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How They Make LEGO Bricks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mana-from-heaven dept.

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.

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  1. Where do they all go by loftwyr · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. Ouch by tttonyyy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  3. Re:How many times do we have to say it? by teh+kurisu · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Why else? by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Re:Studies on developmental outcome? by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well, I played with Legos (sorry...Lego brand brick-type plastic blocks), and I'm fucking brilliant!
    Unfortunately, as a counter-anecdote, I also played with Lego as a child, and I'm as dumb as a sackful of hammer handles.
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  6. Re:Studies on developmental outcome? by Ingolfke · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:How many times do we have to say it? by 3TimeLoser · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yes there is. Sheeps are the sounds drunk birds make.

  8. Difficulty by Dirtside · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.

    Wow, that sounds difficult. Why didn't you use your hands?
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