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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. Re:How many times do we have to say it? by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ah, another attempt to dictate the natural evolution of language. Let me be the first to say, Legos, Legos, Legos, Legos, Legos!

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