LEGO's Catastrophic Failure

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Жыл бұрын

These mistakes and errors cost LEGO millions of dollars
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Although LEGO designs and produces fantastic sets, LEGO is not perfect. From misprinted boxes to faulty products, here are 10 times LEGO lost millions of dollars due to product recalls and production errors - Enjoy!
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@fortnitesexman
@fortnitesexman Жыл бұрын
it's nice to see lego adopting the "a worker mistake is a company mistake" philosophy
@Bart-Did-it
@Bart-Did-it Жыл бұрын
Fortnite = Kiddy Crack
@fortnitesexman
@fortnitesexman Жыл бұрын
@@Bart-Did-it yeah
@zardzewialy
@zardzewialy Жыл бұрын
Basics of internal audit. When you find a problem you back track it with the "5 times why" rule to get to the root cause of the issue.
@goofycker
@goofycker Жыл бұрын
Another forkjign listical....
@fortnitesexman
@fortnitesexman Жыл бұрын
@@goofycker wdym listical?
@darthgbc363
@darthgbc363 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love that LEGO added better lighting instead of firing.
@Freedomcustom
@Freedomcustom Жыл бұрын
Better to find the long term fix then the fire the guy and hope this doesn't happen again
@tetsi0815
@tetsi0815 Жыл бұрын
Assuming this was somewhere in Europe and that this was an honest mistake, firing that person would have simply been illegal and thus not an option. This was not corporate niceness, but worker protection laws at their best.
@automation7295
@automation7295 5 ай бұрын
That's probably because LEGO is a Danish company, I'm sure that firing people is lot harder or even illegal in Denmark and most of Europe. If LEGO was American, I'm sure they'll yell "you're fired!!!" at their employees instead of adding better lighting.
@admiralfurret
@admiralfurret Жыл бұрын
Small fun fact: in 2008 the pieces declined in quality because lego decided to save some money on plastic injectors, getting ones that cool down much quicker, causing the plastic to lose durability. The greatest victim was bionicle line in 2008, where durability of the pieces was pretty important. The biggest victim however was any set using lime green pieces, which cracked in few minutes of use.
@Winchester1979
@Winchester1979 Жыл бұрын
The very first set I bought for my own money was almost the last, due to some similar screwup years earlier. Back in 1992, I bought a set called "Space Shuttle Transporter", 6346, after having saved up for months.... and then parts started cracking as I built it. Antenna/lever bases, clips, the cup pieces used for the exhaust stacks, the 1x1 brick with vertical bars, the 1x2s with vertical ribs on one side and horizontal on the other side, the five-finger hinge plates, the 1x8 tiles.... everything cracked, just from normal play. I didn't buy anything else from Lego for more than two decades after that, though I got a couple of sets as gifts that stood up a little better.
@domicraft6341
@domicraft6341 Жыл бұрын
That explained why one of the heads of mine broke
@Mr.Brothybear
@Mr.Brothybear Жыл бұрын
The Bionicle "Lime Disease" Memes make more sense now
@aki_1302
@aki_1302 Жыл бұрын
Hahli Mahri and Lesovikk were the worst victims.
@dominicstocker5144
@dominicstocker5144 Жыл бұрын
The color of current pieces doesn’t properly match anymore
@ARDIZsq
@ARDIZsq Жыл бұрын
LEGO Employee: *Makes a huge and expensive mistake* LEGO: "It's ok, we're all human. Here, let's get you some better lighting so this doesn't happen again." You love to see it.
@The_Shadow_Emperor
@The_Shadow_Emperor Жыл бұрын
Also Lego when profits decrease by 5%: *Hands pink slip to 1,400 employees*
@noahmaldonado5461
@noahmaldonado5461 Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile at any other company: *Fired*
@sheilaolfieway1885
@sheilaolfieway1885 Жыл бұрын
Hey that's a really great way to handle it I think.
@HappyDude1
@HappyDude1 Жыл бұрын
They have insurance for these kind of mistakes The lights are a nice tax wright off And they can always fire him later for a " different" reason 😋
@nielsjensen4185
@nielsjensen4185 Жыл бұрын
@@The_Shadow_Emperor Where? What countries were affected by this is important since in Scandinavian countries there's a large social safety net to catch people in that situation and getting fired is far from the end of the world.
@teagan6557
@teagan6557 Жыл бұрын
Imagine banning gray bricks one of the most useful colors in Legos what would we do with out them
@anakinskywalker3282
@anakinskywalker3282 Жыл бұрын
Star wars be like "wtf lego"
@ForeverFrost92
@ForeverFrost92 Жыл бұрын
Have better Star Wars ships and playsets...
@trenchvstudios
@trenchvstudios Жыл бұрын
Go yellow. They did it for the og knights castle set.
