Speaker 1: Everybody. It is Nerdificent coming in on hopefully both sides
Speaker 1: of your headphones. If not, you might need new headphones.
Speaker 1: This is if you wide away and sitting across from
Speaker 1: me is Danny Fernandez. Boomha, that's how you pronounced that name. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's very Actually there's a billion I've talked about this,
Speaker 1: but there are many Danny Fernandez is, in fact, even
Speaker 1: in this town. Or Dan Yelle Fernandez. Fernanda said, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of Fernando said, I think so, I think so. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been uh you know, it's it's been. It's been wild.
Speaker 1: How's your week going, Um, it's going a lot better
Speaker 1: than the founder of Lego who has passed, So his
Speaker 1: week is fine. But like when it was still we'recovering legos,
Speaker 1: and when I was researching this topic and like put
Speaker 1: this together, I found he had a very rough life
Speaker 1: where so many bad things happened. You would think that
Speaker 1: it was like God telling you not to make legos.
Speaker 1: Like if you believed in God, any normal sane person
Speaker 1: would be like cool, So I my factory burned down again, Um,
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't be making legos. But now he stuck
Speaker 1: with it. You know, some people were like, these are
Speaker 1: just my haters and mother Nature looking my dj they
Speaker 1: don't want you to build Lego. Yeah, all I do
Speaker 1: is win. I love the idea that like nature is
Speaker 1: your hater, by the nature my biggest universe, the universe
Speaker 1: trying to stop me. It won't biggest hater, it won't. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about the history of Legos.
Speaker 1: All right. So so you're saying he had a rough start, right, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So the Lego group began in the workshop of Ole
Speaker 1: Kirk Christon, who was a carpenter from Billain, Denmark, and
Speaker 1: he began making wooden toys in nineteen thirty two to
Speaker 1: make a living after having lost his job during the
Speaker 1: Great Depression. Man. Yeah, that's that's how you kick it
Speaker 1: off with a start. YEA. That is definitely checking all
Speaker 1: the boxes on every everything that might say you might
Speaker 1: have a rough start the Great Depression. Man, that was rough,
Speaker 1: you know, grapes rough, great book. Not going to do
Speaker 1: a deep dive on that. So don't have are we
Speaker 1: gonna do Warren Peace or nope? Perfect. We might read
Speaker 1: his short story The Chrysanthemums, But that's where that's where
Speaker 1: I draw the line. We should actually we need to.
Speaker 1: We need to. You don't want to do the Pearl?
Speaker 1: Which one was that it was the one with the pearl? Alright,
Speaker 1: then I guess I don't know that one. And then
Speaker 1: the Blue Dolphins. Okay, yeah, I mean that's the O
Speaker 1: G triple O G. Yeah. We should actually explore more books.
Speaker 1: We will. I believe we have a Harry Potter one
Speaker 1: that's on the docket. But we're of mind some men.
Speaker 1: The one thing that is cool about it we're going
Speaker 1: to do this quick tander is just the effect that
Speaker 1: it did indeed have because that archetype lived for so long.
Speaker 1: Just the short smart guy and the big dumb guy
Speaker 1: that's pinky in the brain. That's uh, you know, two
Speaker 1: stupid dogs, two stupid dogs. Yeah, like that's just went
Speaker 1: uh asteroids rinnen Stimpy Yep, it's just a certified classic.
Speaker 1: But there we're talking about legos and back to the
Speaker 1: Great Depression, which the Grapes of Wrath is based off
Speaker 1: of it. If you're wondering how we got from the
Speaker 1: Great Depression to John Steinbeck or not based off it
Speaker 1: takes place during it. It's the setic whatever. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about okay, yeah, yeah, So he he was a respected
Speaker 1: carpenter with his own company, but you know, times were
Speaker 1: super hard and he didn't have a lot of money,
Speaker 1: so he had to dismiss all of his workers, and
Speaker 1: soon after his wife, Christine died, leaving him to raise
Speaker 1: four sons. I have something to say here is that
Speaker 1: you can actually look up. We'll put in our footnotes.
Speaker 1: Lego made a cute, cute, adorable little animated short of
Speaker 1: Olay's like history, but in it when so when he
Speaker 1: had to layoff all of his workers, his wife is like, well, well,
Speaker 1: at least things couldn't get worse, and the narrator was like,
Speaker 1: but things did get worse and then she died. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is like a kid short animated on
Speaker 1: the Lego site. Um just talked about his horrific life,
Speaker 1: which wasn't horrific, but I guess things. You know, things
Speaker 1: were different back then, and you had things like factories
Speaker 1: burning down and people dying of measles or whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: And so he dealt with a lot of hardship that
Speaker 1: would have knocked anyone else down, but not ol A
Speaker 1: dude that felt like a ron Our narrator like, things
Speaker 1: did get worse, And they did, they did, yes, oh man.
Speaker 1: But then from there, things, you know, moved on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So soon after his wife Christine died, leaving him and
Speaker 1: raised his four sons. That's rough. He made a small
Speaker 1: wooden duck toy for his children, and when they loved
Speaker 1: it so much, he decided to put the ducks into production.
Speaker 1: Using his leftover wood from his old business, he started
Speaker 1: making wooden toys. One day, a wholesaler came in and
Speaker 1: placed a huge order, so he had to rehire his
Speaker 1: workers and used the highest quality wood for his handmade toys.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine being like fired or laid off and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, man, screw this guy out. Never worked
Speaker 1: for him again. He's like, I got more work. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm working for him again. Yeah. In fact, this
Speaker 1: was that they wanted to have a bunch of his
Speaker 1: toys to sell before Christmas, so they wanted to have
Speaker 1: him in the windows and stuff. So he worked over
Speaker 1: time essentially to make all of these toys. And if
Speaker 1: he yeah, if he, this is where and again it
Speaker 1: happened again to our man. Oh he received a letter
Speaker 1: saying the wholesaler filed for bankruptcy and couldn't buy the toys,
Speaker 1: like it's almost this is what I mean where and
Speaker 1: it continues like this in his life like where. If
Speaker 1: you were a writer, you would be like, this is
Speaker 1: too much. You know, if you were writing the screenplay
Speaker 1: of his life, you would be like, slow down a second.
Speaker 1: But he that didn't stop him. He decided to drive
Speaker 1: around himself and sell the toys, and he succeeded in
Speaker 1: selling all of his toys. He wasn't able to get
Speaker 1: as much money as he wanted, and a lot of
Speaker 1: farmers in his area traded him for food instead, which,
Speaker 1: like he in the Little Lego short and said, you know,
Speaker 1: he would have preferred money. I mean everyone would, but
Speaker 1: he took the food so that he could feed him
Speaker 1: in his place. I mean kids got to eat, so
Speaker 1: you know either way, Like I will say that as
Speaker 1: someone with the child, I'm like, man, I would like
Speaker 1: to roll out in the bins, but I guess my
Speaker 1: daughter doesn't. Yeah, you're right, you right? Uh? But then
Speaker 1: in four his company came to be called Lego, derived
Speaker 1: from the Danish phrase ligat, which means play well. In Latin,
Speaker 1: lego can mean I put together or I assemble, which
Speaker 1: is wild. Yeah, he didn't actually know the Latin part.
