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Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights by thomastjeffery on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @06:16PM (#39760879)
I bet it's more likely that a given Lego set that is missing pieces was produced, packaged, shipped, and sold, nearby other piece-missing sets.

In other words, I would not expect the distribution of Lego sets that are missing pieces to be evenly or randomly distributed.

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Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights by pcthrowaway on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:33PM (#39761427)
Yes I was thinking the same thing. Certain factories may have worse quality control, and those sets end up in different regions from sets that come from better production facilities
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Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights by Ma8ee on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:21PM (#39787159)
Are they really producing the same sets in different factories? It would surprise me.
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Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights by TylerE on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @09:04PM (#39761969)
One thing they do on the big sets is give you extras of the small stuff. Like if you need 10 of a 1x1 tile of a certain color, maybe they give you 11, or even 12.
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Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights by thomastjeffery on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @11:24AM (#39767925)
The biggest limitation to that is that the selection of extra pieces is probably not as random as the set of missing pieces, especially since they focus on smaller pieces - presumably to accommodate the ones you lose after buying a full set.
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Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights by TylerE on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @12:34PM (#39768908)
Probably not, but it seems I tuitive that the smaller pieces are the most likely to be lost.
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