Published 19:31 IST, November 27th 2019
Lego mocks Tesla with its own 'shatterproof' truck following the company's botched event
Lego trolled Tesla with its own lego bricks "shatterproof" truck after Tesla's botched up November 21 launch event of its new electric Cybertruck in Los Angeles
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Lego has joined in on the many trolling Tesla after its botched up launch event of its new electric Cybertruck in Los Angeles. Lego debuted its own "shatterproof" truck. Lego assembled a car with its widely popular interlocking plastic bricks and added plastic wheels to it to mock Tesla as their cyber track has been built with stainless steel used in rockets.
Lego trolls Tesla
The toy production company posted on its official Facebook page with a caption stating that evolution of the truck is here with a guaranteed shatterproof model.
Lego's post garnered more than 12,000 likes with one person commenting that the lego cyber track looked much better than Tesla's version of the electric cyber truck.
Musk's stunt backfires
Tesla launched its first electric pickup truck on November 21 at an event in Los Angeles but things did not pan out well for co-founder Elon Musk. He called Tesla's head designer Franz von Holzhausen onto the stage to throw a big metal ball at the side window in order to showcase the strength of the vehicle's armoured glass windows. Musk's stunt backfired on him as the "armoured" glass windows were left with huge cracks.
Glass window: *Is made of glass*
— Mason (@masonmaelstrom) November 22, 2019
Solid steel ball: “I’m about to end this mans whole career”#Cybertruck #Tesla pic.twitter.com/5cqj21yqek
Musk was apparently surprised by what had happened and said that the throw was maybe a little bit hard. According to reports, he told the audience that the windows had not cracked in tests that were previously conducted. Musk added that in the previous tests, they had literally thrown everything at the window including the kitchen sink and the armoured glass did not break.
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Musk responds to a fan
Responding to a fan's tweet, Musk stated that the impact of the sledgehammer resulted in a crack at the base of the glass because of which the steel ball did not bounce off the window and added that the next time he will use a metal ball first instead of using a sledgehammer.
I know the real reason behind the window crack. It’s ok Elon, But maybe you should’ve threw the ball of the window before you decided to hit the door with a sledgehammer
— Rod Adib (@RodAdib1) November 24, 2019
Yup. Sledgehammer impact on door cracked base of glass, which is why steel ball didn’t bounce off. Should have done steel ball on window, *then* sledgehammer the door. Next time …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2019
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(With inputs from agencies)
17:33 IST, November 27th 2019