Author:  ghyde  Posted:  Aug 27, 2023 15:09  Subject:  Re: Mystery Minifigure Cardboard Boxes  Viewed:  62 times  Topic:  New Sets Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card ghyde (203) Location:  Australia, Queensland Member Since Contact Type Status Collage May 10, 2003 Seller  Store: Far North Bricks

In New Sets, yorbrick writes:    ghyde writes (Fixing an unattributed quotation from me, because a line got clipped incorrectly, not worried about it.):    If they are essentially random I hope the distribution is even. Feeling through the packets sometimes got me the minifigure I was after. I still ended up with lots of duplicates because my fingers aren't as sensitive as they should be. They have been equally distributed for some time now. Sealed cartons contain three sets. So if you are first to a box, then then each character should be evenly distributed. Whereas if you get to a box where someone has weighed them, there is a possibility that someone has removed popular ones for resale or their collection. That is less likely to happen now there is a more significant barrier compared to the feeling approach of identifying them. The packaging machines and the employees running them would have had to know which minifigure would go into each box and sealed carton, so there has to be some kind of method of identifying them. They've used some codes that only show up in certain kinds of light, I forget if it's UV or infrared or some bump code only a machine could properly recognize. Figure that out and one should get all of the Collectible Minifigs rather easily. Cheers ... ghyde

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Re: Mystery Minifigure Cardboard Boxes - yorbrick (1185)

[...] They have been equally distributed for some time now. Sealed cartons contain three sets. So if you are first to a box, then then each character should be evenly distributed. [...] (9 months ago, Aug 27, 2023, to New Sets)

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Re: Mystery Minifigure Cardboard Boxes - axaday (7303)

[...] Each figure would be packaged by separate machines and those packaged figures would be brought separately to the machine that packs them in the case. So to the extent [...] (9 months ago, Aug 27, 2023, to New Sets)

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