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I calculated it, this looks like 32 x 48 blocks, so a total volume of roughly 15.6 m³. Considering that they’re going to be loose in the box and not perfectly stacked, I’d double that volume. This would result in a box set, if it were a cube, with ~3m sides. The weight would be 10.53 tons.
Love this! Now calculate how much oil is in it such that exactly one USA would invade
Yeah but what bulk density are you using?
What do you mean bulk density?
The dollar bills have a slight hollow indent, so you can’t just model them as a solid prism of ABS. I assume is the question here. You might be off by about 15%
The part pictured here seems to be 3069px7 with the base color incorrectly set to white. In any case, it’s 3069, the standard 1x2 tile. Thanks to the folks at LDraw who have modeled every Lego brick in detail (because of course people have done that), we get a volume of 303.8mm³, with a bounding box size of 409.6mm³, for a density of about 74%. But, Bricklink can just directly tell us the mass of a 1x2 tile is 0.26g, so the total mass is 10.5 metric tons.
That’s exactly the weight value I used in my original calculation :)
Of course someone has just published a table with all know masses of all lego pieces ever
Bricklink is a site for individuals/small business to buy and sell primarily individual Lego pieces, so it’s important for shipping calculations to have reasonably accurate weights of all the pieces. Their weights are therefore contributed by those sellers. Although now that LEGO Group owns Bricklink, you’d think they could just slide them the numbers.
I used the weight value on bricklink.com which I assume is correct :)
Bingo.
In anything that does not perfectly stack, you have to assume a bulk density (density that accounts for porosity)
This is common in soil science since soils are only 50% solid.
So to put this in perspective, at an average cost of 10 cents per LEGO this set would cost over 4 million dollars.
At the current brick market rate the 2×1 100$ Money Tile only goes for $0.01 so it would cost around $450,000. And the only known prototype George Lucas lego figure last sold for in the ballpark of $50k;
so grand total to achieve this build is ~$500k
True, but you’d get a discount if you hand selected all the needed peices with any set though. The 10 cent estimate is for official sets, so if Lego released this set we could expect they’d price it at around $4 million
Kinda crazy how one layer of that is more money than most people will ever have available at any given time, and he has over 25,000 layers
“Kinda”?
It’s insane.
I think millionaires are fine, but billionaires are excessively rich. If literally everything in society was fine than maybe, sure, but until then…
If everything in society was fine, I’m pretty sure becoming a billionaire would be actually impossible.
Not to be that guy but this is no way to build Lego. There are no connections.
George Lucas has no connections to his fans, so it works
Lol love it
There is no better right than technically right 👍
I really appreciate these attempts to help visualize fabulous sums of money. It reminds me of https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Wow that’s disgusting
I’ve been thinking: if we’re a nice kind of government, couldn’t we just print the money we’re going to use to for example, give americans in poverty 10000$ ? This would “just devalue the money the rich people have”, so something about international exchange rates is propably the thing that stops me from mentally circumventing the freedom-based value that we can’t just take money people have earned. really gross food for thought
The biggest problem with that is that rich people don’t actually have massive piles of cash, they have massive piles of stocks. Devalue the currency, and their stocks are worth a lot more actual cash
Think of it like a ratio. It devalues the savings of every day people more significantly than it devalues the massive piles rich people have. Rich people have this insane buffer and always have the means to play the rigged system to their favour and win.
Well actually…
https://www.housingfinance.com/news/george-lucas-proposes-affordable-housing_o
Tried to get affordable housing built, that’s pretty cool.
So why does it only come with 40.5 million plastic bux if the title of the set is 4.05 billion
Because each is worth $100
Can you imagine what a Star Trek film will look like with that kind of money?
If there were no billionaires, maybe we could live in a star trek like society, in a world beyond neoliberality.
Could I get a tea, Earl Grey, hot, whenever I wanted?
If you live on a class M planet in the United Federation of Planets and have access to a replicator… Then, yes.
Just don’t live on a homeworld, those have… troubles.
