it's nice to see lego adopting the "a worker mistake is a company mistake" philosophy

@Bart-Did-it

Жыл бұрын

Fortnite = Kiddy Crack

@fortnitesexman

Жыл бұрын

@@Bart-Did-it yeah

@zardzewialy

Жыл бұрын

Basics of internal audit. When you find a problem you back track it with the "5 times why" rule to get to the root cause of the issue.

@goofycker

Жыл бұрын

Another forkjign listical....

@fortnitesexman

Жыл бұрын

@@goofycker wdym listical?

LEGO Employee: *Makes a huge and expensive mistake* LEGO: "It's ok, we're all human. Here, let's get you some better lighting so this doesn't happen again." You love to see it.

@The_Shadow_Emperor

Жыл бұрын

Also Lego when profits decrease by 5%: *Hands pink slip to 1,400 employees*

@noahmaldonado5461

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile at any other company: *Fired*

@sheilaolfieway1885

Жыл бұрын

Hey that's a really great way to handle it I think.

@HappyDude1

Жыл бұрын

They have insurance for these kind of mistakes The lights are a nice tax wright off And they can always fire him later for a " different" reason 😋

@nielsjensen4185

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Shadow_Emperor Where? What countries were affected by this is important since in Scandinavian countries there's a large social safety net to catch people in that situation and getting fired is far from the end of the world.

Absolutely love that LEGO added better lighting instead of firing.

@Freedomcustom

Жыл бұрын

Better to find the long term fix then the fire the guy and hope this doesn't happen again

@tetsi0815

Жыл бұрын

Assuming this was somewhere in Europe and that this was an honest mistake, firing that person would have simply been illegal and thus not an option. This was not corporate niceness, but worker protection laws at their best.

@automation7295

4 ай бұрын

That's probably because LEGO is a Danish company, I'm sure that firing people is lot harder or even illegal in Denmark and most of Europe. If LEGO was American, I'm sure they'll yell "you're fired!!!" at their employees instead of adding better lighting.

Small fun fact: in 2008 the pieces declined in quality because lego decided to save some money on plastic injectors, getting ones that cool down much quicker, causing the plastic to lose durability. The greatest victim was bionicle line in 2008, where durability of the pieces was pretty important. The biggest victim however was any set using lime green pieces, which cracked in few minutes of use.

@Winchester1979

Жыл бұрын

The very first set I bought for my own money was almost the last, due to some similar screwup years earlier. Back in 1992, I bought a set called "Space Shuttle Transporter", 6346, after having saved up for months.... and then parts started cracking as I built it. Antenna/lever bases, clips, the cup pieces used for the exhaust stacks, the 1x1 brick with vertical bars, the 1x2s with vertical ribs on one side and horizontal on the other side, the five-finger hinge plates, the 1x8 tiles.... everything cracked, just from normal play. I didn't buy anything else from Lego for more than two decades after that, though I got a couple of sets as gifts that stood up a little better.

@domicraft6341

Жыл бұрын

That explained why one of the heads of mine broke

@Mr.Brothybear

Жыл бұрын

The Bionicle "Lime Disease" Memes make more sense now

@aki_1302

Жыл бұрын

Hahli Mahri and Lesovikk were the worst victims.

@dominicstocker5144

Жыл бұрын

The color of current pieces doesn’t properly match anymore

Imagine banning gray bricks one of the most useful colors in Legos what would we do with out them

@anakinskywalker3282

Жыл бұрын

Star wars be like "wtf lego"

@ForeverFrost92

Жыл бұрын

Have better Star Wars ships and playsets...

@trenchvstudios

Жыл бұрын

Go yellow. They did it for the og knights castle set.

@medicusvulneratum3125

Жыл бұрын

Back to building yellow castles without gray bricks lol

@Capdukeymomoman

Жыл бұрын

@Someonewhoexists 🤓🤓🤓

Employee: Changes colors of brick in a set and loses Lego over $1,000,000 Lego: Installs better lighting for the employees *True Jedi Unlocked*

@tetsi0815

Жыл бұрын

More likely: worker protection laws made it illegal to fire that employee so better lighting it was

None of them fall into the "catastrophic failure" category, not even taken together. Let's talk about LEGO's current brick quality. uneven color shades, injection residues, even on premium sets. that's the catastrophe.

