What LEGO Didn't Tell You...

Here are the secrets of LEGO and their plastic bricks
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In this video, we explore 10 fun facts about LEGO - from the orgins of the LEGO brick design to secret fun facts about LEGO minifigures! LEGO currently produces over 20 billion LEGO bricks every year, and a total of 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1958. Do you know what LEGO bought to celebrate the company's 65th anniversary? Watch the entire video to find out and leave a LIKE if you enjoy!
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[@SpitBrix]

Hello! 👋 Don't forget to leave a LIKE if you enjoy and SUBSCRIBE for more LEGO videos!

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

I did, AND subscribed. Nice work on the videos! Grew up with them myself in the 70s. My 27 yo son still loves them as well and still uses Digital Designer. I believe his favorite PC games were Creator and Island. We did what he calls the "first let's play" video in 2001 with mic, laptop, and analog video recorder. We built a skyscraper in the game and blew it up. Unfortunately, we made the video just a few days before 9/11/2001, which was weird. Cheers.

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

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[@gkvogt]

My brother retired from Lego after 28 years. He was director of distribution. Everything in and out of the plant in Enfield, CT went through his office. He made 4 trips a year to Denmark.

[@thevikingwarrior]

You didn't say about the Lego bricks on the Juno space-craft that is currently orbiting Jupiter

[@thevikingwarrior]

@@capt.cannuck2557 Using it to smuggle highly dangerous drugs?

[@MeriaDuck]

The consistency of lego is quite insane; bricks made in the 70s will stack with current ones. That's quite impressive micron precision over time.

[@phaedrussmith1949]

Exactly. The very same Lego that your Dad stepped on walking across shag carpeting thereby teaching you a bevy of new words you had not heard before can be the one that you step on walking across laminate flooring thereby teaching your grandchildren the same bevy of new words they have not heard before. Ah, tradition!

[@oscorpio2278]

Maintaining backward compatibility

[@onzie23]

:)

[@patmacken5130]

This is a great thing where a collection can be handed down and added too....if the Legos my brother and I had are still around I do want to pass them on one day

[@AlexraptorGameDev]

Not just the 70's. I recently purchased a lot of assorted lego on an auction, and discovered a few pre-tube bricks from 1953, that still connect perfectly with modern bricks! Granted that 1953 2x4 bricks requires a piece of 2x4 studs or greater to sit on top, or it will just fall off, hence the invention and addition of the tubes. :)

[@TheSpongeTom]

I still remember being a kid about 9 or 10 years old, getting a Star Wars Lego Slave I set, and finding out that it seemed to be missing a piece. We wrote to Lego, and they quickly mailed over a replacement piece with an apology letter, no questions asked. To this day, almost two decades later, the best customer service I've ever gotten from a household name brand.

[@Rob_Huskett]

I did the same not too long ago for a set I had from 1996 that I was missing two tiles. I feel terrible because I lost the parts, not them and I recieved the parts and an apology letter. Lego service is second to none. I can't think of a company that cares about its customers more than them. I have since learned about bricklink 😂

[@freestalkerdotfr6391]

I remember that I got free pieces to try it and I had never to pay ! X''''''''''''D I was 10 if I remember well. I used all the pieces to do a custom space vessel. It's always build

[@5BBassist4Christ]

That three coats of paint story is really an inspiring lesson. A good company today would tell their employee "Don't do that again", and a typical company would say, "Good work." But to send your employee (and your own son) back to the train station to find every toy before they take off and repaint them is the highest level of corrective action, discipline, and quality control you can have, and that builds trust.

[@AnttiAlajuuma]

This video is titled as "What LEGO Didn't Tell You" but it feels like a 10 minute long Lego commercial and I think pretty much all of these things are what Lego indeed wants us to know. According to the title I was expecting some more critical views.

[@megathighs8764]

That’s the game unfortunately

[@mikemotta9754]

They probably also didn't want to tell you that they are the largest manufacturer of tires in the world.

[@tygattyche2545]

Jepp, same here. But to get at least one thing Lego did not tell us: Kiddicraft is back in business!

[@andys5562]

Especially with that click bait thumbnail. ILLEGAL !! Yeah right, everything is fake in this day and age.

[@macca09]

@@tygattyche2545 are you Norwegian? becouse jepp is something we say in Norway , it means yep

[@addon00]

So that means Lego didn’t create the war on my foot!.

[@StarBrickAnimations]

I guess so 😐

[@Vincethetornadoguy]

I guess

[@indeedyesindeed]

yes I guess

[@AkiDasherr]

I guess so 😐

[@StarBrickAnimations]

@@AkiDasherr bro you copied my reply 😑

[@judithflow3131]

During the early eighties, it was impossible to get green bricks, except for groundplates and moulded trees and things like that. I once wrote a letter to the LEGO company (they had a monthly LEGO newspaper here for interaction with the kids playing with LEGO) when I was around 7 years old, asking for green bricks because I wanted to make a tank so I could combine LEGO with my toy soldiers, and the reply I had was that such a thing was exactly why they no longer made them. Years later, they did start making green bricks again, but they were unavailable for quite a long time.

[@Teverell]

I remember those days! You could get yellow, red, blue, white, black and grey, but nothing green outside of base plates and greenery from things like the Robin Hood sets.

