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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Richard Marchetti writes:
> There are still some minor quality control issues; but if TLC products were
> considered a 10 on a scale of 1-10, then MB would be an 8.5 or 9. All they
> really need to do is ratchet up quality control just a little bit and
> increase the variety of their basic bricks -- I am not even sure they make a
> 2x2 brick, or some of the more important roof type slopes.
Their 2x2 brick seems less common in ProBuilder models than in earlier MB
series. The old dinosaur sets were lousy with them; I have the sense that the
designers sometimes chose two 2x2 bricks rather than one 2x4 brick for the sole
purpose of padding the piece count. For this reason I think I have somewhere
over 2000 2x2 bricks in varying shades of Dino-green! That piece-padding to
have ended, but the 2x2's are still around. The Fire Engine has about a dozen
of them in red, black, and silver-grey. By the way, the color consistency of
their silver-grey has been improving steadily. I still notice some marbling on
the cabinet pieces, but on the bricks and plates it's nice and smooth. But for
some reason MB doesn't make 2x3 or 2x4 33 slopes, much as I might wish
otherwise. I'm delighted that they've started with 6x8 plates and 1x2 tiles.
What's next, I wonder?
Dave!
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| (...) Hmmm, I like the marbling... I guess I should have realized I had hundreds of 2x2 bricks in Dino and Galaxy colors, it's just that many of the newer sets use numerous 1x2 bricks instead of ANY 2x2 bricks. I never thought of it as element (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Why worry about it? Just buy the MB and they can continue to improve their product with the increased revenues. I am not really that keen on any manufacturer's "model team" type models, but MB DOES make some wonderfully unique elements. And at (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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