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1. Quality of pieces in the LOTR series?

   

   Discussion by ludzik · February 2013 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   I am sorta bummed today.... I picked up yesterday #9471 and today I discovered that one of the clips on the saddle is cracked. Talk about a major dissapointment! I have filled out the online form with Lego and requested a replacement piece... but still, that was a major bummer :( I compared the saddle to some of my older…

2. Re: Quality of pieces in the LOTR series?

   

   Comment by NeilJam · February 2013 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   A couple of my saddle pieces have broken clips. Has anyone heard of this happening to barding? Finding the broken saddles has made me extra careful with those just in case.

3. Re: Quality of pieces in the LOTR series?

   

   Comment by binaryeye · February 2013 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   In my experience, the quality of pieces in the LoTR sets isn't any different than other current sets. How old are the saddles you were comparing to? LEGO bricks apparently get more brittle with age. But I also don't recall the bricks having quite as much flex when I was a kid (in the mid 80s) as they do now.

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   Comment by Zathras · February 2013 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   I have a Tauntaun saddle that one of the fingers broke just by taking out the blaster from the clip. I had built the 7749 Hoth set the day I bought it new and it sat on my display shelf untouched (well I dusted it a few times) for close to 2 years. So it wasn’t any sort of rough play that broke it. I think I've posted in…

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