@HappyDude1

Жыл бұрын

I see a lot of people selling there lego, including me These last sets are over 500 euro For about 3000 bricks thats insane

@justTyping

Жыл бұрын

Or the 42125 Ferrari 488 GTE which was not stable and had other problems, the new street plates, which do not fit with older sets.

@automation7295

4 ай бұрын

If LEGO was American, it would been a catastrophic failure.

A good one to mention is the new UCS republic gunship, in which the box and instructions had a misprint where the Republic insignia, they printed the imperial insignia instead. It was hugely noticeable and they had to stop producing the sets for a bit to produce the corrected ones.

@HistoryUnwound

Жыл бұрын

Foreshadowing, maybe?

@crazyrobak3966

Жыл бұрын

@@Appletun503 Thanks. It's a picture of my cat I took that looks funny.

@mrlaz9011

Жыл бұрын

Probably a gunship during the republic to empire transition.

@berniethekiwidragon4382

Жыл бұрын

I have one sitting in front of me, with the correct insignia.

@crazyrobak3966

Жыл бұрын

@@berniethekiwidragon4382 Nice. I managed to get the one with the flaw. It was a big thing and Lego even responded to this with an apology.

A recalled set to mention: Lego 8939 Lesovikk, a 2007 Bionicle box set exclusive to Walmart that was released with a missing piece, shortly re-released with all pieces accounted for. Had to get Bionicle in there 😉

@shadxw_hunter

Жыл бұрын

the dream

@mrkicker11181

Жыл бұрын

Lime green parts

@Dargonhuman

Жыл бұрын

@@mrkicker11181 Bionicle Lime Disease 😂

Lego's response to that last one almost put a tear in my eye.

Mad respect for not blaming the worker, this is a classic example of "people are imperfect, so the process has to be designed to account for that. If it does not, then there is a problem with the process, not the person".

$6M mistake, omg! That’s crazy. Also, one dude packed over 120,000 bags… I’m very curious as to how long that took.

@ano_nym

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, seems strange to me. Does he fin and pack the pieces by hand? I would assume it was a robot that spit them out in bags.

@kailahmann1823

Жыл бұрын

@@ano_nym I guess, that robot just got fed with the wrong box for supply. But then I wonder what bad light they had to mix those…

@moondog8353

Жыл бұрын

He probably loaded plastic pellets into a machine that actually makes the bricks and loaded the wrong color pellets. I can't see a guy bagging up that many pieces but a machine could make and bag that many in pretty short order.

The last time I owned a LEGO product was over 12 years ago. Just found your channel and binge-watched for about two hours, earned the sub.

@golemgames9727

Жыл бұрын

Lego

@Geskawary234

Жыл бұрын

wow how old r u

@camsellstoys

Жыл бұрын

Be careful the legos are way more addictive

@SilverDreamweaver

Жыл бұрын

@@camsellstoys Not a problem, they're disgustingly overpriced now.

@Johnnyboy414

Жыл бұрын

@@SilverDreamweaver the themes are creativity were way better back then anyway.

The quality has REALLY gone down hill in recent times. Literally every other kit I buy from their own website contains missing pieces now. >.>

Personally, I consider their handling of Bionicle G2 and Hidden Side catastrophic failures of their own.

@djk6297

Жыл бұрын

Yeah HS I wasn't too fond of as although I brought a set I couldn't find the app in the Google Play Store and I was told my phone should work with it. It was like having the venue but no show. As for G2 Bionicle, the sets didn't seem too bad; to me it was the lore that sucked, especially with how it was addressed (no comics or books, just 2-3 min vids. Probably why it only lasted a few years and Lego knew it.

@ClankyOtter

Жыл бұрын

Bionicle G2 run still makes me cry at night

I would like to point out how LEGO's rules of what's appropriate are strange As they won't make any sets based on military but they will make Nazis for the Indiana Jones sets. And make characters like Joker, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, Captain Boomerang, Deathstroke, Two-Face, Penguin, Riddler, Red Skull, Crossbones who are all comic book characters who notably have committed quite a few heinous actions over the course of their long history as characters.

@brownmanguylego6270

Жыл бұрын

No pew pew, pew pew = bad. Oh na zi’s? That’s fine

@Markiz93

Жыл бұрын

They also made a Sopwith Camel - a WW1 fighter aircraft.

