What LEGO Didn't Tell You...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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