Reddish Brown Lego ... Recipe for anxiety?

EGRoberts

Has anyone else had issues with this color? I love brown, it is such a great thing for trees and wood floors and just everything BUT.... I cannot take apart anything with a fair amount of brown added without splintering, snapping or just disintegrating a reddish brown plate, tile, cheese slope and now as of today for the first time ever... a brick! Brick separators seem to actually make it worse on this color only for me so I stick to the tried and true destroy a fingernail technique and gently pry it at all edges until it falls apart. 

The stress is double for me... I stress about the piece breaking as I disassemble something... I also stress about the one fingernail I Ignore at grooming time to separate lego. I am an army specialist who works on computers, can you imagine if an officer looks down at me typing and see's my homemade brick seporator?? "Uh well Sir/Ma'am I need to grow that one to separate my reddish brown lego as it seems far more brittle then the other colors!". 

Today a 4 x 6 plate and 1 x 3 brick paid the price of todays disassembling as well as my nail... I should not have to line up 21 storm troopers with blasters and scream pew pew every time reddish brown needs to be put away!

Anyone else have this problem??

benbacardi

Yep, pretty much everybody. I'm sure there are other threads about it around these forums.

LEGO acknowledged it was a problem and supposedly fixed it a couple of years ago.

https://www.brickfanatics.com/the-lego-group-announces-quality-fix-for-reddish-brown-pieces/

EGRoberts

I feel pretty confident it is not fixed... But thank you for the info! I will contact there customer service as I started saving he broken ones just this month and it is piling up quick. Misery loves company typically except I wouldn't wish this on anyone lol. 

Astrobricks

Here’s the main quality issues thread:
https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/22448/quality-issues-broken-parts/p7

drdavewatford

EGRoberts said:

.....I will contact there customer service as I started saving he broken ones just this month and it is piling up quick.....

Yes - definitely do this. As the LEGO Company has told us many times, if people don't get in touch and alert them of issues then they can't resolve them.

EGRoberts

Astrobricks said:

Here’s the main quality issues thread:
https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/22448/quality-issues-broken-parts/p7

I never thought my hobby would be the thing that gives me PTSD.... I just read through that entire post and don't even know how the hell I will sleep again..

Astrobricks

EGRoberts said:

Astrobricks said:

Here’s the main quality issues thread:
https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/22448/quality-issues-broken-parts/p7

I never thought my hobby would be the thing that gives me PTSD.... I just read through that entire post and don't even know how the hell I will sleep again..

You’re welcome? ;-)

Paperballpark

I guess it depends which sets they're in. It definitely used to be an issue, but with Lego saying they fixed it, it shouldn't be an issue anymore in brand new sets. However it is possible that there's older sets still around which were made before they fixed the issue.

It's also possible that one or two factories didn't get the memo...

truck730

I have a hobbit tree ,it was a donated brick pile, the instructions were there so I built it (a kid collection so some pieces missing). I won't be taking it apart ,it's for sale but obviously incomplete. Maybe a centre piece tree for my dream city layout!