@iamablacksabbathsong9765

Жыл бұрын

I mean what are the 77 years old Nazi corpses going to do stop them , comeback to life and sue lego ?

@chrisparkes2179

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, those are the franchise's that sell. Before they started making their first Star Wars sets the company was in trouble. Sales were declining as the pieces don't wear out and people were passing them down through families. The themed sets did a bit to revive the company's fortunes, but nowhere near as much as taking up product licences did.

@rwandaforever6744

Жыл бұрын

They will sacrifice these policies really fast in the coming years, since their customer base is no longer kids (as can be seen in what kind of sets they sell and for what price) but adults. They are essentially going from making creative toys to making one-build models. And when these customers want military stuff, they will get it...or they will take their money to Cobi and other brick companies that DO specialize in those themes. Unfortunately, with the declining overall quality of their bricks and lackluster sets, into which a unicorn threw up, they are losing customers so fast, they resorted to going from finding creative engineers and designers to stocking up on lawyers. If your product sales decline due to the competition having better quality and ideas, suing them is much more profitable than getting better products and ideas yourself. There are over 100 hundred companies out there that make brick-based sets. Most are not on LEGOs level, a dozen or so are and a hand full are even better.

Lego saying they won’t do Military stuff as if a bunch of the Indiana Jones sets from like a decade ago didn’t have literal Nazi and Soviet mini figs with Military vehicles in them lmao

@chikihando2483

Жыл бұрын

Didn't they removed the nazi stuff ?

@stringjamer

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Lego went woke. They support Black Lives Matter and the alphabet community.

@Superszyga

Жыл бұрын

I hope they bring back sets like these one day. Those sets were mostly amazing and highly playable. Well, kids use lego figs as an army anyway.

@Mrenderboyo

Жыл бұрын

Apparently they’re remaking the set with the REAL nazi plane

@FieldMarshalYT

Жыл бұрын

@@stringjamer No, it's always been LEGO policy. They just bend it sometimes.

The reason of the cancellation of the "Osprey" is quite dubious as they had already released 3 other sets tied to the real military, although old ones: 10226 and 3451 Sopwith Camel (including machine guns) and set 10024 the most (in)famous blood red Fokker DR.I Triplane flown by the (in)famous Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen.

@crash8542

Жыл бұрын

I think one of the reasons they were fine releasing those sets is because they are depicting planes from WW1 . In the company's early years, the company's creator, Ole Kirk Christiansen, created the policy that they would never depict modern war in their toys because of the 2nd World War happening at the time. Now of course they've broken this rule for licensed themes like Indiana Jones and Captain America, but, it does explain why they've made unlicensed sets and minifigures depicting Union soldiers in their western theme, as well as minifigures based off of Continental soldiers from the Revolutionary war

@djk6297

Жыл бұрын

@@crash8542 yeah i just started to think something similar. If it's modern military Lego has a policy against, which i guess can include anything from 1980-present, anything before that would probably be considered "historical." The Sopwith Camel set, both the late 1990s and 2002 versions, were from WWI and were probably considered historical, if this is making sense (honestly, when was the last time a WWI plane was used in Iraq or Afghanistan?)

@mrkeykush693

Жыл бұрын

@@djk6297 I think that they just make that specific rule to avoid some themes like WWII, Cold war ETC... but why do we have star wars? i mean, the imperium it's just based on nazi germany, they uniforms kindda look the same

@djk6297

Жыл бұрын

@@mrkeykush693 when you mean imperium do you mean the first order? In the seventh movie when the general is giving that speech followed by starkiller base unleashing that blast to destroy those planets, that assemblage it did remind me of a rally, black symbol on white background on red banner and all, minus the planet-destroying blast. Heck, aside from star wars, stormtroopers were also a German force. As for Lego and how they're allowing sets could mainly be the license contract they've had with star wars. Let's face it, it's been Lego's longest running theme and one of the best selling. Perhaps lego has to make sets or it could violate the contract. Other than that, while star wars exhibits some WWII elements, its not direct, and it's more scifi, so it doesn't violate Lego's terms.

