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Re: Universal Color List...finally
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lugnet.color, lugnet.lego
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Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:08:33 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
> In lugnet.color, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.color, Paulo Renato wrote:
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> > I wonder did you buy any sets of assorted classic grey bricks from S@H, which
> > are still available, months after being announced? Oh wait, no that's just a
> > ruse by TLC to try to appease the AFOLs and make some money at the same time.
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> I am not asked, but I did and felt upset about these nearly as much as if they
> were blayish.
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> Because these are rubbish of lowest quality.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=86700
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> As Jake wrote a while later on Lugnet the 2004 plates come in height tolerances
> of up to 6%!! (Which is incredible worse than anything TLC ever did within the
> 70ies and 80ies.)
Hi Ben, while those stacks look bad, I don't see any stacks of older plates
beside them to compare. I stacked my older bricks and found much variation, I
would be interested to see your findings.
A lot of people say LEGO tolerances have become worse over time, but I have not
seen anyone actually check the tolerance of older bricks, except my limited
investigation here http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=2163
ROSCO
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| (...) [Snip - quality issues] (...) I can imagine, that a wild mix of used bricks from 196x till nineties have different clutch forces and similar tolerance spread as the plates now. But if you took only bricks of one colour and type out of one type (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Hi Rosco, I am not asked, but I did and felt upset about these nearly as much as if they were blayish. Because these are rubbish of lowest quality. (URL) Jake wrote a while later on Lugnet the 2004 plates come in height tolerances of up to (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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