Tonight: NatGeoTV's Ultimate Factories Visits the Lego Factory

Tonight at 8pm ET/PT, The National Geographic Channel’s Ultimate Factories series takes a slight diversion from its seemingly more automobile-based focus to visit Billund in Denmark – home, of course, to the massive Lego Factory. Over the course of an hour, the show covers many aspects of the production of the ubiquitous plastic blocks including the design team coming up with ideas on how the classic City Police Station set should be revamped and how the ‘Concept Factory’ began to combine the fun of building Lego with the fun of playing boardgames. In the clip below you can see the various prototypes for the buildable die and the actual mold used the create the final one: a mold that cost a quarter of a million dollars to make!

Did you know that with just 6 8×2 bricks, you can make over 900 million different combinations?

Over on the National Geographic site there’s not much more information about the show (even though it seems to be a rerun), but you can see another video clip and a gallery of photos. Hopefully, they’ll add it to the roster of full episodes available online so those of us outside the US can watch too.