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Re: Bulk Pricing (Interesting comparison?)
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:37:22 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Tom Stangl writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Doug Finney writes:
> > A tangentially related question: What happens to the bricks rejected from the
> > system while changing the mold injectors from one color of plastic to another?
> > I already use discolored, heavily scratched or simply "wrong" color bricks as
> > filler in large structures and would happily add "bi-color" bricks to the mix
> > if they were available in mass quantities for a low price. Or do the Master
> > Builders already use them all for the same purpose?
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> AFAIK, they scrap those bricks. I know someone that has about 30 or so "mixed"
> bricks, and they look REALLY COOL (green/yellow, black/red, blue/pink). As far
> as we know, the only way he could have gotten them in that bulk lot is if
> someone AT TLG in the US took some home and dropped them into their collection.
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> I'd LOVE to have some of these mixed bricks. Some of them are surreal.
I was wondering that, too, if they'd actually be cool for building in
and of themselves but I've never actually seen any. The only "error" piece
I recall having is a white 1x6 brick from the mid-70's that didn't get
quite enough plastic at one end of the mold.
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| (...) While it would be cool to get these, I don't foresee TLC ever intentionally making them available. Generally manufacturers like to hide this kind of problem as much as possible. What we can hope for is that some designer down the road gets a (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Bulk Pricing (Interesting comparison?)
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| (...) AFAIK, they scrap those bricks. I know someone that has about 30 or so "mixed" bricks, and they look REALLY COOL (green/yellow, black/red, blue/pink). As far as we know, the only way he could have gotten them in that bulk lot is if someone AT (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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