@CplBurdenR

Жыл бұрын

@@djk6297 "honestly, when was the last time a WWI plane was used in Iraq or Afghanistan?" 1st World War plane, good point. But 1st World War *tank*? Renault FTs were found in Afghanistan in the 2000s.

The cynic in me guesses that LEGO found a way to get rid of that employee once nobody was paying attention anymore. Perhaps they just put him somewhere, where he couldn't possibly do that much damage.

It is nice that they were able to fix sets and possibly get the money back. Wonderful video, thank you.

The Osprey cancellation makes me beyond furious. I really think that they only recalled it because of the gearbox problems.

@hakanstorsater5090

Жыл бұрын

It could be the gearbox problems, as well, in a combined cause. The military connection might make the company look more ethical, though, rather than just hiring sloppy designers...

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

It's ironic too, as the Osprey is - like the Chinook & Huey - not explicitly a military vehicle... but Lego has always been hypocritical & daft on stuff like this. Still: more money for Kobi or Megabloks, when inevitably they release one.

@snipingwes

Жыл бұрын

@@jimtaylor294 all the research was led by military, so it wouldn't have even been mass produced if the US of A wasn't using it to monopolize power globally 😉 also wished we would've had it, but I'm not gonna call someone daft for sticking to a set of principles

@snipingwes

Жыл бұрын

There are reviews where this theory is tested, and while the clutch does impressively work to prevent motor damage from blocked rotors, it does look/feel a bit delicate

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

@@snipingwes A fixable issue though; which makes Lego cancelling the entire set all the more illogical.

That's very nice of them to not fire or punish the employee for the mistake and extremly nice to hear that there's companies that don't fire or punish employees for mistakes.

@TheTrueSpottedStripe

Жыл бұрын

Why is everyone saying this like it's fact? Just cause they don't say they fired someone doesn't mean they didn't.

@oswaldcrowley

Жыл бұрын

@@TheTrueSpottedStripe I thought it was nice hearing companies that don't and who said that my opinion was facts?

Okay the crooks set really confuses me They are concerned the set ''goes against their values'' ? Lego have went back on their values so many times now their ''values'' dont mean diddley

@djk6297

Жыл бұрын

if the problem is the giant dynamite then that's sad since lego has made tiles with dynamite printed on them, along with other bombs in their history

@chasemiddleton8088

Жыл бұрын

As strange as it is to say, this is likely what happened: If you recall, that was around the time that BLM (black lives matter) reached a new peak. A big part of the BLM protesting at the time was against Police Brutality, with many berating the police, calling for them to be defunded, etc. Now it is just a theory, but I'm imagining Lego decided not to release the set because it featured active police officers, which, sadly, would go against the 'media storm' at the time. In fact it is around this time they stopped selling a few other police-themed sets as well, if I recall correctly.

Improved the lighting instead of firing the guy. I wish that was more the standard behavior instead of the exception

@HappyDude1

Жыл бұрын

They can still fire him later for a "different " reason

This video would be a lot better if you showed videos of the failure - eg. the metal axle, the floppy neck etc.

Another example was Galidor, it was such an expensive mistake

@djk6297

Жыл бұрын

yeah i still don't understand that one. It like lasted for one year and was based on a show that I never even watched

1:56 i have 2 of those blue sweeper pieces and they are so satisfying to spin around.

On numerous occasions Lego has made sets resembling military vehicles. such as in 2013 released a creator set where one of the options was to make a vtol plane similar to the banned Boeing one.

@blockstacker5614

Жыл бұрын

They literally had a Sopwith Camel set

@Gameprojordan

Жыл бұрын

The new 3 in 1 supersonic jet is loosely based on an F14

@BrickersInArms

Жыл бұрын

And Dino Attack was a whole theme dedicated to the military fighting dinosaurs

@Mrenderboyo

Жыл бұрын

Dont forget the real nazi plane in the one last crusade set (the flying wing doesnt count because its not a real plane)

Other companies when a worker fucks up: "YOU'RE FIRED" LEGO when an employee makes a mistake: "Nah, man, it's cool. Clearly we must've set you up for failure somehow. Let's fix that, shall we?"

Another possible reason the dynamite factory was cancelled was because Lego thought it resembled police brutality, as the set itself depicts a police raid on a criminal hideout

@nilzero5686

Жыл бұрын

this is the correct answer- at the time IIRC was when there were multiple protests against police brutality by American cops against black Americans. The police in America has become more and more militarized and LEGO smartly read the room.

