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Elon Musk Is Turning Rocks, Bricks Into Promo Products

Elon Musk just might be the king of company merch.

First, he scored a major success with logoed hats for his The Boring Company, selling 50,000. Then, he one-upped himself and went totally unique with a Boring Company-branded flamethrower, selling out a run of 20,000 units that were cheekily marketed and labeled as “not a flamethrower” for shipping purposes.

Now, on Sunday, Musk announced his latest soon-to-come merch offering. Interestingly, it’s a bit of genius upcycling, taking excess rock from The Boring Company’s transportation tunnel-digging activities and turning it into kits of interlocking life-size LEGO-style bricks.

The kits aren’t for sale yet, but Musk indicated in a tweet that the first one will have a definite theme.

In another tweet, Musk said the bricks will feature “a precise surface finish, so two people could build the outer walls of a small house in a day or so.”

Photos of the bricks weren’t available Monday, and the price of the kits and the size of the blocks weren’t known publicly. Still, by tease-previewing the forthcoming merch, Musk scores a marketing masterstroke. He creates mystery and a buzz of anticipation that will likely help propel sales of the interlocking bricks.

Keep an eye on Musk’s Twitter for an announcement about when the kits go on sale. By the way, The Boring Company is about much more than merch, of course. Check out the test tunnel the firm is building in Hawthorne, CA, below. More details on how the planned tunnels could help alleviate traffic in vehicle-clogged cities is here.

Source: The Boring Company