This is a video about bricks.
Well, bricks and plates, and tiles and panels and slopes, and grills and pegs and legs.
To put it another way, this video is about Legos, many of which are bricks, and some of which, I recently learned, are babies.
I also learned that Lego sets, like this RV one I made my writer build for educational purposes, are beholden to tons of design and engineering rules that dictate how you, the user, are allowed to put the pieces together.
So come along as we look into how LEGO sets get designed, some of the building techniques they will never ever use, and why every LEGO set gets put in an oven before they send it to market.
A Lego set begins its life as an idea, or, more accurately, as a price point.
The Lego design team is divided into themes—think Star Wars, City, Braille bricks, so on—and twice a year, each theme gets a number of sets to design and price points those sets should retail for when they drop.
Generally, one designer gets assigned to each set and decides where, to put it simply, all the bricks will go.
Later, others will take up writing the instructions, graphic designing stickers and or packaging, creating any new pieces or elements unique to this set, etc.
The designer starts with IRL Legos from a massive library at HQ, featuring buckets of every single piece ever featured in a set.
