LEGO's Catastrophic Failure 

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@@Bart-Did-it yeah

Basics of internal audit. When you find a problem you back track it with the "5 times why" rule to get to the root cause of the issue.

Another forkjign listical....

@@goofycker wdym listical?

Also Lego when profits decrease by 5%: *Hands pink slip to 1,400 employees*

Meanwhile at any other company: *Fired*

Hey that's a really great way to handle it I think.

They have insurance for these kind of mistakes The lights are a nice tax wright off And they can always fire him later for a " different" reason 😋

@@The_Shadow_Emperor Where? What countries were affected by this is important since in Scandinavian countries there's a large social safety net to catch people in that situation and getting fired is far from the end of the world.

Better to find the long term fix then the fire the guy and hope this doesn't happen again

Assuming this was somewhere in Europe and that this was an honest mistake, firing that person would have simply been illegal and thus not an option. This was not corporate niceness, but worker protection laws at their best.

That's probably because LEGO is a Danish company, I'm sure that firing people is lot harder or even illegal in Denmark and most of Europe. If LEGO was American, I'm sure they'll yell "you're fired!!!" at their employees instead of adding better lighting.

The very first set I bought for my own money was almost the last, due to some similar screwup years earlier. Back in 1992, I bought a set called "Space Shuttle Transporter", 6346, after having saved up for months.... and then parts started cracking as I built it. Antenna/lever bases, clips, the cup pieces used for the exhaust stacks, the 1x1 brick with vertical bars, the 1x2s with vertical ribs on one side and horizontal on the other side, the five-finger hinge plates, the 1x8 tiles.... everything cracked, just from normal play. I didn't buy anything else from Lego for more than two decades after that, though I got a couple of sets as gifts that stood up a little better.

That explained why one of the heads of mine broke

The Bionicle "Lime Disease" Memes make more sense now

Hahli Mahri and Lesovikk were the worst victims.

The color of current pieces doesn’t properly match anymore

Star wars be like "wtf lego"

Have better Star Wars ships and playsets...

Go yellow. They did it for the og knights castle set.

Back to building yellow castles without gray bricks lol

@Someonewhoexists 🤓🤓🤓

More likely: worker protection laws made it illegal to fire that employee so better lighting it was

I see a lot of people selling there lego, including me These last sets are over 500 euro For about 3000 bricks thats insane

Or the 42125 Ferrari 488 GTE which was not stable and had other problems, the new street plates, which do not fit with older sets.

If LEGO was American, it would been a catastrophic failure.

Foreshadowing, maybe?

@@Appletun503 Thanks. It's a picture of my cat I took that looks funny.

Probably a gunship during the republic to empire transition.

I have one sitting in front of me, with the correct insignia.

@@berniethekiwidragon4382 Nice. I managed to get the one with the flaw. It was a big thing and Lego even responded to this with an apology.

Yeah, seems strange to me. Does he fin and pack the pieces by hand? I would assume it was a robot that spit them out in bags.

@@ano_nym I guess, that robot just got fed with the wrong box for supply. But then I wonder what bad light they had to mix those…

He probably loaded plastic pellets into a machine that actually makes the bricks and loaded the wrong color pellets. I can't see a guy bagging up that many pieces but a machine could make and bag that many in pretty short order.

the dream

Lime green parts

@@mrkicker11181 Bionicle Lime Disease 😂

Lego

wow how old r u

Be careful the legos are way more addictive

@@camsellstoys Not a problem, they're disgustingly overpriced now.

@@SilverDreamweaver the themes are creativity were way better back then anyway.

No pew pew, pew pew = bad. Oh na zi’s? That’s fine

They also made a Sopwith Camel - a WW1 fighter aircraft.

I mean what are the 77 years old Nazi corpses going to do stop them , comeback to life and sue lego ?

Unfortunately, those are the franchise's that sell. Before they started making their first Star Wars sets the company was in trouble. Sales were declining as the pieces don't wear out and people were passing them down through families. The themed sets did a bit to revive the company's fortunes, but nowhere near as much as taking up product licences did.

They will sacrifice these policies really fast in the coming years, since their customer base is no longer kids (as can be seen in what kind of sets they sell and for what price) but adults. They are essentially going from making creative toys to making one-build models. And when these customers want military stuff, they will get it...or they will take their money to Cobi and other brick companies that DO specialize in those themes. Unfortunately, with the declining overall quality of their bricks and lackluster sets, into which a unicorn threw up, they are losing customers so fast, they resorted to going from finding creative engineers and designers to stocking up on lawyers. If your product sales decline due to the competition having better quality and ideas, suing them is much more profitable than getting better products and ideas yourself. There are over 100 hundred companies out there that make brick-based sets. Most are not on LEGOs level, a dozen or so are and a hand full are even better.

Didn't they removed the nazi stuff ?

Lol. Lego went woke. They support Black Lives Matter and the alphabet community.

