@@eisenbahnerharthausen Bruh have you ever watched any youtuber, like, ever? Literally every single one of them says "please subscribe," from Mr.Beast to Ryan Trahan, so you can chill.
Nah they come in every color in the Lego catalog apart from the retired ones like sand purple. Fairly common on eBay but questionable about where they come from, probably the Mexican factory looking to make an extra buck, that’s the leading theory
I have a trans blue Vader helmet and a trans neon green one, both of which I bought a couple years ago. They’re definitely not meant for future sets. They could be test molds but judging by how many are produced and how cheap you can find them they’re definitely made in large quantities which is not something Lego would do as just a test. So I agree with the theory that they were probably made secretly by workers at the factory to make some easy side money. I’m surprised Lego hasn’t cracked down on them for it but Lego really doesn’t monitor the Mexican factory very well because they have tons of quality control problems and they cut a lot of corners that the other factories don’t.
I thought there was a Mexican factory churning out batches of fake "misprints" and different colored sets on the low, sorta like how many knock offs from China are from the same factories where workers make stuff after hours or things that do not pass quality control.
The weird thing about these variations is that they actually pass all quality standards. They have the Lego logo, they don't break, and they are identical to the normal versions in terms of quality.
Lego has a factory in Mexico. An official factory producing official sets with official molds. A group of workers at said factory produces official minifigs in colors that they're not supposed to come in to make an extra buck on the side. Lego doesn't endorse it, but idk if they've taken action either.
I was lucky enough to get a trans neon green Vader helmet before lego discontinued that color. I also have a trans light blue one but I don’t have fully transparent bodies for either of them yet. I definitely believe the theory that they’re made secretly because there’s so many out there for so cheap they’re definitely not test prints or accidental misprints. The Mexican factory isn’t monitored very well by Lego, they’re known to have a lot of quality control issues and they cut a lot of corners like having worse print quality than all the other Lego factories around the world. So it wouldn’t surprise me if workers there were just making entire batches of miss-colored parts just to make some extra side money, and no one has caught them yet because lego doesn’t care enough
@@EpixAndroid oh nice, I hadn’t heard about that, but that would hopefully help them control a lot of the quality issues that they’ve been having for the last few years
I started collecting these when they first appeared on the scene about 5 years ago (primarily the transparent ones, since I could use them as holo figs), but stopped when an endless variety of colors kept turning up. They were also more affordable a few years ago. Figs ranged from $25-50 US.
Feels like something that should come in a surprise mystery pack of some kind. “Oh! That’s weird, I got a glittery red Darth Vader!” That’d be a fun way for LEGO themselves to officially distribute these misprints and test prints.
I work in a plastic injection molding facility as a technical trainee. If this was not done as an official action by the LEGO group most likely is that the technicians either wanted to run through the last part of material left in the machine and purged the old material with the new mold, or the material handlers provided the wrong material for a sample or test run. It was likely an official sample order or a new mold being tested though and they just used cheap material or a tester material to easily look for internal fractures, flash, shorts, or other defects that occur when molding.
Injection molds are tested by the mold factory before they get shipped. Usually white plastic is the cheapest to test with but Lego could request that they use a specific color. It is probably the case that all the minifigure parts are molded and assembled by the same factory to test that they fit together. I have heard that Lego requires very tight tolerances. The test pieces are sent to Lego in large batches to judge for quality.
The company I used to work for uses the same Arburg machines as Lego. If they’re real, it’s most likely leftover/old material they wanted to get rid of and the machines get purged with other colors to make sure everything is running smoothly without wasting any of the actual usable material meant for that specific mold.
I was thinking it could be a particularly nice looking purge material myself, but I worked at an injection molding place that purged material with the nozzle disengaged from the mold and it seemed unlikely. We did use materials that get a bit explosive when mixed though, so we needed separate materials if it wasn't just a color change, and needed to avoid mixing like stiff nylon in a mold meant for rubbery TPE.
These are pretty cool! I don’t want to support factory theft, but I’d be lying if I said I’d never looked them up on eBay. They were pretty expensive, so I didn’t pull the trigger.
