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In lugnet.inv, Martin Srb wrote:
> In lugnet.inv, John Patterson wrote:
> > <snip>
> > I just finished 7720 Battery
> > Train set last night. It was inventoried from the instructions by Peeron.
> > Please pull up the instructions on Peeron. Very first page is three
> > minifigures.Your inventory lists two. So parts 3624, 3626ap01,970c00,973p26 are
> > incorrect. Find the platform instructions step #3, there are 2 2x3 plates black
> > clearly visible, inventory lists none. Not only that there are only 2 of 3023
> > black, inventory says 4, There are no train buffer single, x484, inventory says
> > 4. This was also verified, so two people made the exact same mistakes. That is
> > very common on your inventories. Almost every one that I have done, about 1000
> > by now is like this. Some have a lot more mistakes, some less. I am trying to
> > help. Instead of accepting my help you all get defensive.
> > John P
>
> Hello,
> I was the person to verify the 7720 set (and this is my first post on Lugnet).
> Please, excuse me to not check the whole inventory properly. I have only
> corrected the most obvious mistakes like the number of wheels. I have overlooked
> the minifig parts by mistake because the header says there are 3 of them...
> shame on me.
> Unfortunately, even your update is not perfect. You wrote there are none single
> buffers - I see 4 of them on the blue battery box car.
>
> In my opinion, there are two major problems with Peeron inventories:
> - There is something that "devours" some e-mails heading for Peeron address.
> Maybe it stops only messages with attachments, maybe it's random.
> - Nobody is perfect. The LEGO Company is not perfect as well. There are many set
> variations so I cannot say "my MISB inventory is the only correct". For example,
> the part numbers with suffixes (a,b...) are somewhat interchangeable. This can
> influence the rest of the inventory! Take a look at set 4563-1: my set (bought
> as MISB in the 1990's) has part 2924b instead of 2924, white plates 4x10 + 1x4
> instead of 4x12 etc. But it doesn't mean that the Peeron inventory is wrong.
>
> John, I will keep my fingers crossed for your enormous work to make it to
> Peeron. I believe that the problem is only in the e-mail "black hole".
> Also, many thanks that you opened this question on Lugnet - I think that
> cooperative work and inventory discussions can make the inventories better than
> the individual updates do.
>
> Greetings
> Martin
>
> P.S. Sorry for my bad English. I live in Prague, my native language is Czech.
> I've been reading Lugnet News for quite a long time before I became courageous
> enough to post something.
Your English is fine, probably better than mine.
Your comment about the buffers is correct. However I had a mint in sealed box
and it did not have the buffers in it. I opened it about a year ago and never
put it together. I am finding that sets do not match instructions exactly all
the time, mostly in small parts like that, that makes little difference to the
overall playability of the set. Most of my sets from 1974 on were bought by me
and many only recently opened. This one I got from Masgarn du Nord in Denmark.
I have found that the buffers have been left out of other train sets so it might
have even been a printing mistake. Who knows, I just do these from my sets and
the directions. Had this not been in a sealed condition I would not have
mentioned the correction. I have never found a difference in the number of
minifigs. There is another part problem that I have seen. I have never seen a
transgreen 1x1 round closed top brick. Yet set after set shows this. I am sure
that there were a few, but at somepoint they switched and never changed their
instructions. Also the closed studs on the hinges were never changed in the
inventories or the directions until a long time after they changed the part.
Lego is expecially not helpful in figuring this out. I have written to
Samsonite, Lego US and to Lego Denmark and they have no inventories anywhere of
the Samsonite sets. I am sure that there is something buried somewhere in
archieves.
Thanks for your comments
John P
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| In lugnet.inv, John Patterson wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> This sounds very surprising! I have one 7720 with those buffers, but don't know whether they're original since I bought the set second-hand. I have also one 7722 with 4 black single buffers. I (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| (...) Hello, I was the person to verify the 7720 set (and this is my first post on Lugnet). Please, excuse me to not check the whole inventory properly. I have only corrected the most obvious mistakes like the number of wheels. I have overlooked the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.people.newbie)
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