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Re: Bulk Pricing (Interesting comparison?)
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Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:51:15 GMT
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Doug Finney wrote:
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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.
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
brilliant idea to do a small theme with "swirly" bricks (though we might
have to wait 60 years or so for it, but maybe in just 10 years or so).
We know they can mold parts with mixed colors (look at the sparkly trans
pink and purple roofs in the Belville Fairy Castle series).
Now if TLC could get over the thought of having imperfections hung out
to dry, they could toss these mixed color bricks into a box, and on some
regular interval, donate the box to a charity which would then split the
bricks into small baggies and put them up on eBay. I bet the charity
would easily clear 50 cents a brick (unless these swirlys are REAL
common).
> 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.
I recently got a plate with this kind of problem.
Frank
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| Frank & All, (...) I don't think this is a problem per say, I would call it more of a plastic injection molding issue. When I worked in a plastic plant, and we did color changes, we always had to empty out the hopper, blow it out for the possible (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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