I hope they bring back sets like these one day. Those sets were mostly amazing and highly playable. Well, kids use lego figs as an army anyway.

Apparently they’re remaking the set with the REAL nazi plane

@@stringjamer No, it's always been LEGO policy. They just bend it sometimes.

Yeah HS I wasn't too fond of as although I brought a set I couldn't find the app in the Google Play Store and I was told my phone should work with it. It was like having the venue but no show. As for G2 Bionicle, the sets didn't seem too bad; to me it was the lore that sucked, especially with how it was addressed (no comics or books, just 2-3 min vids. Probably why it only lasted a few years and Lego knew it.

Bionicle G2 run still makes me cry at night

I think one of the reasons they were fine releasing those sets is because they are depicting planes from WW1 . In the company's early years, the company's creator, Ole Kirk Christiansen, created the policy that they would never depict modern war in their toys because of the 2nd World War happening at the time. Now of course they've broken this rule for licensed themes like Indiana Jones and Captain America, but, it does explain why they've made unlicensed sets and minifigures depicting Union soldiers in their western theme, as well as minifigures based off of Continental soldiers from the Revolutionary war

@@crash8542 yeah i just started to think something similar. If it's modern military Lego has a policy against, which i guess can include anything from 1980-present, anything before that would probably be considered "historical." The Sopwith Camel set, both the late 1990s and 2002 versions, were from WWI and were probably considered historical, if this is making sense (honestly, when was the last time a WWI plane was used in Iraq or Afghanistan?)

@@djk6297 I think that they just make that specific rule to avoid some themes like WWII, Cold war ETC... but why do we have star wars? i mean, the imperium it's just based on nazi germany, they uniforms kindda look the same

@@mrkeykush693 when you mean imperium do you mean the first order? In the seventh movie when the general is giving that speech followed by starkiller base unleashing that blast to destroy those planets, that assemblage it did remind me of a rally, black symbol on white background on red banner and all, minus the planet-destroying blast. Heck, aside from star wars, stormtroopers were also a German force. As for Lego and how they're allowing sets could mainly be the license contract they've had with star wars. Let's face it, it's been Lego's longest running theme and one of the best selling. Perhaps lego has to make sets or it could violate the contract. Other than that, while star wars exhibits some WWII elements, its not direct, and it's more scifi, so it doesn't violate Lego's terms.

@@djk6297 "honestly, when was the last time a WWI plane was used in Iraq or Afghanistan?" 1st World War plane, good point. But 1st World War *tank*? Renault FTs were found in Afghanistan in the 2000s.

It could be the gearbox problems, as well, in a combined cause. The military connection might make the company look more ethical, though, rather than just hiring sloppy designers...

It's ironic too, as the Osprey is - like the Chinook & Huey - not explicitly a military vehicle... but Lego has always been hypocritical & daft on stuff like this. Still: more money for Kobi or Megabloks, when inevitably they release one.

@@jimtaylor294 all the research was led by military, so it wouldn't have even been mass produced if the US of A wasn't using it to monopolize power globally 😉 also wished we would've had it, but I'm not gonna call someone daft for sticking to a set of principles

There are reviews where this theory is tested, and while the clutch does impressively work to prevent motor damage from blocked rotors, it does look/feel a bit delicate

@@snipingwes A fixable issue though; which makes Lego cancelling the entire set all the more illogical.

Why is everyone saying this like it's fact? Just cause they don't say they fired someone doesn't mean they didn't.

@@TheTrueSpottedStripe I thought it was nice hearing companies that don't and who said that my opinion was facts?

if the problem is the giant dynamite then that's sad since lego has made tiles with dynamite printed on them, along with other bombs in their history

As strange as it is to say, this is likely what happened: If you recall, that was around the time that BLM (black lives matter) reached a new peak. A big part of the BLM protesting at the time was against Police Brutality, with many berating the police, calling for them to be defunded, etc. Now it is just a theory, but I'm imagining Lego decided not to release the set because it featured active police officers, which, sadly, would go against the 'media storm' at the time. In fact it is around this time they stopped selling a few other police-themed sets as well, if I recall correctly.

They can still fire him later for a "different " reason

yeah i still don't understand that one. It like lasted for one year and was based on a show that I never even watched

They literally had a Sopwith Camel set

The new 3 in 1 supersonic jet is loosely based on an F14

And Dino Attack was a whole theme dedicated to the military fighting dinosaurs

Dont forget the real nazi plane in the one last crusade set (the flying wing doesnt count because its not a real plane)

this is the correct answer- at the time IIRC was when there were multiple protests against police brutality by American cops against black Americans. The police in America has become more and more militarized and LEGO smartly read the room.