Speaker 1: He only know the Danish part. Was picking it out. Yeah, look,
Speaker 1: this is this seems when you connect all those dots,
Speaker 1: just the constant failure, but keeping pushing forward and then
Speaker 1: these connecting, it's almost like a little fate story. I
Speaker 1: have another thing coming up for you. I have another
Speaker 1: thing after yeah. So he so he named it Lego
Speaker 1: and then in a fire broke out in his factory.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Now? What is going on? We know
Speaker 1: he has a successful story. That's the only reason I'm laughing.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, like r I P O a um a
Speaker 1: fire bro this did not kill him? Then nothing would
Speaker 1: kill him. In fact, nothing stopped him. I'm sorry. In
Speaker 1: ninety two fire, he's like the Charlie Brown of his life.
Speaker 1: He's definitely had a curse. Yeah, you know, he's like
Speaker 1: the descendant relative arrest mutant or something. No, he was
Speaker 1: listened in Beauty and the Beast. He turned away the
Speaker 1: witch and he was all right. She was like, I'm
Speaker 1: all out of these beast spells. I'm gonna hit you
Speaker 1: with this failed toymaker spell. In two a fire broke
Speaker 1: out in his factory in his workshop, destroying all of
Speaker 1: his drawings and models, completely burning them to the ground.
Speaker 1: It forced him to rebuild and he started working again
Speaker 1: as a carpenter. And then World War Two happened, and
Speaker 1: following World War Two, plastics became available in Denmark and
Speaker 1: Lego purchased a plastic injection molding machine in seven And
Speaker 1: like I foreshadowed during the The Transformers episodes, molds are
Speaker 1: going to be a very big thing when it comes
Speaker 1: to toys. I have a huge toy episode planned out
Speaker 1: with like just kind of the toy kind of subculture.
Speaker 1: I have a friend Rocom who is who works at Razor,
Speaker 1: and his friend Quong. There's a whole there's every time
Speaker 1: I talk to them, they blow my mind. There's a
Speaker 1: whole toy subculture and it really molds are a big
Speaker 1: part of it. And like they talk about how sometimes
Speaker 1: if you don't know the factory that you're sending your
Speaker 1: mold too, and you may never get your toys made
Speaker 1: for like almost a decade because you're in line with
Speaker 1: all these stuff and in line with all these different
Speaker 1: toy makers. And if the toy makers their homie, then
Speaker 1: they're gonna make those first and then when you have
Speaker 1: the vinyl toys, and we're talking about vinyl toys like
Speaker 1: the you know, the Dunnies and your original Fake which
Speaker 1: is uh one of my favorite artists cause made the companions. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then you have Mr Bunny, you have Squire and the
Speaker 1: skull Bud. The list goes on, you know, Ugly Doll,
Speaker 1: which I think is a really popular one that most
Speaker 1: people know. Uh kid Robot. Uh. Just it's just so
Speaker 1: such a long list of like designer toys, and there's
Speaker 1: like a subculture within that of like people because they'll
Speaker 1: sell blanks of them, and like you have to be
Speaker 1: only certain people can like paint and resell them because
Speaker 1: if the maker finds out there, like no, you can't
Speaker 1: do that. I wanted to blank for a reason. So anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll go deep into that on another episode. But this
Speaker 1: every time mold gets mentioned, I have to go on
Speaker 1: that quick tanner because it's so exciting and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to set them down and talk about it. But
Speaker 1: they did get those molds, and uh so they got
Speaker 1: the molds in and Lego expanded to begin producing plastic
Speaker 1: toys and the nine Lego began producing among other new
Speaker 1: products and early version of the now familiar interlocking blricks,
Speaker 1: calling them automatic binding bread Well, well, yeah, if he
Speaker 1: did not tell you to pick up your automatic binding
Speaker 1: bricks although technically their abs, then not tell you to
Speaker 1: pick up your abs and step in all of your abs.
Speaker 1: You know they're rock hard there they hurt. Want to
Speaker 1: step on them? Uh? Rock hard abs uh? And then
Speaker 1: the uh but we call them Lego bricks uh. Then,
Speaker 1: manufactured from cellulose acetate, were developed in the spirit of
Speaker 1: traditional wooden blocks that could be stacked upon one another,
Speaker 1: but it could be locked together. They had several round
Speaker 1: studs on the top in the hollow rectangular bottom that
Speaker 1: we know and love, and they would stick together, but
Speaker 1: not so tightly that they cannot be pulled apart. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The basic eight stud red Lego brick was first sold
Speaker 1: in Denmark in nineteen nine. And the bricks produced today
Speaker 1: have the same bumps and holes and can still interlock
Speaker 1: with those produced back in Yeah, and that's a big
Speaker 1: thing for Lego. They want there. They go through so
Speaker 1: like stringent lengths to make sure that the all the
Speaker 1: Legos can still lock up, so that no matter what
Speaker 1: error you buy Legos in if if if I gave
Speaker 1: my legos to my great great great great great great
Speaker 1: great grandson. He would still be able to play with
Speaker 1: his new legos with my old ones, and vice versa
Speaker 1: if I were to go to my great great great
Speaker 1: great grand father's legos, is what I'm meaning to say.
Speaker 1: But then, these bricks were based on the Kitty Craft
Speaker 1: self locking bricks, which had been patented in the United Kingdom,
Speaker 1: and Lego had received a sample of the Kitty caraff
Speaker 1: bricks from the supplier of the injection molding machine that
Speaker 1: it had purchased. The bricks originally manufactured from Selo's estate.
