Every new piece has to fit with every piece ever made. So the most variability between pieces that Lego allows is 0.0005” (half a thousandths of an inch).
Here are some other details:
The Lego factories run have dozen of machines running 24/7 and each machine has a different mold (for different pieces)
Below is a retired Lego mold that produced 120 million pieces.
Here’s the value via Reddit: “At 8 bricks per run, 120m bricks would take 15m runs to complete. 120m bricks at $0.25 would produce $30m worth of 2x3 Lego bricks. All from one mold.”
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