Largely you hit the reasons right on the money it's both because the staff that have access to these machines want to create their own unique minifigs and almost equally plausible as stress testing certain plastics in the Sun so that Lego May revise their plastic formulas
What’s to stop someone from just molding their own Lego minis and passing them off as this? Wouldn’t the nature of these mini figs make it that much easier to do such a scam
It’s simple these ones are made by factory workers over night so the ones with the night shift and are stolen lego has started cracking down on factory’s though
When you play fast and loose with those hundreds of thousands of dollars machines, you get off color parts. That off color depends on what coloring agents and polymers are used. Sometimes black is just really deep blue or green, but the sparkly metallic colors are a result of improper mixture of new colorless polymer and most Lego figures are multiple parts from different molds. Some one is either taking the time to make 100 percent pass replicas of LEGO figures, or taking the time to collect all of the cast off parts and color matching them.
If it was just one brick it could maybe be something underhand, but if you're brazen enough to do it with multiple moulds I reckon you'll get caught. Someone's going to ask why your machine is constantly down for maintenence.
No those are not prototypes, a lot of those minifigs are illegal and came from the México factory, I knew some sellers who have contacts directly from the factory that's how they got all of them
There are thousands and thousands of these figures to the point where they aren't rare or exclusive anymore. Why they are made I couldn't tell you, but it's not by mistake and neither is them being sold on Ebay
Look I am a inventor, designer & 3DPrinter operator it’s the color of the raw material someone must have made a mistake Honestly if Lego does not have a transition time this & the Marble bricks they should have flushed the plastic with force & enough heat that it will go like it’s water
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Well translucent blue also used for Force ghosts and holograms. Possibly a planned set using either concept.
That could be, but there's also all of the other prototypes that don't have an in-universe explanation, like green c3po
Nah they come in every color in the Lego catalog apart from the retired ones like sand purple. Fairly common on eBay but questionable about where they come from, probably the Mexican factory looking to make an extra buck, that’s the leading theory
I have a trans blue Vader helmet and a trans neon green one, both of which I bought a couple years ago. They’re definitely not meant for future sets. They could be test molds but judging by how many are produced and how cheap you can find them they’re definitely made in large quantities which is not something Lego would do as just a test. So I agree with the theory that they were probably made secretly by workers at the factory to make some easy side money. I’m surprised Lego hasn’t cracked down on them for it but Lego really doesn’t monitor the Mexican factory very well because they have tons of quality control problems and they cut a lot of corners that the other factories don’t.
@@HolyStudthere ia a possible in universe explinat8on for that, seeing as there is a multiple colors a protocol droid could be
@@sfsgaming7831 True but how do you explain pink darth vader?
Ok, but trans-blue Star Wars figures are perfect for Force Ghosts and holograms.
Absolutely
Sand blue
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I thought there was a Mexican factory churning out batches of fake "misprints" and different colored sets on the low, sorta like how many knock offs from China are from the same factories where workers make stuff after hours or things that do not pass quality control.
yes i believe you would be correct, it’s tough know for certain thou, obviously
The weird thing about these variations is that they actually pass all quality standards. They have the Lego logo, they don't break, and they are identical to the normal versions in terms of quality.
The factory is an official Lego factory, but the employees unofficially make intentional misprints or molds with the wrong fillings to sell them
The Mexican Lego Cartel
@@--cobb--1674I think it's that too. Probably someone sneaking a quick one for the laughs and novelty.
The video 10/10
The music 10/10
Lego has a factory in Mexico. An official factory producing official sets with official molds. A group of workers at said factory produces official minifigs in colors that they're not supposed to come in to make an extra buck on the side. Lego doesn't endorse it, but idk if they've taken action either.
Yo I work in a Lego factory not going to disclose which one anyways we do it cuz it's a slow day and we board so yeah they're not prototype
Fake
bro does not work at a lego factory
Can I get a red 1x1 plate?
i want a jelly vader
I too enjoy spreading misinformation on the internet
I have been summoned
Oh no
I'm gonna have a bad time, aren't I?
Awaken my master(s).
I'm surprised it hasn't been done in a set yet. Like as a hologram or force ghost that's really good.
Ikr! Lego should just do force ghosts already!
@@HolyStud they could do a like 10fig set of mystery force ghosts.
The red one looks like a forbidden candy
SANS?!
Bold move using Megalovania
Fr
He should have used mogolovono
And the Smash Version too, the intro is a little shorter.
@@Herobrine100x i think this is just normal megalovania just that he skiped most of the start
I was lucky enough to get a trans neon green Vader helmet before lego discontinued that color. I also have a trans light blue one but I don’t have fully transparent bodies for either of them yet.
