Random part of the day: Plate 8X16

Most recent set I got this piece in: 41756: Holiday Ski Slope and Cafe

@Lemerbrix06 said:
"Most recent set I got this piece in: 41756: Holiday Ski Slope and Cafe"

Mine was 40596 Magic Maze and 75339 Death Star Trash Compactor. Oddly enough those are the only 2 sets that I have with this piece.

@Endermen39 said:
" @Lemerbrix06 said:
"Most recent set I got this piece in: 41756 : Holiday Ski Slope and Cafe"

Mine was 40596 Magic Maze and 75339 Death Star Trash Compactor. Oddly enough those are the only 2 sets that I have with this piece."

well I own 8 sets with this piece. The most recent one being: 77013 Escape from the lost tomb.

@sjr60 said:
"Great new Star Wars ship .... best so far..."

Yeah I’m sure Disney will eventually come up with this idea for a new Star Wars ship by “their self” in a few years.

It feels so...plain. No, no, it's cool...I guess. It's just, you know, not a cheese wedge. I guess it'd work pretty well with October 20, though.

@Lemerbrix06 said:
"Most recent set I got this piece in: 41756: Holiday Ski Slope and Cafe"
For me, it was 10320, Eldorado Fortress. I don't usually do this, but when I noticed that was my most recent purchase, I couldn't resist mentioning it. I've been having a lot of fun building it. Now if only the https://brickset.com/parts/6477380/corner-brick-2x2-45-deg-inside that was missing from bags nine would hurry up and get here so I could finish... First time I've ever had a Lego set arrive from Lego with a bag torn open when I opened a set.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Lemerbrix06 said:
"Most recent set I got this piece in: 41756: Holiday Ski Slope and Cafe"
For me, it was 10320, Eldorado Fortress. I don't usually do this, but when I noticed that was my most recent purchase, I couldn't resist mentioning it. I've been having a lot of fun building it. Now if only the https://brickset.com/parts/6477380/corner-brick-2x2-45-deg-inside that was missing from bags nine would hurry up and get here so I could finish... First time I've ever had a Lego set arrive from Lego with a bag torn open when I opened a set."

I was unaware they resurrected that piece. Noice. As far as these plates are concerned, most of mine come from the Friends line. Except they are in azure, pink and such. Useful in their own way I suppose.

@theothermike that absolutely sucks. Eldorado Fortress is amazing. I’ve never gotten a set with missing pieces. I have seen a short stop on a 1x something plate for the Himeji Castle on a review on Lego.com or some set like that.

@sjr60: No, no, no...it's "the Monolith" from the new "2001: a Space Odyssey" sets...done reeeeeally thin...:)

I think I have some of these, but need more...mainly for a "Cosmic Cartographer" (read "Mega Galaxy Explorer")...*Sigh* "Bucket" Lists, am I right:).

@Endermen39 said:
" @theothermike that absolutely sucks. Eldorado Fortress is amazing. I’ve never gotten a set with missing pieces. I have seen a short stop on a 1x something plate for the Himeji Castle on a review on Lego.com or some set like that."

I got a sealed 6713 off Ebay in 2006 and one of the strings (https://brickset.com/parts/4109714/string-with-knobs-10-m) was too short.

@phi13:
I got a sealed 9472, and not only was bag 1 missing, the other three bags had been torn open and all the minifig parts removed! Okay, not the same thing. I got mine at retail, and found evidence of how the culprit had opened the set without breaking the tape seals. They had clearly bought it, pilfered it, and returned it for a full refund.

@Endermen39: My copy of 8758 was missing a gray 1x2x2. There was a chunk of plastic about the size and weight of the missing piece in there that must have fallen off of something (what, I have no idea) and fooled the weight sensor.

@PurpleDave: Nothing was missing, but my 5983 had been bought, given as a gift, and then returned. I know because there was a small bit of wrapping paper taped to the back.

If all Bricklink members would put these pieces next to each other, we'd reach 509 km!

An under-appreciated work horse sort of piece

@Endermen39 said:
" @theothermike that absolutely sucks. Eldorado Fortress is amazing. I’ve never gotten a set with missing pieces. I have seen a short stop on a 1x something plate for the Himeji Castle on a review on Lego.com or some set like that."