Speaker 1: We're a development of the traditional stack of the wooden
Speaker 1: blocks at the time. This is really fascinating because copyright
Speaker 1: is going to come into play or patent I mean,
Speaker 1: cottons are going to come into play year um in
Speaker 1: a little bit. But the Lego groups model is I
Speaker 1: can't say that. Yeah, the Lego groups model is essentially
Speaker 1: only the best is the best, or more literally, the
Speaker 1: best is never too good. This was something that actually
Speaker 1: had for a while, like as a carpenter and when
Speaker 1: he was making his wooden toys. The reason why they
Speaker 1: were seen as so magnificent is because of the care
Speaker 1: that he put into them, and he was obsessed with
Speaker 1: continuing that when he started making legos, like he just
Speaker 1: wanted the highest quality possible. Yeah. I heard he opted
Speaker 1: to have that on the wall instead of a no
Speaker 1: smoking sign and that Yeah, first factory got caught on fire. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was a huge, huge, important
Speaker 1: deal for him for Christiansen and then by plastic toys
Speaker 1: accounted for half of the Lego company's output. So they're
Speaker 1: almost pushing out they're almost going to start to push
Speaker 1: out the their wooden toys. Ninety eight, the modern brick
Speaker 1: design was developed, the one that you can use up
Speaker 1: until today. It took five years to find the right
Speaker 1: material forward a B s acronaitural beauty dyne starry polymer
Speaker 1: could have just said a BS polymer. I don't need
Speaker 1: to know the full facts, but just for some people,
Speaker 1: some people were like, yep, thanks. The modern Lego brick
Speaker 1: was designed and patented in January nineteen Yeah, and also
Speaker 1: in ninety eight, the bricks were improved with hollow tubes
Speaker 1: and the underside of the brick. This added support in
Speaker 1: the base, enabling much better locking ability and improve versatility.
Speaker 1: The company patent the new design, as well as several
Speaker 1: similar designs to avoid competition, although, like I just said,
Speaker 1: they had copied it from the Kitty Craft. So um.
Speaker 1: But oh A actually died that same year, and his son,
Speaker 1: Godfried inherited leadership of the company and would come to
Speaker 1: rule it for many years to come. Yeah and uh,
Speaker 1: Lego executives observing how children played with their products realized
Speaker 1: the firm future realized the firm's future success was not
Speaker 1: about the brick, but what the brick could create. Buildings, streets,
Speaker 1: cities all filled with people, vehicles, street signs, and bushes.
Speaker 1: You can go on and on, building and building. You
Speaker 1: never get tired of Lego. But one of its publicity
Speaker 1: campaign said, to see what's next on the list? Another
Speaker 1: warehouse fire. Listen, listen. I don't know what burial ground
Speaker 1: they built Lego on. Lego had another warehouse fire. They're
Speaker 1: doing fine. Lego is doing great. You know, they have
Speaker 1: the Lego films. They're amazing. So I just but but
Speaker 1: back in the day it was difficult for them. They
Speaker 1: had another warehouse fire. This is what's fascinating. Okay, So
Speaker 1: they had a warehouse fire that struck the Lego group
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty, consuming most of the company's inventory of
Speaker 1: wooden toys. This is the fascinating part. It almost forced
Speaker 1: them to completely abandon wooden toys, and Godfried his son,
Speaker 1: decided to just move forward with their plastic line. So
Speaker 1: I was talking to Dan, our producer, about this, and
Speaker 1: I was telling him when I was researching this man's
Speaker 1: story of like, how many things went wrong. It kind
Speaker 1: of is fascinating though, because each time something went wrong,
Speaker 1: it forced him to rethink and restructure and get better
Speaker 1: and make these decisions. And so it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you and I it's like, oh, well, my script got rejected,
Speaker 1: and it's like this man freaking dealt with with so
Speaker 1: much death and and catastrophic like loss of his belongings
Speaker 1: and things like that that he was working on, and
Speaker 1: each time he got back up. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: a remarkable, remarkable story. But this I find really fascinating
Speaker 1: that when their warehouse burned down, they completely scraped their
Speaker 1: wooden toys because it destroyed all their wooden toys and decided, hey,
Speaker 1: we're just going to move forward with plastic, which ended
Speaker 1: up being the best decision that they made. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I like and I feel like will be the
Speaker 1: moral of you know, Lego story is like when you
Speaker 1: do reach a roadblock, instead of just kind of stopping
Speaker 1: there and maybe even instead of trying to rebuild what
Speaker 1: you have, look at what you're left with and work
Speaker 1: from there. You know. It's that's that's that's what it
Speaker 1: feels like. It's like, you know, the classic life hands
Speaker 1: you lemons make lemonade. Yeah. But so by the end
Speaker 1: of that year, the Lego group was employed now over
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty people. And in the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 1: the companies Brick Smith actually invented the wheel which was
Speaker 1: around brick with a rubber tire for their legos um.
Speaker 1: The Lego wheel earned its own patent application. They're very
Speaker 1: big on these patents. Uh. And then a little known fact,
Speaker 1: Lego makes more than three hundred million tires per year,
Speaker 1: which is more than good Year or Bridgestone. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't launched do Blow. It's a line of bigger bricks
Speaker 1: for preschools in the sixties as well. In nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: eight they had the first Legoland theme park, which I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. We think Lego Land is something that
Speaker 1: came out this past decade. But now uh in night,
Speaker 1: the first Legoland theme park open in Belund, and h
Speaker 1: Lego was trying to be its own kind of everything
Speaker 1: store or everything toy. And we'll actually get into the
Speaker 1: history of Lego Land right after this break and we're back,
Speaker 1: so we're going to dive into a little bit of
Speaker 1: the history of Lego Land. So yeah. So the Legoland
Speaker 1: Blund resort opening Belund, Denmark in nineteen sixty eight, followed
Speaker 1: by the Lego Land Windsor Resort in Windsor in nineteen
Speaker 1: and then further parks opened in Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Dubai,
Speaker 1: the United States, which we have in California and Florida,
Speaker 1: and then parks in South Korea, New York. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. They were getting a park in Shanghai are
Speaker 1: currently under construction. That's dope. Shout out to New York.
Speaker 1: You guys are getting a park. Yeah yeah, So I
Speaker 1: vividly remember when the San Diego Lego Land open and
Speaker 1: apparently it opened on March twenty and when it opened,
Speaker 1: I just thought it was the first ever. I get
Speaker 1: so funny that there were so many before, and I
Speaker 1: was like, no, this is while Lego Land was just
Speaker 1: created for the first time, and no, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: little little that. No, I don't know. I haven't been
Speaker 1: to Lego Land, have you. Um I think I went once? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my families from so um yeah, I think I remember
Speaker 1: going once. But I mean when I had my pick,
Speaker 1: I always picked Disneyland. So when I was because let's
Speaker 1: see nine to night, I was in middle school, so
Speaker 1: my family actually would let us on our birthday, we
Speaker 1: could either have a birthday party or we take one
Speaker 1: friend to Disneyland because tickets are expensive as hell, and
Speaker 1: so I always chose to take one friend to Disneyland.
