Super Strange findings!

stevenzhang

I just opened a recently purchased copy of #75940, but I am very surprise to see the content is #75935... Does anyone has some suggestion on what I can do with it? Anyone have seen a similar issue before where the content does not match the box?

 

Tkatt

 That is weird. I've heard of that type of thing happening where someone bought a returned item that had been tampered with, usually the pieces inside are junk though. You seem to have got a set that's worth more than the one you were expecting.
 Where did you purchase the set from? Were the seals in tact?

CCC

Never seen that before. Are the contents genuine LEGO? If not, there is a chance a buyer returned the set, sticking in some fakes instead in case the store checked the contents.

stevenzhang

Yeah, I bought it from John lewis before Christmas. It is factory sealed and the content is genuine LEGO. The box is #75940 but the content is #75935 (with all its bags and instruction)

stevenzhang

CCC said:

Never seen that before. Are the contents genuine LEGO? If not, there is a chance a buyer returned the set, sticking in some fakes instead in case the store checked the contents.

it is new and sealed. No sign of been opened previously

stevenzhang

Tkatt said:

 That is weird. I've heard of that type of thing happening where someone bought a returned item that had been tampered with, usually the pieces inside are junk though. You seem to have got a set that's worth more than the one you were expecting.
 Where did you purchase the set from? Were the seals in tact?

Indeed, the #75935 (bags and instructions) inside the #75940 box is complete, sealed and new. Everything is there but just not match to the box!

Astrobricks

I once bought my brother a TIE fighter set which he opened only to find a different set inside.

ReesesPieces

So...

Shib

Reminds me of the Christmas that I’d asked for a GameCube, on Christmas mornings unwrapped an Xbox...my dad was tittering away to himself so I opened the box to find a GameCube box inside.

He genuinely went into a shop asked for a GameCube but said he’d also like an Xbox display box just to screw with me!

stevenzhang

just out of curiosity, I bought another #75940, let's guess what is in the box this time!

CCC

I'm going for .... a #75940.

560Heliport

According to BrickLink, the boxes are the same size (actually 1mm difference in thickness), so maybe a #75940 box (or several, or many?) got fed into the machine that was packing #75935 sets?

snowhitie

That is indeed very strange! I've had one time that I had a wrong bag in the box, but only one of them. Don't remember which set, but I contacted CS and they send me the right one. It was also a totally sealed box, no tampering. mistakes happen I guess, but it was strange. 

Blockwork_Orange

I know it does happen.  A few years ago I found a department store clearing out a bunch of #8128 Cad Bane's Speeder sets that had been mispackaged in #8095 General Grevious Starfighter boxes. The store had slapped a photocopys of the 8128 set on the front of the 8095 boxes. The boxes were still sealed and sure enough had the wrong set in them!

CCC

Packing the boxes is one of the manual parts of the operation, so I guess more likely to occur due to human error. A missing bag / weight error is likely to be picked up but when the boxes are the same size, they probably didn't notice it was the wrong box.

About 7:10 onwards ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3oiy9eekzk&feature=emb_logo

Astrobricks

^ Plus, the packing people don’t really even see the box art, so they wouldn’t be expected to catch an error.