[@No1sonuk]

About 25-30 years ago, someone at work was having trouble describing how an antenna lifting mechanism would work so he used Lego Technic elements to build it.

[@jrkorman]

I recall when my uncle was in an Applied Engineering course in college using Tinker Toys to model an assignment. Toys have many uses!

[@Teverell]

That's amazing! I bet it got the idea across really fast!

[@Sembazuru]

Two more stats that might be interesting for a future video: 1. How many unique Lego shapes have ever been sold, further divided between regular bricks, technics, and any other category that make sense. 2. Of those shapes, how many are currently in production. Maybe highlight some notable discontinued shapes.

[@hostiledodo1150]

You ask what license we'd like to see Lego make, and I'm just gonna put this out there: If they come out with an Iron Giant set I will buy it regardless of the price. That is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[@endeavor4178]

I didn’t even know that movie exists

[@hostiledodo1150]

@@endeavor4178 Thank you for making me feel old lol. It came out in the 90s. I strongly recommend it.

[@shadowbladevenom4930]

The movie is I sus

[@guillermogarcia-fernandez6667]

YT has tutorials to build the iron giant... from a tiny version to a huge one! Licensed themes are quite expensive compared to Lego original themes...

[@thebananaspeedruns9275]

If that ever happens I hope we get the entire USA Military as a Lego set

[@stevenjoyner4387]

I would like to see Lego do a MAD magazine set with Alfred E. Neuman and Spy vs Spy. Silly I know but that's what I would like to see.

[@clinthowe7629]

Thats what i loved about the old sets, they were just a set and you build whatever you wish, i never did like the specific themed sets.

[@coldlakealta4043]

strongly agree - structures made with your own imagination are more creative than click-by-number models predesigned for you. sit down with a box of blanks and create something of your own

[@dh2032]

and the guns and weapons starting to slip in, after the founders effete in keeping them to a minimum, on the ground gun and weapons, should dun and games, I wonder if that stance had carried on how many lives might of been spared ¯\(°_o)/¯

[@kentslocum]

Unfortunately, LEGO's standard of quality seems to be slipping recently.

[@ChristianW1975]

How do you figure

[@kentslocum]

@@ChristianW1975 The instruction manuals have cheap renderings on the front, instead of high-quality photographs. The printing on the Stormtrooper helmets is misaligned, and LEGO refuses to fix it. The UCS Hulkbuster had a gimmick that resulted in the wrong proportions. Dark Red bricks have inconsistent coloring. The UCS Hogwarts Express wasn't compatible with existing track widths and excluded two highly desirable minifigures.

[@matteblack5805]

Which is very unacceptable considering that their prices are only going up and up

[@spookyboogie8064]

The math of legos always blows my mind. The way the sizes of legos that have come out over decades line up even in odd combinations is just crazy.

[@Gameprojordan]

Lego made sure all of that worked out. Hence the "system" logo that was prevalent in the box art for decades. They went out of their way to have it so all lego pieces (most notably bricks) will work together for the sake of modularity and consistency, regardless of size and shape, when it came out etc

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

There is no such thing as "legos", Einstein. It even says so in the video.

[@sirrichardpumpaloaf8154]

Did you just make up the word LEGOS. 🤔

[@dash-cam]

Lego not LEGOS never ever Legos. Don't show your ignorance. 1 piece = Lego, 2 Pieces = Lego, 4 billions pieces= Lego. Only idiots say Legos

[@ronnichols884]

When I was a child, (I am 76 years old) there used to be a plastic brick that had rough sides and smaller pegs. My parents bought a lot of them for me. I think they were called American Bricks.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

I grew up with American Bricks. Lego was later.

[@JS-ob4oh]

I had the Kittycraft bricks and they really were of poor quality. After 60 years, the thing that still stands out was just how fragile they were - breakages and cracks without even any rough handling.

[@TC-th1ey]

I remember playing with some pre-1958 pegless Lego bricks at my grandparents, they were mixed in with other sets. There were also people made of 2x2 blocks with giant round heads and posable arms, though I assume these were from a later set.

[@justaguycalledjosh]

Same, my great grandfather had a box of pegless lego.

[@Gameprojordan]

Yes those round headed brick figures with posable arms were popular in the early/mid 1970s, just before the minifigure's release in the late 1970s

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

​@@Gameprojordan I had some of those. Used some whole figures as giant statues/monuments. They were about 3x the height of a minifig. Repurposed the bodies & arms as mortars/depth tube launcher turrets.

[@Aaron628318]

A similar history to the large people to minifigures played out with gears. In the 70s we had a pre Lego Technic set of gear wheels. They came in three sizes (red, blue, yellow), and had 4x2 grey axle blocks. Had loads of fun with them.

[@TC-th1ey]

@@MidwestFarmToys If I remember correctly one of my friends had a yellow submarine that used the same hinged arm with a pincer and a magnet.

[@kay_glo]

Awesome video! If I'm being honest though, I much prefer the original sets to licensed sets. My Star Wars, LOTR and Minecraft sets aren't out on display nearly as often as my Aquazone, Spyrius, Alpha Team, Creator 3-in-1s, etc. So I'd like to see more originals!

[@RedGenesectNinja]

The Atlantis theme is my favorite

[@heavymetalelf]

I love Spyrius!

