Inside LEGO at Christmas

Will it be posted online for us in the United States?

@ Parkerlegomaster: Good question, and one I'd like to know the answer to in case I can't watch it when it's on.

I recorded this show in the States on December 20th. It aired on the National Geographic Channel. I don't know if it will be aired again. I'll check our TV schedule to see if it will be aired again for you guys.

I hope it will be available online. Have been there and seen this great Christmas train.

If you're in the UK (or pretending to be) I imagine it will be on All4 (formerly 4OD)

"Inside LEGO".

30 minutes in, and we've spent more than half the time nowhere near the LEGO company. This better improve quickly...

If you didn't catch it, don't bother. Crashingly dull and uninteresting. Included at least ten minutes following someone selling a thinly Lego-related game no-one is interested in, including TLG (though good luck to him).

Yup waste of time, very misleading title to

why oh why were the only scenes actually inside the company about customer support or Star Wars?! and they only had about 15 minutes of screentime in the whole hour, if that!

The game mentioned in the documentary was actually backed by a Kickstarter campaign that raised £20k back in 2013 (not much compared to what's since been put into the product). It was a tad surprising that no mention of this made it through to the broadcast programme, especially since Ben has since launched an UPGRADED campaign on IndieGoGo. I guess it didn't go with the story the showmakers were wanting to tell.

Waste of time. They ruined the true potencial of lego bricks. Instead of imagination they used glue and saw to build a train. Pathetic.

Nothing about 'inside' LEGO, usual 'AFOLs are nutters' section and an advert for a non-LEGO product. Lazy/Clichéd TV production.

Wow, that was TERRIBLE!

Terrible program. Stereotyping AFOLs as 'nerds'. Then theres the Lego staff...if ever theres a way of identifying the overly self congratulatory fools who've ruined classic Lego in favour of branded dross or 'Lego for girls' then there you saw them...

And that train was absolute rubbish.

@sf1378: Would you rather have had them focus on AFOLs like you who are afraid of progress and think LEGO has been "ruined" since at least the 70s? After all, "LEGO for girls" has been around at least that long...

I enjoyed the sales pitch of the Kylo Ren shuttle, "It's got a thousand pieces and it's quite complicated and erm, it's got a lot of pieces and erm, it's complicated". I don't think her pitch got the set into the top 12, there might have been another reason :-D

I didn't feel it stereotyped us as nerds - the AFOLs they showed seemed perfectly nice enthusiasts who were prepared to turn over a staggering amount of living room space to their Lego. I suspect the same description could apply to a lot of us. I agree that the "inside Lego" aspect was oversold, but that didn't surprise me terribly. (My partner works at a call centre, sadly not for Lego, and I found myself mostly wondering what it's actually like to work in there when the cameras aren't present!) In the end, I didn't have high expectations and I enjoyed it.

I don't think a typical TV documentary is ever going to give us the kind of depth that we're after, either about Lego or AFOLs - it was always going to end up being half "behind the scenes at any job"-style programme, and half "meet this ordinary couple with a surprising obsession" - both formats that TV does very well, hung on a toy nearly everyone remembers from childhood, shown at the most nostalgic time of year. Now, I'd love to see a longer, independent documentary about AFOLs...

Very disappointing programme, I expected it to be a true behind the scenes look at how things are designed and created at Lego instead all we got was nerd stereotyping about eccentric people with seemingly more money than sense when it comes to Lego. There was too much time given to the robots board game which is compatible with Lego but certainly isn't Lego. Who is interested in seeing them bodge the Covent Garden train with saws? As for the head of marketing, all she could say was its got 1,005 pieces and a bit complicated. Complete rollocks!!!

@mr_skinny and mrdoofa, In fairness to TLG's UK head of marketing, she was very proud of the fact that she could remember three facts. Count them: three whole facts! No doubt that with brains like hers, she'll go far. She's sure to get promoted to the highest echelons of the company.

Free advertising for Mechabrick - a Kickstarter campaign for a brick-based game, free advertising for LEGO - even though nothing new was revealed (did you really think you would see some exclusive behind-the-scenes footage when they can charge you several thousands to go on the special tour?).
I'm surprised anyone had any expectations at all for this programme, given how dull the first one was.