10195 AT-OT oddity

[hohesC]

Hello!

First of all: I wasn't sure where to post this, and I didn't want to bump an old review, so I started a new topic.

While LEGO ran the May the 4th campaign this year I finally decided to buy this great set, and left it standing on a shelf in my flat, waiting for the day when it just felt right to start building.

This happened last sunday. Rainy outside, dog lazy as hell, nothing on tv an girlfriend meeting other girls for coffee and chattering. Perfect day (for LEGO )!

So I finally opened the box and started to build the AT-OT right away.

The first thing that got me annoyed was the DSS, which started to curl in about 2 minutes after being removed from the instructions-hull.

Then, after I finished the build and took a good long look at the model and thought: "Wait theres something wrong here."

Took me a little to realize, but then I discovered, that I had two different sorts of light bley 6x6 inverted dishes covering the hip(?)joints. Of the 8 dishes used, I had 6 with closed studs and 2 with open studs, as seen on the box art.

I started to reread the instruction and took a look at the dishes used for the feet of the model, but after counting it added up to 14 of the 16 dishes being closed-studded and only two of them open-studded. I probably would never have realized it, if I had used the two open ones for the feet, but since I didn't, I feel the model's somehow flawed. Plus, some of the stickers already start to peel off by themselfs, even though I wash my hands regularly when building to keep the surfaces clean....

What do you think, should I applie to customer service, or just put the open-stud ones to the feet?

I know I shouldn't feel to bad about it, but in a set this expensive I feel a little disappointed that they somehow used it to get rid of leftovers.

Feedback welcome!

Cheers, C*

Edited July 7, 2011 by hohesC

[Future74]

Pictures would make your point more clearly for us readers.

As for the dishes I would apply the two open ones in mirror image,(maybe in the least visible spot)

so it doesn't have a weird effect on the model.

[filospinato]

Interesting! I'll pull mine down from the display shelf and take a look tonight.

[soc399]

You should call customer service anyway for a new sticker sheet, but you may just want to move the odd dishes to the feet. It sounds like they changed the mold, and you got a mix of old and new parts.

[Vindicare]

I just started building this and all mine(you're referring to the discs that have 4 studs(2x4) in the center with an open hole in the very center). The ones that go on the feet, correct! All the studs are solid with the "LEGO" stamp on them.