[@GoranXII]

Agreed, the loss of Castle, Space and Pirates as themes is really painful.

[@tobhomott]

Loved my space lego as a kid and played with it almost every day. That world is gone. My kids built their little licensed star wars lego ships or harry potter junk and then it all went either on a shelf to gather dust or else the bricks went back in the bin never to be played with again. I don't know whether to blame the licensed branding or the internet.

[@heavymetalelf]

@@tobhomott The more generic theme sets are a lot more conducive to imaginative play. If you have a generic spaceship you might feel encouraged to try to build a different spaceship with the same parts or by adding parts from another space set. If you have an X-Wing well it's an X-Wing so once you've built the X-Wing you're pretty much done. Additionally, the generic sets fit in better with other sets. You're not going to be able to get bash that X-Wing set into some other pieces and come up with something of your own because it's going to look like pieces of an X-Wing. I think the licensed sets are kind of neat, but they're not really great for kids' play. I'd really like to see the Pirates and castle and Space sets come back. I never saw Atlantis but maybe that one and some other sets like jungle or something

[@joewoodchuck3824]

We are no longer forced to pay high Lego prices since the patent seems to have run out. Dollar Tree has Lego compatible pieces which are exact duplicates from what I've seen so far. I have a substantial collection of basic parts and I didn't spend much money on them. It's a great design tool for mockups.

[@TVTransmo]

10 Lego wasn't named Lego until they started producing toys. So technically Lego has only produced toys. 9 Lego never claimed they invented the brick, they invented the tubes inside the bricks. 8 Spelled Leg Godt ;) 5 A more correct translation is: "The best isn't too good" ....meaning Lego aimed to be better than the best :P

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Even with the corrected translation, it would still mean that they strived to be the best. There's also no such thing as "better than the best" because anything which was considered the best is suddenly faced with something new that is better than it, then the something new now becomes the new best.

[@TVTransmo]

Well its formulated in that quirky way in Danish and I am Danish so no doubt in my mind. If it should be "Only the best is good enough" it would be "Kun det bedste er godt nok" The 3 layers of varnish on the duck is an example of that. Two layers of varnish is good enough and was what the best competitors had. But it wasn't good enough for a Lego product.

[@livedandletdie]

@@TVTransmo well it's a very open ended sentence even in Danish, det bedste er ikke for godt, either for godt as in too good or for godt as in forever. So yeah, but in reality, the meaning of the sentence is not that open ended, as it's basically “The best is not too much to ask for.” Which is a good stance to have on quality. If you don't strive to deliver the best product to your customers then you're not really trying to sell it either.

[@TVTransmo]

@@livedandletdie Its more a slogan, than an actual sentence. Its basically: "Better than the Best" as Eidolon wrote :)

[@petej4752]

I'm also a dane and was thinking how to translate it. It would be. "Even the best isn't good enough" If we have to translate it close to the original it would be. "The best isn't that good" But we can find other ways to translate it ;-)

[@obi-wankenobi5163]

When you visit Lego House they give you a card that has a picture of one of the combinations with 6 bricks and your name on it ( everybody has another combinations so they are more special ) I don’t know if it continues but it did 2 years ago

[@Marco1973est]

Yup still continues ; my visit was 6-7-2022- place was cool as can be.

[@toylover5478]

where is the lego house? also, that sounds so cool!

[@Teverell]

@@toylover5478 In Billund, Denmark

[@axeylotl]

Thumbnail:LEGO STOLE THE BRICK Video: LEGO bought the rights to use the brick

[@generalgrafx]

After illegally copying it for decades.

[@rayc4119]

I had another 'clone' set when I was a kid, called 'Betta Builda' - it was made by Airfix in the early 60's. Bricks were only 1x2 and 1x1, but also various length '1x' beams, and baseplates,. Bricks were white, with 'glazed' windows and doors in red gree, it also had green interlocking roof 'tiles', so mainly used for making houses and other buildings..

[@lawrencequave7361]

For a few years, off and on between 2001 and 2012, I ATTEMPTED to teach robotics to high school students using the LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System V2.0 Set 3804. The set cost about $200 then and contained over 700 pieces that contained a yellow-colored computer module call a 'brick'. The students LOVED building the robots (following published instructions) of which many dozens if not hundreds of versions were possible. The GREATEST attribute of the LEGO kits was you didn't have to teach the students mechanical and electrical assembly skills first. But when I said, "Now I'm going to teach you how to program the robot because you can't play with it like you could with that little LEGO kit you got for your birthday when you were six years old", most turned up their noses. "That's TOO HARD!" Most students only learned to make the robot go forward and backward. Only my A-students were interested enough to learn how to make a variety of complex robots do more interesting things. After a couple of years, LEGO came out with the LEGO Mindstorms NXT Set 8527. After experimenting with one kit, I decided I liked the Invention System V2.0 Set better because it offered a greater variety of robot construction possibilities. Conclusion: the LEGO teaching kits are truly outstanding, but don't expect anyone but your very best STEM students to be any more than casually and momentarily interested in learning technology of any sort. Especially now with cell phones, most students are not interested in applying themselves to ANY studies anymore. I've got 17 years of student grade archives to prove it. Interestingly, when drones became popular a few years later and the school asked me to teach the students the skills necessary for them to earn their FAA Remote Pilot Certificate (which they could earn once they turned 16), almost all the students became disinterested when they learned they would have to learn much of the academics required to earn a Private Pilot License. As usual, all they wanted to do was play.