@medicusvulneratum3125
@medicusvulneratum3125 Жыл бұрын
Back to building yellow castles without gray bricks lol
@Capdukeymomoman
@Capdukeymomoman Жыл бұрын
@Someonewhoexists 🤓🤓🤓
@painpulverizer
@painpulverizer Жыл бұрын
Employee: Changes colors of brick in a set and loses Lego over $1,000,000 Lego: Installs better lighting for the employees *True Jedi Unlocked*
@tetsi0815
@tetsi0815 Жыл бұрын
More likely: worker protection laws made it illegal to fire that employee so better lighting it was
@crazyrobak3966
@crazyrobak3966 Жыл бұрын
A good one to mention is the new UCS republic gunship, in which the box and instructions had a misprint where the Republic insignia, they printed the imperial insignia instead. It was hugely noticeable and they had to stop producing the sets for a bit to produce the corrected ones.
@HistoryUnwound
@HistoryUnwound Жыл бұрын
Foreshadowing, maybe?
@crazyrobak3966
@crazyrobak3966 Жыл бұрын
@@Appletun503 Thanks. It's a picture of my cat I took that looks funny.
@mrlaz9011
@mrlaz9011 Жыл бұрын
Probably a gunship during the republic to empire transition.
@berniethekiwidragon4382
@berniethekiwidragon4382 Жыл бұрын
I have one sitting in front of me, with the correct insignia.
@crazyrobak3966
@crazyrobak3966 Жыл бұрын
@@berniethekiwidragon4382 Nice. I managed to get the one with the flaw. It was a big thing and Lego even responded to this with an apology.
@MassimilianoBariola
@MassimilianoBariola Жыл бұрын
None of them fall into the "catastrophic failure" category, not even taken together. Let's talk about LEGO's current brick quality. uneven color shades, injection residues, even on premium sets. that's the catastrophe.
@HappyDude1
@HappyDude1 Жыл бұрын
I see a lot of people selling there lego, including me These last sets are over 500 euro For about 3000 bricks thats insane
@justTyping
@justTyping Жыл бұрын
Or the 42125 Ferrari 488 GTE which was not stable and had other problems, the new street plates, which do not fit with older sets.
@automation7295
@automation7295 5 ай бұрын
If LEGO was American, it would been a catastrophic failure.
@DutchDread
@DutchDread Жыл бұрын
Mad respect for not blaming the worker, this is a classic example of "people are imperfect, so the process has to be designed to account for that. If it does not, then there is a problem with the process, not the person".
@link3rd
@link3rd Жыл бұрын
$6M mistake, omg! That’s crazy. Also, one dude packed over 120,000 bags… I’m very curious as to how long that took.
@ano_nym
@ano_nym Жыл бұрын
Yeah, seems strange to me. Does he fin and pack the pieces by hand? I would assume it was a robot that spit them out in bags.
@kailahmann1823
@kailahmann1823 Жыл бұрын
@@ano_nym I guess, that robot just got fed with the wrong box for supply. But then I wonder what bad light they had to mix those…
@moondog8353
@moondog8353 Жыл бұрын
He probably loaded plastic pellets into a machine that actually makes the bricks and loaded the wrong color pellets. I can't see a guy bagging up that many pieces but a machine could make and bag that many in pretty short order.
@IndyGibb
@IndyGibb Жыл бұрын
Lego's response to that last one almost put a tear in my eye.
@luchoman91
@luchoman91 Жыл бұрын
A recalled set to mention: Lego 8939 Lesovikk, a 2007 Bionicle box set exclusive to Walmart that was released with a missing piece, shortly re-released with all pieces accounted for. Had to get Bionicle in there 😉
@shadxw_hunter
@shadxw_hunter Жыл бұрын
the dream
@mrkicker11181
@mrkicker11181 Жыл бұрын
Lime green parts
@Dargonhuman
@Dargonhuman Жыл бұрын
@@mrkicker11181 Bionicle Lime Disease 😂
@1x5x7
@1x5x7 Жыл бұрын
The last time I owned a LEGO product was over 12 years ago. Just found your channel and binge-watched for about two hours, earned the sub.
@golemgames9727
@golemgames9727 Жыл бұрын
Lego
@Geskawary234
@Geskawary234 Жыл бұрын
wow how old r u
@camsellstoys
@camsellstoys Жыл бұрын
Be careful the legos are way more addictive
@SilverDreamweaver
@SilverDreamweaver Жыл бұрын
@@camsellstoys Not a problem, they're disgustingly overpriced now.
@Johnnyboy414
@Johnnyboy414 Жыл бұрын
@@SilverDreamweaver the themes are creativity were way better back then anyway.
@Songal18
@Songal18 Жыл бұрын
It is nice that they were able to fix sets and possibly get the money back. Wonderful video, thank you.
@Larry
@Larry Жыл бұрын
The quality has REALLY gone down hill in recent times. Literally every other kit I buy from their own website contains missing pieces now. >.>
@cosmo9925
@cosmo9925 Жыл бұрын
Lego saying they won’t do Military stuff as if a bunch of the Indiana Jones sets from like a decade ago didn’t have literal Nazi and Soviet mini figs with Military vehicles in them lmao
@chikihando2483
@chikihando2483 Жыл бұрын
Didn't they removed the nazi stuff ?
@stringjamer
@stringjamer Жыл бұрын
Lol. Lego went woke. They support Black Lives Matter and the alphabet community.