I definitely believe the theory that they’re made secretly because there’s so many out there for so cheap they’re definitely not test prints or accidental misprints. The Mexican factory isn’t monitored very well by Lego, they’re known to have a lot of quality control issues and they cut a lot of corners like having worse print quality than all the other Lego factories around the world. So it wouldn’t surprise me if workers there were just making entire batches of miss-colored parts just to make some extra side money, and no one has caught them yet because lego doesn’t care enough
I agree!
That explains why they're building that factory near Richmond, Virginia...
@@EpixAndroid oh nice, I hadn’t heard about that, but that would hopefully help them control a lot of the quality issues that they’ve been having for the last few years
Also, the fact that they drum up attention for the rare figures also gives LEGO attention, which increases sales of their own sets and mini figures
That gold Darth Vader Gose so hard
Ikr though
Disgusting pfp
He has returned
My death was... greatly exaggerated.
God dang it now i want that batman minifigure
Same
I got some of these from a worker at Legoland
Really? They just gave them to you? That's super cool.
This makes me want a Lord Vortech figure even more.
Fr at least now it's easier to make a custom one!
I started collecting these when they first appeared on the scene about 5 years ago (primarily the transparent ones, since I could use them as holo figs), but stopped when an endless variety of colors kept turning up. They were also more affordable a few years ago. Figs ranged from $25-50 US.
The entire first half of this ending is a whole acid trip that ends with something out of a creepypasta.
Yeah some of the factories go a little rogue, you can buy tons of mistake or misprints.
Feels like something that should come in a surprise mystery pack of some kind. “Oh! That’s weird, I got a glittery red Darth Vader!” That’d be a fun way for LEGO themselves to officially distribute these misprints and test prints.
Me looking at the red darth vader: *I’M GONNA EAT IT AND NONE OF YOU CAN STOP ME.*
“Why is Darth Vader in translucent blue?”
“uh, idfk”
Could've been that the plastic color was changed, and the first few molds were made in the previous color that was left over.
Can't blame Lego employees to make custom cool stuff if they can, I would absolutely do the same
I work in a plastic injection molding facility as a technical trainee. If this was not done as an official action by the LEGO group most likely is that the technicians either wanted to run through the last part of material left in the machine and purged the old material with the new mold, or the material handlers provided the wrong material for a sample or test run. It was likely an official sample order or a new mold being tested though and they just used cheap material or a tester material to easily look for internal fractures, flash, shorts, or other defects that occur when molding.
Here we have a short video of Mordecai explaining lego minifigures
Injection molds are tested by the mold factory before they get shipped. Usually white plastic is the cheapest to test with but Lego could request that they use a specific color.
It is probably the case that all the minifigure parts are molded and assembled by the same factory to test that they fit together. I have heard that Lego requires very tight tolerances. The test pieces are sent to Lego in large batches to judge for quality.
Lego factory workers finding the infinite money glitch making unofficial figures
Maybe it's like the mystery flavored dum-dum lollipops, where they have to clear out the old flavor before inserting a new one
They look like they should be candy minifigures
Sans Undertale
I would enjoy a glittery darth vader
"Let's make a lego figure out of Gatorade for fun"
Both samples and factory workers making them of records sounds plausible
I want to eat the red darth vador figure
SO YOU’RE TELLING ME WE COULD HAVE HAD LORD VORTECH THIS ENTIRE TIME!
The glittery translucent lightsaber pieces if made in the mould of the dark saber piece could work really well for future releases of the dark saber
The most cursed thing is the long lightsaber hilt
Honestly I think they were made to test the strength of the mold.
The company I used to work for uses the same Arburg machines as Lego. If they’re real, it’s most likely leftover/old material they wanted to get rid of and the machines get purged with other colors to make sure everything is running smoothly without wasting any of the actual usable material meant for that specific mold.
I was thinking it could be a particularly nice looking purge material myself, but I worked at an injection molding place that purged material with the nozzle disengaged from the mold and it seemed unlikely.
We did use materials that get a bit explosive when mixed though, so we needed separate materials if it wasn't just a color change, and needed to avoid mixing like stiff nylon in a mold meant for rubbery TPE.