@maxxor-overworldhero6730

Жыл бұрын

@@nilzero5686 Except that there's quite a bit of police brutality that was wildly blown out of proportion or even brazenly lied about. Even now there's a bunch of incidents that despite all evidence showing justified shootings, people will still call them unjustified brutality. Not so fun fact, one of the very first cities to become a victim of violent "anti-police" riots in recent history was Ferguson, and Ferguson burned in memory of a person who was shot by police while quite literally in the process of committing a massive violent crime spree across the city. I legitimately kid you not, the list of crimes committed in that single night by the guy shot reads like a 5-⭐ GTA rapsheet. And Ferguson still gets treated like a case of brutality.

@MrJoeyWheeler

Жыл бұрын

@@nilzero5686 "brutality" in this case meaning "criminals being correctly treated".

I'm still salty for the osprey because it was a model I actually wanted and also because yep, the aircraft was used in real war but as far as I know it was used as medevac, not in combat

@Kuro_Nguyen

Жыл бұрын

Tbh they should allow only unarmed transport vehicles from the military

@mammutMK2

Жыл бұрын

From the review from the few guys that got one, it looks like it had a massive gearing issue

@skoiloine5809

Жыл бұрын

@@Kuro_Nguyen So next to none? The majority of military transports are armed, because protecting oneself is pretty damn important when you're in a huge steel death box fighting people who know that the big car is the one with the people in it, and so focus on that transport. Or is it just a matter of making a real transport but taking the weapon off? So you can have a Stryker APC or something, but it just can't have a gun up top?

@Kuro_Nguyen

Жыл бұрын

@@skoiloine5809 I guess

@TestECull

Жыл бұрын

@@skoiloine5809 NGL I would happily buy a Technic M1A2 Abrahms. Would not even hesitate. Would be the first technic set released since the 8455 I wanted to buy in fact.

7:21 yet i recall old western style sets having minifigure scale dynamite... 8:00 and this is where companies like megablox raise ahead because kids especially young boys like this sort of thing and honestly the Osprey is a transport for the most part and doesn't really carry weapons aside from some defensive ones, apparently they picked a arm or non-navy version as it's missing the refueling probe.

@hakanstorsater5090

Жыл бұрын

Crooks with their own dynamite factory have more sour connotations, than crooks just carrying a few dynamite sticks...

@sheilaolfieway1885

Жыл бұрын

@@hakanstorsater5090 who said it was their dynamite factory? they could have stolen it.

@hakanstorsater5090

Жыл бұрын

@@sheilaolfieway1885 Still, it carries problematic undertones if they control the production...

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

^ Hardly. Kids couldn't care less about such details; nor most [sane] adults. That, and "problematic" is such a cliched nonsenseword XD.

It was green that Lego didn’t want to use for fear of children building tanks, not grey.

@Winchester1979

Жыл бұрын

Gray too, but that was rescinded in 1978 when they launched the space lineup.

@worldcomicsreview354

Жыл бұрын

At my summer job teaching young kids I enjoyed using the build-anything sets to make "un-PC" stuff like tanks and jukebox cars (to which some girls added a water slide... what a missed opportunity for those IRL manufacturers in the 50's). I was working on a WW2 Japanese aircraft carrier, but didn't get time to finish it.

that story about the worker mistake is incredible. At my company my product manager told the story about how a QA guy messed up, costed alot of money and then got fired. He was so proud of that firing

As a chess player I am proud to say that I noticed the mistake on the chess set immediately after seeing it.

Why would that lego truck be an issue if every single toy car I've ever seen had the same design with a metal axle and wheel you could easily remove....

When it comes to the Technic Osprey, the weird thing imo is that it was canceled so late. LEGO was always kinda weird in its policies, especially with the Indiana Jones theme. But here I feel like LEGO should have addressed the potential controversy with the Osprey quite a bit sooner.

