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Re: train windows
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lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:32:17 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Tom Stangl writes:
Except for one problem - has there EVER been a set with plain clear 1x4x3
thinwalls? No printing at all?

They could have short-circuited the production process to skip the painting of
the thin-walls.


What about a set with red-framed, GREEN-paned doors?  I don't know of one. • Quite a
goofup if the accidently cast red frames instead of black, or green panes • instead
of trans-blue, and GLUED THEM TOGETHER anyways.

I'm not sure what happened there.  Maybe they goofed before this and bulk
ordering was a way to unload the doors.  Clearly something went wrong though
since the web site didn't match the part.

brian



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  Re: train windows
 
(...) I'd guess molding and printing are two, very separate, parts of the production process. They (probably) don't run a single line to mold and print, all in one shot. Instead, they do all the molding in a run, warehouse the pieces for a bit, and (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: train windows
 
(...) Except for one problem - has there EVER been a set with plain clear 1x4x3 thinwalls? No printing at all? What about a set with red-framed, GREEN-paned doors? I don't know of one. Quite a goofup if the accidently cast red frames instead of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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