LEGO Wants These Bricks Destroyed

Discover the scandalous history behind these marbled LEGO bricks!
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These special LEGO bricks may be beautiful but their history is quite the opposite. Behind these LEGO bricks is a rich history and countless stories of scandal, curiosity, and rebellion. LEGO absolutely despises these bricks but why? What caused their incredible marbling? And most notably, what does a tiny town in Scotland have to do with it? Well, settle in because it’s time to uncover the truth behind these marbled Grangemouth bricks, and why LEGO wants them destroyed.
Special thanks to Nathan Francis, Fantastic Brick, and Tom Gill on Flickr for sharing images of their Grangemouth brick collections.
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[@1MadJack1]

woah!

[@agedstring]

Please, please do more of these types of videos. Its so interesting as a history nerd to see where Lego was during the context of the 20th century. An interesting topic to cover would definitely be the history of the Lego Bootleg. Try to find why they happen, what were the earliest bootlegs, what were some Lego equivalents in former Communist nations like the Soviet Union, Lego's legal action, and Lepin. And I mean knock-offs, not competitors like MacFarlane or Mega Constructs, since they're owned by a much larger company that, although may obtain a license, are otherwise distinct from Lego. The bootlegs I refer to are those that infringe on Lego's Minifigure trademark.

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK. SPITBRIX LEGO BIRCK CONTROVERSY,

[@26th_Primarch]

The funniest part of this to me is that Mega Construx (formerly Mega Blox) actually used these marbled bricks as an additional marketing ploy for their Halo sets as "exclusive camouflage bricks"

[@DuncanPrice]

I used to work for Courtaulds at the time and there was an official project to develop marble effect bricks by dispersing coloured short chopped fibres in white plastic. My involvement was to characterise the properties of standard bricks and I was presented with large box of Lego bricks to test. Most of the bricks never got used and I kept them. Courtaulds also made the cellulose acetate in Derby UK that Lego bricks were made of before they switched to ABS.

[@Superabound2]

Those red and yellow marbled bricks would be SO GOOD for lava

[@JamesTDG]

blue/white looks amazing for aquariums and classic space. black/white is perfect for including a marble pattern into MOCs

[@djk6297]

yeah those few that were a mix of black, yellow, orange and red would make cool pieces for a volcano setting

[@fence03]

@@JamesTDGmarble looking bricks either accurate colour would be amazing

[@mrsnayarlhats4242]

Or the red and white bricks can be like for a pepper mint swirl bricks for a candy theme Lego set or the gray and white bricks for a stormy sky

[@slarbiter]

And Lego countertops lol

[@KefkeWren]

Someone needs to teach LEGO the old gamedev addage, "It's not a bug, it's a feature."

[@TheRealAxolotlAnimates]

They work with Mojang for Minecraft lego sets, they probably already know that.

[@BusyMEOW]

Iphone lego: You're building it wrong! 😄

[@tezcanaslan2877]

As the adage says: “You give a poor man a fish, and you feed, him for a day. You teach him to have fish, you give him… you give him.. i dont know man…”

[@hotwateronwool]

And they can make MONEY from it, seems like they'd like that

[@frohnatur9806]

Skill issue. Lego needs to git gud

[@EmporerDragon]

"Mid to late 1900s" Just have to go out of your way to make us feel ancient.

[@DingusMingus-ug3iw]

Hit me like a ton of bricks.

[@Qwerty-zj3rk]

@@DingusMingus-ug3iwmarbled?

[@DingusMingus-ug3iw]

@@Qwerty-zj3rk lol

[@Yonatan_Max]

@@DingusMingus-ug3iw a bag of lego bricks

[@raiisleep]

late 1900's is like the stupidest way you can say that

[@mpeterll]

The best thing lego could do to kill the market for marbled bricks would be to simply sell them in small packs for a reasonable price. That would immediately wipe out their insane collector value.

[@u1tranatoryt323]

definitely agreed there, however lego doesn’t want the public to get access to them. Selling them for cheap would contradict there reasoning.

[@naverilllang]

@@u1tranatoryt323 the point is it's silly to try to keep them from the public when they're clearly desired

[@xdani_thethinkingneko]

​@naverilllang Not to mention how wasteful it is! I feel like they would be such a great tool for people who are artist, or make jewelry with upcycled toys and, of course, for Lego builders(Is this what they're called?) It would be so cool because they could even sell mystery packs of them and it would be like a gacha,for Legos.

[@robertcowie9071]

has the patent for Lego not run out

[@lordtachanka903]

@@xdani_thethinkingneko I agree with you about 90% of that, but gacha games are just gambling for children and thats straight up evil. It encourages addictive personality disorders at a young age. I’m not joking when I say brain scans of 15-20 year old Genshin players actually match with those of long term gambling addicts who have been in Vegas for 30 years. Look it up if you don’t believe me.

