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In lugnet.lego, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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So I just wanted to point out, that the picture which Rob has posted to
underline, that quality wasn’t automatically good in the “golden” past, shows
definitely CA bricks older than year 1963 (or out of samsonite production?).
The “golden years of LEGO quality” have been 1965 ... 1995(?). So this
picture tells nothing new, but only repeats that LEGO made a huge step
towards perfectionism when they changed from CA (bad!) to ABS (good!).
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I wouldn’t assume that 1965 was necessarily as good as, say, 1990. But you’re
right insofar as quality from the 60’s and 70’s is not necessarily the same
quality as the 80’s and 90’s. If someone’s really looking for proof or disproof
of quality degradation, it’s gonna take a lot more evidence. Say, 10 stacks of
15 plates from each of 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and
2007. The plates don’t even need to be consistant sizes.
It’s a rather over-the-top data collecting effort (especially since verifying
the year of a plate possibly means opening (GASP!) an MISB set). But it’s a
decent enough sample set such that I doubt anyone would argue with the
conclusion if such an effort were made. And hopefully, if someone’s crazy enough
to try it, they’ll somehow avoid cracking open their MISB sets :)
DaveE
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