POV: Darth Vader became a force ghost but was still on the dark side:
These are pretty cool! I don’t want to support factory theft, but I’d be lying if I said I’d never looked them up on eBay. They were pretty expensive, so I didn’t pull the trigger.
I think that's supposed to be a hologram. For when darth vader calls the emperor
They want a lava resistant minifig so they recreated revenge of the sith
I thought the other reason was an Error and that they Accidentally made it in that plastic.
It might be them testing new equipment or machinery that just got fix
Largely you hit the reasons right on the money it's both because the staff that have access to these machines want to create their own unique minifigs and almost equally plausible as stress testing certain plastics in the Sun so that Lego May revise their plastic formulas
I want a translucent pink mini fig!!
I heard a story that there is a night gaurd who makes those and sells them to get money
What’s to stop someone from just molding their own Lego minis and passing them off as this? Wouldn’t the nature of these mini figs make it that much easier to do such a scam
I had a batman fig exactly like this
Thats why there wouldn't be force ghosts
Wait why is megalovania playing?
It’s simple these ones are made by factory workers over night so the ones with the night shift and are stolen lego has started cracking down on factory’s though
The workers would not be making those, they would have to fill a hopper full of material which, usually, the plant manager would not let happen
Mordecai likes lego, noted
I bought a revolver in white for Gentleman Ghost
I worked with some automated polymer injection molding, those figures exist because of a mold swap without polymer purge.
When you play fast and loose with those hundreds of thousands of dollars machines, you get off color parts. That off color depends on what coloring agents and polymers are used. Sometimes black is just really deep blue or green, but the sparkly metallic colors are a result of improper mixture of new colorless polymer and most Lego figures are multiple parts from different molds. Some one is either taking the time to make 100 percent pass replicas of LEGO figures, or taking the time to collect all of the cast off parts and color matching them.
Hologram Vader cool
Omg force ghost darth vader they better have shipping going to geonosis
Ikr I really wanted the translucent blue one for that reason
If it was just one brick it could maybe be something underhand, but if you're brazen enough to do it with multiple moulds I reckon you'll get caught. Someone's going to ask why your machine is constantly down for maintenence.
Nah that just my patronus
"Darth vader should always come in black"
Darth Vader From Dark Falcon: Am i a joke to you?
When my mom gave birth to me they classified me as a mistake
Gold vader looks amazing
They Should Make A G-3po
It’s probably translucent so they can check the mold quality before making it out of solid colors
Good theory!
That translucent blue is meant to be hologram Vader
might legit buy one to make vortech
Guys, chill. It's just a chase variant.
Lol
I'm pretty sure you can just order peices on the website in different colors.
Maybe they're sculpture minifigs? At least that's what i think
Golden Vader go hard a f***
For +50$ they better had to swallow it true controls at the factory😂
lego's about to have a bad time😂
Damn, so was I.
I have a clear red yoda
That's so cool, I haven't even seen one of those!
Lol shiny lego figures 😂
How do you even get these, i would love to get them
They’re from the factories and then even do it to figures that already exist
That gold Vader is sweet!
Ikr
Ok but.
Lil Blue/white rgb light and suddenly it’s a hologram
No those are not prototypes, a lot of those minifigs are illegal and came from the México factory, I knew some sellers who have contacts directly from the factory that's how they got all of them
Not as price hiked as I was expecting
There are thousands and thousands of these figures to the point where they aren't rare or exclusive anymore. Why they are made I couldn't tell you, but it's not by mistake and neither is them being sold on Ebay
Cause it's fun
Megoloniva is a weird choice for background music
Look I am a inventor, designer & 3DPrinter operator it’s the color of the raw material someone must have made a mistake
Honestly if Lego does not have a transition time this & the Marble bricks they should have flushed the plastic with force & enough heat that it will go like it’s water
why is megalovania playing for absolutely no reason
What’s your Patronus? Mine’s A Gray Squirrel.
Mine is Darth Vader.
Darth Vader is a goated Patronus
@@HolyStud But he wasn’t always that way. At one time, the Patronus was Anakin Skywalker. Then someone’s Obi Wan Kenobi Patronus ruined him.
"Mistake"
megalovania music
yeah i got trans sparkle pink and purple darth vader its pretty cool
That's awesome
S A N S U N D E R T A L E
Vid: legos
Song: you wanna have a bad time?
Blue minifiger
San's eye is blue
I see no difference
megalovania camella remix