LEGO Mega Factory Builds a Log Cabin Out of Cucumbers

Move over, gingerbread houses, because this LEGO Mega Factory built by YouTuber The Brick Wall is capable of constructing an entire log cabin out of cucumbers, which will henceforth be known as a cuke cabin. The massive LEGO factory took 83 days of planning and construction, and consists of 23,000+ pieces, 21 motors, and 7 controllers, and has a footprint of 64″x 44″ x 22″. Obviously, it’s a little more complicated than the minifig I just assembled with two heads for legs.

In the video, the LEGO factory cuts 18 cucumbers to size, mills the vegetables, cuts notches for stacking, cuts cucumbers for doors and windows and roofing planks, then assembles the entire home, complete with drilling holes and securing draft pins (wooden skewers) to keep the logs in place. It then builds a fence and playground around the home. It probably goes without saying, but that cabin is even nicer than my current apartment.

And I thought assembling any LEGO set without dozens of extra pieces was an accomplishment, meanwhile, this guy went and build a whole automated cucumber cabin factory! Now he just needs to build a LEGO factory that can build LEGO cucumber cabin building factories, and this project will finally meet its logical conclusion.

Look Inside a LEGO Factory to See How Bricks Are Made

LEGO bricks: apparently they don’t grow on trees. I know, I’m as shocked as you are. Especially considering I just told my wife I was going to quit my marketing job to be a LEGO farmer. Hopefully, she thought I was kidding.

With footage captured by The LEGO Group, this is a behind-the-scenes tour of a LEGO factory, detailing the process in which LEGO bricks are manufactured, all the way from plastic granulate to sealed LEGO set.

If you really want to have your mind blown, check out the video around 5:40 that details how the LEGO bricks are stored until they’re needed for packaging, which involves warehouses up to 37-meters (around 117-feet) tall and an automated system for retrieving the necessary boxes of pieces. No wonder LEGO sets are so expensive. Plus I can only imagine the cost of hazard pay for the barefoot workers that have to clean up a spill in the event of an earthquake.

Here’s another video showing how they make LEGO Minifigures:

[via TheAwesomer]

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