@Superszyga
@Superszyga Жыл бұрын
I hope they bring back sets like these one day. Those sets were mostly amazing and highly playable. Well, kids use lego figs as an army anyway.
@Mrenderboyo
@Mrenderboyo Жыл бұрын
Apparently they’re remaking the set with the REAL nazi plane
@FieldMarshalYT
@FieldMarshalYT Жыл бұрын
@@stringjamer No, it's always been LEGO policy. They just bend it sometimes.
@Signerdragon123
@Signerdragon123 Жыл бұрын
Personally, I consider their handling of Bionicle G2 and Hidden Side catastrophic failures of their own.
@djk6297
@djk6297 Жыл бұрын
Yeah HS I wasn't too fond of as although I brought a set I couldn't find the app in the Google Play Store and I was told my phone should work with it. It was like having the venue but no show. As for G2 Bionicle, the sets didn't seem too bad; to me it was the lore that sucked, especially with how it was addressed (no comics or books, just 2-3 min vids. Probably why it only lasted a few years and Lego knew it.
@ClankyOtter
@ClankyOtter Жыл бұрын
Bionicle G2 run still makes me cry at night
@ObiWahnKnobi
@ObiWahnKnobi Жыл бұрын
The cynic in me guesses that LEGO found a way to get rid of that employee once nobody was paying attention anymore. Perhaps they just put him somewhere, where he couldn't possibly do that much damage.
@renefrijhoff2484
@renefrijhoff2484 Жыл бұрын
The reason of the cancellation of the "Osprey" is quite dubious as they had already released 3 other sets tied to the real military, although old ones: 10226 and 3451 Sopwith Camel (including machine guns) and set 10024 the most (in)famous blood red Fokker DR.I Triplane flown by the (in)famous Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen.
@crash8542
@crash8542 Жыл бұрын
I think one of the reasons they were fine releasing those sets is because they are depicting planes from WW1 . In the company's early years, the company's creator, Ole Kirk Christiansen, created the policy that they would never depict modern war in their toys because of the 2nd World War happening at the time. Now of course they've broken this rule for licensed themes like Indiana Jones and Captain America, but, it does explain why they've made unlicensed sets and minifigures depicting Union soldiers in their western theme, as well as minifigures based off of Continental soldiers from the Revolutionary war
@djk6297
@djk6297 Жыл бұрын
@@crash8542 yeah i just started to think something similar. If it's modern military Lego has a policy against, which i guess can include anything from 1980-present, anything before that would probably be considered "historical." The Sopwith Camel set, both the late 1990s and 2002 versions, were from WWI and were probably considered historical, if this is making sense (honestly, when was the last time a WWI plane was used in Iraq or Afghanistan?)
@mrkeykush693
@mrkeykush693 Жыл бұрын
@@djk6297 I think that they just make that specific rule to avoid some themes like WWII, Cold war ETC... but why do we have star wars? i mean, the imperium it's just based on nazi germany, they uniforms kindda look the same
@djk6297
@djk6297 Жыл бұрын
@@mrkeykush693 when you mean imperium do you mean the first order? In the seventh movie when the general is giving that speech followed by starkiller base unleashing that blast to destroy those planets, that assemblage it did remind me of a rally, black symbol on white background on red banner and all, minus the planet-destroying blast. Heck, aside from star wars, stormtroopers were also a German force. As for Lego and how they're allowing sets could mainly be the license contract they've had with star wars. Let's face it, it's been Lego's longest running theme and one of the best selling. Perhaps lego has to make sets or it could violate the contract. Other than that, while star wars exhibits some WWII elements, its not direct, and it's more scifi, so it doesn't violate Lego's terms.
@CplBurdenR
@CplBurdenR Жыл бұрын
@@djk6297 "honestly, when was the last time a WWI plane was used in Iraq or Afghanistan?" 1st World War plane, good point. But 1st World War *tank*? Renault FTs were found in Afghanistan in the 2000s.
@decepticonleaderstarscream6551
@decepticonleaderstarscream6551 Жыл бұрын
I would like to point out how LEGO's rules of what's appropriate are strange As they won't make any sets based on military but they will make Nazis for the Indiana Jones sets. And make characters like Joker, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, Captain Boomerang, Deathstroke, Two-Face, Penguin, Riddler, Red Skull, Crossbones who are all comic book characters who notably have committed quite a few heinous actions over the course of their long history as characters.
@brownmanguylego6270
@brownmanguylego6270 Жыл бұрын
No pew pew, pew pew = bad. Oh na zi’s? That’s fine
@Markiz93
@Markiz93 Жыл бұрын
They also made a Sopwith Camel - a WW1 fighter aircraft.
@iamablacksabbathsong9765
@iamablacksabbathsong9765 Жыл бұрын
I mean what are the 77 years old Nazi corpses going to do stop them , comeback to life and sue lego ?
@chrisparkes2179
@chrisparkes2179 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, those are the franchise's that sell. Before they started making their first Star Wars sets the company was in trouble. Sales were declining as the pieces don't wear out and people were passing them down through families. The themed sets did a bit to revive the company's fortunes, but nowhere near as much as taking up product licences did.