[@aaronlaughter6471]

Man, I am not into lego that much anymore, but if Lego decided to release a marbled set of nothing but marbled legos, I would buy them in a heartbeat.

[@nigeladams8321]

Id take out the mortgage necessary

[@mnomadvfx]

@@nigeladams8321 There are several competing manufacturers that work to the same physical dimensions and connection specs as Lego for their bricks and other pieces for significantly less cost per set. Chances are pretty high that if the demand was high enough that they could and would produce marbled bricks.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@mnomadvfx They aren't gonna be the same quality though.

[@wastelander138]

I lived in Maddiston, a couple miles away from Grangemouth. My best mate when I was a kid had a massive bucket of these. Core memory unlocked when I seen this picture.

[@SubjectDelta20]

You could probably ruin his week if you call him up and inform him that bucket he had as a kid (that he likely doesn't have anymore) would be worth thousands of dollars now. I know the pain. In 1999 I pulled a 1st edition Shadowless Charizard fresh out of a pack in a card shop, traded it to a friend for 3 holo's. That card is worth like 300K now=\

[@bartholomewrichards1663]

​@@SubjectDelta20that is brutal.

[@jhonbus]

@@SubjectDelta20 I once bought a pizza for 10,000 Bitcoin. (That's a lie but someone else actually did back when they were effectively worthless)

[@AmaroqStarwind]

We need to petition LEGO to acknowledge that people like these marbled bricks

[@SuperSuperSpork]

It's probably because there's no quality control on them, marbling is cool, but if certain materials are mixed, then they might fall apart or crumble

[@ObiwanNekody]

​@@SuperSuperSporkindeed

[@halo7ification]

Mega has been doing marbled bricks for decades now. They are so cool!

[@ordelian7795]

You do? Okay 100€ a piece, buddy. They're 500$ on the resale market but making them on purpose is cheap and easy, but you will pay.

[@LEGODUDE363___]

We need lego to acknowledge that people have opinions

[@patrickdix772]

On a similar note, the mystery flavored dumdum suckers are a result of the same thing. When they change flavors on the production line, a certain amount of the batch mixes between the flavors, and they know which section of the candy is the mixed flavor. Those get separated out and wrapped as the mystery flavor.

[@Angelique2716]

Thanks!

[@miaugato93]

my question for you now is, does this happen in the soda industry too? Fanta is too fond of "mystery flavors" and hyping them up, i've always wondered if that's just some chemical cocktail, but now your explanation got me intrigued

[@patrickdix772]

@@miaugato93 Probably not, at least not for the same reason as the suckers. With suckers, they cook a batch of the candy, roll it into a large log, then it's placed in a machine that continues to roll it into a long, thin tube. The sticks get inserted and a machine cuts and shapes the suckers. When you change batches, you still have some of the previous batch in the roller machine, and the flavors mix there. They know from experience what section of candy will be the mixed flavors, so use the mystery flavor wrappers for those. Soda could use a similar process, but due to being a liquid you'd pretty much have an entire batch of mixed flavor. What's more likely is like the various Mt Dew flavors, where it's basically market research. If one is popular enough to be profitable, they keep it permanently. If not, then they just retire it. I'm also not that familiar with Fanta flavors, but if they have a literal mystery flavor, where no 2 bottles taste the exact same for a given manufacturing date it's more likely to be like the suckers.

[@lijohnyoutube101]

Yep it’s called a continuous manufacturing process. It means there is no like stop and shut down and major clean between batches.

[@aarond.8586]

Is this where mystery meat comes from?

[@Robin_The_Red_Rabbit]

You know what this could be an entire lego line called error bricks and all it IS just the same premise as how the Jelly Belly corporation gathers up all of the defect jelly bellies and then rebrands them as something else

[@garywheeler7039]

Yeah, been to their Fairfield Plant, Belly Flops!

[@GeebusCrust]

I've always wondered how big the pile would be if I could collect together every misshapen piece of candy I've ever found.

[@Lex._._.]

This kind of solution requires a though process that alot of corporate drones have had ironed out of them

[@SCWood]

Man snacking on Belly Flops were my fuckin childhood man

[@tiffanysandmeier4753]

There is also Dum Dum's mystery flavor. It is the run when switching flavors. It could be 1 or the other, but it could also be mixed.

[@arfriedman4577]

The marbled bricks are a historical unauthorized mistake. Lego should realize its a good marketing tool, getting more people interested in Lego leading to possible lego sales.

[@xdani_thethinkingneko]

Honestly , as somebody who is a creative , I would buy them just to make little jewelry pieces out of them. They'd be cute!

[@deepspire]

Of course if they were authorized they wouldn’t be a mistake.

