Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
It's almost definitely yellowed light bluish gray
Yes, 2x14 wasn’t used in sets before 2012. That’s a bit long for a 2009 copyright
but that’s an eternity for a colour that was phased out in 2003.
Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
It's almost definitely yellowed light bluish gray
Yes, 2x14 wasn’t used in sets before 2012. That’s a bit long for a 2009 copyright
but that’s an eternity for a colour that was phased out in 2003.
I was thinking the same thing about yellowing but both sides are the same color.
Very weird. You would think if it sat in the sun, only the one side would be
discolored but not both sides.
Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
It's almost definitely yellowed light bluish gray
Yes, 2x14 wasn’t used in sets before 2012. That’s a bit long for a 2009 copyright
but that’s an eternity for a colour that was phased out in 2003.
I was thinking the same thing about yellowing but both sides are the same color.
Very weird. You would think if it sat in the sun, only the one side would be
discolored but not both sides.
Yellowing is helped by sun light (UV), it doesn’t need sun light.
The plastic can degrade in a closed box. All it needs is oxygen (air, humidity)
and time.
Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
It's almost definitely yellowed light bluish gray
Yes, 2x14 wasn’t used in sets before 2012. That’s a bit long for a 2009 copyright
but that’s an eternity for a colour that was phased out in 2003.
I was thinking the same thing about yellowing but both sides are the same color.
Very weird. You would think if it sat in the sun, only the one side would be
discolored but not both sides.
Yellowing is helped by sun light (UV), it doesn’t need sun light.
The plastic can degrade in a closed box. All it needs is oxygen (air, humidity)
and time.
Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
It's almost definitely yellowed light bluish gray
Yes, 2x14 wasn’t used in sets before 2012. That’s a bit long for a 2009 copyright
but that’s an eternity for a colour that was phased out in 2003.
I was thinking the same thing about yellowing but both sides are the same color.
Very weird. You would think if it sat in the sun, only the one side would be
discolored but not both sides.
Yellowing is helped by sun light (UV), it doesn’t need sun light.
The plastic can degrade in a closed box. All it needs is oxygen (air, humidity)
and time.
The plastic can degrade in a closed box. All it needs is oxygen (air, humidity)
and time.
That is interesting. I know that sunlight is bad for Lego but I did not know
they degrade in a closed box. In what way do they degrade? Care to share some
details on this?
I've come across many LBG parts from architecture sets in particular where
maybe all the 1x3 plates are uniformly discolored and none of the other parts
are. My hunch is that different parts were made in different manufacturing facilities
with different quality control. I've heard that factories from China in
the ~2010 era may have been responsible for these different shades/discoloring
of LBG.
Either way, it's definitely not Light Gray.
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Hello all. I found a 2x14 plate, has lego printed on it. It has item number
91988 printed with a date of 2009. It is light gray when compared to dark gray,
light bluish gray and dark bluish gray. However, item number 91988 did not come
in light gray. Any thoughts on that and why the error in date?
It's almost definitely yellowed light bluish gray
Yes, 2x14 wasn’t used in sets before 2012. That’s a bit long for a 2009 copyright
but that’s an eternity for a colour that was phased out in 2003.
I was thinking the same thing about yellowing but both sides are the same color.
Very weird. You would think if it sat in the sun, only the one side would be
discolored but not both sides.
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