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| If you're not following Joe Meno's Flicker photostream, here's some early pictures from Comic-Con: (URL) There's prototypes of Toy Story 3 minifigs, Price of Persia, Star Wars exclusive items and a bunch more. --Mike. (15 years ago, 23-Jul-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.disney, lugnet.licensed, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !
| | | | | LEGO® Recalls Remote Controls (8879 Power Functions)
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| LEGO® Recalls Remote Controls LEGO Systems Inc., of Enfield, Connecticut has recalled about 1.600 of its Power Functions IR Remote Controls, the U.S. consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced. The recall has been initiated because (...) (15 years ago, 22-Jul-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: What's the story with all the recent mold changes?
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| The only one I have any info on is the (URL) cylinder>. Someone from LEGO (don't remember who) said that the (URL) previous version> was made up of pieces that were glued together inside. (This makes sense that it would have to be, otherwise how (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jul-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts, lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: What's the story with all the recent mold changes?
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| (...) I noticed that one as well, but the second change makes less sense. The first one, I'd guess was to relieve stress when an axle is pushed through the hole, and help prevent the bricks from splitting in half. The second change, they filled in (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jul-09, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: What's the story with all the recent mold changes?
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| I'm no expert in plastics (okay, I know nothing about plastics) but I'd like to offer a few theories. Technic 1x2 Brick - perhaps the failure/reject rate is lower with fewer sharp corners for the plastic to have to flow into? Functionally still (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jul-09, to lugnet.general)
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