[@proZach380]

Lego should make marbled brick separators

[@Superabound2]

They should make METAL ones with a hole through the end for people to put on a keyring

[@pewpewdragon4483]

@@Superabound2 I've had that exact thought for a while!

[@JamesTDG]

@@Superabound2 Metal ones would be nice, but you can't exactly injection mold them...

[@Chicky_Lumps]

Metal ones are a bad idea, they'd be hard and much less ductile than plastic, which is a perfect recipe for scratching bricks really badly.

[@vast9467]

@@JamesTDGi mean you kinda can

[@_marshP]

If Lego doesn't want these bricks in sets, one thing they could do is just turn any and all of the ones they find into keychains and sell them for quadruple the price.

[@FelicityUwU]

Lol. Great idea

[@FormulaFinn]

That makes so much sense. They could also make sets with 5 to 10 of the “mistake” bricks.

[@GreenLeafUponTheSky]

@@FormulaFinn Putting them into Creator sets would make sense, especially those assorted color sets

[@jakedoesyoutube]

I love the look of marble bricks, Lego really needs to realize that other people love them too. Lego sees them as mistakes, we see them as happy little accidents. Also, I find it so weird that lego often buries their old molds. They could just be kept in a vault or storage room. That way, you could reuse the old models when needed.

[@ShyGuyXXL]

Apparently, those molds are very sensitive to the elements and need to be stored in special climate controlled warehouses, or else they become unusable. This is very expensive, which is why Lego gets rid of old molds that haven't been used in many years, so they can use the storage space for other molds.

[@sage5296]

From what the video said, i was more under the impression that they did that with the molds once they weren't usable anymore, ie they were too damaged or worn

[@henry1312]

I saw this comment and imagined a parent calling their kid their "happy little accident" 💀

[@robertmcmanus4646]

Injection molds wear out after a while and they can't be reused. The tolerances are incredibly tight.

[@NohusBluxome]

It looks to me that Lego doesn't like the fact they are counterfeit and were made behind their back, not that they have anything against the bricks themselves. The fact they made an April Fools joke about the bricks shows they don't mind them. They just don't like that some rogue employees of a supplier profited off of their stolen property.

[@Zveebo]

I grew up in Edinburgh, just a short distance away from Grangemouth, and it really wasn’t that unusual when I was a kid to find various of these bricks in kids’ lego collections (especially when they had inherited older bricks from their parents). I remember one guy had about 20 or 30 different types. Crazy to think how much they are worth now - they just seemed like cool curiosities back then. When I was a teenager, one of our school trips was to visit Grangemouth (which is a massive oil refinery, with lots of associated industries on site), and we saw where all the ABS pellets were produced. I never made the link so kind of cool to know the connection.

[@SomethingBoutEclipse]

When you mentioned that company had a brick mold, I think that’s the reason why they now bury molds

[@Chicky_Lumps]

Quick, let's all grave rob the LEGO cemetery! _LEGO City theme music plays_

[@throughalfanoir7302]

also, the molds that are the most sensitive (in the sense that they are sought after), like the 2x4 bricks are handled with extra care, preferably not leaving the factory location in Billund

[@Atom224]

@@Chicky_Lumps Build the excavator! _Make the LEGO factory strucuturely unsafe by destroying their foundation!_ HEY!

[@rereertege7571]

That's mostly mythology nowadays I feel, companies like Cobi make even better bricks than Lego. And just like Lego manufacturs in china today, Chinese manufacturers have gotten good at making their own bricks as well which in many cases are as good as Lego bricks.

[@Vincent_Beers]

They always did, that wasn't a recent change. In fact they don't even need to do it anymore because they no longer have factories all over the world now that their main production is centralized to one complex. You seem to have misunderstood the explanation, they used to bury the old molds in the new factories as they were expanded and replaced. Their current factory has already replaced all the old ones with centralized distribution.

[@gernhartreinholzen3992]

LEGO: "What do we do with all those thousands of "error" beautiful marbled bricks, we create every day?" A: Give them away for free? B: Sell them as special editions? "No! Destroy them and waste energy and create even more plastic waste for our planet, because we're LEGO!"

[@tonic-music]

The video pretty clearly states that these bricks were experiments made by rebellious employee in the 70s, not common defective bricks made every day.

[@Man_Emperor_of_Mankind]

Injection molding facilities that large aren't creating extra plastic waste when they destroy "bad" pieces. They grind them up, and throw it into the mix being used for black pieces. Once the black dye is added, all of the "waste" plastic that was put through the grinder is treated the same as new bulk plastic going into the presses

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

​@@Man_Emperor_of_Mankindthey aren't going to do that for off-colour bricks as that would ruin the next batch

[@poolofstuff]

​@@ThePlayerOfGameshe meant black bricks

[@mysticaxolotl8215]

​@@ThePlayerOfGamesReread the comment

[@zyxaqc]

LEGO should embrace these bricks and release special polybags of specific color combinations as either LEGO store exclusives or gifts with purchase. Imagine every month or two you could go into a LEGO store and get a little bag of beautiful marbled bricks along with your Star Wars or City set.

