October 18, 2004
How a lego brick is made
- all explained vividly by tiny weeny little isometric toons with hover-over mini movies to show details of various stages, executed in FLASH, and supplied with a gameboy-like electronic soundtrack.
No Danish Elves were harmed in the making of this entry, although many Danish robots were broken and smashed.
Stolen heartlessly from Screenhead There is no satisfying end to this toon. It just spins you right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, right round, round, round. Now you'll be singing that all day, ha ha ha!
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Corporate spin can even make factory work seem exciting.
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that was fun! )
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I love explanations of how assembly lines work (I watch Unwrapped, for instance, all the time). Thanks!
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Well done
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Lego catalogues of bygone years. 1965 is particularly evocative for me. I had the garage with automatic doors in this one. Never really worked. In German, but what's the difference?
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1965? Wow. I remember getting lego sets in 1974 (about my earliest memories) that weren't that different to those! I remember being very frustrated with the lack of variation in the types of brick (I was always attempting to build very detailed spaceships with interiors) - it was years later that the technics sets and the first castle sets started appearing with all the special brick types. I remember those old wheels with the rubber tyres, etc. Quite a blast from the past! Strange feeling to realise that I am old enough to remember 'the old days' before most of the people reading this were even born! I still feel exactly the same as I did back then, though.
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That was great- thanks Nostrildamus.