[@Songal18]

This is really sweet, seeing all that's happened to this company.

[@gegessen159]

5:40 when attending the Inside Tour, I learned a better translation which gives a bit more background to this story: Even the best is still not good enough

[@alandaters8547]

Well before Lego bricks (but not Lego itself) there were the American Plastic Bricks made by Halsam in the late 1940's. The name came from the names of the inventors: Hal Eliott and San Goss. The Lego bricks were a better quality of plastic and very easy for children to handle., the Elgo bricks were thin and brittle. On the other hand, American Bricks had a scale look and included many white plastic accesory pieces that created doors, windows, and angled surfaces as well as embossed green cardboard roofs. They could make convincing models of real buildings.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

I grew up with American Bricks. Lego came later. Love that, too!

[@jackever]

Yes had those too!

[@Chaseydoodle69420]

5:20 Unless That’s A Brown Piece 😂

[@kailahmann1823]

At least (reddish) brown from a certain time; luckily not the old brown, which is already rare enough without breaking. Dark red also has a bad reputation and I recently killed two copper pieces from an Exo-Force set - all this similar colors and from the same time The problem might be related to the removal of cadmium from the material, which was used for these kind of colors.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Quite a few colors are ridiculously brittle. Worst is pearlescent gold.

[@Chaseydoodle69420]

@@kailahmann1823 true

[@Chaseydoodle69420]

@@Eidolon1andOnly also true

[@mikmik9034]

My earliest memory (c. 1950) of a building toy, were Wooden Block (Bricks) approximately 1¼ x 3/4 x 1/4 inch with 8 holes drilled in them, these holes had a peg inserted partially with a protrusion and leaving a hole in the 'bottom' much like the newer plastic "Lego" bricks. The wood was died red, and the edge was knurled like real clay bricks of the time.

[@briansharp4388]

Called tinker toys, and they were awesome.

[@mikmik9034]

@@briansharp4388 nope the building blocks were not "tinker toys", but you have the idea.

[@felsinferguson1125]

@@briansharp4388 Nope - tinkertoys were *COMPLETELY* different - a boatload of rods and spools with holes in 'em. The ones he's talking about were tiny little bricks made out of wood, very similar in general shape to legos, but (as I remember - maybe that's just the fog of years setting in...) smaller, and only two kinds: "full bricks" - 2:1 rectangles with 2 rows of 4 pegs/holes, and "half bricks" - square pieces with 4 pegs/holes. Now that I get to thinking about it, I seem to recall "roof" pieces, too - a cube the same size as the square half-bricks, cut on a 45 degree angle, with 4 holes on the bottom side, and no pegs. Use those as the top of your walls, and you could "roof" your building using either a piece of cardboard, or the flat roofing slats from a set of Lincoln Logs.

[@RicktheCrofter]

I remember playing with these wooden bricks, at my grandparents home, some 60 years ago.

[@debbietroyer9480]

We had Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, and later Erector Sets.

[@mctanyeli]

6:37 - Production tolerances and rejected parts are not linearly correlated. Just because production quality is up to two one thousandths (0.0002) of a millimeter, doesn't mean the failure rate is also 0.0002 (or 0.02%). You could reject one in two bricks (50%) in order to achieve 0.0002 of a millimeter tolerance if your production sucks, or achieve it in 18 rejects per million (which is a ridiculously high success rate, but I digress) as claimed here.

[@raywest3834]

Much imagination vanished when Lego sets changed to build A SPECIFIC TOY, pictured on the box.

[@keithwebb658]

100% Building the model from the instructions is a great way for youngsters to learn how to read instructions but then what? Build a different model using the same parts?

[@FezFindie]

Let me guess, that title was hoping to make people think "Oh noes, this mean they stole it?" or something like that... only to turn that the concept wasn't new, but they improved on it and then much later did do the legal stuff with the company that the idea originated from so there'd be no fuzz about it.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Then he changed the title.

[@kingbot8277]

This man knows how to hide the evidence. He knows too much.

[@chumgrinder25]

I watched the whole thing waiting for the explanation of the title frame ("ILLEGAL!") and it never happened.

[@philipwhitakerjr6829]

I used to play with small bricks that looked like those pictured. They were called American Bricks. To make buildings more realistic in the 1950’s, they had windows and doors that fit into the holes and top pegs. The doors would open and close. There were special bricks (4x4) with smooth sloped tops to give the appearance of sloped wall beside stairs. I used to make buildings and then draw layer upon layer of positions so that I could recreate the same building at a later time.

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

I remember those too. Pretty fragile though. My mom had a saying for such things. "Plastic Shmastic" More realistic in the original style as far as house building. The later versions tried to mimic the clamp on feature LEGO had. I believe the very first sets were even made of wood. I wonder which toy was first as far as a toy building item?

[@awesomealbertt1150]

Spitbrix is kind of lying with that thumbnail… It wasn’t stollen, kiddiecraft said LEGO could use the design! Edit: never mind, they’ve changed it. Edit 2: HE’S CHANGED IT AGAIN! IT’S EVEN WORSE!

