the piece count is 220. Whereas the current inventory for the set with minifigs
broken down gives a part count of 207, a difference of 13 pieces.
I guess this is common in old sets? But there could have been 'extras'
included but not needed in the instructions? Or is this another 'packaged
by Samsonite' difference?
the piece count is 220. Whereas the current inventory for the set with minifigs
broken down gives a part count of 207, a difference of 13 pieces.
I guess this is common in old sets? But there could have been 'extras'
included but not needed in the instructions? Or is this another 'packaged
by Samsonite' difference?
I have opened some Canadaian sets from the early 1980s and there were extra parts
add. But it was obvious which ones, as they didn't have anything to do with
the set.
I think it's because that additional parts during these years were often
added to sets. You can sometimes see them being used on the back of the box.
A great example of that is the classic yellow castle:
the piece count is 220. Whereas the current inventory for the set with minifigs
broken down gives a part count of 207, a difference of 13 pieces.
I guess this is common in old sets? But there could have been 'extras'
included but not needed in the instructions? Or is this another 'packaged
by Samsonite' difference?
I have opened some Canadaian sets from the early 1980s and there were extra parts
add. But it was obvious which ones, as they didn't have anything to do with
the set.
I think it's because that additional parts during these years were often
added to sets. You can sometimes see them being used on the back of the box.
A great example of that is the classic yellow castle:
Almost every single one of my '79-'85 sets I remember owning had extras
and it always seemed like it was a game. Like the guy on the line packing found
something laying on the ground near injector and tossed it in. That was always
speculation when I was like 8 since it never made any sense to me on what those
particular parts where for. The one I remember the most was my very old
I never noticed the messages from the forum attached to the changes. Very nice!
Not so nice that they're purged like other forum messages
Words and letters take up very little HD space. Images do. Please consider to
remove the ability to upload pics in the forum threads and retain all messages
(like all other normal forums do)
the piece count is 220. Whereas the current inventory for the set with minifigs
broken down gives a part count of 207, a difference of 13 pieces.
I guess this is common in old sets? But there could have been 'extras'
included but not needed in the instructions? Or is this another 'packaged
by Samsonite' difference?
The piececount on the USA version is 202.
Each minifig (with airtank) is in general counted as 4 pieces;
If they counted head and torso separately, it would be counted as 5 pieces.
So we get
197+2*4=205
197+2*5=207
We can take out shot and take average of the two piece-counts:
(202+220)/2 = 211
Still not 202 nor 220
It is not gonna be 202 or 220. So we need to investigate further:
Upon checking images available on google, we realize there are two piece-counts
for Canadian boxes. One is correctly 220 and the other one is 205! See photos
two and three.
This suggests that TLG realized the mistake happened and corrected it in later
production. The correct piece-count for minifigs is 3 (here 4 because of yellow
airtank):
197+2*4=205
In the last photo, we see the two minifigs very happy for this conclusion.
I guess this is common in old sets? But there could have been 'extras'
included but not needed in the instructions? Or is this another 'packaged
by Samsonite' difference?
My memory could well be wrong but I had a lot of the Space sets from this era
while growing up and I don't remember *any* extras. Technic/Expert Builder
is another story.
Samsonite Canada was still producing parts, packaging sets and selling Lego well
into the 1980's. I have family who worked there into the 80's. The boxes
say right on them, made in Canada when entirely made in Canada. The proportion
of "Made in Canada" sets decreased, and it became, "Packaged by Samsonite" and
also "Imported by Samsonite"
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USA, California
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