x2x2 yellow windows, and (2) 1x4x3 yellow frames (with red (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I was wondering if this was a color match blooper or a brick selection blooper. The most common one I have seen is when they reverse the pictures becuase they want the set pointing a different way and the stickers are backwards. Chris (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Some of the pieces are red in the image, when they are another color (besides orange) in the final model. The bottom plate, for example, and there is a red plate in the harpoon turret. Since there is no orange in these places, It is obvious (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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