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we've purchased at least 40-50 lego sets in the past three years and there has never been a piece truly missing. This includes several really big sets like the

by zzzeek 5y ago

we've purchased at least 40-50 lego sets in the past three years and there has never been a piece truly missing. This includes several really big sets like the Harry Potter Castle (~6000 pieces), Big Ben (~4000 pieces, though this is not as recent of a kit), the saturn V rocket (1969 pieces), two different space shuttles, and many many of the more consumer-level kits, many of them very recent, with no end of spiderman (at least 8 spiderman-related kits), star wars (at least 10-12 star wars related kits), super mario world kits, lego motorized trains, at least three separate commerical jetliner-related kits, two or three helicopteres, frozen/little mermaid/moana etc, minions, etc. our house is totally taken over by many thousands of dollars in legos all over the place. through all of this, there has never been one single piece missing, ever. which is kind of mind blowing. What usually happens when a piece is "missing" is, we used the piece incorrectly in another spot - this takes some detective work some kind, but it always turns up, there's the piece! none ever missing, ever. once the things are built and our 7 year old takes complete charge of them, then we lose pieces like crazy.

duck 5y ago
Not sure if my kids have that many sets yet (they basically just want Legos for every present so we'll be there soon), but I can definitely relate to this. Every set there is a "missing" piece that they ask me about, but it is always either found in the wrong spot or on the floor somewhere. It is to the point now that they tell me a piece is missing, I give them the look, and then they go back and find it on their own.
TAForObvReasons 5y ago
we've had a few issues with missing pieces but it's usually a color problem: extra red brick, one less white brick. There's roughly the same weight of contents but not the exact item. A bigger issue is the reliability. some pieces have been broken in the bag, specifically longer flat plates. other pieces literally crumbled upon assembly, specifically low-grade sloping pieces near the edge. doubt these pieces will last as long as the pieces from 10 years ago
- jacquesm 5y ago
  The plastic formulation for some Lego factories is not up to spec, this has resulted in a very large number of complaints. For instance, it isn't rare at all to see brand new 1x1's and minifig bodies that are cracked on one side just by building the set and letting it sit, which in the past really would have never ever happened.
yurishimo 5y ago
I recently got the Fender Strat kit and I thought I was missing a few pieces but it turned out I was using the wrong color. The amp is made of a lot of gray pieces with various shades between them. The problem is that the instructions are printed on that glossy paper that doesn't really use the exact color of the brick so a direct comparison is impossible. For sets with very distinct colors, it's fine, but because this one had 3 different shades of gray, it was hard to tell which was which, especially when you factor in taking a day off in between building times.
Fatnino 5y ago
My Saturn V was "missing" 2 pieces and I even went to a Lego store in the mall and was given some replacements. Turns out they were stuck by static to the bag they came in. Luckily I hoard the bags in the box the set came in for no good reason so the missing pieces turned up. Much later I decided to rearrange the letters near the bottom of the first stage and I got 4 spare S pieces from the missing pieces website Lego has.

by zzzeek 5y ago

duck 5y ago

Not sure if my kids have that many sets yet (they basically just want Legos for every present so we'll be there soon), but I can definitely relate to this. Every set there is a "missing" piece that they ask me about, but it is always either found in the wrong spot or on the floor somewhere. It is to the point now that they tell me a piece is missing, I give them the look, and then they go back and find it on their own.

TAForObvReasons 5y ago

we've had a few issues with missing pieces but it's usually a color problem: extra red brick, one less white brick. There's roughly the same weight of contents but not the exact item. A bigger issue is the reliability. some pieces have been broken in the bag, specifically longer flat plates. other pieces literally crumbled upon assembly, specifically low-grade sloping pieces near the edge. doubt these pieces will last as long as the pieces from 10 years ago

jacquesm 5y ago
The plastic formulation for some Lego factories is not up to spec, this has resulted in a very large number of complaints. For instance, it isn't rare at all to see brand new 1x1's and minifig bodies that are cracked on one side just by building the set and letting it sit, which in the past really would have never ever happened.

yurishimo 5y ago

I recently got the Fender Strat kit and I thought I was missing a few pieces but it turned out I was using the wrong color. The amp is made of a lot of gray pieces with various shades between them. The problem is that the instructions are printed on that glossy paper that doesn't really use the exact color of the brick so a direct comparison is impossible. For sets with very distinct colors, it's fine, but because this one had 3 different shades of gray, it was hard to tell which was which, especially when you factor in taking a day off in between building times.

Fatnino 5y ago

My Saturn V was "missing" 2 pieces and I even went to a Lego store in the mall and was given some replacements. Turns out they were stuck by static to the bag they came in. Luckily I hoard the bags in the box the set came in for no good reason so the missing pieces turned up. Much later I decided to rearrange the letters near the bottom of the first stage and I got 4 spare S pieces from the missing pieces website Lego has.