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Just looking through a box and drew a blank on these pieces...
Left part is some sort of spring launcher, still working perfectly. Never seen it before.
Middle is obviously a classic space but looks to not have the yellow in the logo. Is it just faded or was there a production run like this?
Last part I just don't know, haven't looked yet but threw it in the picture as someone here will tell me faster than I can google!
http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=30118pb01#T=S&O={}
The space guy just lost his printing through plat wear which is pretty common.
http://brickset.com/parts/4623498
Pig with a printed ear? I ask because the sets that bricklink only identifies one printed pig (without the black ear)
http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=87621pb02&idColor=28#T=C&C=28
and having looked at various reviews of the sets that brickset claims it is in, all seem to show a picture of the pig without the printed ear.
Does anyone have one?
http://brickset.com/search?query=Pig+1X4X1+2/3&scope=All
Furthermore, I don't actually thing you could print the ears like that. You need a vaguely flatish surface for printing. The tip of the ear is far from that.
However, depending on what you're actually asking, the part probably exists - but with unprinted ears. The inventory in the back of the instructions for 7198 lists it (and shows it with black ears), so that is probably what was included in the set, at least at first. Whether it is noticeably different from 6068981 is another matter - but they are different but possibly still identical, parts.
I own 7189, and although the parts list does indeed show http://brickset.com/parts/4623498 with a printed ear, the rest of the artwork shows a pig without a printed ear, and that is indeed what I got in the set.
So just wondering if anyone out there owns one with a printed ear.
7189 seems to only have been available during 2011, so what you've got is probably genuinely 4623498. 6068981 seems to have come along a couple of years later.
That being so, it's unlikely there's another part with the same number that is printed differently, and therefore that it's unlikely that there are black-eared pigs. The alternative might've been that one part number was used for pink ears and the other for black, but that's not the case.
Proving a negative is always difficult, so that might be the best you'll get.
But the fact that really annoys me is, that I usually know exactly where nearly all of my bricks come from.
From this figure by any chance?
I don't know where the right ones come from. But I know that the left one are Tusken Raiders from Star War. The Problem here is: I have 4 of them. All have the same head and legs, but the Brown prints in the back of 2 of them are lighter and those 2 have white instead of grey hands too. I know the set, where the 2darker come from. (Anakins speeder or so), but the lighter...
gah... somehow it decided to hide when i scanned thru the owned minifig list on brickset....
The big reasons that I think it might be a LEGO/Samsonite piece is it appears the same type of string was being used in the Jumbo Brick Pull Toy # 501. Follow link to the BrickLink listing: http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=x1447c01&idColor=9#T=C&C=9
The holes in the brick appear to be put in after molding, but are very clean
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
For reference, the pictures include known color items via flowers: Magenta on left, Dark Pink in the center, and Red on the right. And knowing how a camera can mess with colors, took a number of pics in different lighting conditions.
We've looked at a number of other reference photos, esp the various Purples, but these bricks have too much red in them for that.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Off the top of my head, I'd say the bricks are Bright Purple. They appeared in at least three sets (all of which are bulk boxes of pieces).
I'm talking about TLG's Bright Purple (221).
And Bright Reddish Lilac (198) is Bricklink's Light, not Bright, Purple.
And now we're going to confuse everybody...
im stumped so I turn to you all
1) The seam is missing.
2) The hole in the hub is proportionately much bigger - the diameter of the hole in the lawnmower wheel is about a third of the diameter of just the hub; for the queried object, it's about a third of the size of the whole wheel (if that's what it is).
3) The grove on the wheelbarrow wheel is a completely circle when seen without reflections:
https://img.rebrickable.com/img/sets-b/3787-1.jpg
I was starting from the premise that it's a known colour of the brick. I know it doesn't have to be, but it's a reasonable place to start. I run with two monitors, with different colour settings - one says yes, the other not, so Bright Purple is possible.
It's why I questioned the pedigree of the reference bracelet parts. Guessing again, but it seems likely that they've been identified through Bricklink, and therefore it's quite possible they're wrong. Once the reference colours go out of the window, anything's possible - that Bright Red doesn't look very red to me.
Sorry to take so long... had internet connection issues.....
Here is a 322 Samsonite Educational Gear Set, and although I don't have a better image, you can just make out the string in the lower right of the image.
So yes, that is original to this set. Now whether or not that was the same one used in the European Pull Toy, I doubt it. Most non-specialized LEGO parts were produced at their Samsonite Loveland Colorado plant. I don't think this intertwined string would qualify as a specialty LEGO part. Samsonite did make other toys (non LEGO)... so they could have used this same type of string in one of those as well... such as seen in this 1972 Samsonite Catalog image....
So, all the colors I mentioned, and the colors of the reference flowers, are from Bricklink. The flowers were purchased from other sellers, so if I listed an incorrect color for one, then it is a mistake in what I was sent vs. what I thought I ordered. :-)
I must agree that it looks like that Bright Reddish Lilac color shown in that linked pic (color 198). Alas, Bricklink doesn't have a color by that name in their system, so it is difficult to list these bricks correctly. Argh... :-(
People "guess" at a colour; perhaps it's an educated guess based on some hard evidence; perhaps not. Then they forget that they've guessed, and use it as definitive. to make an badly-educated guess for something else. And so it goes on.
Once upon a time, things were relatively simple - there were few colours and the fact that TLG used one set of names and the AFOL community used another was largely irrelevant. Then we got similar colours where the real thing cannot be determined by comparison with a set of picture - and essentially different people thought the same description applied to different real colours. These were then used in the inventories on Peeron and Bricklink - and not necessarily in the same way!
In an ideal world, the colours for reference pieces come from a known, and relatively recent, set. We KNOW what colours are used for them, because TLG now make the information available. There can be significant variations for something that has the same description, but they are (hopefully?) known
Be very careful comparing a real object with a photograph. The latter can vary tremendously giving totally the wrong impression. You've taken your photographs under various lighting conditions, but it also depends on the colour settings on the device on which your viewing it - different colour temperatures, brightness, contrast, phase of the moon (maybe not)...
As I understand it, you have now decided you have a brick in a colour that was never sold. Whilst such things do exist, considering the type of colour involved, I'd personally want to do a lot more checking, brick against brick, to verify that.
Bricklink's name for Bright Reddish Lilac is "Light Purple". 2x4 bricks did come in this color in these two sets, and here's the Bricklink price guide for that color. So I'm pretty confident that's what you have. :)
The photostream I linked to, Brick Colorstream, is one of the best LEGO color resources I know of. They list both BrickLink names and official LEGO color names with handy pictorial reference. Keep them bookmarked!