Breaking the Mold

13 responses to “Breaking the Mold”

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   ideastoday

   Oct 24, 2009 at 4:06 am

   That is interesting. Nice shot.

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   Victor1

   Oct 24, 2009 at 4:36 am

   Killer. what brand are lego tires sold under? Fascinating fact.
   I have unopened sets of lego’s from the 60’s, the ‘pre-model’ phase where the only instructions were from your imagination.

   Lego rules!!!

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   JKaljundi

   Oct 24, 2009 at 7:53 am

   Some people say the real #1 is Matchbox with 100 million cars and 400 million tires per year 🙂

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   NYCandre

   Oct 24, 2009 at 10:21 am

   Could be the one which made the bricks that Google’s Larry and Sergei used to jury rig their first CPU farm ..uh cottage. Wouldn’t that be sweet?

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   jurvetson

   Oct 24, 2009 at 7:24 pm

   They used LEGO Duplo blocks (the bigger ones) for the early RAID farm. They tried less expensive blocks, but they were not rigid enough to hold the weight.

   Then they got a real rack:

   

   Victor: uuuh…… "LEGO Group" The bigger ones even have size markings – "56×38 R" – like big boy tires.

   

   Jkaljundi… interesting…. maybe they were quibbling about a tire vs. a solid wheel. =)

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   P^2 – Paul

   Oct 25, 2009 at 3:31 am

   I’m amazed they only do eight bricks per cycle. Assuming a (fast) 5-sec cycle time, that’s <6 kbricks/hr, so they have a lot of injection molding machines. And at that rate, 120 million represents less than 28 months of work. They must have a busy bunch of diemakers.

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   Duncan Rawlinson – Duncan.co

   Oct 25, 2009 at 8:50 pm

   Best toys ever.

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   Jim Rees

   Nov 7, 2009 at 3:11 am

   You can’t buy just regular Legos at the local toy store here, only the sets for making trucks or space ships or whatever. I tend to pick them up at garage sales.

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   reflective volleyball

   Sep 15, 2011 at 3:46 am

   I wonder where this is; I understood Lego to be exceptionally protective of these molds. I mean that is entirely understandable given the markup on their (admittedly precisely manufactured) plastic blocks.

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    jurvetson

    Sep 15, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    In a building @ LEGO Land !

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11. 

    reflective volleyball

    Sep 16, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Perhaps the next time I’m in Denmark I’ll see if I can capture a scene so well.

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12. 

    jayaarram

    Oct 19, 2011 at 11:11 am

    Interesting information! Thank for sharing.
    Plastic Injection Mold – Basics

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    Oct 19, 2015 at 5:19 am

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