Speaker 1: I did that like every year one one friend got
Speaker 1: hooked up. I mean I had brothers too, so they
Speaker 1: were paying for my brothers to go with me and
Speaker 1: also my one friend. Yeah but your year, one friend
Speaker 1: got to drive all the way up to Anaheim and
Speaker 1: experience that fun day like that friend got hooked up.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's true. That's true. They probably don't realize how
Speaker 1: dope that world. No, Tiffany, do you realize it. We're
Speaker 1: not even Facebook friends. Let's see that, we'll see what
Speaker 1: I mean. Definitely do not realize it. So all six
Speaker 1: of the parks include a Lego Mini Land, a model
Speaker 1: village which includes models of landmarks and scenes from all
Speaker 1: around the world made from made from millions of genuine
Speaker 1: Lego bricks. The parks rides are all Lego theme. Many
Speaker 1: are made to appear as if they're built out of
Speaker 1: Lego bricks. They tend to be based on one particular
Speaker 1: line of Lego For example, a popular ride at All
Speaker 1: Six Parks is the dry Wagon Coaster, which is loosely
Speaker 1: based on the Night's Kingdom Lego sets. Another popular ride
Speaker 1: is Driving School, in which children can drive small electric
Speaker 1: cars made to look like Lego cars around a small
Speaker 1: road network, after which they gain a mock driving lesson
Speaker 1: a mock driving license. I wanted to say, so, I
Speaker 1: visited my brother in Phoenix recently and we went to
Speaker 1: there's a Lego Land Discovery Center in Phoenix. So i'm
Speaker 1: and it's like much smaller, It's like attached to one
Speaker 1: of their malls. So I imagine that there are a
Speaker 1: lot of places if you listening don't have a Lego Land,
Speaker 1: but you have one of these Lego Land Discovery centers,
Speaker 1: let us know. So it's essentially like dinosaurs and astronauts
Speaker 1: and stuff made out all made out of Legos, like
Speaker 1: these huge builds of them. Um, and then they have
Speaker 1: two rides, ten Lego building play zones in a forty
Speaker 1: cinema there. So it's not like the full one with
Speaker 1: roller coasters, but yeah, still cool. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: Lego facts, So I'm gonna just hit you off with
Speaker 1: some quick facts that happened hashtag facts uh f A
Speaker 1: c K s uh. In nineteen seventy one, Lego began
Speaker 1: a target girls by introducing furniture pieces and dollhouses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then in nineteen seventy two, Lego added boat and
Speaker 1: ship sets with floating whole pieces nineteen seventy four. Human
Speaker 1: figs Human figures with posble arms made an appearance in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, and Lego Family sets, which went on
Speaker 1: to become the biggest sellers at the time. The next year,
Speaker 1: an early version of the mini figure a k A.
Speaker 1: Minifigs Minsture Lego person was introduced, but it was not
Speaker 1: posible and had no face printed on its head. What
Speaker 1: was that nightmare escape of a toy? Well, I guess
Speaker 1: like knowing little kids you could draw like you, I
Speaker 1: would probably have drawn my own on there, which would
Speaker 1: not have looked good. It would have been like lopsided eyes.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy five, the Expert Series set was introduced
Speaker 1: and it was geared towards older, more experienced Lego builders,
Speaker 1: followed by the Expert Builder sets in nineteen In eight,
Speaker 1: the Legos Mini fig was officially added. These small Lego
Speaker 1: people have posable arms and legs and smile no more
Speaker 1: of that creepy no face than going on. Essentially Lego citizens.
Speaker 1: Lego also expanded into space with the creation of Lego
Speaker 1: Space sets with astronaut mini figures, rockets, lunar rovers, spaceships,
Speaker 1: and in medieval territory with a castle theme. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then in nineteen nine, Lego introduced the Scala series featuring
Speaker 1: jewelry elements marketed towards young girls. God if he we
Speaker 1: also are astronauts. Can I tell you now, I'll just
Speaker 1: like furniture. You know, we're also into rockets and lunar rovers.
Speaker 1: We gotta add that furniture. What little girl wants a couch? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Continue. Until nine, Lego minifigs only came in
Speaker 1: yellow skin color with the standard smiling face. The early
Speaker 1: prototypes had a variety of skin colors and facial expressions,
Speaker 1: very Simpsons of them. Uh. In the first Lego products
Speaker 1: featured licensed characters not designed in house, where Lego Star
Speaker 1: Wars still extremely popular, and Winnie the Pooh Duplow followed
Speaker 1: in two thousand by Lego Harry Potter characters and also
Speaker 1: figures from other Steven Spielberg movies. Yeah, it was, it
Speaker 1: was crazy, It was huge. Uh. And Lucas Films was
Speaker 1: about to release the first prequel trilogy to the original
Speaker 1: Star Wars movies, and Lego was debating whether not to
Speaker 1: partner with the company to license a set of Star
Speaker 1: Wars tours that will come out at the same time
Speaker 1: as the film, and then astonishedly, Lego executives initially balked,
Speaker 1: partly as a result of the company's fierce independence, but Lego,
Speaker 1: whose executives took pride in the interestent nature of their toys,
Speaker 1: also fretted about aligning itself with any violence, because you know,
Speaker 1: they got them lightsabers, you know, han shot first. So
Speaker 1: the company surveyed parents who didn't mind the partnership, and
Speaker 1: the positive poland gave Lego the comfort and needed to
Speaker 1: push ahead with Star Wars. This is so funny, like
Speaker 1: can you just imagine Star Wars coming to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: would you like us to help you sell your thing?
Speaker 1: And then be like, you know, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, this was after a huge like Star
Speaker 1: Wars drought, but it's so funny because this is the
Speaker 1: second time Star Wars has kind of jolted the toy
Speaker 1: industry because remember they basically created the modern action figure,
Speaker 1: and now they're coming and they're like, look, we got there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the original trilogy and it seems like
Speaker 1: it's going to be the best thing ever. Fans are
Speaker 1: gonna love it. It's gonna be a movie masterpiece. There's
Speaker 1: no way these three movies we're gonna come out with
Speaker 1: could be bad. So anyway, this is what jar Jar
Speaker 1: binks looks like, let's go ahead and make it. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say there was another company. I can't remember what.
Speaker 1: Someone don't have to remind me, but it was a lunchbox. Um.
Speaker 1: I was listening to another great podcast, Just Mystery Show,
Speaker 1: which doesn't have any new episodes, but they should because
Speaker 1: I love it with Starling Kine and she did one
Speaker 1: on um a Welcome Back, caught her lunchbox, which was
Speaker 1: like these famous set of lunch boxes. And I guess
Speaker 1: that company was supposed to partner with Star Wars but
Speaker 1: didn't like they passed up on it and then ended
Speaker 1: up being like the biggest thing that they lost out on.
