LEGO's Catastrophic Failure

These mistakes and errors cost LEGO millions of dollars
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Although LEGO designs and produces fantastic sets, LEGO is not perfect. From misprinted boxes to faulty products, here are 10 times LEGO lost millions of dollars due to product recalls and production errors - Enjoy!

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[admiralfurret]

Small fun fact: in 2008 the pieces declined in quality because lego decided to save some money on plastic injectors, getting ones that cool down much quicker, causing the plastic to lose durability. The greatest victim was bionicle line in 2008, where durability of the pieces was pretty important. The biggest victim however was any set using lime green pieces, which cracked in few minutes of use.

[darthgbc]

Absolutely love that LEGO added better lighting instead of firing.

[fortnitesexman]

it's nice to see lego adopting the "a worker mistake is a company mistake" philosophy

[ARDIZsq]

LEGO Employee: *Makes a huge and expensive mistake*
LEGO: "It's ok, we're all human. Here, let's get you some better lighting so this doesn't happen again."

You love to see it.

[DutchDread]

Mad respect for not blaming the worker, this is a classic example of "people are imperfect, so the process has to be designed to account for that. If it does not, then there is a problem with the process, not the person".

[painpulverizer]

Employee: Changes colors of brick in a set and loses Lego over $1, 000, 000
Lego: Installs better lighting for the employees
*True Jedi Unlocked*

[teagan]

Imagine banning gray bricks one of the most useful colors in Legos what would we do with out them

[crazyrobak]

A good one to mention is the new UCS republic gunship, in which the box and instructions had a misprint where the Republic insignia, they printed the imperial insignia instead. It was hugely noticeable and they had to stop producing the sets for a bit to produce the corrected ones.

[MassimilianoBariola]

None of them fall into the "catastrophic failure" category, not even taken together. Let's talk about LEGO's current brick quality. uneven color shades, injection residues, even on premium sets. that's the catastrophe.

[IndyGibb]

Lego's response to that last one almost put a tear in my eye.

[linkrd]

$6M mistake, omg! That’s crazy. Also, one dude packed over 120, 000 bags… I’m very curious as to how long that took.

[luchoman]

A recalled set to mention: Lego 8939 Lesovikk, a 2007 Bionicle box set exclusive to Walmart that was released with a missing piece, shortly re-released with all pieces accounted for.

Had to get Bionicle in there 😉

[xx]

The last time I owned a LEGO product was over 12 years ago. Just found your channel and binge-watched for about two hours, earned the sub.

[cosmo]

Lego saying they won’t do Military stuff as if a bunch of the Indiana Jones sets from like a decade ago didn’t have literal Nazi and Soviet mini figs with Military vehicles in them lmao

[Signerdragon]

Personally, I consider their handling of Bionicle G2 and Hidden Side catastrophic failures of their own.

[Songal]

It is nice that they were able to fix sets and possibly get the money back. Wonderful video, thank you.

[Larry]

The quality has REALLY gone down hill in recent times. Literally every other kit I buy from their own website contains missing pieces now. >.>

[decepticonleaderstarscream]

I would like to point out how LEGO's rules of what's appropriate are strange

As they won't make any sets based on military but they will make Nazis for the Indiana Jones sets. And make characters like Joker, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, Captain Boomerang, Deathstroke, Two-Face, Penguin, Riddler, Red Skull, Crossbones who are all comic book characters who notably have committed quite a few heinous actions over the course of their long history as characters.

[renefrijhoff]

The reason of the cancellation of the "Osprey" is quite dubious as they had already released 3 other sets tied to the real military, although old ones: 10226 and 3451 Sopwith Camel (including machine guns) and set 10024 the most (in)famous blood red Fokker DR.I Triplane flown by the (in)famous Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen.

[ObiWahnKnobi]

The cynic in me guesses that LEGO found a way to get rid of that employee once nobody was paying attention anymore. Perhaps they just put him somewhere, where he couldn't possibly do that much damage.