New LEGO CITY STUNTZ: manufacturing defect on products sold across the Atlantic

It's not every day that LEGO publicly admits a manufacturing defect in a product or an entire line of sets, with the manufacturer typically preferring to let customers come forward to their customer service rather than admit that there is. a problem. For once, LEGO is today cracking a statement confirming that the products from the LEGO CITY STUNTZ range are affected by a manufacturer defect. However, this is an incident of limited geographic scope: only products manufactured in the Mexican plant in Monterey and distributed in the North and South American markets are affected.

The problem: the two pins which allow the front wheel of these retrofriction motorcycles to be fixed to the chassis have an annoying tendency to break a little too quickly and the manufacturer specifies that the problem is being solved. In the meantime, customers affected by this manufacturing defect can obviously contact customer service to obtain replacement parts:

This incident a priori only affects the markets mentioned above and we are therefore not directly concerned but keep in mind that if you decide to buy sets via the secondary market, depending on the seller, you could still you end up with a product made in Mexico before the problem is corrected. However, you can always get a replacement wheel through the brand's very responsive customer service.