--- title: Watch How Satisfying It Is to See LEGOs Get Crushed In A Hydraulic Press description: A flat LEGO is a good LEGO canonical: https://time.com/4283818/legos-hydraulic-press/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-06T19:31:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:24.097Z og:title: Watch How Satisfying It Is to See LEGOs Get Crushed In A Hydraulic Press og:description: A flat LEGO is a good LEGO og:url: https://time.com/4283818/legos-hydraulic-press/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch How Satisfying It Is to See LEGOs Get Crushed In A Hydraulic Press twitter:description: A flat LEGO is a good LEGO twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch How Satisfying It Is to See LEGOs Get Crushed In A Hydraulic Press by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 6, 2016 7:31 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 6, 2016 7:31 PM UTC A new video is the perfect revenge watch for anyone who has ever [stepped on a LEGO](http://time.com/4246385/heres-why-it-hurts-so-much-to-step-on-a-lego/), shrieked in pain and started to hop up and down on one foot, only to step on another LEGO. The latest installment from YouTube’s strangely addictive [Hydraulic Press Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66%5F1Hwi5-MeiQgw) shows the plastic pieces getting squashed by a hydraulic press. One push of a button and the hydraulic lift turns the LEGO brick and figure into a piece of plastic so flat that you could break dance on it. If you want to see more things get their comeuppance in a hydraulic press ([alarm clock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOGcPebHATY), anyone?) the [Hydraulic Press Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66%5F1Hwi5-MeiQgw) has many options ranging from [fruit salad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AruBUK%5FsgPk) to [origami](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuG%5FCeEZV6w) to an incredibly satisfying [bubble wrap pop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGTwDNN%5Fuc). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4283818/legos-hydraulic-press/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4283818/legos-hydraulic-press/"},"headline":"Watch How Satisfying It Is to See LEGOs Get Crushed In A Hydraulic Press","datePublished":"2016-04-06T19:31:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:24.097Z","description":"A flat LEGO is a good LEGO","url":"https://time.com/4283818/legos-hydraulic-press/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Lego","Toys","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4283818/legos-hydraulic-press/","name":"Watch How Satisfying It Is to See LEGOs Get Crushed In A Hydraulic Press"}}]}] ```