[@patricksmith4424]

Thanks for this fascinating video. I never knew the idea of interlocking bricks was done by kiddie craft, always thought it was Lego. For me the technical sets brought in in the mid 1970s were the game changer. They were awesome and I used to play with my one all the time. The tractor model.

[@goforbroke2]

I went to Legoland in Denmark, the OG spot over the summer. That place is incredible! The detail, the enormous builds, the color, the history, and so much more to see. If you get the chance to visit it’s worth the trip, you’re gonna need a few days to see everything though.

[@kimbearlysue]

As a previous employee of Legoland I am so glad to hear that you called them Lego or Lego bricks. Not many people realize that the plural of Lego is Lego.

[@No1sonuk]

It amuses me that Americans go to great lengths to shorten English words by removing "u" from words, then they add extraneous consonants to others.

[@stevesebzda570]

Kimbearly Sue, how is the plural of Lego, Lego.? [Two or more Lego companies -- or Legolands?

[@stevesebzda570]

@@No1sonuk lol Don't get above yourself. It always amuses me how you Brits/UKers mispronounced and *ignored* that accent mark on the é of "Nestlés." [You pronounced it like a train trestle -- look up "The Milkybar Kids."] That always amuses me. Explain that.!? Lol.

[@stevesebzda570]

@@No1sonuk [Oh, I wasn't clear. Look up "The Milkybar Kids" television commercials/adverts] 25 years approx, You mispronounced and ignored that name. . Do you walk all over everyone??? Lol. [That's only an example of you trodding all over everyone] I think you make a habit of that with your world dominating thing in the past, lol.

[@No1sonuk]

@@stevesebzda570 It's not our language. Just like the Americans mispronounce a lot of English words... 😛 Also, why did the COMPANY IT WAS ADVERTISING, not correct it before it was aired?

[@Dewebje]

Lego is perhaps one of the if not the most fascinating company's in the world. This video shows that perfectly. Oh, and they should have Asterix as a brand.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

one of if not the most fascinating *companies Apostrophes are never used for the plural forms of words.

[@Dewebje]

@@Eidolon1andOnly thank you.

[@whitewachtel405]

There are brick sets with the Asterix licence but not by Lego but the german discounter chain Lidl.

[@Dewebje]

@@whitewachtel405 that's not from the original Lego(r) brand. And does not like so great, compared to what I saw at Lego Ideas.

[@IrritatorXleXretour]

Actually, Playmobil has bought it and it's awful imo.

[@GeneralG1810]

As a 52 year old man I STILL love Lego, played with it as a kid and now I buy it for kids as gifts. And they're customer service is the best I've ever seen, if a kit is missing a piece they'll send it to me no questions asked. More companies could take a page out of Lego's book on customer service!

[@tomagunchi8816]

“Quality” is definitely in the gray area nowadays; understandably due to growth and demands with high production rate but not an excuse…there are much more damaged/stretched/misprinted parts that slipped by the company QC department now

[@valshaped]

Part of my B.S. involved speaking the LEGO Spike's communication protocol over serial to the Prime hub. It was a fun challenge, though I didn't have any peripherals to test with at the time (advisor only had the hub, and those things don't come college-student-cheap!), and it sparked my love of embedded systems!

[@mettehoej]

Im a Dane and i loved the way you pronounced 'de bedste er ikke for godt'!

[@dinnerisgoodforyou]

have I stepped on a lego while watching this yet

[@Witherman8387]

R.I.P Top Hat💀

[@jordyvt08]

I’m currently immune to the pain of stepping on Lego bricks

[@forever7512]

i will make sure to attend your funeral

[@jamesmcgrath1952]

And let us not forget it was Lego that introduced a whole new level of pain amongst those who dare walk around barefoot.

[@gregorhi2]

About the 6 brick poly bag. Each bag comes with a unique assembly pattern. They probably still have a few left for future visitors.

[@Going_wild]

Dude I love your videos and really hope you could do other content such as video games

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Wow, some of those bigger art pieces are amazing! I think I'd be bored by building a predetermined set. Maybe I should try it once in my life though. But I hardly ever build anything with any building-block set anymore.

[@Liggliluff]

(5:25) Since LEGO is not from a country using pounds, feet, inches and the like. I had to look up the real value. The actual force they can withstand is 4240 N, which is an equivalent of 432 kilogram-force or 953 pound-force. But this is specifically the full height 2x2 brick.

[@StandingUpForBetter]

Great video. I know I learned a lot. I love Lego. It truly is amazing how far Lego has come in such a short time. Many of their latest sets look like high quality purpose-built miniature models and thanks to this video I know that goes to the roots of the creator of Lego. Highly suggest going to Legoland for people who have not gone. It really is an amazing place. Keep up the great work.

[@airlag]

Sorry but no. Any medium quality purpose-built miniature beats lego at accuracy. And the lego figures are just ugly. Buttocks up front and a yellow gas bottle on top.

[@AndrewTheCreativeDesigner]

Nice video! By the way if you’re thinking of making another episode of set that breaks the rules I found a mistake on a Friends set: in set number 5004920 Emma’s comes with an aqua skirt but in some photos she’s wearing a medium azure skirt and boots are missing a few details.