Speaker 1: Sore and Holme, who was the head of Lego Concept Lab,
Speaker 1: said toy weapons had always been heavily debated, but that
Speaker 1: since the Lego Star Wars release, Lego has grown more
Speaker 1: comfortable with conflict. There are no Lego sets with a
Speaker 1: war or military theme, very unlike our friends at G
Speaker 1: I Joe. This is because Lego creator ol A. Kirk
Speaker 1: Christensen didn't want to make war seem appealing to children
Speaker 1: make sense for someone who lived through World War Two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But to go back to the hit movie The Phantom
Speaker 1: Menace and their partnership with Lego product line killed comprising
Speaker 1: more than of the company's sales, and the Star Wars
Speaker 1: arrangement ushered in similar profitable licensing agreements. It was long
Speaker 1: until Lego rolled out Harry Potter Lego sets because they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, we get it. This is kind of crazy, though,
Speaker 1: So there were a couple of times they were on
Speaker 1: the brink of bankruptcy, and this was one of those times. Uh.
Speaker 1: In late two thousand three, the company's sales sank by
Speaker 1: thirty percent compared to the year before, and Lego was
Speaker 1: introducing too many product lines without putting enough attention on
Speaker 1: its original core business, which o a had always said
Speaker 1: quality over quantity essentially, so now they had Lego Dolls,
Speaker 1: Lego Kids clothing line, like all these other products. Toy
Speaker 1: retailers began complaining to Lego that the firm didn't provide
Speaker 1: enough inventory of one of the few best selling items,
Speaker 1: the bionical Legos, which were set in a science fantasy world.
Speaker 1: So the company had become too reliant on Star Wars
Speaker 1: and Harry Potter movies. But the catch is that those
Speaker 1: movies weren't released for a year. So during the years
Speaker 1: those for the during the years those films weren't released,
Speaker 1: Legos revenue dropped because it's like, well, that Harry Potter
Speaker 1: movie came out three years ago, I'm not into it.
Speaker 1: Should have been building up those bionicles. Bionicles, man, those
Speaker 1: were hit. I remember when Bionicles came out. Those they
Speaker 1: were so tight that like this was they came out
Speaker 1: when I wasn't playing with toys and I looked at them,
Speaker 1: it was like, damn, I wish I was still playing
Speaker 1: with toys because these bionicles looked tight. Also, it's a
Speaker 1: fun name to say, bionicle. You thought that a bionical.
Speaker 1: Um we'll talk about that a little bit when we
Speaker 1: get into the media, like the TV shows and um
Speaker 1: so so. Lego trimmed down. They shut down several of
Speaker 1: their theme parks unfortunately, and killed off some of their
Speaker 1: poor performing product lines. That isn't the only problem that
Speaker 1: had because now we got competitors. We got several competitors
Speaker 1: have attempted to take advantage of legos popularity by producing
Speaker 1: blocks of similar dimensions and advertising them as being compatible
Speaker 1: with Lego Bricks. After the last of Legos patents for
Speaker 1: its interlocking bricks expired in the late nineteen eighties, the
Speaker 1: companies naturally faced a raft of upstarts seeking a cash
Speaker 1: in on the brick craze. Lego tried fighting back with lawsuits,
Speaker 1: but failed. Yeah So. In two thousand two, Lego sued
Speaker 1: the Coco Toy Company in Beijing for copyright infringement over
Speaker 1: its Coco Bricks product and Coco was ordered to cease
Speaker 1: manufacture of the products, publish a formal apology, and paid damages.
Speaker 1: That's the most petty part of it, is like I
Speaker 1: want you to formally apologize to us for making anything similar,
Speaker 1: even though, like we said, I find this very interesting
Speaker 1: because Legos product was essentially copying the Kitty Craft self
Speaker 1: locking bricks, which were only patent in the UK, which
Speaker 1: were made by Hillary Page Um, this woman that founded
Speaker 1: them essentially, which is known for being the predecessor of Lego,
Speaker 1: like of these, and then in nine yeah, she she
Speaker 1: applied for a patent for toy building blocks, which sounds
Speaker 1: a lot like Legos. Oh yeah, but you know that's
Speaker 1: that's what happened, is uh, you know, it was built
Speaker 1: off of completely other toy they jacked, and that was
Speaker 1: just another volume of Now that's what I call capitalism. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so something did happen. So in two thousand five,
Speaker 1: the Lego Company sued Canadian company Mega Blocks for trademark violation,
Speaker 1: but the Supreme Court of Canada actually upheld Mega Blocks
Speaker 1: rights to sell their product, and then in European Court
Speaker 1: of Justice ruled that the eight peg design of the
Speaker 1: original Lego brick merely performs a technical function and cannot
Speaker 1: be registered as a trademark. That's kind of fascinating. And
Speaker 1: now the Cocoa toy companies like remember them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's basically uh, that's basically Legos. But we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: a touch yet on all of the media, the television shows,
Speaker 1: the movie to revisit Bionical and then we talked about Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a Lego movie, you got Batman Legos. Let's
Speaker 1: not even talk about all the Lego video games. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: there's so much Lego. But we'll jump into that after
Speaker 1: these messages. Welcome back. It is near difficent. I'm still
Speaker 1: if you want to wait, Danny, I'm no longer Danny
Speaker 1: for Nancy. Oh you switched it up. I'm ol A.
Speaker 1: Kurt Christiansen coming back. How's it going, l A. I've
Speaker 1: survived a lot. Oh is there anything you want to
Speaker 1: tell you? I've been reborn as a thirty year old Tina.
Speaker 1: Um No, let's talk about brick films. Brick films videos
Speaker 1: using Legos have existed since the nineteen seventies. Starting in
Speaker 1: two thousand three, Lego officially made their first film partnership
Speaker 1: to make films based on their toy property. I got
Speaker 1: something to talk about it with brick films, so I'd say,
Speaker 1: I want to say it had to be sometime in
Speaker 1: the between two thousand two thousand five. There were these
Speaker 1: toys called Modifiers. Man did I love them? Everybody the same.