[@tiffanysandmeier4753]

This is like the mystery flavor from Dum Dum. They sell the suckers produced when changing flavors as mystery. It could be wholly the first or second flavor, or it could be some mix of the 2. They have marketed what might have went to waste.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

These remind me of something my mom made when I was a kid called "scribble cookies": She'd take all the ends of my crayons, peel off the wrappers, put them in cupcake wrappers, and baked them in the oven until all the wax melted together. When they cooled off you'd have really cool rainbow crayons!

[@jonathanjones3126]

You can buy your own crayon melter nowadays thankfully

[@greanhare5270]

Destroying the inevitable marbled bricks is a waste of plastic and it goes against the claims that they are trying to become more environmentally friendly.

[@Bubben246]

Especially when they could just re-sell them, particularly if they decide to, instead of cleaning between colors, just run the new color through and bag the remnants.

[@Bionickpunk]

Lego will never be an environmentally friendly hobby so long as they use plastic for their toys. Heck even their rubber use to create toy tires is extreme.

[@DiamondPanda207]

Yup, iirc Lego is technically the largest tire manufacturer in the world because of how many they produce, granted they are small and for a toy, they are still tires

[@Thinginator]

@@Bionickpunk LEGO is the most environmentally friendly use of plastic, perhaps the only environmentally friendly use of plastic, because LEGO is never intended to be thrown away. Half the point is that a box of LEGO can be passed down from generation to generation and all the pieces will work with modern LEGO as well. You have to be an idiot to throw away LEGO instead of donating it or passing it down, so unlike most plastic toys, LEGO rarely ends up in a landfill or dumped in nature (outside of that one time a container ship full of LEGO sank). I still have a ton of LEGO from the 70s and 80s that my parents gave me, and all the pieces are perfectly usable. We'll eventually see a day when kids are playing with 100 year-old LEGO passed down from their great grandparents. It's the polar opposite of planned obsolescence/consumerism/throw-away culture, and likely the longest-usably-lasting toy of all time. LEGO is the one time where using plastic is okay IMO, it's the perfect material for the official toy of longevity. Yes, get rid of all plastic in packaging, appliances, consumer electronics, vehicles, cutlery, cups, etc, anything made to be thrown away is bad when made of plastic. But if one product and company should be allowed to use plastic responsibly, it's LEGO. A toy that lasts forever and can be anything you want it to be? How is that not the one thing worth using plastic for?

[@Bionickpunk]

@@Thinginator Look at you defending big corpo. 🤑 Plastic toys get damages, Lego is no exception, they make ton of waste during production that will ever be sold. They constantly make more and more toys, increasing the plastic in the world, and you are naive to think that most of it will be safe and secure in someones collection.

[@pragmax]

I think these bricks were the inevitable outcome of R&D at Borg Warner. See the patterns on the short end of the bricks shown at 8:45. The marbling helps you see where the mold sprue connects and how the plastic flows into the mold. If you're testing many formulations of ABS in order to get this specific process right, this is probably the way to go as a solid color won't give you as much information. So, IMO, a lot of these marbled bricks are just R&D waste (that was thrifted into the hands of kids), rather than a deliberate rogue brick-making operation (although it became that in the end).

[@richardperks7776]

These need to be made official. They would be perfect for the see like Ninjago and Dreamzzz!

[@richardperks7776]

*sets

[@michaelhollis764]

Would go really good in dreamzzz

[@2ndsnake899]

The only reason I can see why LEGO wouldn't want marbled bricks in their sets is because it could make some sets look very inconsistent if someone got really unlucky with the patterns on their bricks.

[@TesserasNerfRoom]

Regular person: Ooh pretty bricks Lego employee: *vietnam war flashbacks*

[@moonlightdawn7249]

War.

[@TesserasNerfRoom]

@@moonlightdawn7249 thank you

[@Damien.D]

lol. Happy Tree Friends reference.

[@OfficalBird_man]

@@Damien.Dno?????

[@Imthesherrif]

@@Damien.Dy’know the vietnam war was a real thing right?

[@Ommelanden]

Even without their scarcity, I bet Lego could make a very easy profit of selling sets with a bunch of these bricks they look so cool, it's such a wasted opportunity

[@kezif]

watch 10:29

[@thespud1094]

@@kezif that was a april fools joke

[@kfa0]

"Lego has some serious control what comes out of their factories" HAHAHAHAH The mexico factory does whatever they want. You want "prototype" transparent star wars figs? Sure why not? You want the exclusive UCS Minifigure in the hundreds? Please be my guest! You fancy 2000 pieces of a rare retired lego piece? Welcome at us!

