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The Making of LEGO bricks, ?s
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:26:03 GMT
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I was thinking about LEGO direct, and production runs, and how the
modeling team gets bricks in whatever colors they want, and I started to
wonder:
Anyone know anything about the procedure they use to make LEGO bricks?
Specifically, what happens when they change colors? Do they have to
thoroughly clean the molds/injectors/machinery/etc, or do they just dump
the new color in and throw away the first batch of bricks with "mixed"
colors?
What would happen if you mixed the plastic pellets of two different
colors - say, black and white. Would you get a uniform grey, or would you
get a "marbled"/swirl effect? I think that'd be pretty cool.
J, pondering.
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 | | Re: The Making of LEGO bricks, ?s
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| (...) Sort of along these lines, I got a bucket of TYCO blocks a loooong time ago, and there was one red 2x4 brick with a yellow stripe in it, going from a bottom corner, up the side, and over two of the studs on that side. I still have it, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: The Making of LEGO bricks, ?s
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Johnston" <sakura@mediaone.net> To: <lugnet.general@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 11:26 AM Subject: The Making of LEGO bricks, ?s (...) Well, depending on the plastic, you could get either. If they (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: The Making of LEGO bricks
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| (...) Well, the Ultimate Lego Book (at least, that's what it's called in Dutch translation) has some stunning pictures of the production process. They build the three production steps (injection molding of the bricks, puting together of the more (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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