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Inside the Lego Factory

gizmodo.com — This video shows something that very few people have had the opportunity to witness: the inside of the Lego factory, with no barriers or secrets.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 21, 2008

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  • chrissku, on 07/21/2008, -3/+75Where's the river of melted plastic and the Lego-Lumpas?
  • duggtodeath, on 07/21/2008, -7/+69How awesome would it have been if the factory was made of Legos®?
  • RedCt, on 07/21/2008, -3/+52I like how the entire process is basically robots all the way down the line.
  • lonelycoo, on 07/21/2008, -3/+44I wanna go, i wanna go, i wanna go!
  • theotheragentm, on 07/21/2008, -2/+29Not even Willy Wonka's factory was made of chocolate on the outside.

    Also, it's LEGO.
  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -1/+24When you see it, you'll ***** (Lego) bricks.
  • Pittance, on 07/21/2008, -0/+17Think about the investment it takes to create such a factory. And then the expense in running it. That and they are proprietary and no one else is as good as they are. So they can charge whatever the market will bear.
  • JoeDiggsIt, on 07/21/2008, -0/+15http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3AcPEPbH0

    This is halfway to your dream.
  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -4/+19Robots everywhere, yet they charge so much?
  • vypergts, on 07/21/2008, -0/+13Anybody else watch it with the electronic music from "How It's Made" in their head?
  • yokozuka, on 07/21/2008, -1/+14Pretty awesome, because it would collapse under its weight :-)
  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -1/+12Yeah, and all controlled by a mainframe. Those endless lines look straight from the Matrix.

    Hmmm... there's a pattern getting in focus here.
  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -1/+12o_O
  • spyd3rweb, on 07/21/2008, -1/+10It'd have been so much cooler if their robots were made of legos.
  • jonborthwick, on 07/21/2008, -1/+10I thought it was turtles all the way down.
  • bulentm, on 11/17/2008, -2/+11Those storage cathedrals, it's lego heaven!
  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -0/+9They were forced to remove the river of melted plastic after some fat kid awhile back fell in and nearly drowned.
  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -1/+10Who uses ® in a comment? So what position are you at lego?
  • overridemymind, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8"I don't get why they are so secretive."

    Because they don't want anyone to find out about their Oompa Loompas
  • fantasticjon, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8All you can smuggle out in your gastrointestinal tract.
  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8I'd be expecting to see a LEGO waterfall in a LEGO garden and singing LEGO Umpa Lumpas inside
  • user12345x, on 07/21/2008, -1/+9That would be even more awesome :-)
  • minsley1021, on 07/21/2008, -0/+7I know what I'm telling the Make-A-Wish foundation next time I get a terminal cancer.
  • thomas040, on 07/21/2008, -2/+9Lego is actually an abbreviation... sort of... in Danish it means Play Well.... or more accurate Have Fun Playing...

    Leg Godt.... Le Go... lego
  • punkcat, on 07/21/2008, -0/+750% off
  • ciano, on 07/21/2008, -0/+7Not to mention the price of oil. From how it figures into the manufacture of plastic granules to the transportation of the pieces and boxes, oil affects LEGO greatly.
  • ciano, on 07/21/2008, -0/+6Get The Ultimate LEGO Book. It has replicas of all those machines, built out of LEGO bricks.
  • PdxPhoenix, on 07/21/2008, -0/+6Not much more than about 10cents per piece... the more complex the piece the more it costs/ but each set is roughly a dime per piece... From the massive Millennium Falcon 5195 pieces @ 499$ to the the new Town Plan 1981 pieces at 150$ down to #5610, 23 pieces for 3.50$
  • Pittance, on 07/21/2008, -1/+7The endless strive for efficiency will eventually be the death of us. Absolute efficiency requires that no humans are involved in any of the processes.
  • alecks, on 07/21/2008, -1/+7Unfortunatelly, all that was inside the metal pipes
  • sexybobo, on 07/21/2008, -1/+7Try megabloks and you will see why they are so expensive. Quality control.
  • buckygrad, on 07/21/2008, -0/+6Do you think robots are free? You can exploit people, but not machines. They price manufacturing robots based on how much money they think the manufacturer will make. Labor is often much cheaper - especially in 3rd world countries with lax labor laws.
  • sexybobo, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5http://us.factory.lego.com/pab/?warning=false
    Select category>bricks
    It is the first one at $.07 a piece
  • PdxPhoenix, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5not much I think... tho they do have an employee store.
  • lolwutpear, on 07/21/2008, -1/+6the most important part of the molding machine is the mold, eh?
  • rvaldes04, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5who do you think engineered those machines?
  • simoncallesen, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5Aye, I'm Danish and I've gone to see the factory here twice. Second time was with my highschool, a "technical college" of sorts, and we got to see the research and development department. Of course, no pictures were allowed, but we did have full access.

    And by God was it anticlimatic... The few workers who had yet to be replaced by machines were sweaty, grumpy old men that made no effort to conceal the fact that we were in everyone's way while they pumped little plastic pieces out by the ton. Secret pieces or not, it sucked.
  • NexusV2, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5I think they should of made the robots out of lego :)
  • TrevorPace, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4mmmmmm chidhood.

    Wait what?
  • machocheese34, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4powered by Mindstorms
  • PdxPhoenix, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4Sounds like somebody needs their diaper changed and a nap.
  • PdxPhoenix, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3But 50% off Danish Krone is still about 100% US price.

    The big set from Indy Episode 4 is 80$US and at the exchange rate of 4.45US to 1DK should have been about 356DK, not the 699DK they wanted for it at the park or in the hotel.
  • bezz, on 07/21/2008, -1/+4They left out the brute who beats the robots with a whip to make the work faster
  • mcmurch, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3wouldn't it be awesome if they could take LEGO and somehow make it bigger and stronger, then build real houses out of it
  • PdxPhoenix, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3In the hour-ish we spent walking around in a couple different production rooms, I didn't notice much more than a mildly hot plastic smell. Perhaps because the molds are inside a Plexiglas housing & might be vented somehow.
  • joelav22, on 07/21/2008, -2/+5Very few? My grammar school took field trips there every year (4th graders got to go). It was awesome, and YES they did give us a free sample. At the time (1986) it was something Starwars, a speeder I think. At the time I was still impressed, but overwhelmed but the horrible fumes and the extremely loud machines.
  • Malchus89, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3I could spend 1000 dollars on that site in an instant...
  • hayden.evans, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3a whole factory full of awesome!
  • inactive, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3Lego bricks god damn it! :P
  • yokozuka, on 07/21/2008, -1/+4No free Lego sets, but they get discounted prices. I was the employee shop the day after filming all this and there was stuff with 80% off. They had some technic at dirty-cheap prices.
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