Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 9:33 PM UTC

newjersey wrote: post #119

GalenErso wrote: post #69

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Maybe they just received some good old-fashioned tax incentives? It's not always about geopolitics.

My guess is that Lego customers are also increasingly older. I mean look at the millennium falcon. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/millennium-falcon-75192 https://i.imgur.com/vsxVnSJ.png ages 16+ When I think of fancy lego, I think of something like this https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-medium-creative-bric... because it has wheels and stuff, not just bricks. I would have imagined "regular" lego was just di…

Post by Kye » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 9:44 PM UTC

GalenErso wrote: post #69

dukeyukey wrote: post #62

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> Anyone know what changed economically to justify the high US labor costs? Particularly compared to MX My understanding is the US: 1. Is more politically, economically, and frankly physically secure than Mexico. 2. Has cheaper energy 3. Has a better-trained manufacturing workforce for the kinds of machine Lego is gonna use.

Maybe they just received some good old-fashioned tax incentives? It's not always about geopolitics.

Post by pantalaimon » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 9:52 PM UTC

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #204

munificent wrote: post #113

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As opposed to those serious Guiness records like "farthest eyeball pop", "loudest purr by a domestic cat", "most face flesh tunnels", "most tennis balls held in the mouth (by a dog)", "most eyebrow waxes performed in eight hours by a team", and "longest head massage chain". Guiness has always been a half-commercial silly enterprise. It's literally founded by a beer brand to resolve pub trivia arguments.

>Guiness has always been a half-commercial silly enterprise. It's literally founded by a beer brand to resolve pub trivia arguments. Oh, those are the same Guinness! I always wondered.

Post by drstewart » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:06 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #163

TheRealPomax wrote: post #162

Hopefully all American employees get the same treatment as European employees, rather than hiring a bunch of US-entrenched management and having them go "well this is an American plant, so we don't have to give you a minimum number of vacation days, and we only need to wage gauge you a tiny bit less than other companies in this space int he US for you to feel like we're treating you well". It's so easy to open a plan…

It is striking how quickly the US turned into a backwater for all types of labor.

Post by danielheath » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:28 PM UTC

PostOnce wrote: post #192

meibo wrote: post #115

They really need to work out their quality deficits first, a lot of recent mishaps have been inexcusable. You can't sell a $600 display model(which is a ridiculous price in the first place) with very visible gate locations from the molding process and uneven colors. These are purely caused by cheap molds and plastic mixes - it didn't used to be this way, but somehow they decided that they had to start jeopardizing th…

LEGO absolutely has a quality problem now. I am in my 30s and I had never seen a LEGO defect, and I have seen quite a few bricks. In the past year, I have seen several in-person among the toys I've bought for my kids, and several more anecdotally around the internet. Now I even see it here on HN. the LEGO brand had an unassailable, invincible reputation for quality, and now, for what seems like the first time, that i…