Speaker 1: They were made by the tech Deck Company, and then
Speaker 1: you would get a stock card, be a Civic or
Speaker 1: be an accurate Integra, and it would have a body
Speaker 1: kit and air intake, some bucket seats and you would
Speaker 1: you would basically upgrade your car with the aftermac market
Speaker 1: parts that it came with. And they were essentially like
Speaker 1: model cars that you could make pretty simply. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I liked it so much. I was on the forums
Speaker 1: of course, child of the Internet. And so then people
Speaker 1: would be doing these wild builds where they were using
Speaker 1: Bondo and like drimml to like carve out like super
Speaker 1: custom wide body kits, adding custom spoilers, slicing the roof
Speaker 1: like I remember I knew I was in high school
Speaker 1: because I asked my wood shop teacher to cut the
Speaker 1: roof off because I wanted to do a custom convertible
Speaker 1: because that was the big craze. And when I handed
Speaker 1: him the modifier. He just looked at me like, are
Speaker 1: you serious. I was like, yeah, I just and he
Speaker 1: did it because he had the wood shop tools and
Speaker 1: so he did it because I knew he wouldn't let
Speaker 1: me do it by myself. But I was like, can
Speaker 1: you please just chop this? And he did it because
Speaker 1: he was a dope teacher. Um. But anyway, the reason
Speaker 1: I bring all this up soon like we started doing
Speaker 1: cool things I used. I had a thing called mod
Speaker 1: mag where I kind of based it off of import Tuner,
Speaker 1: where I interviewed other people who had really cool mods
Speaker 1: and featuring them and compiling it into a magazine that
Speaker 1: I would make a word doc that people can download
Speaker 1: from my tripod uh angel Fire And but another thing
Speaker 1: people were doing was they would make films with the cars,
Speaker 1: but everyone since the cars were so small, the only
Speaker 1: thing people would use are mini figs. And there was
Speaker 1: one dude who made like a race and like edited
Speaker 1: to make his mini fig talking like you want to go,
Speaker 1: and it blew everyone's mind. We're like whoa what what?
Speaker 1: So that was a long way to say that was
Speaker 1: my first brick film that I saw. Yeah, brick films
Speaker 1: for people that don't know where. Essentially stop motion animation
Speaker 1: using Legos, and they were very popular back in the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies and eighties and and still today people will
Speaker 1: make them. But the first known brick film was called
Speaker 1: Journey to the Moon and it was created in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three by Large C. Haysen and Henry Casing. It
Speaker 1: was a six minute video featured both stop animation and
Speaker 1: live action, and was recorded on Super eight film. And
Speaker 1: this film was later shown to Godfrey Kirk Christensen, so
Speaker 1: that was on a son who had a personal copy made,
Speaker 1: though the film was never released to the public until
Speaker 1: May when the creator uploaded it to YouTube. We've come
Speaker 1: a long time since then, We've come a long way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about some of their properties, because they
Speaker 1: have a lot, so they technically let's see one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five films. We have the Lego movie which came out,
Speaker 1: we have the Lego Batman movie, the Lego Ninjongo movie
Speaker 1: which came out in and upcoming they're currently in development,
Speaker 1: is the Lego Movie too, and the Billion Brick Race,
Speaker 1: and both of those will come out in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, And that's just right. There like, um,
Speaker 1: just the movie, you know it is that any of
Speaker 1: like the TV stuff too. We're going to talk about that, iffy,
Speaker 1: But before we move on, I did want to say,
Speaker 1: because each of those movies could get their own episodes
Speaker 1: and and I love them. What I wanted to say
Speaker 1: is a couple of points, and one for the Lego
Speaker 1: movie is fascinating. It was the first time Batman and
Speaker 1: Superman appeared on screen as a duo, not Batman versus
Speaker 1: Superman because this came before it. It was also the
Speaker 1: first time their Justice League companions Wonder Woman in the Flash,
Speaker 1: had ever appeared in a Hollywood film at all. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and Dan wanted to point out that Lego Batman has
Speaker 1: a score of n on Rotten Tomatoes and some people's
Speaker 1: favorite Batman films with yep, but you don't have to
Speaker 1: convince me, because Hector Navarro proudly states that that is
Speaker 1: his favorite Batman film, and he fights every time he
Speaker 1: says it, every time he tweets it. People like better
Speaker 1: than the trilogy is like better than the Dark Night Trilogy,
Speaker 1: and then it proceeds to go the any any We're
Speaker 1: exactly where you expect. Yeah, it's so weird, like everyone
Speaker 1: has a different My favorite one is Michael Keaton's um,
Speaker 1: specifically The Batman, but like it's so who cares like
Speaker 1: that that's his favorite. He probably likes how upbeat and
Speaker 1: like funny and silly it is. Dan is pointing to
Speaker 1: me with thumbs up. So, so if we're gonna talk,
Speaker 1: we like a lot of things. Cannot get into every
Speaker 1: single thing, And this is why I just want to
Speaker 1: go down real quick. There are nineteen direct to video
Speaker 1: Lego movies, nineteen Lego short films, thirteen Lego TV specials,
Speaker 1: and sixteen Lego TV shows. Yeah oh man. And and
Speaker 1: if we go into the video games. I just looked
Speaker 1: up the list of Lego video games. That list is
Speaker 1: even longer. I'm gonna try to go through some of
Speaker 1: these as fast as I can. Lego fund To Build,
Speaker 1: Lego Is, Lego Loco, Lego Chess and Lego Creator, Lego Friends,
Speaker 1: Lego Racers, Lego Rock Raiders two thousand, Lego Land, Lego
Speaker 1: My Style Preschool, Lego My Style Kindergarten, Lego Alfhit Team,
Speaker 1: Lego Stunt Rally, Lego Creator Knights Kingdom two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: You had Lego Island to the Bristers, The Brixters Revenge.
Speaker 1: Lego Island Too, But the Lego Racers Too, Lego Bionical
Speaker 1: Woo Whoo two thousand two, Football Mania, Wait Yeah Island,
Speaker 1: Extreme Stunts, Drone Racers, Bionical Matarin Adventures two thousands three,
Speaker 1: Bionical The Game, But You Are Okay? Two thousand four,
Speaker 1: Lego Knights Kingdom two thousand five, Bionical Maze of Shadows
Speaker 1: two thousand six, Bionicle Heroes. If you hear how many
Speaker 1: times I'm saying Bionical, you might wonder why weren't they
Speaker 1: making Bionical Legos two thousand nine, Lego Battles two thousand ten,
Speaker 1: Lego Universe two thousand eleven, Lego Battles Ninjago two thousand thirteen,
Speaker 1: Lego City Undercover, Lego City Undercover, The Chase Begins, Lego Friends,
Speaker 1: Lego Legends, Chima Online, Lego Less and Chima Lavalles's Journey,
Speaker 1: Lego Legends, Cheama, The speed Oars two thousand fourteen, Lego
Speaker 1: Mini Figs, Lego Ninjago Nindroids, Lego Legends, Achieve of Tribe Fighters,
Speaker 1: Lego Ninjago Travel Running In two thousand and seventeen Lego Worlds.
Speaker 1: Now there are people who are sitting on the edge
Speaker 1: of the trees like you miss something. Yeah, those are
Speaker 1: Lego sole owned games. If we're talking about licensed Lego games.
Speaker 1: Two thousand one, you had Lego Creative. I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: you listen, I got and I got nineteen directive video
Speaker 1: Lego movies, nineteen Lego short films, thirteen Lego TV specials
Speaker 1: in sixteen Lego TV shows. So let me just give
Speaker 1: you the gist. I'm just gonna give you the gist
Speaker 1: of some of these that you need to know. So so,
Speaker 1: out of the directive video Lego movies, they had several
Speaker 1: that were DC based and some that had Scooby Doo
Speaker 1: as well. I think two of them were Scooby Doo related,
Speaker 1: and many of them came with a Lego mini figure.
