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Subject:	Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.lego.direct
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:44:43 GMT
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:05:49 GMT, Brian Kasprzyk writes: > I agree with this statement! I posted about this almost a year ago about > how the quality of the Lego brick is way down. Anyone that has old Lego can > put it sid by side with the new ones and can see that there are huge > differences in the quality. Here are a few: When you say "old Lego," roughly what year or year range are you referring to? I haven't really noticed any quality differences recently, but huge quality differences since the 70's (better since then). Is the quality lesser now than, say, 5 years ago? I seem to remember people noticing in 1995 that new bricks didn't hold as tightly as new bricks from 1990 did then. --Todd [note to LD: Is this kind of discussion helpful in a lugnet.lego.direct context or would it be more helpful to you in a different group such as lugnet.general?]

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) I have noticed the 'fingerprint' thing too, but I thought it was because the bricks were shinier or more vivid. I haven't noticed any increase in scratching. Though I have noticed that some of the printing is substandard. Though I have not (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) I'm not asked, but this is one of my "favorite" topics, since I'm really concerned about the decreasing quality of bricks (to be measured) as well as the quality (playability) of sets (which is quite subjective). I recently bought a 342 ( (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) how the quality of the Lego brick is way down. Anyone that has old Lego can put it sid by side with the new ones and can see that there are huge differences in the quality. Here are a few: 1. The old Lego were much brighter and had a better (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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