[@ivaniii9707]

Very based

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Mexico and china love to ignore copyright laws and everyone else gets to benefit from mexico doing it

[@idkwhatnonamemyself1951]

So if i went to the mexico factory and paid the right people i could get marbled lego bricks?

[@kfa0]

@@TheRealRusDaddy yes but mostly Josè benefits from his US/EU sales...

[@jaketheturkey7689]

@@TheRealRusDaddyhonestly I don’t really care if someone is breaking copyright laws as long as it’s against a bigger company and they’ve already made more than their fair share off of it

[@chrisgatlin9072]

I can conform you are 100% accurate on how this happens. I was a supervisor in a Tootsietoy factory where we used injection molding machine to manufacture plastic cars and trucks. Every color change you would get the mixed swirling. We would usually purge the barrels of the extruder to try and get the former color out usually.

[@ghillieguy52]

Changing out the material is also where mystery flavored candy comes from. You can usually guess what two flavors were being swapped.

[@sage5296]

Oh that makes sense, I never thought about that lol that's really cool Maybe lego can learn something here from this lmao

[@sambrown6426]

Well that's fascinating.

[@jellydarling1008]

That’s so smart!

[@NunuDaRat]

Mystery airheads are always the best flavor tho 🤤🤤🤤 makes them extra fruity

[@GenJeFT]

I like how companies like Lego will sit on top of gold mines for things like this and go "nope, I don't think I will". People would probably love to get marbled bricks but it looks like it will never happen officially.

[@Stereomoo]

I have a yellow/blue marbled brick that must have slipped through QC in the '80s, nowhere near as dramatic as these though, there's just a little blue swirl near the mold mark.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Still a cool misprint

[@dragonxev1144]

Assuming you don't want it you might be able to get a quick $30-$50 for it

[@vinceland8743]

Same here. Mine is a rather large fuselage piece that was new for 1995 and was supposed to be yellow for the Aquanauts Explorer Sub set whose color theme was yellow and black with hints of blue and all their transparent windows, canopies, cockpits were deep blue. It mostly is yellow but like yours has a blue swirl from the mold mark that runs off into a wild spreading fading green along one side underneath it rising upwards. Turns out that year they only molded those uniquely introduced pieces in yellow, black and blue. Yellow and black for the Aquanauts and Blue and black for their rivals the Aquasharks. My guess is that they had two molds running at once, one doing only black and the other alternating from yellow to blue so it must've occurred when they switched out the colors and hadn't cleaned the injector tips. Now that I know just a regular 2x4 marbled brick is worth upwards of 700$ then mine that is 6-7 times larger being a piece using way more plastic must be worth easily in the thousands. I wouldn't part with it for anything less than 2K to be honest and I have no problem sitting on it. I have a rare Forest Raiders Tree base-prison set from 1996 that is going for 3,600$ and I'm still looking at it cause it just keeps going up, It was 3,200$ in January lol. I have the 8th largest personal collection in Quebec with over 50,000 pieces and sets spanning from 1988 to 2015, most of which are 1994-2001. Any takers? If there's a set from those eras you're looking for chances are I most likely have it.

[@ExiledBowser]

I wonder how much the silver brick from one of their anniversary brick boxes when I was a kid is worth. It's nothing like these or misprints, but they never did anything like tgat again for subsequent anniversary milestones.

[@KptKosmit91]

I work with injection molding machines, we used to make clothes hangers and would sometimes take the multicolored error hangers if we needed any (company ran by my dad, so we were allowd to do it)

[@yellowtomato898]

Holy guacamole there's one of these at my grandparents house! I thought it was from some weird 80s set my parents had.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Time to find it!

[@YouTubeOGSinceO6-vv9jn]

Time to get some of Grandmas cooking

[@ajnazatahm]

Keep us posted!

[@GreenLeafUponTheSky]

@@ajnazatahm Turns out it was just a Mega Bloks

[@KEEGANATORGAMING]

Did you find it ?

[@BrickMunch]

Those marbled patterns can make really nice camouflage

[@Abdega]

I was thinking that too!

[@carl8703]

They should bring these back as marbled meat slabs. They could put them in a "butcher shop" set for Lego City

[@TheGreedyOnion]

Never let bro cook again 😂

[@Chicky_Lumps]

Can't wait for the LEGO City slaughterhouse set (ages 16+). 😂

[@michaelcope856]

Lego waygu!

[@sophieprime4669]

You are kidding with this one arent you

[@misteral9045]

They still wouldn't like it because it's not a consistent product. The business model is based off of a highly malleable product (it's easy to be successful when you can make whatever you want), the way people enjoy Legos is that they're so perfectly uniform that they inspire creativity (it's easy to build with a simple object that can only connect to itself in one particular way).