@rwandaforever6744
@rwandaforever6744 Жыл бұрын
They will sacrifice these policies really fast in the coming years, since their customer base is no longer kids (as can be seen in what kind of sets they sell and for what price) but adults. They are essentially going from making creative toys to making one-build models. And when these customers want military stuff, they will get it...or they will take their money to Cobi and other brick companies that DO specialize in those themes. Unfortunately, with the declining overall quality of their bricks and lackluster sets, into which a unicorn threw up, they are losing customers so fast, they resorted to going from finding creative engineers and designers to stocking up on lawyers. If your product sales decline due to the competition having better quality and ideas, suing them is much more profitable than getting better products and ideas yourself. There are over 100 hundred companies out there that make brick-based sets. Most are not on LEGOs level, a dozen or so are and a hand full are even better.
@dozer1323
@dozer1323 Жыл бұрын
Okay the crooks set really confuses me They are concerned the set ''goes against their values'' ? Lego have went back on their values so many times now their ''values'' dont mean diddley
@djk6297
@djk6297 Жыл бұрын
if the problem is the giant dynamite then that's sad since lego has made tiles with dynamite printed on them, along with other bombs in their history
@chasemiddleton8088
@chasemiddleton8088 Жыл бұрын
As strange as it is to say, this is likely what happened: If you recall, that was around the time that BLM (black lives matter) reached a new peak. A big part of the BLM protesting at the time was against Police Brutality, with many berating the police, calling for them to be defunded, etc. Now it is just a theory, but I'm imagining Lego decided not to release the set because it featured active police officers, which, sadly, would go against the 'media storm' at the time. In fact it is around this time they stopped selling a few other police-themed sets as well, if I recall correctly.
@sickre
@sickre Жыл бұрын
This video would be a lot better if you showed videos of the failure - eg. the metal axle, the floppy neck etc.
@legoman06524
@legoman06524 Жыл бұрын
Improved the lighting instead of firing the guy. I wish that was more the standard behavior instead of the exception
@HappyDude1
@HappyDude1 Жыл бұрын
They can still fire him later for a "different " reason
@PneumatinisPlaktukas15
@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 Жыл бұрын
The Osprey cancellation makes me beyond furious. I really think that they only recalled it because of the gearbox problems.
@hakanstorsater5090
@hakanstorsater5090 Жыл бұрын
It could be the gearbox problems, as well, in a combined cause. The military connection might make the company look more ethical, though, rather than just hiring sloppy designers...
@jimtaylor294
@jimtaylor294 Жыл бұрын
It's ironic too, as the Osprey is - like the Chinook & Huey - not explicitly a military vehicle... but Lego has always been hypocritical & daft on stuff like this. Still: more money for Kobi or Megabloks, when inevitably they release one.
@snipingwes
@snipingwes Жыл бұрын
@@jimtaylor294 all the research was led by military, so it wouldn't have even been mass produced if the US of A wasn't using it to monopolize power globally 😉 also wished we would've had it, but I'm not gonna call someone daft for sticking to a set of principles
@snipingwes
@snipingwes Жыл бұрын
There are reviews where this theory is tested, and while the clutch does impressively work to prevent motor damage from blocked rotors, it does look/feel a bit delicate
@jimtaylor294
@jimtaylor294 Жыл бұрын
@@snipingwes A fixable issue though; which makes Lego cancelling the entire set all the more illogical.
@GhostRoasterDrankAllTheMilk
@GhostRoasterDrankAllTheMilk Жыл бұрын
Another example was Galidor, it was such an expensive mistake
@djk6297
@djk6297 Жыл бұрын
yeah i still don't understand that one. It like lasted for one year and was based on a show that I never even watched
@englishbulldog651
@englishbulldog651 Жыл бұрын
1:56 i have 2 of those blue sweeper pieces and they are so satisfying to spin around.
@oswaldcrowley
@oswaldcrowley Жыл бұрын
That's very nice of them to not fire or punish the employee for the mistake and extremly nice to hear that there's companies that don't fire or punish employees for mistakes.
@TheTrueSpottedStripe
@TheTrueSpottedStripe Жыл бұрын
Why is everyone saying this like it's fact? Just cause they don't say they fired someone doesn't mean they didn't.
@oswaldcrowley
@oswaldcrowley Жыл бұрын
@@TheTrueSpottedStripe I thought it was nice hearing companies that don't and who said that my opinion was facts?
@lecheese6190
@lecheese6190 Жыл бұрын
On numerous occasions Lego has made sets resembling military vehicles. such as in 2013 released a creator set where one of the options was to make a vtol plane similar to the banned Boeing one.
