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Subject:	Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.california
Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:57:19 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes: > Hope I'm not stealing Steve Chuck's thunder, but I was browsing the Brickshelf > Gallery and came upon this picture: > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=14552 > > It was taken on a LEGO factory tour. It's a picture of a retired mold which > makes 8 2x3 bricks. There is a little caption plate which said it made I'd take a stab that that is actually the "LEGO Factory Tour" in Funtown at LLC. Or at least, it looks an awful lot like it. :) There is also a mold machine pumping out 2x4 red bricks (at the time) and an assembly line machine that made & took apart simple LEGO cars. > 120,000,000 bricks (thus was used for 15 MILLION cycles). If that mold cost 10 > times as much as the mold Robert describes, it still comes out to less than 1 > cent per brick, and 10 times the cost of the mold Robert describes is probably > an exageration). > > Actually, it looks like the mold may make more than 8 bricks, it looks like it > has 4 layers, and thus makes 32 bricks. Making for a mere 3.75 million cycles... However, IIRC, the mold machine on display there only dropped a single layer of bricks at a time - it's reasonable to assume that the mold machine on display resembles those in the factory, which would make that an 8 brick mold. Someone who's been to LLC more recently than I may have more accurate info. (Or maybe Ashley could shed some official light on our speculation... Ashley?) James

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		Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
James & All, (...) Brickshelf (...) which (...) at (...) machine (...) cost 10 (...) than 1 (...) probably (...) Well, I do know those molds cost a pretty penny. A mold for a Chrysler battery box for the Neon cost 500,000, and it was a little bigger (...) (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.california)

		Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
"James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:G15MBJ.GLu@lugnet.com... (...) Brickshelf (...) which (...) at (...) machine (...) I was at LEGOLAND California a week and a half ago and the factory tour equipment is still pumping (...) (26 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.california)

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		Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
(...) The (...) and (...) Hope I'm not stealing Steve Chuck's thunder, but I was browsing the Brickshelf Gallery and came upon this picture: (URL) was taken on a LEGO factory tour. It's a picture of a retired mold which makes 8 2x3 bricks. There is (...) (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)

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