[@leokimvideo]

These rare special bricks has a strong sniff of BUYER BEWARE, would easily attract fraud sellers. And I do like how Mega Blocks adapted the marble effect to an advantage that LEGO see as a error

[@shinyrayquaza9]

What gets me about this is that special factory only bricks get sold om bricklink and lego doesn't seem to care, I literally have trans orange visors for mars mission mocs. Those pieces dont exist

[@anonymous5401]

the april fools joke is downright diabolical

[@FieryZaneStudios]

They should sell them as a 100 pack set or something

[@FieryZaneStudios]

Or as bonus pieces like the golden ninja in Ninjago

[@MikeinVirginia1]

In 1977 (late 20th century, by the way) my father worked at Aladdin Industries. They injection molded caps for vacuum bottles). One day, they changed color from brown to red. During the 'mixing" phase they let the plastic "plop out" on the floor. What resulted looked like a giant dog poo, laced with red as if it was blood. My Dad brought it home as a joke. My window at work was across from a bank. One day I sat it down right in front of the main door. Then I went back and cracked up at the antics of customers as the saw it at the last second and tried not to step in it. Especially fun was when they stopped and stared in disbelief and wonder. Eventually, a janitor went out with a shovel and disposed of it. The janitor never realized that it wasn't real dog poo! What a day at work. 😂

[@TanksRcool]

If I got my hands on one of those old molds I would not become a competitor, I would probably just make funny looking marbled pricks and mini figures because funny :)

[@TanksRcool]

Bricks my bad*

[@JamesTDG]

Honestly, same. I would rather just offer up an ideal source for made to order marbled bricks.

[@Kelly_Jane]

​@@JamesTDGMaking made to order bricks sounds like competing against Lego...

[@SwapPartLLC]

Marbled pricks certainly would be funny looking. Not sure how you would do that with a Lego mold, but it sounds like it would be painful. 😂

[@SissypheanCatboy]

@@Kelly_Jane Not really competition if they refuse to sell it themselves :>

[@Falcarious]

I got excited when I saw the Borg set at 6:57 because I never knew LEGO did Star Trek minifigs... They don't, they're one-of-a-kind customs :(

[@Rubberduckboy123]

I literally live 5 minutes away from Grangemouth and I somehow didn’t know about these bricks. This is the kind of stuff they should teach in schools.

[@Anty_Praza]

Why would anyone teach in schools how someone stole a mold from a private company?

[@aIexait]

Yeah I live about 20-30 minutes away from there depending on traffic

[@DanielMether]

​@@Anty_Praza in this case I think it would be fair to include it in the curriculum as local history.

[@FloridaPerson]

if i was you i would go there and look for these bricks lol

[@Chic_Ken]

Now you know, scream it from the roof tops!

[@MrBadavidson9]

A good handful of these bricks were once mine; some of them are my actual photos (the flame bricks were mine and the underside of 5 bricks is my pic)

[@Cody_Cigar]

Did you sell or trade them? If so how much did you make? :)

[@ZeldaOdelta]

It's odd to me that Lego, though willing to demonstrate that they know people WANT marbled bricks, hasn't actually officially sold them even in some limited capacity

[@simills6535]

we only want them because they are rare :)

[@gamertylers9322]

@@simills6535bro i want one of them cuz they look so cool

[@samuelohare6884]

Mega blocks:I am already four parallel universes ahead of you

[@spencercorby4571]

For them non-marbled bricks are rare lol

[@planetenwanderer5329]

I love Mega's marbled and metallic bricks. From my experience, there is also little colour puke in the sets. Bought a Halo Pelican that was solid metallic green for the most part.

[@spencercorby4571]

@@planetenwanderer5329 I will say they are pretty cool looking ngl

[@AbyssEyes02]

i just got their big buildable energy sword on Ebay and the marbeling with trasnblue plastic makes thjem look so cool.

[@AlexisGutierrezProductions]

@@AbyssEyes02facts

[@r0mansstopmotions63]

Marble bricks are so cool, especially when used right, like the Halo Mega Plasma Sword set, or their dirt pieces

[@spoopyweeb326]

Scottish here! Its crazy that local news is this well known in the global Lego community

[@Whurlpuul]

"Scottish here" Aren't you Scottish everywhere?

[@jaketheturkey7689]

@@Whurlpuulplease stfu unless you meant this comment in a playful way

[@mihaivale7170]

707 dollars for a small useless piece of plastic... The definition of "madness".

[@commonfreak9093]

they could make some realistically looking flame or water bricks with this tho

[@orianna1220]

Life is so cool when it adds in mini games like this, all those steps you listed had to happen, and for them to be distributed to people without their knowledge of how rare, unique and just fun and funky those bricks are, thank you for your interest in this, glad you shared have a wonderful day!

