LEGO Wants These Bricks Destroyed 

woah!

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.

EXCELLENT WORK. SPITBRIX LEGO BIRCK CONTROVERSY,

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"

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.

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

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

@@JamesTDGmarble looking bricks either accurate colour would be amazing

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

And Lego countertops lol

Hit me like a ton of bricks.

@@DingusMingus-ug3iwmarbled?

@@Qwerty-zj3rk lol

@@DingusMingus-ug3iw a bag of lego bricks

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

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

Iphone lego: You're building it wrong! 😄

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…”

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

Skill issue. Lego needs to git gud

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

​@@SuperSuperSporkindeed

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

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.

We need lego to acknowledge that people have opinions

Yeah, been to their Fairfield Plant, Belly Flops!

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

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

Man snacking on Belly Flops were my fuckin childhood man

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.

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

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

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

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.

@@JamesTDGi mean you kinda can

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

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

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

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.

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.

Very based

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

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

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

@@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

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.

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.

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

@@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?

@@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.

Id take out the mortgage necessary

War.

@@moonlightdawn7249 thank you

lol. Happy Tree Friends reference.

@@Damien.Dno?????

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

Lol. Great idea

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.

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

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

*sets

Would go really good in dreamzzz

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.

Or as bonus pieces like the golden ninja in Ninjago

"Scottish here" Aren't you Scottish everywhere?

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

Thanks!

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

Well that's fascinating.

That’s so smart!

Time to find it!

Time to get some of Grandmas cooking

Keep us posted!

Bricks my bad*

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

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

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. 😂

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

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

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

​@@ricomock2they aren't going to do that for off-colour bricks as that would ruin the next batch

​@@ThePlayerOfGameshe meant black bricks

For them non-marbled bricks are rare lol

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.

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

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

@@AbyssEyes02facts

Never let bro cook again 😂

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

Lego waygu!

You are kidding with this one arent you

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).

Still a cool misprint

You can buy your own crayon melter nowadays thankfully

I was thinking that too!

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

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

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

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

watch 10:29

@@kezif that was a april fools joke

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

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!

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

im from america and never knew this.

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

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

There are also Welsh test bricks out there...

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

Tell us! Tell us!

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

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.

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

I mean, yeah. Thats how QC works. Good job understanding it...?

But shitty prints and horrible colour mismatches are okay? But no they draw the line at cool looking bricks lol

@@rereertege7571 "horrible colour mismatches are ok but horrible colour mismatches aren't?" Seriously...?

@@sophieprime4669 I'm talking about mismatches between batches of bricks ending up in the same set obviously, that's quite a different situation than marbled bricks, no?

@@sophieprime4669 You can have marbled bricks and have very high QC though? The two aren’t exclusive to eachother.

Uhm... no. You can't make a hardened steel mold, ports, ejector pins and all from a plastic brick. At least not without as much effort as it is to completely redesign the mold.

@@gubx42 fair

@@gubx42 Sure but you absolutely can redesign mold for something as simple as a brick with a pair of calipers and an hour or twos work.

Part of Lego's success has been their rigorous dedication to quality control. Not surprising they would see something like this as an undesirable defect.

Did you even watch the video? Their property was being used without their permission. This isn't about fun at all.

@@HammerStudioGames Yes, I did. And yes, that was part of it but the bricks already exist, now. They aren't hurting anyone and people love and want them. If it were some random PoS corporation doing this, I wouldn't think twice, but this is LEGO, a TOY COMPANY! Just let people have fun, ffs.

Bricks.

There is a bit more info, but it is surely a lot oif talk about not much info.

Why tho...?

No.