Episode
How Do They Do It?: Carpets, LEGO
Overview
The making of wool carpeting and LEGO children's toys.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2008-03-26
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Carpets, LEGO is Episode 16 in Season 5 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2008-03-26. The runtime is 22 min.
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