Speaker 1: That's what you need to know. If you want to
Speaker 1: check out more of them, I'm sure we'll get into it.
Speaker 1: But also you can you can check out more. As
Speaker 1: far as the nineteen Lego short films, one of the
Speaker 1: biggest one was the Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Speaker 1: in Lego, which was included in The Monty Python and
Speaker 1: the Holy Grail DVD release as a bonus feature. Moving
Speaker 1: on to the thirteen Lego TV specials, some of the
Speaker 1: things you need to know first. The first one was
Speaker 1: Lego Atlantis, which premiered in on Cartoon Network. Also, another
Speaker 1: huge one was Lego Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker 1: Very dope and brick Like Me, which was the Simpsons
Speaker 1: five and fifty episode. Super dope looking, especially if you're
Speaker 1: a Simpsons fan or just a Lego fan. So that
Speaker 1: was technically also a Lego TV special. Um, looks very cool.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can include a link to it because I
Speaker 1: loved it. Out of the sixteen Lego TV shows, so
Speaker 1: there was Lego Bionical, The Journey to One, which is
Speaker 1: the first series to be on Netflix. That was the
Speaker 1: first Lego series to be on Netflix. That's why it's important.
Speaker 1: Star Wars The Freemaker Adventure, which was the first full
Speaker 1: length Lego Star Wars television series, and Uni Chitty, which
Speaker 1: is currently on Cartoon Network is from the Lego movies.
Speaker 1: Unikitty from the Lego movie and my friend Roger Craig
Speaker 1: Smith is a character in that. So yeah, there's and
Speaker 1: I think Tara is strong. Is Tara strong Unikitty. That
Speaker 1: makes sense because she voices everybody. Yeah, so moving on
Speaker 1: because we cannot list all of these. Um are you
Speaker 1: talking about stuff like Lego Star Wars the video game
Speaker 1: Lego Star Wars to the original trilis Lego Star Wars,
Speaker 1: fun facts Iffy to close out, to close out this episode.
Speaker 1: So in August your favorite year, thirty eight children from
Speaker 1: seventeen different countries took part in the first Lego World
Speaker 1: Cup building contest that was held in Blun, Denmark. That's tight.
Speaker 1: That was all my that was when I was born
Speaker 1: to They should have brought baby Iffy out there getting
Speaker 1: in How about this? In May two thousand and eleven,
Speaker 1: Space Shuttle Endeavor Mission's STS thirty four brought thirteen Lego
Speaker 1: kids to the International Space Station where astronauts built models
Speaker 1: to see how they would react in micro gravity. And
Speaker 1: that was a part of something called the Lego Bricks
Speaker 1: in Space Program. I do love how educational this toy
Speaker 1: is as much as it's it's called a toy, It
Speaker 1: is very educational. Yeah, toys can be very educational. Some
Speaker 1: toys can teach you about yourself. Is that like Tickle
Speaker 1: Me Elmo? Yeah? Okay? In May The largest model ever
Speaker 1: created was displayed in New York City and was made
Speaker 1: of over five million bricks. It was a one one
Speaker 1: scale model of an X wing fighter from more Star
Speaker 1: Wars nerds um. Other records include a one dred and
Speaker 1: twelve foot tower in A four and a two point
Speaker 1: five mile railway m hm, dang well. In February two fifteen,
Speaker 1: not too long ago, Lego place Ferrari as the world's
Speaker 1: most powerful brand. Yeah seriously, why, I mean like I
Speaker 1: could understand the world's richest, but not the powerful and
Speaker 1: powerful man. That's that's probably like target now is targets
Speaker 1: like taking over everything everyone X. You know, like everyone
Speaker 1: likes toilet paper when you used you know, when people
Speaker 1: like give me a tissue, they say, give me a
Speaker 1: clean X like, but usually it could be any brand,
Speaker 1: but clean X is that strong. I hear you. Um,
Speaker 1: you can combine this little fun factor. You can combine
Speaker 1: six of the eight studded Lego bricks in nine hundred
Speaker 1: fifteen million, one D three thousand, seven sixty five different
Speaker 1: ways of ways. Who figured that out? Likes math? One
Speaker 1: of those weird math fans, you know that person on
Speaker 1: Reddit who always does the math my brother is one
Speaker 1: of those. He's an actuary. He loves math. Oh man,
Speaker 1: my Weldon, my buddy. I should probably try and link
Speaker 1: uh probably or whatever. Uh. He was thinking considering going
Speaker 1: to actuary school, so I's probably like, Yeah, it's very hard,
Speaker 1: that's what you're saying. You have to take a bunch
Speaker 1: of tests, and like if you don't pass, it's like
Speaker 1: you can't move on with your career. That's what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Even after he graduated, he has to continue to take tests.
Speaker 1: I don't think he. I don't know if he does anymore.
Speaker 1: But he had to continue to take tests. It was
Speaker 1: like ground wings. You want, you want to get past
Speaker 1: a certain part. If you don't pass, you're just done.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, that's wild, You're just done done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're done here, son, you failed, Yeah, take that stuff
Speaker 1: to second city. We're done with you anyway. The Lego
Speaker 1: duplo bricks, the large ones for the little kids, can
Speaker 1: connect with regular Lego bricks, even though they are eight
Speaker 1: times the size of regular bricks. The dupelo legos connect
Speaker 1: perfectly with regular ones. Yeah. Something else is that someone
Speaker 1: built a real house made entirely of Lego in two
Speaker 1: thousand nine, a man named James May and Surrey, Great
Speaker 1: Britain constructed the world's first full size Lego house. I
Speaker 1: would be like, these people are playing, you know, I
Speaker 1: would be concerned. Yeah, I feel like that's a house
Speaker 1: you can't walk barefoot? Yeah well, I mean aside from that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's something going to crash through my rooftop.
Speaker 1: I got he used three point three or just like
Speaker 1: a hot day like I mean Phoenix in in the
Speaker 1: summer's like what one twenty like that would melt right
Speaker 1: some of these plastic using three point three million bricks.
Speaker 1: The house contained a working toilet. What was that made
Speaker 1: out of bricks? I mean, now it's just getting it present,
Speaker 1: and shower and a bed you would not want to
Speaker 1: sleep on that all made out of lego. Lego Land
Speaker 1: offered to take the house and put it in their
Speaker 1: Windsor theme park, but took back the deal after deciding
Speaker 1: it would be too expensive to move it. They also
Speaker 1: criticized May for not asking for their help when building
Speaker 1: the house. He wanted to do it on his own.
