The Improbable Rise of LEGO

13:32 no it isn’t, I’ve literally never heard of this company

Lego's were never affordable for me growing up.
I started with Lincoln Logs.
Than I was able to get Legos from garage sales and sometimes little lego booklets, to try and make a set from the mixture of pieces i had.
I was never able to afford a new set in the box.

Yes do a deep dive on Legoland please

yes, they need diamond nuclear legos.
oh they're not that bad.
you already got one in the room your in

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Moral of the story: If you want to make it big, you must first burn down your fathers workshop.

"Only the best is good enough"? Tell that to who's in charge of printed pieces vs stickers. It's getting out of hand. Any set over $250 should have 0 stickers imo.

I got a kid as a 46 year old so I having my second ‘Lego life’ now and it’s probably a better product these days.

Every time I hear y'all say "Nin-JOG-o" I cringe so hard that I worry I'll become permanently cramped up. I shouldn't have taken those Japanese credits in college, man. Now, every time I hear anything involving a Japanese word that's been brought into English in whatever form, it's about as bad as having a history degree and watching the History channel (when they still do history, I guess). Without ever hearing other Lego fans pronounce Ninjago, I'd immediately assume you'd say, "Ninja-go," though I doubt the "go" part has any real meaning, at least not in Japanese. But, weird AF that people call it nin-JOG-o. As if we all don't already know that ninja is a word on its own, right?

Also, the first and only girls' set I remember before finding out about Friends recently was the Paradisa set. I had a few of those, and they frustrated me for being too easy but also looked pretty nice. I was told in the '90s that Lego wanted to make lego for girls, but they assumed girls wanted more social-oriented role play, like with dolls, and tried to build that into the sets. In response, I later asked for a "very male Lego set" and was given a trailer carrying a race car. I've never been into cars, but it was a fun build. Before that, my fave build was my little bro's castle set. He didn't want to build it, just play with it, so I built it for him. Funny how we were kinda the opposite of what companies expected, regarding girls and boys playing with toys differently. Lol.

So, the bricks were actually a British invention. Good to know.

Never seen a brick separator before xD

I feel like Lego is on borrowed time unless they decrease their prices. And I'm not talking about megablocks but Chinese brands that either copy Lego sets or create their own but at a much cheaper price.

@SpitBrix I love your videos! I would like to see you make a video about when the different kind of bricks were introduced: bricks, plates, slopes, wheels, tiles, curves, windows, doors, hinges, turntables, hooks, couplings, etc., etc.

I remember when those faceless, armless, ,legless minifigs came out. They were so awesome to us. Before that we'd used smaller bricks !and truckloads of imahination) to try and make figures, but 90% of the time it Lego were the buildings and settings, scaled for Army Men-type plastic figures. Once those cop-style figures came out though most never went back to Army Men (though enough Lego did let me create Play Mobile and Mego Pocket Heroes' scale locations, including Aquaman cave HQ and Hall of Justice). When the armed & legged minifigs came it took a bit to switch over, seeing them as "just toys, not Lego anymore". Fun times. (PS-those segmented tall figures were nightmare fuel to me so never entered my home let along my playing)

"Mursten" is literally a brick in Danish, the word being made up of "wall" and "stone".

Where in all of this is the marvel theme?