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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:53:38 GMT
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Frank said:
> Hope I'm not stealing Steve Chuck's thunder, but I was browsing the Brickshelf
> Gallery and came upon this picture:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=14552
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> 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
> 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).
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> Actually, it looks like the mold may make more than 8 bricks, it looks like it
> has 4 layers, and thus makes 32 bricks.
I'd caution everyone not to draw TOO many conclusions from these pictures.
IIRC Mike Walsh said at the time he took these at LLC. The mold may or may not
be the entire mold actually used. Anyone who knows for sure may not be able to
say, either, as TLC considers their manufacturing stuff to be crown jewels, IP
wise and anyone who knows is almost certainly under non disclose.
Why do I say this? Because the stamping line in the next pic over is almost
certainly a fake. A clever one, we were suspicious that they would be
stamping out that many copies of a non current part, but it had us scratching
our heads for a while to see if we could spot where the substitution
happened... then we saw a STAMPED piece (with the LEGO logo on it) come in on
the input conveyor, go through the "stamper" and "come out" UNSTAMPED. :-)
That cinched it for us, although we never did spot the exact manner in which
the sleight of hand was occuring.
This was on LLC opening day in March 99. I doubt they slip up like that any
more.
Bet you a dollar we don't hear anything confirm or denywise from A Glennon now
that TLC sends paychecks to the Glennon household. :-)
++Lar
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| In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes: <about LLC factory tour stuff> (...) I don't really see why it wouldn't be (the entire mold). The only thing we've speculated on that doesn't *need* to be incorporated in a mold is the changable dies that (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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