@blockstacker5614
@blockstacker5614 Жыл бұрын
They literally had a Sopwith Camel set
@Gameprojordan
@Gameprojordan Жыл бұрын
The new 3 in 1 supersonic jet is loosely based on an F14
@BrickersInArms
@BrickersInArms Жыл бұрын
And Dino Attack was a whole theme dedicated to the military fighting dinosaurs
@Mrenderboyo
@Mrenderboyo Жыл бұрын
Dont forget the real nazi plane in the one last crusade set (the flying wing doesnt count because its not a real plane)
@thenamelesschannel1463
@thenamelesschannel1463 Жыл бұрын
Another possible reason the dynamite factory was cancelled was because Lego thought it resembled police brutality, as the set itself depicts a police raid on a criminal hideout
@nilzero5686
@nilzero5686 Жыл бұрын
this is the correct answer- at the time IIRC was when there were multiple protests against police brutality by American cops against black Americans. The police in America has become more and more militarized and LEGO smartly read the room.
@maxxor-overworldhero6730
@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Жыл бұрын
@@nilzero5686 Except that there's quite a bit of police brutality that was wildly blown out of proportion or even brazenly lied about. Even now there's a bunch of incidents that despite all evidence showing justified shootings, people will still call them unjustified brutality. Not so fun fact, one of the very first cities to become a victim of violent "anti-police" riots in recent history was Ferguson, and Ferguson burned in memory of a person who was shot by police while quite literally in the process of committing a massive violent crime spree across the city. I legitimately kid you not, the list of crimes committed in that single night by the guy shot reads like a 5-⭐ GTA rapsheet. And Ferguson still gets treated like a case of brutality.
@MrJoeyWheeler
@MrJoeyWheeler Жыл бұрын
@@nilzero5686 "brutality" in this case meaning "criminals being correctly treated".
@LavenderSystem69
@LavenderSystem69 Жыл бұрын
Other companies when a worker fucks up: "YOU'RE FIRED" LEGO when an employee makes a mistake: "Nah, man, it's cool. Clearly we must've set you up for failure somehow. Let's fix that, shall we?"
@give_me_my_nick_back
@give_me_my_nick_back Жыл бұрын
Why would that lego truck be an issue if every single toy car I've ever seen had the same design with a metal axle and wheel you could easily remove....
@litigioussociety4249
@litigioussociety4249 Жыл бұрын
What a shame that V22 Osprey wasn't released.
@Brickticks
@Brickticks Жыл бұрын
It was green that Lego didn’t want to use for fear of children building tanks, not grey.
@Winchester1979
@Winchester1979 Жыл бұрын
Gray too, but that was rescinded in 1978 when they launched the space lineup.
@worldcomicsreview354
@worldcomicsreview354 Жыл бұрын
At my summer job teaching young kids I enjoyed using the build-anything sets to make "un-PC" stuff like tanks and jukebox cars (to which some girls added a water slide... what a missed opportunity for those IRL manufacturers in the 50's). I was working on a WW2 Japanese aircraft carrier, but didn't get time to finish it.
@sheilaolfieway1885
@sheilaolfieway1885 Жыл бұрын
7:21 yet i recall old western style sets having minifigure scale dynamite... 8:00 and this is where companies like megablox raise ahead because kids especially young boys like this sort of thing and honestly the Osprey is a transport for the most part and doesn't really carry weapons aside from some defensive ones, apparently they picked a arm or non-navy version as it's missing the refueling probe.
@hakanstorsater5090
@hakanstorsater5090 Жыл бұрын
Crooks with their own dynamite factory have more sour connotations, than crooks just carrying a few dynamite sticks...
@sheilaolfieway1885
@sheilaolfieway1885 Жыл бұрын
@@hakanstorsater5090 who said it was their dynamite factory? they could have stolen it.
@hakanstorsater5090
@hakanstorsater5090 Жыл бұрын
@@sheilaolfieway1885 Still, it carries problematic undertones if they control the production...
@jimtaylor294
@jimtaylor294 Жыл бұрын
^ Hardly. Kids couldn't care less about such details; nor most [sane] adults. That, and "problematic" is such a cliched nonsenseword XD.
@simplyme9700
@simplyme9700 Жыл бұрын
As a chess player I am proud to say that I noticed the mistake on the chess set immediately after seeing it.
@jodipearson567
@jodipearson567 Жыл бұрын
I’m glad they didn’t sack that employee. It’s such an easy mistake to make. Those shades of grey are so similar.
@attilazimler1614
@attilazimler1614 Жыл бұрын
Queen always starts on her own color - that makes it easy to remember how the board should be correctly oriented :)
@taqresu5865
@taqresu5865 Жыл бұрын
When it comes to the Technic Osprey, the weird thing imo is that it was canceled so late. LEGO was always kinda weird in its policies, especially with the Indiana Jones theme. But here I feel like LEGO should have addressed the potential controversy with the Osprey quite a bit sooner.
@tarantula4197
@tarantula4197 Жыл бұрын
Lego : makes The Red Baron as a Set Also Lego: noo this copter is used by the millitary too.. I would wish me more critc in the video
@vabenquesto
@vabenquesto Жыл бұрын
I'm still salty for the osprey because it was a model I actually wanted and also because yep, the aircraft was used in real war but as far as I know it was used as medevac, not in combat
@Kuro_Nguyen
@Kuro_Nguyen Жыл бұрын
Tbh they should allow only unarmed transport vehicles from the military
@mammutMK2
@mammutMK2 Жыл бұрын
From the review from the few guys that got one, it looks like it had a massive gearing issue
@skoiloine5809
@skoiloine5809 Жыл бұрын
@@Kuro_Nguyen So next to none? The majority of military transports are armed, because protecting oneself is pretty damn important when you're in a huge steel death box fighting people who know that the big car is the one with the people in it, and so focus on that transport. Or is it just a matter of making a real transport but taking the weapon off? So you can have a Stryker APC or something, but it just can't have a gun up top?
