LEGO

Easter school holidays have just begun in Bavaria and it means that Legoland starts in the new season. Our annual passes are still valid, because the previous Easter was pretty late, and we just could not let them expire without taking the last opportunity to have some fun.

One of the attractions we visit every time is the LEGO Factory. You get a collectible brick at the entrance, watch a short video about the production process, and then go through a small factory floor, where those collectibles bricks are being produced right in front of the visitors.

A well-known fact mentioned in the video, is that the very first LEGO bricks from 1958 are compatible with those produced nowadays. The tolerance required to achieve this is 0.002mm. But their actual mold precision is 10 microns! Each model consists of hundreds or even thousands of various bricks, and all those tolerances add up. The quality is remarkable and it is in LEGO’s DNA.

There are many other manufacturers of “compatible” bricks, they often sell their products at half the price or even lower. But none of them was able to achieve similar quality and that satisfying click when one brick attaches to another.

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