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Re: color problems with 10190
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:10:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Patterson wrote:
> I just put together 10190 and find that the navy blue bricks come in two or
> three shades. Has anyone else had this observation? I hope that this is a
> fluke and not a overall problem since Lego has outsourced the making of the
> bricks. I opened up a second set and it had the same color problem.
> John P
LEGO has NOT "outsourced" making the bricks.
They did change the way colour is handled. They now add dye to the plastic at
the LEGO factory. The change over was not perfect and those colour problems are
supposed to go away over time but they have to use up the old not-quite-perfect
bricks first.
It is quite noticeable in the orange used in the recycling truck.
This is what I remember from Bjarke's (sp?) talk at BF'07. He is head of quality
control and he knows about the colour problems.
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| (...) I do believed that they out sourced the making of the bricks to Flextronics. I could be wrong, but I remember reading that somewhere. They are building a factory in Juarex Mexico to make the bricks. I hope that you are right, but I do remember (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| Given the colour variations in MEGA BLOKS I am sure they do just in time dying as well. BUT man it sure drops the quality of LEGOs product. So instead of pre-dyed plastic pellets, they either batch dye or on the fly dye them as they mold. NEITHER (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I 2nd what Ted is saying. At Brickworld the LEGO REPs told us that they are aware of the color issue and have corrected it. TLC changed the way they make the bricks. Before they would use a batch of "colored plastic" and send that into the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| I just put together 10190 and find that the navy blue bricks come in two or three shades. Has anyone else had this observation? I hope that this is a fluke and not a overall problem since Lego has outsourced the making of the bricks. I opened up a (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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