@Kuro_Nguyen
@Kuro_Nguyen Жыл бұрын
@@skoiloine5809 I guess
@TestECull
@TestECull Жыл бұрын
@@skoiloine5809 NGL I would happily buy a Technic M1A2 Abrahms. Would not even hesitate. Would be the first technic set released since the 8455 I wanted to buy in fact.
@InventorZahran
@InventorZahran Жыл бұрын
Lego: "we won't make any sets that resemble a military thing!" Also Lego: **Sopwith Camel go brrr**
@Horntailbricks
@Horntailbricks Жыл бұрын
Loved this video very informative
@Turtlejohn8
@Turtlejohn8 Жыл бұрын
Part of the street sweeper thing is that not very long before this that was produced, there was a major controversy with a gun called the street sweeper. It was a drum magazine fed semi-automatic shotgun called the street sweeper. It's marketing was a little odd. People found it very threatening and the government stepped in. They probably didn't want to be connected to something like that because the product shared the same name
@brickbunniestv7184
@brickbunniestv7184 Жыл бұрын
speaking of catastrophic mistakes... 1. Town Jr, 2. Jack Stone, 3. Galidore, 4. LEGO's decision to change the main shade of classic light grey, classic dark grey, and classic light brown to light bley, dark bley and reddish brown. This decision was made because "focus groups" thought that the new shades "looked better". I know there were a lot of fans who quit collecting because the new elements didn't go with the older sets they had collected already. What was worse was LEGO's management said the decision was "locked" and "final" without talking to any other interested stakeholders.
@TrashTrackers
@TrashTrackers Жыл бұрын
I actually had that Duplo Super Truck in the early 2000s and I remember my parents never accepted the recall. great list!
@nathanvonhausen8681
@nathanvonhausen8681 Жыл бұрын
What should be on this list is the new At te . The main reason it was delayed was due to a missing brick in the set.
@fanamatakecick97
@fanamatakecick97 Жыл бұрын
I was hoping to see mention of Power Miners. I remember loving the set i got from that franchise, only for it to disappear entirely, and i never knew why LEGO discontinued it; i still don’t know why
@FlibooTheThird
@FlibooTheThird Жыл бұрын
My grandparents had that truck and I would play with it whenever I went over. It didn't break (and show the metal axel) until I was much older.
@electriccomics
@electriccomics Жыл бұрын
The color packaging mistake is what's knows as a "process indicator". I'm certain in the end even after the mistake they were happy to have had an opportunity to make a process improvement.
@billautomaton5998
@billautomaton5998 Жыл бұрын
Anytime a Pop Star cries and Angel gets their Wings
@Canaman1a
@Canaman1a Жыл бұрын
A recent set that vanished from the Lego site and from stores, like it no long exists: Lego Brand Store set 40574. It was a brand new set this year and it’s already gone, like no record of it on the Lego site.
@SupersuMC
@SupersuMC Жыл бұрын
Dang.
@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310
@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310 Жыл бұрын
Wow,Thank you so much for doing this,I learned so much new info about this! I'm subbed and clicked Like. This was great video!
@petermichaelgreen
@petermichaelgreen Жыл бұрын
It's nothing compared to what happened to Lego's rival Mega Bloks. In the peak of their success they bought a company that made among other things, a knockoff of geomag. This got them involved in the whole "strong magnets are dangrous" scandal and lead to a massive recall which from what I can tell basically broke the company. What was left was eventually bought by Mattel.
@LovingArsonist
@LovingArsonist Жыл бұрын
the last recalls ending warms my heart
@hereticsaint100
@hereticsaint100 Жыл бұрын
Legos has really come down in quality. Their sets are super overpriced, and they don't even require much building. They've replaced small pieces with big chunks of plastic.
@worldcomicsreview354
@worldcomicsreview354 Жыл бұрын
I remember they were doing the same thing circa 2007, as apparently kids like the "instant gratification" of videogames, so they "want a toy straight away" without "wasting time" building it. Apparently these people were never kids themselves. Anyway they went back to basics for a while, but appear to have since gone back back to complicateds. So to speak.
@jimtaylor294
@jimtaylor294 Жыл бұрын
"Why don't yhey just give kids a huge brick, shaped like a Lorry -_- " - James May, 2007
@BrickHQ
@BrickHQ Жыл бұрын
A recent mistake was the technic formula 1 car that had a company's name on the tires without the license. Lego reissued the set without the name on the tires
@SageArdor
@SageArdor Жыл бұрын
My question is how the branded tires ended up being produced in the first place.
@ST0AT
@ST0AT Жыл бұрын
LEGO: We will never sell you anything that looks even remotely military; war isn't fun! Also LEGO: Yo, wanna see the latest ludicrously priced Star *Wars* sets?