[@jakurdadov6375]

I am very old school. I got my first set in 1966. Master Builder 004, with 400 pieces. I was never interested in themed or licensed sets. those were for unimaginative, unskilled kids. The quality of Lego is nothing short of amazing. Every brick from 1966 locks with every brick sold today and the colors have hardly changed at all. And, their sets are never short a piece - never.

[@sparky3006]

Wow sorry for being so unimaginative

[@sgbench]

You do know that themed/licensed sets are just as easy to MOC with, right?

[@cascadesouthernmodeltrains7547]

Another fun fact you didn’t mention. Lego is the #1 tire manufacturer in the world. They create more tires per year than all other tire manufacturers combined.

[@b.v.nielsen8714]

Funny. I was just scrolling through the comments to see, if anyone had mentioned it. You beat me to it. 😊❤️🇩🇰

[@rileyneville5633]

I would like Lego to get the licence to Calvin and Hobbes. I think that these would open up opportunities to make memorable and fun Lego sets.

[@number89472]

I love legos but sometimes i wish they made newer kinds that aren’t already made

[@lillobster9355]

My guy, it's Lego

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

"Legos" is a colloquialism despite what the company says and it always will be. Lego is a toy company, they aren't an arbiter of language or speech. Colloquialisms are immune to any formal speech or language "rules" as they are inherently a form of informal speech similar to slang in that regard. If you really wanted to get technical and go by what companies want their products called or how their company's name is used then you'd have to remain consistent. You'd have to call an Oreo cookie an Oreo cookie or if there's more than one - Oreo cookies, rather than "an Oreo" or "Oreos." If you had a singular piece of candy out of an m&m's bag, it would be an m&m's or an m&m's chocolate candy, not "an m&m." Also if you had a single piece of candy out of a bag of Skittles, it would be called a Skittles, not "a Skittle". We'd also have to tell the entire UK to stop using Hoover as a verb to mean vacuuming or to suck up, as Hoover is merely a brand name of vacuum cleaners, and we'd need to stop referring to all facial tissues as Kleenexes or all adhesive bandages as BAND-AIDs, since these are also brand names, not the name of the items.

[@number89472]

@@Eidolon1andOnly man I need everyone to give this wonderful person more than 100 likes plz because he took part of his day to tell us something important and we should all appreciate it

[@UKCougar]

@@Eidolon1andOnly No, it's an Americanism. No-one outside of the US calls Lego "Legos," plasters Band-Aids or tissues Kleenexes. It's as jarring as saying "sheeps." In any case, Lego gets to say what their product is called regardless of geography. You're correct that the UK generally refers to vacuum cleaning as 'hoovering,' but we're wrong in that too.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

@@UKCougar Not true. Canadians and even some Australians call them Legos. Do me a favor and look up what _colloquialism_ is defined as. Even if only the US calls them "Legos" it's still a colloquialism. All Americanisms are colloquialisms, so you're making a distinction without a difference. I also never claimed the UK called facial tissues Kleenexs or adhesive bandages BAND-AIDS, but you calling them "plasters" is also a colloquialism and not the correct term. No, Lego doesn't get to dictate to anyone how to use colloquial language whatsoever. They are a toy company, not an authority on language. There are plenty of company names which get used differently than the company would prefer. Ever heard of Mickey D's? Just another way to say McDonald's. In fact, Lego is overstepping its bounds by trying to dictate what anyone calls their bricks as long as it's in good faith and doesn't harm their brand or company reputation. They should just suck it up and accept "Legos" is said with both love and respect for the brand, and even appreciate that people have constructed a new way to use the brand name in a fun and imaginative way, as I'm sure Hoover did when it learned that the Brits had such an admiration for their products that they turned the brand name into a verb, same as Xerox with its copy machines finding out its company name became a verb synonymous with making copies. Calling Lego bricks/pieces "Legos" literally hurts no one and affects nobody. The only reason to come down on anyone using the term "Legos" is just to be snooty and feel superior.

[@jensschroder8214]

I heard the Kiddicraft brand is going to be reactivated for ABS snap-in blocks. A German retailer who was annoyed with LEGO was able to secure the brand. Now he's looking for ways to produce ABS clip-in blocks for which the LEGO patent has expired.

[@rome0610]

Yes, it's just a reaction to their trigger happy legal department. Best wishes to Thorsten aka Johnny!

[@creamysbrianna]

Dang holding +/- 0.001mm is a pretty amazing feat to achieve and costly. I can only imagine how much a single brick casting mold costs to have made.

[@skedfinger]

What licence I’d like to see Lego make? None. Should they go back to a theme of their own then I couldn’t be happier.

[@Riucaft]

same, or they would bring back old original IP´s from the past like Bionicle... i miss Bionicle...

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

I couldn't agree more. I'd much rather they drastically reduce the number of licenses they're holding on to now. 40+ is way too many and part of the reason why Lego sets are more expensive than they used to be.

[@brickosaurus2276]

I would love to see some LEGO themed Godzilla sets!

[@nico_53]

If lego would make some mass effect sets it would be awesome

[@mr_christofski]

Man, a 3,000 piece Harbinger, or a Normandy SR-1 or 2 with interior, similar to the UCS millennium falcon would be incredible. Sadly, not likely to happen 😔

[@MrBeklager]

5:33 it literally translates into «the best is not too good» sounds really humbling

[@OleGeezerCirca1941]

A man made it to the moon via a Lego Brick. He stepped on one in a dark hallway on his way to the bathroom one night. 😁

[@The_Glactic_King]

5:27 Explain brown bricks then

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

And many other colors which are extremely brittle.