[@theofficalsmores]

these bricks look so cool! the fact that people have multiple marbled bricks

[@Zeoran]

If Lego really cared that much, they would have sent Teams to Grainville to find every rogue brick and they'd buy every brick put up for auction to keep them out of customer's hands.

[@lordkermit4657]

honestly the orange and black are really cool, like hot coals, and the orange and yellow is like a molten color

[@HotspotsSoutheast]

A friend of mine used to work at Borg Warner in Parkersburg WV. They made test molds and were supposed to destroy them after. They didn’t. They took them home. He let me have one of them. It’s a beautiful green and white marble color. I love it. I keep it on display.

[@YouTubeOGSinceO6-vv9jn]

Technically Lego owns that and can rip it right out of your hands. Delete your comment dummy

[@Wouter50]

@HotspotsSoutheast As a collector, I would love to have more information about these. We know a few bricks that probably originated there, but I think that over time they might have had more different moulds and that means there could be more different bricks to find... Can you please tell me: 1) Does the brick have the LEGO logo on the studs, or other markings? 2) Are there letters and/or numbers inside the brick?

[@H3A_Stuff]

Oh I didn't know that those existed

[@sniffmatip3865]

I live in a town literally a couple of miles away from Grangemouth, these bricks are floating around at car bootsales in Scotland because workers would take the reject products and give them to their kids to play with.

[@Random_person_30963]

Those look so cool

[@thereallyrealplayer]

Once, long ago, as a kid, I got a couple marbled bricks, like these, from a few old lego sets, and I put them in a box somewhere, completely forgetting about them. One was white with an ugly red mix and black spots. The other was yellow with some other color in a couple corners. I remember how outstandingly gross they were, at the time, and I had no clue that they were rare ; I guess that I assumed Lego improved and quit making these defects.

[@CoffeeSubset]

been a long time fan, keep the grind up my friend! you the goat :)

[@bennetfox]

These marble bricks are totally awesome and I would love to have some!! I love the uniqueness of them and how no two are alike!!

[@paulhanck1123]

Ive noticed megablocks does this marbling intentionally when i got some lf their pokemon sets

[@The_mrbob]

They do it A LOT. Their Halo line has almost exclusively marbled bricks, it’s really cool. Just look at their big energy sword set!

[@ronaldmcdonald8303]

What a shame, those leggo bricks are awesome.

[@osmosis_8692]

But they're so beautiful... Such a shame to have to toss them. 😔

[@TylerDollarhide]

Reminds me of minting errors in coins. Doubled lettering and images (known as double dies) can make even a penny worth up to a quarter million dollars.

[@cedarcam]

I tried to tell my workmate the one sided coin he had would be worth a lot. He got rid of it in a shop. Would not give it to me either for some reason.

[@randoir1863]

IF Lego intentionally made their own marbled bricks , it would kill off the illegal trade of the knockoff bricks .

[@garywheeler7039]

As an American, I love multicolored marbled clay objects and plastics. Such as the multi colored extruded fake wood tile floors in some fast food places. An artist's eye loves such things, its almost like Rembrandt browns versus chocolate fudge color. There is a depth and a special interest. The whole idea of recycling plastic into multi-colored objects is also fascinating. I know children like primary colors, but I think everyone also likes variegated colors. And if that makes recycling easier, all the better.

[@thetobinater9792]

Those bricks look cool

[@3DJapan]

We deal with a similar thing in 3D printing, when changing colors you have to purge the last color out before starting the next print or you'll get an effect like this.

[@cloneproductions5710]

And now you released this video so everyone knows about these special bricks

[@itryen7632]

I swear, i used to have a really cool looking marbled brick...

[@steves5982]

Skip to 2:20 to find out why

[@DragonPriem]

Seriously the coolest bricks I've ever seen and Lego won't make them. So sad

[@CRABboy1678]

I'm from Scotland and I never knew this

[@korbentherhino]

im from america and never knew this.

[@Crazytesseract]

I am from Brahma loka and I never knew this.

[@erictaylor5462]

4:45 The answer to that question is easy. No security system works 100% of the time, and at $500 a pop, people can get really creative in finding ways around security.

[@stephenspackman5573]

4:59 “Back in the 1960s”-shows a bucket of modern colours. We didn't have _green_ yet. And multiple _shades_ of blue? Heresy!

[@gugoluna]

I love how I found some really rare and probably expensive (although they are often slightly damaged) bricks that are super hard to get, by searching though parts pools in a certain café.

[@TBustah]

You'd think that a company that's always going on and on about going green would embrace this. They're a biproduct of switching from one color to another, right? They can't melt them back down to make another color, at least not without using more dye. Why not find some use for them in their sets? They could also sell them in big bags at a lower price point. Jelly Belly does this with the beans that don't come out quite right, they call them Belly Flops.