@ibbs2549
@ibbs2549 Жыл бұрын
that story about the worker mistake is incredible. At my company my product manager told the story about how a QA guy messed up, costed alot of money and then got fired. He was so proud of that firing
@yuvallegomotorized
@yuvallegomotorized Жыл бұрын
Nice and interesting, thanks
@nguyenson6227
@nguyenson6227 Жыл бұрын
imagine lego factory become kamino facility with the lightning upgrade
@Judas_1989
@Judas_1989 Жыл бұрын
LEGO canceled Osprey because it's a military vehicle but had no problem with releasing Sopwith Camel with machingeuns mounted on it...
@MJ-zo5gb
@MJ-zo5gb Жыл бұрын
It is a bit hypocritical to avoid military but produce hundreds of sets with Star Wars. Dozens of lasers, cannons, Fighter ships and walking tanks, war droids and Something called a “death star “that destroys whole planets! 😗🤣 (❤️Lego)
@carlosa7598
@carlosa7598 Жыл бұрын
I understand that LEGO doesn't make military sets, however, I made a Navy base with an aircraft carrier, battle cruiser, Submarine, Destroyer and a Cruiser for my Lego City. All brick built. Most are MOCs. Hello from Japan 🗾🇯🇵
@ThePeacemaker848
@ThePeacemaker848 Жыл бұрын
Ya that grey brick lighting issue. ....I've been there. lol I'm surprised by Lego's 'no military stuff' policy. Like I understand the premise but they take it too far like with the no grey bricks, no ospray rescue vehicle, etc... But then they'll make an entire castle line for 10+years with only 2-non military buildings(blacksmith & Inn) and very few pesants. ...as a kid I was looking at the 'City' sets and wondering why there were no Medieval Windmill, Tavern, Farm, etc.. sets.
@realblush
@realblush Жыл бұрын
"Not visually appealing" shows two of the best low/mid price sets ever
@xvi811
@xvi811 Жыл бұрын
This was an Awesome Video!
@katedunn4724
@katedunn4724 Жыл бұрын
I love your videos your awsome
@dethkruzer
@dethkruzer Жыл бұрын
I'm having hard time wrapping my head around how #2 can qualify as catastrophic.
@RoboMarioBros
@RoboMarioBros Жыл бұрын
Wow that’s a lot of cash just gone
@Svepo38
@Svepo38 Жыл бұрын
"Some people will find any reason to file a lawsuit against a hugh company like Lego". This one is really funny knowing what the company does itself all the time.
@347Jimmy
@347Jimmy Жыл бұрын
Nice to see the Legend of Left Shark even reaching into the Lego world 🤣 Best dancer ever
@s665677
@s665677 Жыл бұрын
I was just curious after you mentioned the steamboat willie thing and checked mine that I got with Christmas money and I guess no one shops around me because mine said #24 P.s. I already opened and built it P.s.s. no I will not be selling the box because one most of the value went away when I'd opened it and 2 I got it because of my love for animation and its history
@tomooo2637
@tomooo2637 Жыл бұрын
You will be surprised how valuable second hand sets are, but I am glad you want to keep it.
@TankswillRule
@TankswillRule Жыл бұрын
Animation is respectable. But Disney gone so corrupt, I dont think I will support them in any way.
@itmkoeln
@itmkoeln Жыл бұрын
So Lego is not selling Military Vehicles? I remember that Lego in the early 2000s had a Set depicting the Redbarron Set Number 10024... Red Baron you know imperial Germanys fighter pilot? They canceled the civillian Osprey but delivered the Richthoven plane?
@coltpiecemaker
@coltpiecemaker Жыл бұрын
Yep! They've even released models of the famous Sopwith Camel WW1 fighter plane... twice!
@itmkoeln
@itmkoeln Жыл бұрын
@@coltpiecemaker I did specifically remember the Red Barron but yeah when I think about it in the catalogue they had a British WWI plane… Yeah it has been the sopwith camel 10226… They even have a Fighter out in this moment… What if not a military vehicle is the supersonic jet 31126
@joenoneoyobinnes4727
@joenoneoyobinnes4727 Жыл бұрын
8:15 The Ospey has never been used for search and rescue; the USN was considering the aircraft for military search and rescue, but chose an alternative in 2001.
@richardkmoch2208
@richardkmoch2208 Жыл бұрын
Lego - ooga booga no military vehicles Cobi, coming to save the game -
@frasermcgeough
@frasermcgeough Жыл бұрын
Cool video!
@awesomegj
@awesomegj Жыл бұрын
Oh damn I had that truck as a kid! Had no idea it was recalled. I played with it all the time for years, and it never broke on me.
@BigOldBagel
@BigOldBagel Жыл бұрын
It’s weird that Lego will go so far to not make any sets that resemble the military or violence. When they made soldiers and ww2 vehicles for Indiana Jones sets without a problem
@Gameprojordan
@Gameprojordan Жыл бұрын
Also the toy soldier set from the early 2010s toy story line. Literally 4 ww2 soldiers and a ww2 jeep. They even came with rifles lol
@noppornwongrassamee8941
@noppornwongrassamee8941 Жыл бұрын
LEGO: "We will not produce military themed products, EVER." Also LEGO: "These Star Wars models of space fighters, space tanks, space soldiers, and space WARSHIPS are okay!"