[@JLvatron]

8:06 you show Ninjago as a license, but isn't that owned by Lego?

[@VB-bk1lh]

About 50 or so years ago I had a Lego set but the bricks were smaller than what I see being sold today? The set would have been from the late 60's or early 70's. I remember it had several types of 'bricks'. There were three heights of 2x2 and 2x4 bricks, there were long straight single row strips, in various lengths, plus there were thin sheet panels in various sizes, plus the kit came with snap in windows and shutters, doors, and a small assortment of stepped bricks, which were full thickness on one side, and half thickness on the other. The inside of the full depth bricks was hollow with no formations, but they did have a notch relief on each end. The shallower bricks all had round forms inside the brick. Longer pieces had partial partitions inside. The 2x8 bricks were roughly 1/2x1". There were two types of windows, single and double, and the kit had one triple window. The windows also had clear panels in them. The kit was obviously meant to build only houses, and we used it to build houses for a crude train layout or 'Matchbox' village. All of the studs had the word Lego on top. I haven't seen that set around in decades, but on occasion find a loose piece here and there. The colors were dark red, (almost burgundy), and white. There was no blue, gray, or green pieces. As a kid, it got handed down to the next generation, and so on, so as time went on the set got smaller and smaller till it likely just got tossed. I did find a few stray pieces when I cleaned out my parents house about 10 years ago where I found a few odd pieces in the old laundry room, I gave them pieces to a friends kids but they didn't mate with the newer, slightly larger blocks? The new pieces her kids had were about 30% larger all around. The old 2x8 brick was about 2/3 the size of a modern one, and the studs were proportionally larger as well. When did they change size? The material is also different, the new one's are thinner plastic, and more flexible, where as the old one's were shinier and more ridged and made from a heavier plastic. The studs were also shorter than the more modern versions.

[@johnds6621]

My mother had a set of wooden bricks as a kid she gave to us when we were kids. the bricks could make houses are any building they had bricks with smooth slanted sides that make the roof line you could put a card board roof on to complete the house. They had printed cardboard windows and doors too. It fun to use them and they were just as strong as lego.

[@DFStudios783]

I would love Lego to do owl house! They already have a good relation with Disney, so it wouldn’t be too off the reigns!

[@Caffin8tor]

There's a project suggestion on the Lego Ideas site. You'd need to create a site account to support it, but it's a step in the direction of making it happen.

[@DFStudios783]

@@Caffin8tor nice!

[@admiraloscar3320]

LEGO Eda

[@DFStudios783]

@@admiraloscar3320 LEGO EDA

[@Caffin8tor]

@@DFStudios783 LEGO HARPY EDA

[@Hugh248]

I would like to see them get the licence to produce Star Trek sets.

[@thegreatsnowblizzard3196]

Unfortunately another company has the license for it

[@sadweeb1]

Bluebrixx, they got amazing prices

[@wbrucesimpson]

Excellent video! I may just have to dig out my bin of old Lego bricks...feeling inspired. :}

[@AllBrixedUp]

Really appreciate the effort you put in your videos. The title didn’t make sense but I loved the content!

[@TbcYT]

you danish is very good! Im from denmark (Danmark) and im proud

[@rc-fannl7364]

Interesting video, although the part about quality and the minimal tolerances don't hold as well these days. On a regular basis I encounter parts that have noticeable deviations, such as that when you put them next to or on top of each other, they don't line up perfectly, and you can see "steps" which shouldn't be there. It has been worse, but still not as good as it should be. And that's not even to mention the visible color differences between elements, even in a single set.

[@jonathanwerrell3897]

It's true. The quality went down. My girlfriend give me the home alone house. And one of the bags had most of the bricks bent and warp. My speed champions set had a missing brick also. But the customer service is good. They sent me everything I needed really fast.

[@tdawgmaster1729]

My Lego Lunar Lander has two different shades of gold and it's very irritating

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I haven't seen any noticeable decrease in how the pieces fit together, but color consistency has been an issue lately along with pieces breaking, usually just hairline cracks, but I've had a number of 1x1s split in half.

[@edwardholmes91]

I'm sure I read somewhere, possibly on the Lego site? That slight discrepancies in colour was due to recycling as much plastic as they can, i.e. the 'sprue' being ground down and mixed with new ABS pellets. I assume that maybe the plastic takes on a slightly different hue when melted, and thus, when mixed with virgin ABS pellets, results in differences in shade?

[@Marco1973est]

Great; informative video ....didn't know about the star naming.

[@Mischievous_Moth]

Honestly? I don't want Lego to pick up another license, I want them to go back to some of their old themes that didn't get enough time or to make new themes. I know I sound like a boomer, but I miss the days of Rock Raiders and other old themes.

[@hudzplayz]

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!

[@1fandik]

I think that today's sets themes lack imagination. And even in highly collectable subjects like rail road - selection of sets introduced is extremely limited. Not being a big fan of Star Wars, I think this is the most interesting themes out there

[@MrShadowpanther3]

1999? I was making X-Wings in 1977. Of course not everyone would have probably recognized it as an X-Wing... But I was working with some pretty basic pieces. Airplanes, robots, houses, space ships, cars, trucks, jet packs, helicopters... the nostalgic thing to me about the more generic sets is that what you could build was mostly limited by your imagination. Build your toys, play with them, tear them down, think up new adventures, new toys, and you never get bored.

