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Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego
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Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:39:33 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, Jordan Schwarz wrote:
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In lugnet.reviews, David Simmons wrote:
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Hey all,
Got a lovely selection of holiday loot thanks to my sweetie-pie, and after
building the sets I have some impressions. The sets are:
Mars Mission # 7695 MX-11 Astro Fighter
Town City # 7991 Recycle Truck
SpongeBob Squarepants # 3830 Bikini Bottom Express
Mars Mission # 7693 ETX Alien Strike
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::snip::
You raise an interesting point about the box art on the Bikini Bottom
Express: at what point can it be considered false advertising, since the
included model so obviously deviates from that pictured? On boxes of cereal,
for example, manufacturers always put a disclaimer to the effect of “Product
enlarged to show texture”; has LEGO reached the point of needing to include a
disclaimer stating, “Product rendered with CGI to cover flaws of actual
model” ? Of course, most of us would simply prefer that the model match the
box art as closely as possible. But at a minimum, perhaps LEGO needs to state
that the box art is an artistic representation of the actual product.
Incidentally, I used those same windows on a caboose of mine:
The orange panel windows it uses are from an earlier Sponge Bob set, and the
color discrepancy was still an issue then, although this latest set really
highlights it.
-Jordan Schwarz
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One issue may be the application of orange paint on a different material. We
all know LEGO elements are made of ABS. However, windows are not made of ABS,
they are made of polycarbonate(PC). As PC and ABS are different materials,
application of color may have discrepancies (kinda like when you apply paint
over a white primer, it’s got a different look when you apply it over a darker
color primer.
I would say there was a good chance this was considered, but when the parts were
painted, it didn’t look exactly right. I speculate that changing the color to
be more accurate would push delivery of the sets until after Christmas season.
Given the amount of business that is done in the last six weeks of the year, a
business decision probably needed to be made. So, should money be made on the
Spongebob sets at Christmas, or not? From a business standpoint--I would have
made the decision to proceed with the current production.
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