@augustopinochet4922
@augustopinochet4922 Жыл бұрын
Amazing that a search and rescue Osprey is too militant but they have 3 sets representing specific WW1 fighter aircraft, with appropriate markings, color schemes, and machine guns.
@cementarii8458
@cementarii8458 Жыл бұрын
On top of that countless star wars sets, which are fictional but still depict military vehicles and guns
@CrazyChemistPL
@CrazyChemistPL Жыл бұрын
That Osprey debacle is such a bs. I mean, didn't they somewhat recently released the 31039 "Blue Power Jet" clearly patterned after the F-35 fighter? Not to mention that 90% of their Star Wars line, while fictional, has stronger militare connection than civilian SAR version of the Osprey.
@berniethekiwidragon4382
@berniethekiwidragon4382 Жыл бұрын
Star Destroyers, Death Stars, various tanks and starfighters, tie-in games and magazines...😂 I'm not complaining.
@mrkeykush693
@mrkeykush693 Жыл бұрын
I mean, just look like the Imperium, they look like a bunch of space Nazis
@ABrickinTime
@ABrickinTime Жыл бұрын
Love the video!
@bricklingtonlego
@bricklingtonlego Жыл бұрын
I would rather lose $10,000,000 instead of stepping on a Lego brick.
@jonathanlupfer5262
@jonathanlupfer5262 Жыл бұрын
Thank goodness other companies are willing to make military Lego sets when the official company doesn't have the balls to make them.
@doormatt3190
@doormatt3190 Жыл бұрын
As someone who has been seriously eyeing the Wall-E set for purchase even well after its’ retirement, I would’ve had no idea about the whole neck situation. Doesn’t help that a lot of bootlegs of that set exist that are super hard to differentiate online.
@lurkyb0i602
@lurkyb0i602 Жыл бұрын
I Still have one of those lego RC train remotes somewhere but I’ve never had the overheating problem.
@Chris_spat_at_a_peacock
@Chris_spat_at_a_peacock Жыл бұрын
Turns out the steamboat willie set I have does indeed have the misprinted box!
@gamesthatiplay9083
@gamesthatiplay9083 Жыл бұрын
There were bigger catastrophes, like the Lego TV show, and the fact Lego didn't keep track of finances until the late 90s.
@LilKaijuPH
@LilKaijuPH Жыл бұрын
just finished watching another great episode spongebob on netflix and this brightened my day even more. thanks SpitBrix!
@TheBugkillah
@TheBugkillah Жыл бұрын
Won’t make military vehicles, but makes “Star Wars” and various other fighting genres. Kids don’t know difference between real and fake.
@fineraftmovies
@fineraftmovies Жыл бұрын
Funny how they have vowed to not make any sets depicting war, but then go on to make star wars sets
@ShortRound42
@ShortRound42 Жыл бұрын
Sued?!...and they would settle out of court. Catastrophic? They still make billions in profits...lol.
@golemgames9727
@golemgames9727 Жыл бұрын
Damm that’s a lot of cash
@blackmage471
@blackmage471 Жыл бұрын
"Catastrophic failure" was clearly a clickbait title. I'm not one to assume just any major corporation is your friend. They are all, first and foremost, a business with profit in mind. That being said, Lego has a great reputation for being an ethical company, and their sets are expensive because they do prioritize offering a high quality product. Credit where it's due. it's possible. Lego is one of the few major companies in the world that recognizes consumer trust is a far more valuable currency than currency itself - even if only for their own selfish reasons, at the very worst.
@3lli6tt
@3lli6tt Жыл бұрын
Yo damn that’s crazy
@pi172
@pi172 Жыл бұрын
2:46 Hey, its me in the background!!! pi172, the pirate chess queen!
@PurpleRhymesWithOrange
@PurpleRhymesWithOrange Жыл бұрын
At the Renaissance Festival a little girl had dropped her teddy bear in the crowd gathering at the jousting field. The bear got kicked several time until it went under the rail. The little girl was crying to I went through the railing to retrieve it. When I handed it back to her she borrowed her father's sword and knighted me as, "Defender of the small and helpless, and Champion of the hopeless cause".
@ghostinthecornerofyourroom6612
@ghostinthecornerofyourroom6612 Жыл бұрын
That's cool, which ren fest was it?
@dreammyeternal6979
@dreammyeternal6979 Жыл бұрын
i am so high and started watching the video and wasn’t even paying attention but looked at the truck and thought where there would be a metal axel in there or if it was all plastic and as i thought that it started talking about why it was taken off for that reason
@trafficface
@trafficface Жыл бұрын
Emerald night train eh!! I want!!
@radbricks8298
@radbricks8298 Жыл бұрын
I got one of those controllers. I always wondered why it got so hot. it no longer works due to overheating. might just keep it haha
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