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Re:Lego Saturn V by ctdonath on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:02PM (#14259489)
They also discard (melt & reuse) a ridiculous number of bricks. Someone did a study on the standard deviation of sold Lego bricks, and found extremely tight tolerances.

The patent expired long ago, but few companies will put that much effort into making those shapes that precisely.

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Re:Lego Saturn V by thomnottom on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:34PM (#14259800)
A friend of mine was confused as to how they continue to sell so well without the patents and I told him to try to build with MegaBlox. The knock offs are terrible and barely hold together. I can still build with 30+ year-old Lego pieces.
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Re:Lego Saturn V by rrauenza on Monday May 08, 2017 @12:20PM (#14292982)
That reminds me of the guy who built a machine to stress test the bricks to see how many cycles it would take to wear it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Tnb-LUM0yd4

edit: Ah! He did it for this stack exchange question - https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/1754/how-much-usa...

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Re:Lego Saturn V by cptn_brittish on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @08:15PM (#14261422)
In my family Lego is something passed down to the parents kids as it just doesn't die.
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Re:Lego Saturn V by hh2222 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @10:37AM (#14265119)
The ultimate recyclable toy!
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