I’m glad they didn’t sack that employee. It’s such an easy mistake to make. Those shades of grey are so similar.

speaking of catastrophic mistakes... 1. Town Jr, 2. Jack Stone, 3. Galidore, 4. LEGO's decision to change the main shade of classic light grey, classic dark grey, and classic light brown to light bley, dark bley and reddish brown. This decision was made because "focus groups" thought that the new shades "looked better". I know there were a lot of fans who quit collecting because the new elements didn't go with the older sets they had collected already. What was worse was LEGO's management said the decision was "locked" and "final" without talking to any other interested stakeholders.

That Osprey debacle is such a bs. I mean, didn't they somewhat recently released the 31039 "Blue Power Jet" clearly patterned after the F-35 fighter? Not to mention that 90% of their Star Wars line, while fictional, has stronger militare connection than civilian SAR version of the Osprey.

@berniethekiwidragon4382

Жыл бұрын

Star Destroyers, Death Stars, various tanks and starfighters, tie-in games and magazines...😂 I'm not complaining.

@mrkeykush693

Жыл бұрын

I mean, just look like the Imperium, they look like a bunch of space Nazis

What a shame that V22 Osprey wasn't released.

Lego: "we won't make any sets that resemble a military thing!" Also Lego: **Sopwith Camel go brrr**

"Not visually appealing" shows two of the best low/mid price sets ever

Part of the street sweeper thing is that not very long before this that was produced, there was a major controversy with a gun called the street sweeper. It was a drum magazine fed semi-automatic shotgun called the street sweeper. It's marketing was a little odd. People found it very threatening and the government stepped in. They probably didn't want to be connected to something like that because the product shared the same name

So Lego is not selling Military Vehicles? I remember that Lego in the early 2000s had a Set depicting the Redbarron Set Number 10024... Red Baron you know imperial Germanys fighter pilot? They canceled the civillian Osprey but delivered the Richthoven plane?

@coltpiecemaker

Жыл бұрын

Yep! They've even released models of the famous Sopwith Camel WW1 fighter plane... twice!

@itmkoeln

Жыл бұрын

@@coltpiecemaker I did specifically remember the Red Barron but yeah when I think about it in the catalogue they had a British WWI plane… Yeah it has been the sopwith camel 10226… They even have a Fighter out in this moment… What if not a military vehicle is the supersonic jet 31126

I actually had that Duplo Super Truck in the early 2000s and I remember my parents never accepted the recall. great list!

The color packaging mistake is what's knows as a "process indicator". I'm certain in the end even after the mistake they were happy to have had an opportunity to make a process improvement.

Queen always starts on her own color - that makes it easy to remember how the board should be correctly oriented :)

Lego : makes The Red Baron as a Set Also Lego: noo this copter is used by the millitary too.. I would wish me more critc in the video

Anytime a Pop Star cries and Angel gets their Wings

My grandparents had that truck and I would play with it whenever I went over. It didn't break (and show the metal axel) until I was much older.

What should be on this list is the new At te . The main reason it was delayed was due to a missing brick in the set.

It's nothing compared to what happened to Lego's rival Mega Bloks. In the peak of their success they bought a company that made among other things, a knockoff of geomag. This got them involved in the whole "strong magnets are dangrous" scandal and lead to a massive recall which from what I can tell basically broke the company. What was left was eventually bought by Mattel.

LEGO canceled Osprey because it's a military vehicle but had no problem with releasing Sopwith Camel with machingeuns mounted on it...

A recent set that vanished from the Lego site and from stores, like it no long exists: Lego Brand Store set 40574. It was a brand new set this year and it’s already gone, like no record of it on the Lego site.

@SupersuMC

Жыл бұрын

Dang.

I was hoping to see mention of Power Miners. I remember loving the set i got from that franchise, only for it to disappear entirely, and i never knew why LEGO discontinued it; i still don’t know why

It’s weird that Lego will go so far to not make any sets that resemble the military or violence. When they made soldiers and ww2 vehicles for Indiana Jones sets without a problem

@Gameprojordan

Жыл бұрын

Also the toy soldier set from the early 2010s toy story line. Literally 4 ww2 soldiers and a ww2 jeep. They even came with rifles lol

I'm having hard time wrapping my head around how #2 can qualify as catastrophic.

Legos has really come down in quality. Their sets are super overpriced, and they don't even require much building. They've replaced small pieces with big chunks of plastic.

