Having built literally thousands of Lego sets (i.e. all the modulars, all the UCS sets, most Star Wars sets etc etc), I just experienced a particular error for the first time.

Before I started 71499 Mateo's Spray Paint Truck, I sorted the bags in order. I was surprised at how small bag 9 was, but figured that maybe it just had some of the small side builds in.

Anyway... I'd built almost the entire thing and was excited to get into (final) bag 9 as it was now clear that this would be the bag with the dark blue Classic Space helmet and air tanks in so I could complete an new colour of Classic Spaceman. However, it quicky became evident that my bag 9 must have been a little bag that should have been contained within a larger bag 9. But I had no big bag 9!!!! To make it even more frustrating, guess where the dark blue helmet and air tanks must have been? So no new Classic Space guy for me and no doubt a protracted wait to complete the set

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?