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Over the past few years I've noticed and issue with the lengths of some of the larger plates. I first noticed this with the solar panel 'wings' on the droid TIE fighter from the TIE Collection. The large, 4x8 (10?) plates, when placed end to end, were about 3/64ths longer than the blue 1x8 tiles used to hold them together. While this isn't really a huge deal, it causes the panels to bow outward and just doesn't look very good. I've had this problem come up a few other times as well, but it wasn't anything a bit of 220 grit sand paper couldn't fix. While tinkering last night, I noticed another issue with a handful of these pieces. When compared, 3 of the five pairs I checked had the left one longer than the right one by close to 1/16th. While the problems are relatively minor, when added, they could prove to be a larger issue.

That would seem the logical first place to look, wouldn't it? Whoops.

Just out of curiosity, where did you find that date? I looked around a bit earlier and found both 'May 2010' and 'June 2010.' Neither of which were anything close to 'official' sources.

Near as I've been able to find, they're still not out in the US yet. I'd planned on hitting TRU on my way home today and the LEGO store on Saturday. I'll post my findings, I'm sure.

i-nigma is available for Windows Mobile as well. I've spent the last 40 minutes scanning everything with a barcode I can find.