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How They Make LEGO Bricks
harajukboy writes "Businessweek.com shows us how the famous LEGO bricks are made. Among the new facts I picked up was that LEGO is the largest tire manufacturer in the world, and that the process is so air tight that only 18 of 1 million pieces are considered defective." I knew I was getting old when I first realized that these kids today with their modern legos have it too easy, what with all those crazy custom pieces. Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.
The article says they make 18 billion a year! Since they've been building bricks since 1958, that means there's a HELL of a lot of bricks somewhere.
I think a recycle your Lego campaign should start and you should send all your old Lego to me.
This is not just a grab to make sure I have more Lego than you.
LEGO is the largest tire manufacturer in the world
Yet, when making a car, you are hard-pressed to find four of the same set in a very huge bucket filled with Legos....
Yes, I play legos with my kids....
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I just love the way the factory floor has all sorts of bits of Lego scattered across it (the Lego that escaped!)
:)
I bet they don't walk around with bare feet there.
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of these9 6
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5
or these
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/chowfamily/lego/
or maybe these
http://www.directron.com/contest1win.html
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The word Lego is a trademark and must be used as an adjective. Thus the "plural of Lego[sic]" is "Lego plastic doodads".
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Yah know. Talk like this is exactly why no one thinks geeks are fun.
Dude, didn't you read the relevant Dilbert?
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Like sheep. You can have a box of sheep, you can build things out of sheep bricks, but there are no such things as sheeps.
Yes, I play legos with my kids....
Well, I'd hope so. It's the best reason for having kids, really.
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Well, I played with Legos (sorry...Lego brand brick-type plastic blocks), and I'm fucking brilliant!
:)
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Legos legos legos.
Legos.
Bite me, nitpicking asshat.
would that word be six or sigma?
--meh--
Surely that should have been 'Lego brand building bloxen'
make it fit!
Actually.... that's EXACTLY what I do with my Legos!
Lets go with six. Sigma still sounds foreign and I don't know what it means...
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
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Sheesh. You're probably one of those guys who still runs around calling GNU/Linux just plain, old "Linux." Get a clue, man!
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I just bought my kids a DVD of other kids playing with legos and creating really neat toys. It's cheaper then buying all of those expensive legos and the kids on the DVD are far more creative than my kids. It's kind of like New Yankee Workshop for little children.
Huh? Maybe if you drew a picture...
Don't forget the internet age equivalent, "Lego's".
Oh yes there is. Sheeps are the sounds drunk birds make.
They are better quality... when is the last time you had to take your lego ride in for new tires?
You are all a bunch of idots.
Wow, that sounds difficult. Why didn't you use your hands?
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