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Bumps and Tubes

How Plastic Toy Bricks Are Made: How are toy bricks made?

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Toy bricks have bumps on top.

That is why they snap together.

Bricks are hard plastic.

They start as tiny grains.

The grains wait in big tanks.

The machine melts the plastic. It fills a mold like a brick.

Color is added at the machine.

The plastic cools fast. The bricks drop on a belt.

As of November 2026, LEGO is the best-known brick maker.

Old bricks fit new bricks. The design is the same since 1958.

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