@@nilzero5686 Except that there's quite a bit of police brutality that was wildly blown out of proportion or even brazenly lied about. Even now there's a bunch of incidents that despite all evidence showing justified shootings, people will still call them unjustified brutality. Not so fun fact, one of the very first cities to become a victim of violent "anti-police" riots in recent history was Ferguson, and Ferguson burned in memory of a person who was shot by police while quite literally in the process of committing a massive violent crime spree across the city. I legitimately kid you not, the list of crimes committed in that single night by the guy shot reads like a 5-⭐ GTA rapsheet. And Ferguson still gets treated like a case of brutality.

@@nilzero5686 "brutality" in this case meaning "criminals being correctly treated".

Tbh they should allow only unarmed transport vehicles from the military

From the review from the few guys that got one, it looks like it had a massive gearing issue

@@Kuro_Nguyen So next to none? The majority of military transports are armed, because protecting oneself is pretty damn important when you're in a huge steel death box fighting people who know that the big car is the one with the people in it, and so focus on that transport. Or is it just a matter of making a real transport but taking the weapon off? So you can have a Stryker APC or something, but it just can't have a gun up top?

@@skoiloine5809 I guess

@@skoiloine5809 NGL I would happily buy a Technic M1A2 Abrahms. Would not even hesitate. Would be the first technic set released since the 8455 I wanted to buy in fact.

Gray too, but that was rescinded in 1978 when they launched the space lineup.

At my summer job teaching young kids I enjoyed using the build-anything sets to make "un-PC" stuff like tanks and jukebox cars (to which some girls added a water slide... what a missed opportunity for those IRL manufacturers in the 50's). I was working on a WW2 Japanese aircraft carrier, but didn't get time to finish it.

Star Destroyers, Death Stars, various tanks and starfighters, tie-in games and magazines...😂 I'm not complaining.

I mean, just look like the Imperium, they look like a bunch of space Nazis

Crooks with their own dynamite factory have more sour connotations, than crooks just carrying a few dynamite sticks...

@@hakanstorsater5090 who said it was their dynamite factory? they could have stolen it.

@@sheilaolfieway1885 Still, it carries problematic undertones if they control the production...

^ Hardly. Kids couldn't care less about such details; nor most [sane] adults. That, and "problematic" is such a cliched nonsenseword XD.

I remember they were doing the same thing circa 2007, as apparently kids like the "instant gratification" of videogames, so they "want a toy straight away" without "wasting time" building it. Apparently these people were never kids themselves. Anyway they went back to basics for a while, but appear to have since gone back back to complicateds. So to speak.

"Why don't yhey just give kids a huge brick, shaped like a Lorry -_- " - James May, 2007

Also the toy soldier set from the early 2010s toy story line. Literally 4 ww2 soldiers and a ww2 jeep. They even came with rifles lol

Dang.

My question is how the branded tires ended up being produced in the first place.

Yep! They've even released models of the famous Sopwith Camel WW1 fighter plane... twice!

@@coltpiecemaker I did specifically remember the Red Barron but yeah when I think about it in the catalogue they had a British WWI plane… Yeah it has been the sopwith camel 10226… They even have a Fighter out in this moment… What if not a military vehicle is the supersonic jet 31126

You will be surprised how valuable second hand sets are, but I am glad you want to keep it.

Animation is respectable. But Disney gone so corrupt, I dont think I will support them in any way.

Yeah,the Idniana Jones sets which they've made several had the "very mean Germans" in the WW2 style vehicles. I agree,that is conflicting and odd about there policy. 😐

Lego Dino Attack too

@@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310 I think is about military stuff coming directly from THEM specifically. Indiana jones is not theirs and so the inclusion if the "very mean germans" is not theirs

I feel the difference is between making a set about a story with bad people and making a set about bad people. To make an extreme example, Lego could never make a set about "very mean germans", like a model of the car guided by "a failed Austrian painter", because in some way such a set could be interpreted as a way to portray them in a good way. But making a set about a story where the "very mean germans" are defined (by the story itself) as bad is different. If you think about it, any of the vehicles from Star Wars are basically military, but they come from a story where the good and the bad people are well defined and, most importantly, LEGO as a company does not take any responsibility in the morality compass of the portrayed characters.

@@giannipiccioni8411 Absolutely agree, although I did some research, and unfortunately a group called the German Peace Society essentially threatened to “cancel” Lego if they released the set, as it was directly licensed by the V-22’s manufacturer Boeing, and they would in turn get a cut of the sales. I don’t know about you, but to me that’s the most 2020 reason imaginable. 🙃

On top of that countless star wars sets, which are fictional but still depict military vehicles and guns

That's cool, which ren fest was it?

They do prints instead of stickers

@@quinboi3461 But only in very few sets.

stickers are better than prints

@@truereaper4572 I bet you eat pinapple on pizza too

They lose billions on their daft "no war" policy though, and always have done. Entire companies exist because of it, or have added Lego'esque sets to their ranges; most thereof laughing all the way to the bank. Not that boys in the past weren't making do with ad hoc military vehicles made of Lego anyway; typically joking "It's like a Lancaster Bomber on Ceefax".

How is that bad?