(Gear jojo) I have seen some old wooden LEGO but I haven't seen this. It seems similar to the unpainted one. But it's a very low quality image provided in the catalog. [...] (1 day ago, May 13, 2024, to LEGO products)
Hello everyone, I collect movie and TV sets as well as vintage Lego products from the 30s, 40s and 50s. The first Lego product was a yo-yo and is very hard to get. But maybe [...] (1 day ago, May 13, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] Agreed. I just don't find broken vintage parts. Even with heavy playwear. The new still cracks just being in storage. It's mindblowing the difference Crystal (2 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] I build a fair number of Minecraft sets and have noticed problems with tan cracked parts. These are adult owned sets, they aren't cracking through play, they are [...] (2 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] Clear plastic. That does sound like it would explain things. What I know from transformers is that clear plastic tends to be harder and more brittle than opaque plastic. (2 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] I think a lot of quality control issues happens during the pigmentation process. In the 90s, lego used pre-colored abs pellets, now it's all clear plastic that is [...] (2 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] 2x2 and 1x4 tiles have been horrific for me. The 2x2's have two distinct colors and the 1x4's have white stress marks. (2 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] I completely agree. I bought a Ninjago city Gardens set as soon as it was available a couple of years ago, and most of the minifigures' arms cracked as soon as [...] (3 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] Yes. For over a decade. The 80s and 90s were really the golden era of LEGO quality. The Samsonite bricks of the early era warped terribly. There are tradeoffs though, [...] (3 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] This doesn't really surprise me. My biggest passion is for Transformers, and one thing I learned from that community is that translucent plastic can't handle [...] (3 days ago, May 11, 2024, to LEGO products)
My latest purchase direct from lego has tan pieces that appear to be made out of a new material? They are different but the same. I'm not sure how to explain it. I figured [...] (3 days ago, May 10, 2024, to LEGO products)
I have been having problems with trans green 1x1 plates and tiles, and white bricks. Super random, but I'll find one every now and then with a big crack. (3 days ago, May 10, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] Just remembered Sabine made a creation out of the various bits of one of broken the Plates plus various parts and tests around, see it (sorry bad picture, it's [...] (3 days ago, May 10, 2024, to LEGO products)
[...] Reddish Brown is catastrophic here. Last week building a test model I broke 2 or 3 Plates of this color :-( (3 days ago, May 10, 2024, to LEGO products)