@worldcomicsreview354

Жыл бұрын

I remember they were doing the same thing circa 2007, as apparently kids like the "instant gratification" of videogames, so they "want a toy straight away" without "wasting time" building it. Apparently these people were never kids themselves. Anyway they went back to basics for a while, but appear to have since gone back back to complicateds. So to speak.

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

"Why don't yhey just give kids a huge brick, shaped like a Lorry -_- " - James May, 2007

Amazing that a search and rescue Osprey is too militant but they have 3 sets representing specific WW1 fighter aircraft, with appropriate markings, color schemes, and machine guns.

@cementarii8458

Жыл бұрын

On top of that countless star wars sets, which are fictional but still depict military vehicles and guns

the last recalls ending warms my heart

LEGO: We will never sell you anything that looks even remotely military; war isn't fun! Also LEGO: Yo, wanna see the latest ludicrously priced Star *Wars* sets?

I would rather lose $10,000,000 instead of stepping on a Lego brick.

I understand that LEGO doesn't make military sets, however, I made a Navy base with an aircraft carrier, battle cruiser, Submarine, Destroyer and a Cruiser for my Lego City. All brick built. Most are MOCs. Hello from Japan 🗾🇯🇵

A recent mistake was the technic formula 1 car that had a company's name on the tires without the license. Lego reissued the set without the name on the tires

@SageArdor

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My question is how the branded tires ended up being produced in the first place.

imagine lego factory become kamino facility with the lightning upgrade

It is a bit hypocritical to avoid military but produce hundreds of sets with Star Wars. Dozens of lasers, cannons, Fighter ships and walking tanks, war droids and Something called a “death star “that destroys whole planets! 😗🤣 (❤️Lego)

LEGO: "We will not produce military themed products, EVER." Also LEGO: "These Star Wars models of space fighters, space tanks, space soldiers, and space WARSHIPS are okay!"

"Some people will find any reason to file a lawsuit against a hugh company like Lego". This one is really funny knowing what the company does itself all the time.

There were bigger catastrophes, like the Lego TV show, and the fact Lego didn't keep track of finances until the late 90s.

Ya that grey brick lighting issue. ....I've been there. lol I'm surprised by Lego's 'no military stuff' policy. Like I understand the premise but they take it too far like with the no grey bricks, no ospray rescue vehicle, etc... But then they'll make an entire castle line for 10+years with only 2-non military buildings(blacksmith & Inn) and very few pesants. ...as a kid I was looking at the 'City' sets and wondering why there were no Medieval Windmill, Tavern, Farm, etc.. sets.

8:15 The Ospey has never been used for search and rescue; the USN was considering the aircraft for military search and rescue, but chose an alternative in 2001.

Loved this video very informative

I was just curious after you mentioned the steamboat willie thing and checked mine that I got with Christmas money and I guess no one shops around me because mine said #24 P.s. I already opened and built it P.s.s. no I will not be selling the box because one most of the value went away when I'd opened it and 2 I got it because of my love for animation and its history

@tomooo2637

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You will be surprised how valuable second hand sets are, but I am glad you want to keep it.

@TankswillRule

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Animation is respectable. But Disney gone so corrupt, I dont think I will support them in any way.

Wow,Thank you so much for doing this,I learned so much new info about this! I'm subbed and clicked Like. This was great video!

Lego loses Tens of Millions every year by still doing poor set designs, using stickers instead of prints and selling too expensive. They could be selling much much more if they would finally fix these 3 issues.

@quinboi3461

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They do prints instead of stickers

@rosedawson1646

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@@quinboi3461 But only in very few sets.

@truereaper4572

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stickers are better than prints

@worldcomicsreview354

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@@truereaper4572 I bet you eat pinapple on pizza too

@jimtaylor294

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They lose billions on their daft "no war" policy though, and always have done. Entire companies exist because of it, or have added Lego'esque sets to their ranges; most thereof laughing all the way to the bank. Not that boys in the past weren't making do with ad hoc military vehicles made of Lego anyway; typically joking "It's like a Lancaster Bomber on Ceefax".

At the Renaissance Festival a little girl had dropped her teddy bear in the crowd gathering at the jousting field. The bear got kicked several time until it went under the rail. The little girl was crying to I went through the railing to retrieve it. When I handed it back to her she borrowed her father's sword and knighted me as, "Defender of the small and helpless, and Champion of the hopeless cause".