Speaker 1: Leg Oh you ain't gonna ask us, You ain't gonna
Speaker 1: ask all right, all right? Uh yeah? And then according
Speaker 1: to our friends at a Mental Floss, shout out to
Speaker 1: part time genius love the pod and shout out to me.
Speaker 1: I'm a host at Mental Floss. Did you know that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that, But I'm really trying to I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get you already follow me on Twitter. Now it's
Speaker 1: time to get Mango on the train. Uh, but you're
Speaker 1: so I never talk. I actually never promote the fact
Speaker 1: that I am. I know you should. I know. Look,
Speaker 1: Mango is gonna block you. Now. You know there's two
Speaker 1: hosts of that show. But it's very clear that Mango
Speaker 1: is my favorite. Uh. The five toughest lego sets are,
Speaker 1: according to Mental Floss, is the Eiffel Tower, which has
Speaker 1: three thousand, four hundred twenty eight pieces, The Ghostbusters Firehouse
Speaker 1: four thousand, six hundred and thirty four pieces, Ultimate Collectors
Speaker 1: Edition Millennium Falcon that has five thousand pieces. I think
Speaker 1: I know someone who really wanted that. I know someone
Speaker 1: that has it. Also, there's the the video of I
Speaker 1: think was it Kimmel or Conan. Maybe it was kind
Speaker 1: of the one where Harrison Ford, like someone brings out
Speaker 1: their Millennium Falcon. He's like, oh, and he like looks
Speaker 1: at it and then like accidentally tosses it and it
Speaker 1: breaks everywhere. Oh no. Then you have the Tower Bridge,
Speaker 1: which is four thousand, two hundred and seven pieces. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's London's iconic, iconic bridge, and the Superstar Destroyer, which
Speaker 1: is three thousand, one hundred and fifty two pieces. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of piece. The kid that I nannied when
Speaker 1: I was in high school had one of those. Really okay,
Speaker 1: you got the cool kids, huh Yeah. Yeah. He took
Speaker 1: him a while to put it together. Yeah, but he did.
Speaker 1: That's what counts. So that's a Lego. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: history of Legos, all of it. Yeah, we'll have to
Speaker 1: go back and do things like Bionical. I definitely want
Speaker 1: to do some of these Vigia games, uh and everything.
Speaker 1: Lego has so many facets and parts, man, and it's
Speaker 1: it's one of the many things that we recorded and
Speaker 1: we're like, we're gonna have to do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: rumor has it that we just got that research for
Speaker 1: Dragon Ball Z and uh, we're talking about it before
Speaker 1: we recorded it, and we're gonna have to really just
Speaker 1: do the intro first and then visit each series piece
Speaker 1: by piece because that lower is thick. But um, if
Speaker 1: you're already excited about the time you at the end
Speaker 1: of the episode, you must be super excited because I
Speaker 1: can't even wait for you to wait. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you now, next week we're doing Dragon ball Z. You
Speaker 1: wanted it. Everyone knew who's coming. So I'm announcer right now.
Speaker 1: Forget the plugs, forget the sign off. Get ready to
Speaker 1: rock the Dragon, Dragon Dragon, Rock the Dragon Dragon ball Z. Ah. Okay,
Speaker 1: are you okay? Yeah, I'm just really excited. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a guest. But I'm I'm gonna save I gotta
Speaker 1: save you some dessert. I gotta save you some dessert.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be exciting. Um, But it's here you go.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you, Danny? People can find me
Speaker 1: at Miss Danny Fernandez. If you don't know, I have
Speaker 1: to Dragon ball Z tattoos on my body for anyone
Speaker 1: that doesn't follow me. So, despite how I sound right now,
Speaker 1: I am also very excited as far as arguing about like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, when I think of Dragon ball Z,
Speaker 1: I know people argue a lot about like who's stronger
Speaker 1: in this and in the sagas, And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't even want to. I just want to talk about
Speaker 1: how did it get started, what is it and where
Speaker 1: is it going? So that is something that I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to. Iffy, what did I answer? I met Miss
Speaker 1: Danny Fern send me me. I don't know. That's what
Speaker 1: I keep telling people, and I enjoy them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: learned now that I have to pretend like I haven't
Speaker 1: seen them before, because, just like you, because I feel
Speaker 1: everybody our friends are close personal friends. Will anything Dragon
Speaker 1: ball Z related that drops, like the new rebox shoes
Speaker 1: or um, I don't know, like the Super Saying restaurant
Speaker 1: or whatever. We get tagged a billion times, which is
Speaker 1: sweet and adorable. I love that people are thinking of me,
Speaker 1: and now I just need to pretend like I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it a hundred times because I heard that that's
Speaker 1: not to be like, oh yeah, I already saw that.
Speaker 1: When a friend sends you a meme or a post
Speaker 1: or something, I'm going to be like, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I do that lots, especially for things like
Speaker 1: these DVZ shoes. Do you these are literally the cross
Speaker 1: between the two things I care the most about. All
Speaker 1: the DBS news I have I'm on it, but some
Speaker 1: some people, I will say, some people will hit me
Speaker 1: with some new stuff before I got to it. So
Speaker 1: don't stop, get to get it, don't stop. Let's get
Speaker 1: these shoes, all right, y'all. I'm if you I have
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Speaker 1: and and I'd like to know that there's a time
Speaker 1: once a month that we get to hang out while
Speaker 1: I'm playing maybe Overwatch. I'm back in a Wow Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. I was just thinking that I have to go.
Speaker 1: We gotta do a Wow episode and that is deep. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I did want to say we actually have a very
Speaker 1: good episode on Twitch. If you don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: you can listen to our episode on Twitch with Zach
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you to everyone. Uh every month, I'm
Speaker 1: going to do one of these super hard pushes just
Speaker 1: to remind y'all, and then I'll shut up about it
Speaker 1: and just say if he's after so, this is your
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Speaker 1: love all the feedbacks. Tell us your favorite thing about Legos.
Speaker 1: If you're one of those crazy Lego heads with dope sets,
Speaker 1: definitely make sure you send them to us so we
Speaker 1: can retweet it. Put it on the Insta please. I
Speaker 1: am always blown away by Lego sets because I just
Speaker 1: don't have the just patience to do. Our friend Christopher
Speaker 1: Smith Bryant, who's going to be on a future episode,
Speaker 1: he has a ton of Lego sets. He has a
Speaker 1: lot of the DC ones here is a big fan
Speaker 1: of wonder Woman in such which I have a wonder
Speaker 1: Woman Lego. She has ther Invisible Plane. Yeah yet, and
Speaker 1: also that's a big thing. It's mini fit key chain,
Speaker 1: so even if it's just your mini fit key chain,
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Speaker 1: popular one is Darth Vader. I've seen that more SOH
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