[@sgbench]

The same is true of the themed sets. *More* true actually, since today there are many more types of bricks that can be used in creative ways.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

I made X-Wings with a paper towel tube, four toilet paper tubes, two modess sanitary napkin box tops, four straws, and some scotch tape. This was in 1977, but they were pretty convincing.

[@andrewstrongman305]

I remember playing with a few of the really large LEGO bricks when I was a toddler, and then the standard bricks. They were just bricks of various lengths and thicknesses, and also sheets of various sizes.

[@KillerKO]

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[@TheLEGOStud77]

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[@KillerKO]

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[@KillerKO]

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[@Destroyer6X11]

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[@KillerKO]

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[@Eidolon1andOnly]

It's a shame Lego's quality has actually gone down in the last 10 or so years. Brown, pearlescent gold, some blue and gray colors, and a few other colors are notoriously brittle. Newer bricks in general tend to be far more brittle than older bricks. Also to answer your question about licenses, I want Lego to drop most of their licensed properties, not gain more. Those licenses are part of the reason why sets are more expensive. I would rather they have unique, original, and imaginative themes than piggyback on IPs held by Disney, Warner Brothers, and Universal, or the multitude of automobile companies and racing sponsors. Holding over 40 different license agreements at the same time is just insane to me. If anything they should at least balance ta out by licensing their own brand to other companies who can do things for them as well/better than Lego, but also cheaper than Lego can do in house, such as outsourcing the production of electronic components, app and game design, as well as expensive to mold pieces and baseplates.

[@stephenng9277]

I remember watching a documentary about a guy who picks up rubbish and he has collected a lot of lego bricks/figures over the years scattered around the beach from being washed up.

[@deemdoubleu]

They are based on imperial measurements too. A single height is basically 1/8" (not measuring the stud)

[@MestreDosCalvos]

I want Lego Kirby sets. I love that game series.

[@timofthomas]

Long before the official Star Wars sets we used to make our own... like 30 years earlier :P

[@wisteela]

They are also the worlds biggest manufacturer of tires. Another part of the anti-war theme was that they originally never made bricks in military colours.

[@billlarrabee9436]

Great to know, fascinating!

[@legojedi5296]

Little did the guy who made lego know that it would end up being used to make working guns

[@JonnyBuildz]

I knew some of these things but not all, awesome video!

[@Furry19931993]

Zootopia would be an interesting challenge for lego, possibly offering different sizes of figures to represent different animals.

[@peterhagan8454]

great video, learn so much

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Thanks for this well done video.

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

7:53 As I understood it was no _modern_ weapons. Swords, halberds - historic, OK. Laser blasters - future, also OK. I used to have what I thought was a hand held missile launcher, but it was actually part of a video camera.

[@AllBrixedUp]

Sometimes I struggle to find originality in my builds but then I remember there are over 9 septillion ways to combine 6 Lego bricks lmao

[@Paolopablo]

Thunderbirds are go - that would be an awesome series of builds, the vehicles alone are so iconic!

[@sacredguyver]

Wow... I didn't know that Star Wars was the first license for LEGO. My parents got me that exact X-Wing and Snowspeeder for Christmas, as well as Darth Maul's ship. I was never much of a Star Wars fan, but it was still LEGO Spaceships, so that was always cool.

[@alm7707]

I remember playing with Minibrix a similar toy but the blocks were made of hard rubber. This was about 1960. they were made by the Premo Rubber Company in England. We used to lick (yuck) them to make them easier to join.

[@KismetBP]

Great Video! I recently got out my 1979 Galaxy Explorer set which has been in storage for 25+ years & built it again on my Twitch stream. Then I purchased the 2022 Galaxy Explorer and thought it would be easier to build… WOW was I wrong! I thought it might take a hour, it took me 7+ hours to build that set on stream. I have not built a new lego set in 30+ years… The sets have gotten crazy advanced & awesome! ❤🤘

[@macoediv]

My first Lego came in a broken box with no labels. Had red, white and blue. A couple of blue slabs and skinny blocks. All we made were houses and we liked it.

[@taemien9219]

As far as educational Lego is concerned, there was this thing called Lego Logo in the 1980s. When I was in elementary school, I remember being allowed to leave class with a few other students from other classes every couple of weeks. We'd be given these unique Lego sets that had I believe a serial interface or whatever the Apple II equivalent was. Basically you hooked up these Lego builds to a computer (Apple II) and then we had to use some command line interface to program what we wanted to build. The builds were simple. A little motorized car that would go forward and backward by timers. A traffic light that would change which light was on after a period of time. And other things. What was interesting is we weren't really taught the syntax of the programming language. We had to build the sets and then come up with the logic. For example the car we knew would travel a certain distance in so many seconds. So we had to come up with how many seconds we wanted to fire up the motor for in order to have the car stop where we wanted. The traffic light was interesting because we knew the Red and Green lights would stay on longer than the Yellow and had to come up with the timers for each based on that fact.

[@kufal]

I never knew this great vid man

[@Mikisoq39]

incredible craftsmanship, these caltrops look like toys!