@ghostinthecornerofyourroom6612

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That's cool, which ren fest was it?

Thank goodness other companies are willing to make military Lego sets when the official company doesn't have the balls to make them.

Lego - ooga booga no military vehicles Cobi, coming to save the game -

I live Lego so much I cry when I lose a single piece from a set.

I Still have one of those lego RC train remotes somewhere but I’ve never had the overheating problem.

As someone who has been seriously eyeing the Wall-E set for purchase even well after its’ retirement, I would’ve had no idea about the whole neck situation. Doesn’t help that a lot of bootlegs of that set exist that are super hard to differentiate online.

Wasn’t there a LEGO Toy Story set with the soldiers and a little Willys Jeep? What about the Indiana Jones sets with “very mean Germans?” But a search and rescue V-22 is too much? Strange.

@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310

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Yeah,the Idniana Jones sets which they've made several had the "very mean Germans" in the WW2 style vehicles. I agree,that is conflicting and odd about there policy. 😐

@Shvetsario

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Lego Dino Attack too

@synderthmc

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@@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310 I think is about military stuff coming directly from THEM specifically. Indiana jones is not theirs and so the inclusion if the "very mean germans" is not theirs

@giannipiccioni8411

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I feel the difference is between making a set about a story with bad people and making a set about bad people. To make an extreme example, Lego could never make a set about "very mean germans", like a model of the car guided by "a failed Austrian painter", because in some way such a set could be interpreted as a way to portray them in a good way. But making a set about a story where the "very mean germans" are defined (by the story itself) as bad is different. If you think about it, any of the vehicles from Star Wars are basically military, but they come from a story where the good and the bad people are well defined and, most importantly, LEGO as a company does not take any responsibility in the morality compass of the portrayed characters.

@parkerjanelle7853

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@@giannipiccioni8411 Absolutely agree, although I did some research, and unfortunately a group called the German Peace Society essentially threatened to “cancel” Lego if they released the set, as it was directly licensed by the V-22’s manufacturer Boeing, and they would in turn get a cut of the sales. I don’t know about you, but to me that’s the most 2020 reason imaginable. 🙃

Wow that’s a lot of cash just gone

Oh damn I had that truck as a kid! Had no idea it was recalled. I played with it all the time for years, and it never broke on me.

W lego for not firing that guy

i am so high and started watching the video and wasn’t even paying attention but looked at the truck and thought where there would be a metal axel in there or if it was all plastic and as i thought that it started talking about why it was taken off for that reason

Turns out the steamboat willie set I have does indeed have the misprinted box!

W to lego for not punishing the guy who messed up the grey colour

Sued?!...and they would settle out of court. Catastrophic? They still make billions in profits...lol.

I think for the remote control mistake would be, and because of some people who had it inserted batteries, and it started to heat up and caught on fire so it would be a waste of money just for control that would set on fire

Won’t make military vehicles, but makes “Star Wars” and various other fighting genres. Kids don’t know difference between real and fake.

Nice to see the Legend of Left Shark even reaching into the Lego world 🤣 Best dancer ever

Lego needs to lighten up on the no-military-sets policy. They could sell alot of sets around that theme, especially to their adult customers. Remember, LEGO, WE'RE the ones with the money.

Oops..!!! I made the photos for the Pirate Chess set. But no one of us working on it at the time, noticed the mistake.

While I've gotten more interested in 20th century history and been drawn more towards cobi for their sets revolving around that, I just don't get how lego is really competing anymore. I mean, I'd buy from their pick a brick section of the website to be able to make dioramas, but everything they produce seems so wildly expensive now. In fact I saw a creator set that was being sold at £160. Granted it was amazon, and probably spld by a dropshipper but I could have sworn I had a very similar set when I was younger that was at max about £40. Contrast that to cobi, while not selling sets in the sense that lego does, max out at £40 for the average tank, plane or other vehicles, with more premier planes and tanks (like the b17 and Karl gerät) going for about £70-£90 each, still expensive, but reasonably so.

This was an Awesome Video!

Non military stuff, yet alot of the technic planes/helios have military styles, an same with the unimog, I think the v22 should have been made

Ngl, the ending gave me a little hope for humanity

Funny how they have vowed to not make any sets depicting war, but then go on to make star wars sets