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

Accident: created a beautiful block many many people would pay good money to own a set of. Lego: And I took that personally

[@Random_person_30963]

They look so cool

[@get_some2083]

I admire the determination behind Lego to stand by their product, as well as this cool part of their history even though it wasn't meant to be. This is very cool history, thanks for sharing. And bless all those involved with that history, from Lego, tonthose that made these bricks, to those that own the bricks. Very cool, made my day

[@bartvanderwel1741]

I have 2 rockpanel pieces in marble colors. Found it in some bulk lot I bought. Can't find any set it belongs to.

[@howdyhamster]

I have some marbled light gray to dark green from 2006 era Castle sets. Part 47847pb003

[@kennykaniff]

I just stumbled onto this video and I found it very interesting. Very well made. 🤘🏻🇬🇧

[@Woistwahrheit]

GLORRYYYYYY TOOOOO BRITTAANNIAAAAA 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@kennykaniff]

@@Woistwahrheit cheers mate 🤘🏻🇬🇧

[@johnblair8146]

Thanks for convincing me not to use Lego bricks on my train layout.

[@Sebberino]

6:37 I had to chuckle when "the incredible quality control lego is famous for" was mentioned. You'd think with all that quality control they would be able to ship sets where there's no difference in colour in bricks that should be the same colour, or wouldn't have clearly visible molding points on many bricks used on highly visible parts of a set... Lego had great quality control many years ago, but today, not so much.

[@bustedsim]

"Mid to late 1900's" Oof that made me feel unconscionably old.

[@nolmanimates3031]

Fr, dude literally had to do OUT OF HIS WAY TO SAY THAT

[@CaptainM792]

5:41 The Borg, the Borg! Red alert! All hands to battlestations🚨

[@starwarsclub7564]

Yes captain Picard 🫡

[@Xodabeef]

they should make these into little polybags of marble bricks for people to buy

[@bomccullar2684]

Burying retired molds in the foundation of factories seems a bit extreme. It's kinda funny because as a kid that's something you might do to keep something safe. Here we have grown ass adults burying toy molds because they don't want to share. Ah well, what do I know. Nice video! I've heard of these before but wasn't sure of the lore.

[@obvjxcob]

beautiful explanation.

[@quite1enough]

6:25 tldr, some workers just did an interesting experiment behind Lego's back, and Lego wasn't good with that

[@benwho7185]

YESSSS MY COUNTRY GETS A MENTION IN A SPITBRIX VIDEO!!!!!! HELLO FROM WALES!!!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@Abdega]

It would be really cool if they could make a multicolored brick look like the Welsh Flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@benwho7185]

@Abdega YES!!!! THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!!!!!

[@Wouter50]

There are also Welsh test bricks out there...

[@upholdthesecond92]

I had a co-worker who had a relative that worked at the 7-UP plant. He made a couple cases of GREEN 7-UP for St. Patrick’s Day. It was awesome

[@JamesTDG]

You have to wonder if there's any bootleg brands that took further advantage of marbled bricks. I know Mega Blox did this often with some of their sets. I do wish there was at least one company out there intentionally selling made to order marbled lego-compatible bricks for MOCs. Just imagine using em in like gigantic mansion mocs, or aquarium mocs.

[@ShiningDarknes]

They should have given them a mould that said “test” instead of “lego” so they could do these color experiments to their hearts’ content without risking the brand. Then if they later decide they actually like the colors they can use it in actual products.

[@Wouter50]

LEGO did that on later moulds.

[@ThatA1XTerrier]

why did i just imagine that one image of mr krabs burning a pretty patty but it's the lego company and these grangemouth bricks

[@baldrian22]

love the april fools they made there! that was a good one! also those bricks looks amazing

[@slavicprogrammer6100]

They should package those in "marbled brick kits" and sell them separately

[@jony3775]

This is exactly how the Mystery ?? Dum-Dum suckers are made. They are the blended in-between spot between flavor switch-overs in the pipes at the sucker factory. Except instead of throwing the mash-up mixtures away, they brilliantly labeled them “Mystery” and now have ZERO waste. Genius!!!

[@wintersprite]

Similarly Jelly Belly sells their oddly shaped jelly beans that don’t make the cut for the regular packages in bags of seconds. We have a local chocolate shop that does the same.

[@MrBadavidson9]

So much misinformation and misunderstanding. There’s good documents floating about on line by actual experts. Also, Grangemouth owner right here :)

[@sophieprime4669]

Tell us! Tell us!

[@Kitteso]

Care to elaborate? At least point to where we can find more information?

[@crow-jane]

I just love it when people make statements like this and then proceed to offer no sources or explanation. It’s the best way in the world to look like a prevaricator pining for attention.

[@Wouter50]

For some reason both links and descriptions on where find information seem to go missing...

[@niceguy391987]

If Lego won't make them, some other competitor will. Those are simply cool bricks to build stuff with.