Inside LEGO at Christmas Review

Inside LEGO at Christmas Review

Following the summer one-off documentary, Inside LEGO, this time Channel 4 follow the toy masters, LEGO, into the company's plan to for Christmas from stocking, advertising and life's of flans.

The Addis Family from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England are massive LEGO flans building a Giant LEGO Christmas Cake with decorations. The cake was built with over 200,000 LEGO bricks, taking over 3 weeks to craft. Last year, the family made a life-size Christmas Dalek from BBC's Doctor Who.

Giant LEGO Christmas Cake

LEGO Christmas Dalek

LEGO designers showed off LEGO Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens sets, including; Kylo Ren's Shuttle and Po's X-Wing Fighter. One of the designers commented, saying "The X-Wing had been tested by revolving it over 36,000 times to simulate a kid's flight course." With some LEGO employees going to the set of Star Wars 7 to collect ideas for LEGO sets.

In Covent Gardens, London, the only group of UK LEGO Professional built a giant LEGO Steam Train, with carriages and steam being puffed out of the train's chimney. When the train was finished, it weight 1.7 tonnes. Some cuts were made into the bricks, with some of the professionals having to look away, to make grooves for electricity wires for Christmas fairy lights.

LEGO's UK Head Marketer, Rebecca Shell, went to top secret meeting about which toys would be on children's Christmas lists. Making a top 12 list of all the toys sold in the UK of 2015. The meetings were so top secret that even the camera crew weren't allowed to film within the same room as the meeting. When the list was bought out, LEGO had two set on the Top 12 list: LEGO Star Wars Kylo Ren's Shuttle and the LEGO Deep Sea Fishing Boat.