Cheap plastic in 2009?

[osakana]

So I went and bought me a 6241 Loot Island, a very nice set, but... the plastic of some part feels very cheap. For example, the legs of the pirate are not LEGO-yellow, they are a little bit whiter and the plastic just don't feel right. The same is with flags and the red canon mount. What is going on?

[Millacol88]

There are several people around here who say Lego is stepping up both the quality of their bricks and how they control that quality. Hopefully soon we`ll start to see some changes. Order new ones from customer service, and see if they`re any better. If not, just wait it out.

[CP5670]

It's a well known problem. The color quality in general has been quite lousy for the last two years.

TLG says they will be rolling out changes to this over the course of this year. The yellow is supposed to be fixed, but their stocks of the existing, bad yellow bricks probably haven't been fully depleted yet.

Order new ones from customer service, and see if they`re any better. If not, just wait it out.

The latter is the best idea. What he describes sounds like the standard color saturation issue, so he would just get more parts with the same problem if he asked for replacements.

[Ricecracker]

The latter is the best idea. What he describes sounds like the standard color saturation issue, so he would just get more parts with the same problem if he asked for replacements.

Agreed. There would be no point in having LEGO replace your parts with potentially more of the same. The only good thing that would come out of it would be that the bad pieces would be gone sooner . But that's not a good enough reason to order replacements IMO.

[Brickthing]

With ordering replacements, I thought TLG took extra precautions to make sure that the replacement pieces they were sending out were good quality, so they'd only need to send out the replacements once, and people wouldn't be needing replacements of replacements.

[CP5670]

With ordering replacements, I thought TLG took extra precautions to make sure that the replacement pieces they were sending out were good quality, so they'd only need to send out the replacements once, and people wouldn't be needing replacements of replacements.

That may be true in general, but this particular problem is ubiquitous and affects any identical brick made in the last two years. The only way you might get lucky is if they still have bricks manufactured in 2006 or earlier.