They should have just raised it by a few years. 4-104 would be good. If anyone famous lives long enough, they’d get another publicity cycle out of it.
They’re using 100+ this time.
Yeah, that’s future proof. A boring choice imo
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It’s nice when people are still human even though they work for a corporation
LEGO is one of the best companies with regards to environmental sustainability (surprising for a plastic brick company) and inclusion for everybody.
Just don’t infringe their trademark… their lawyers are just as bad as you’d expect.
Don’t they make their bricks with PLA, which is non-toxic, biodegradable, and made from plants?
Honestly, I don’t care if they defend their trademark. I don’t want to think I’m buying Legos only to get home and find out they were really mislabeled MegaBlocks and won’t fit on any of my other bricks (while looking nearly identical so it’s harder to tell them apart at a glance).
They’re made out of different types of materials, but the basic bricks are usually made of ABS.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/sustainability/product-safety/materials
Oh, ABS is one of the worst…
Don’t know where I read they were PLA, I guess I’ve been lied to…
Another, more stable, 3d printing filament called ABS.
Ah. Yeah, ABS is more toxic and a petrochemical.
PETG is pretty good. Food safe, higher durability and temperature stability, and can be made from recycled water bottles. But I don’t think Lego uses that…
They have been releasing a lot of complete e-waste electric sets though
Also some collections like Bionicle used specialized parts that were pretty much useless for anything but building Bionicles
What’s wrong with bionicle?
A company releases a unique design with parts that are only intra-compatible within that specific line?
If that’s a problem, then nobody can really create anything new and unique without violating it.
I don’t expect my kinex to work with my legos, or either of those to work with my lincoln logs, marble runs, or plip kit. So what’s wrong with bionicle, exactly?
Lego parts are usually made to be useful with all other Lego parts. Having some be useful only for very specific sets is not great.
Bionicle isn’t lego, it’s a different product line. That’s like complaining that your legos don’t work with duplo. It just sounds like you have trouble keeping your toys organized.
I think there was another line with unique parts called Lego Knights, but they came after bionicle (and if I remember correctly had similar parts, but I don’t know if they interoperated because they’re were after my time; they might have been slightly bigger).
Legos are compatible with dublos btw. Dublos are exactly twice the dimensions of Legos, and you can put 4 2x4 Legos on top of a 2x4 dublo
It’s true, that’s a relatively new development. Curious to see if disposable electronics is a fad in their products or here to stay.
They’ve had a robotics line since I was a kid.
I don’t think it’s e-waste. It’s an educational toy. If people buy it and never use it or throw it away that’s on them, but I don’t have a problem with a company making introductory electronics kits for children.
It’s better than another bullshit software company that sells addictive app games designed to fry children’s dopamine receptors while harvesting their data to exploit for profit by selling to unaccountable third-parties…
The new smart bricks might be considered e-waste, depending. The bricks themselves are rechargeable but the battery is not replaceable and will degrade over time.
Oh, I didn’t know about these smart bricks
Not all sets are 4-99. Many are min_age+
In fact the lunar lander in the article thumbnail is actually 16+
6 + 60365 = 60371
The company took to their X (formerly Twitter) account and posted the photo of a LEGO Classic box with the updated range and with the message, “Updated for you, Sir David.”
Not to rain on the parade, but its not on Xitter. Is it on another platform, or is it just made up? The screenshots look like Instagram, I think, but I don’t have an account so can’t verify. Also, are they actually changing the packaging, or is this just a (still nice) social media tribute? Hate to ruin the fun, but I also don’t want to be praising a corporation for something they didn’t even do.
The screenshot linked in the article’s Twitter “source” is definitely Instagram. But the tweet is some random 3rd-party pop culture news resharer. It’s not MSN news either, it’s a feed of “inde news” hosted on MSN. It’s probably slop.
I saw it first on their Facebook, I just can’t link it here without the page needing a login to view. And I’m not sure, it might just be a social media tribute.
Looks like an AI image