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Re: Discovery channel-How It's Made-Plastic building blocks
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Patterson wrote:
> Discovery channel-How It's Made: Today, Feb 21, had an interesting segment on
> the making of plastic bricks, Mega Blocks. I would assume that it is the same
> process that Lego uses (too bad they did not use the Lego Company, wonder if
> they were asked.) They showed the process from the plastic pellets, coloring
> them to injection molding. I believe that it is from last years series. They
> also showed the making of the buckets and counting the bricks to put in them.
> They did have one process that seemed to be an improvement was that the labels
> on the buckets are attached while the plastic is being injected so they become
> permenant. This may be old news but it is the first time I saw this segment.
> John P
"How It's Made" is produced in Canada, so Megablocks was probably their first
choice.
Great show, too - I can sit and watch it for hours.
JohnG, GMLTC
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