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It would have been awesome if they used those molds to make concrete LEGO bricks and built the thing with those instead of dumping the old molds in the concrete...

@ImportViking would that even work?

@Think_Tank no, definitely not, as a normal construction would need steel reinforcement and would be best poured in one piece, but the thought itself is intriguing.

@Think_Tank

Not exactly. Some house-building robots actually use bricks with those little nubs on the tops of lego bricks, with adhesive of course. The question becomes whether the robots should use those nubbed-bricks, regular bricks with regular mortar, or if it's all being done by robots anyway just 3D print the entire thing with layers of concrete.

Also, fun fact, in ancient times a lot of giant stone blocks did have those nubs on them to keep the blocks from slipping.

I love how Sweden is just like "Hi Denmark. What is it now?". He's so used to Denmark's antics by now.

@ryttyr Well we have too. How else would we get Sweeden to listen? And admit it. Without us you guys would be borred.

@Horsi True. But it seems Sweden have grown used to it so you might need to think of something new eventually.

@ryttyr Hard to argue with that. Perhaps we should celebrate Fastlaven twice a year? Evil grin

@Horsi Perhaps

@ryttyr Well Sweden ran the last time. Making it twice a year raise the chance of getting you. ;)

@Horsi I'm board of Legos quickly sometimes. But minecrat is like Legos x infinity. I just can't get board of it. Make a castle, fireworks,learn code, blow stuff up, and make friends. And slot more. I can't find an end compared to Legos. I still love Legos though as they are how I started

@AgentMatt6 Well then we better start getting up with new antics. We can always try to tick Sweden up again.

Lego is best when there's no theme involved, but just a huge cardboard box full of bricks that can be made into whatever your imagination dreams up.

@weelydangle Hear here! The Master Builder speaks!

(and I fully agree with you. I had thousands of hours of fun that way when I was little)

@weelydangle
A mix of both is also fine, I used to remove the canons and guns from the pirates sets, Combine it with a castle or two and use the normal bricks to build amedievel harbour town, which got either attacked by Land from other set Knights or by Sea by the Pirates.
You need a lot of bricks even for a small harbour town though.

@nroejb But the best thing about building a town that gets attacked (or some kind of other disaster occurs, like maybe an earthquake) is that then you get to rebuild it (making important improvements while you're at it)

@weelydangle For me it was the fact that the Lego people could easily be beheaded, have an arm or hand removed or put in two halves to fit the medieval warfare theme, but improving on my constructions was also good.

@nroejb Haha! Scattered limbs were certainly part of the appeal, it must be said

@weelydangle but the specialized boxes gives you parts that you don't usually get. How am I to build without pieces from several different franchises?

@Ocadioan We managed in the early 80s...

God, have I become one of those people who bangs on about entitled millennials?

God, I miss when Lego had original themes and not everything being licensed IP crap.

The glory days of Space Police, Ice Planet, Spyrius, Aquanauts, etc. It is nice that they brought Technic back, even though they're just colorful, flashy exterior where you can't see the gears and stuff.

@Dan You're forgetting the greatest LEGO theme of all time: Bionicle.

@Dan given the years during which those themes ran I'd estimate you're about 37 give or take a year or two?

Never heard of Spyrius though ...

@loupblanc I had a bunch of those sets, one of their space themes, red and black bricks, had a thing for robots, and giant robots, but with wheels not legs

@loupblanc
I'm 32, thankyouverymuch.

But I'm still 16-23 at heart. And I am a bit annoyed at how regressive Generation Z is turning out to be. I recently encountered a discussion where girls were asking if it's okay for girls to buy dakimakuras. Dangit, the dark age when girls felt ashamed or hesitant to be into geeky and nerdy things was my generation's albatross. It's supposed to be long past!
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@Dan It's not just a Gen Z thing, it's a... for lack of a better term Immature Male thing. It's quite common with guys from middle school through college and even a few years beyond. A lot of those guys eventually mature mentally & emotionally, get married, have kids, etc. and start acting differently. Some never change, and are total jerks till the day they die. I don't know if it'll ever be solved, because I've seen guys I _know_ were raised not to act that way start acting like that as soon as they got away from home.

That dakimakura discussion sounds totally ridiculous though, does the girl have money to pay for it? If so, she can buy whatever the hell she wants, just like everyone else. Only room for argument would be age, if she's underage she probably shouldn't be buying R-18 ones, but that applies to underage boys as well.

And before anyone takes offense, let me be clear that I'm not saying all guys act this way, just far, far too many.

@Manabi
If you say so. It seems to me that hostility towards girl geeks has greatly increased since I was in highschool/college, with being a decent human being just inviting calls of "virtue-signaling white knight!" and "SJW!"

That's all I'll say about that. Now git off my lawn!

@Dan was gonna argue that they still have original stuff but after checking the 2018 Lego catalogue I have to admit that you seem to be right. The only original series in it was Lego Ninjago.

@Dan Blacktron!

@Intelliblue Ah, ye good ol' days of Blacktron, the original Space Sets from the 80s, even the modern ones from the early 2000s. *Sniff...*

All the good things are now on Lego Ideas, like the Saturn V or the ISS or classic Space sets. And even there, Space and Retro Space are having a hard stand.

https://world-flags.org/
Hey Humon, have you seen this yet?

@berugi
They look really cool! Thanks for putting the link there!

Suddenly, we know why Denmark colonized parts of the West-Indies.
LEGO IN THE CARIBBEAN

@Henlaar schhhh

@InDeathWeReturn Jack Sparrow knew where the true wealth lies

Were they going to dig in Concrete with a shovel, lol

@EUcomicartist More importantly, why are Sweden and Norway digging a tunnel in Denmark?

I’m gonna start an old Lego treasure hunt, and no Dane shall stop me!

@Rayati Just Try!! (waving my ancestral Dane axe in the air)

@Andse Im gonna help him by bringing a great sword and pole axe.

@Andse Oh yeah? *summons entire Phoenician fleet for backup*

Why did they demolish a lego factory anyway?
THAT'S A CRIME

@minando Not the factory, the worn out molds for the injection molding process. Those molds all experience several tons of force per cycle, and have a finite service life before they can no longer produce a product to spec. The thing is, a Lego has certain dimensions, material spec, and even part sprue attachments which can easily be cribbed from the product, but the injection molds would tell you sprue dimensions and fill points, and other manufacturing data used for maximum mold efficiency that the LEGO company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to calculate.

@tomyironmane Yeah but no but, they've "levelled the house" and are now ready to build a "tunnel"...

What is Sweden up to?

Is it secret? Is it safe?