Guest davewager78 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 My Tower Bridge has these on all the blue plates. I'd noticed it, but wasn't particularly concerned. I'd be interested in people's ideas about what they'd do 10 years after EOL if they made a sale then, and the customer complained Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.hermit Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Yeah, pretty sure these are these injection points. I took a look at several pieces, and all of them have the dot. If they were filled with a gate on the side, there would be some sort of mark, but the only imperfection on new pieces is the dot. If the piece has studs, it's on one of them; if it's smooth, you can find a little dimple on one of the sides instead. I also figure that the LEGO logo on studs is also molded. It wouldn't make business sense to load every single piece up then reset them in a different machine to imprint a logo when the whole thing could be done as one step. Also, you could level out your machining marks at the edge of the stud, but I don't think you could carve out around the logo/part number on the bottom without leaving some sort of evidence. The kids and I are snowed in today, so we just put together my Constitution Train Chase (my four-year-old keeps referring to it as the Consti-choo-choo). All of the burgundy pieces and a good share of the brown ones had the white dot. It looks like the problem is something we get to deal with now, but the dots should fade with some with time (and especially use, if you're one to play with your toys). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cissi Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 wait... I thought these marks are normal... but was I wrong? They are pretty much on every single one of the bricks I have... that's where they worked on the plastic, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudoty Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 I thought you were talking about the color of the pieces overall, trying to say half of the piece's color was faded. After 6 replies I see you are talking about the "injection mold"? dots. Like everyone else has said, most Lego pieces have these....I've been buying Legos for 20 years and every set has these. I hope Amazon and Lego didn't recall them over your complaint, because it seems like OCD to me. I hope your instruction booklet was folded at exactly the halfway line. (okay, I'm being a jerk. ) No I built mine then read in another thread that amazon pulled them due to multiple customer complaints. Thanks for the diagnosis you remind me of my X-Wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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