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Subject:	Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.lego.direct
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:56:40 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Todd Lehman writes: > > 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 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 ( http://guide.lugnet.com/set/342 ) set from 1968, which never has been disassebled. I was really astonished, since I thought Lego had the best quality of bricks in the range of 1977 till 1991 (maybe 1994), but now I saw this set and all bricks are really perfect!! The walls have no gaps, all lines are 100% straight and all angles have excactly 90°. Only the colours are not as perfect as they used to be in the 80ies. And second statement on such old elements: As I found out, plates used to be in a little decreased quality in relation to bricks (but still better than todays ones). Maybe the situation is different for the US and Europe, since you have had samsonite bricks in the 70ies. We have had perfect bricks from the late 60ies on, perfect plates from the midle of the 70ies. All bricks used to be rubbish as long as the weren't made by ABS (till 1963/64). I don not want to have them back.... Regards, Ben P.s.: another quality discussion: http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=9705

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) thought that it was something that I did to get them that way. I wondered if I left them in the sun too long, or just played with them too often. Little did I know then that it was because of the plastic. I do not use my CA pieces, but the (...) (23 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.
(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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