Lego-making machine made of Lego

Joseph sez, "This is an exclusive Lego set that you can purchase on the factory tour in Denmark. It has semi-functional injection molding mechanics. Really a neat toy."

The set consists of two moulding machines, the first was a replica of the original hand operating injector back from 1949. The second, Larger one is copy of the current Moulder that LEGO uses today that ... well made the bricks that made this model :)
Each model has working features - the little one can 'press' the mould together. Where as the large one has a little slot to put in 1x1 round plates in (or raw abs) , followed by a separate mechanism to 'press' the mould together. the little 1x1 round then drops down an incline and into the yellow basket below - where it waits to be whisked off by machines to storage.

Moulding Machine - Exclusive - Built

[Review] Moulding Machine #4000001 (Lego Insider Tour Exclusive) 4000001 Moulding Machine Review

(Thanks, Joseph!)

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Anonymous

I thought at first glance that it was a Lego of the machine that destroys everything (but would only destroy Lego versions of everything).
Anonymous

so, can it compile itself?

.~.
dagfooyo

It’s the lego version of the reprap!
styrofoam

I thought that the tour these would be handed out would be incredibly awesome to attend. I was wondering why there were only 68 people that’d sign up for a Lego Insider tour.

Then I discovered the ~2,000 USD ticket price, not inclusive of travel. Ahh, yes.
Funderful

Aaaw… here I thought it’d turn out to be a makerbot made out of Lego, capable of making Lego.

I’m simultaneously disappointed that it’s just a regular Lego kit and overjoyed that I live at a time when the mistake of thinking it more than regular Lego isn’t complete insane fantasy.
Anonymous

This would go great with my Bandai injection molded injection molding machine model.

http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2010/10/visiting-gundam.html
Anonymous

Yo dawg…
penguinchris

That’s fantastic. Probably the greatest lego set I’ve seen (though I do also really like the Frank Lloyd Wright ‘Falling Water’ one).

I too, though, would love to see a lego machine that destroys everything lego. “Destroy” in this case could just mean tearing apart the individual bricks. It would, inevitably, self-destruct in the process of destroying other lego models.
DoktorH

I, for one, welcome our new Lego overlords.
oodja

Yo Dawg, I heard you like Lego…
JProffitt71

This looks amazingly fun! I would have loved this machine as a kid, or similar industrial themed functional sets. What a great way to inspire kids to look into engineering and mechanics. I bet they have those somewhere, and now I want them!
- Anonymous
  
  I used to have a technics kit for schools that illustrated basic mechanical concepts through lego. Lots of hours spent with those little bricks.
  
  http://blog.electricbricks.com/wp-content/uploads/lego_technic_1030.jpg
Anonymous

First the brute & humble lego machine press

Then comes the amusing Lego Robots making Lego Copies of themselves.

The first Lego robots are in brick format but then later they evolve into a Mimetic polyalloy at which point we ALL become the target market
Anonymous

Foxtrot was so close!
http://www.foxtrot.com/2011/06/06122011/
Anonymous

I hereby confess that it was I in moments of childish mischief that occasionally put a couple of yellow Lego bricks into the hopper of the injection moulding machine at a Defence contractor in the late 80′s during weekend overtime after the pub lunch…
I’m sorry my actions caused such mayhem. I’m sorry to the operator who had to strip the machine every time the pretty black moulded connectors it produced suddenly started streaking yellow on a Monday morning. Sorry also to management from shop floor to senior for all the friction caused between your departments during the down time. Sorry to the no less than four industrial engineers whom scratched their heads as to why. Sorry to the quality control engineers as their math and charts failed to predict the failures. Sorry to the supplier of the black ABS pellet stock the machine was normally fed with leading to a revamp of their quality control mechanisms with every shipment to our company visually checked for ‘yellow pellet’ contamination. Sorry I ran out of yellow bricks and started using white.
jnob

Is it called the Matrix?