I had 71771: The Crystal King Temple with an extra 2x2 slope piece instead of a 1x2 brick with clip.

@Endermen39 said:
" @theothermike that absolutely sucks. Eldorado Fortress is amazing. I’ve never gotten a set with missing pieces. I have seen a short stop on a 1x something plate for the Himeji Castle on a review on Lego.com or some set like that."

I have only had it happen once, and it was with Rivendell. I had three of the wrong pieces. One was a large grey arch brick that I had to temporarily substitute with a brown one from my own collection. I also had to ask for new stickers because my sheet's adhesive had issues. It has been the first and only time I have ever bothered contacting Lego customer service. Although I have considered asking for a replacement windscreen for my SP DB5. Back to the missing pieces, the smaller two were understandable mistakes, but I ended up with a red 2x10, which is not even a part of the set.

Well, I for one love big plates like this. Remember back when you universally had to stitch together smaller plates for the upper floors of modulars or other sorts of large structures? The introduction of this 8x16 plate (and its even bigger sibling, the 16x16 plate) really changed the game.

@TheOtherMike:
We had a few years with at least one person who was buying stuff, and returning something different than what they bought. I’d see GI Joe action figures where a different figure was painted to look like the card, or the card was painted to look like a different figure. Premium Hot Wheels ($5) were swapped for basic ones ($1). And at least this one set had everything minifig-related stolen out of it. I don’t know if this was all one person, or if they ever caught the person trying to make a fraudulent return, but it seems to have ended. Most of this was at TRU, so their closure may have helped shut it down, but the LEGO set was at a chain that’s still in business.

For my experience, I first heard about 7191 and 7181 by finding them at the local TRU, and bought them on the spot. When I built the X-Wing, it uses 1x1 round plates in both light and dark grey. One of them I ran short on, and after half an hour trying to find it in the pile of parts or the carpeting under the table, I gave up and subbed in the spare of the other shade. Never fixed it.

I also got two copies of 8009 in December 2001, and they had 2x No5 angle connectors and 1x No6, but should have had those quantities flipped. I called for a replacement, and was told the set wasn’t out yet (1-1-02 release, so a couple weeks early). I was able to talk them through figuring out which parts I needed replaced (the instructions weren’t in their system yet), but because I had two copies I was able to pull the missing part from the second copy.

I got a copy of 4101, and one of the brown wedge bricks got mixed up with something with a very different shape.

I got a second copy of 7621, and the Indiana Jones minifig had a Clone Wars Anakin head:

https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3079065

A lot of people got the Indiana Jones Stunt Double minifig, so it’s probably a case where an entire batch of heads got mixed up in storage.

Finally, my copy of 10179 had an entire bag of light-bley 2x4 wedge plates, both left and right. I waited to open that last, and only took one pair out to finish the model. They came up with a complicated way to pack this, to make it more efficient on their end. If a part had 22 copies, they might put four each in a bag that was repeated five times, and the other two would go in a remainders bag. There was one bag you got nine copies of. They must have botched the math, and shorted it one pair of these, but because of the messy bag sort it was not an easy matter to fix. And it was a highly publicized preorder of the largest set they’d produced to date, so you couldn’t have people who preordered special 1st Edition copies being unable to build it out of the box. So they gave you another bag, containing the full quantity of both parts, regardless of how many others were actually being packed. So I ended up with 22 left and 23 right left over when I was all done.

@PurpleDave: I once got a Visorak that had too much in it. No extra parts, but the piece I always called the "chassis" https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=50904&idColor=86T=C&C=86 had some axle- and peg-holes that were full of plastic, rendering the part unusable for it's intended purpose. I guess a couple of pins failed to slide into place and the plastic flowed into the space that should have been blocked off.

@TheOtherMike:
I've also gotten a copy of 8540 that had a bonus flame staff, and a copy of 7666 that had a whole duplicate bag (I used some of the parts to increase the wimpy legs on the probe droid). A few sets have had bonus sticker sheets, but I haven't kept track of which ones. It came from a LUGBulk purchase, but right now I've got a 4x4 trans-clear radar dish w/ hollow stud sitting next to me, and it shows signs of marbling. At first I though it had been crushed, because the big mark is a white line that starts at the edge, but there's another squiggle in the middle of the apron.