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Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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Sat, 5 Jan 2008 03:35:46 GMT
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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

Perhaps it is due to Flextronics not having the quality control that Lego did. Why they moved production to Juarez Mexico is beyond me. Perhaps very cheap labor, less than $2.00 an hour might be the reason. Shades of overseas clothing sweat houses.

Check the box next time you buy a Lego. “Components made in Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Mexico and the Czech Republic” John P



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  Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
 
(...) (Note that I don't know, and that I'm not wearing my Ambassador's hat here). I would guess that costs are a major consideration, and that the NAFTA has had a bearing on this - keep in mind that the USA is LEGO's biggest market. (...) Well, (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
  Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
 
(...) Remember that they were originally planning to move production to China. Reportedly there were two main considerations with abandoning that idea. The first was that there was an intense backlash concerning quality issues (which would only have (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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  Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
 
(...) ::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, (...) (17 years ago, 31-Dec-07, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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