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Subject: 
Brick Quality Issues (was: 7171 tolerance)
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Date: 
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:15:40 GMT
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Quick note: I thought this was important enough to warrant its own
thread.

'Reinhard "Ben" Beneke' wrote:
If this was the only bended or wrong sized Lego® brick,
I could live with that, but take a look at the complete
folder of this gallery: none of these bricks has same
quality as they have had in the past. :-(
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2880
And these are just a few out of thousands of poor
quality bricks I bought during the last year....

I have had similar problems with a fair number of my newer pieces as
well: they are too far apart, too loose, etc. I've also had a much
larger than normal amount of new pieces that were chipped or slightly
deformed in some way. Also, a lot more of the printed parts (minifig
faces, tiles, etc.) are flawed.

Now, I expect some damage or mistakes to occur once in a while, but it's
been getting more regular lately. What could possibly be the reason for
lowering the quality of LEGO bricks? They need to get their QA back up
to par, I think.

Thanks for listening.

--
Jeromy Irvine

mail: irvinej@accuvera.com
site: http://www.accuvera.com/lego/



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  Re: Brick Quality Issues (was: 7171 tolerance)
 
(...) I agree 100%. I've noticed more smearing on paint recently, mostly on Star Wars minifigs. I've gotten at least two minifigs who's faces look like they're in a wind tunnel. As for the decreased quality of the plastic, I know that the newer (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
  Re: Brick Quality Issues (was: 7171 tolerance)
 
Several 1x1 plates from my mosiac kit had excess plastic around the base of the plate from the molding process. -chris (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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