[jonex]

I sure hope this does not mean a reduction in quality, one of Legos big benefits has been the longevity, lego pieces from the 70s are still in my family's rotation. Reuse should always come before recycle.

[skrebbel]

The entire Lego company is staffed by purists. I think the reason they took so long getting this done (despite being very higher-educated-Danish which means most employees are very environmentally-everything) is that they didn't manage to get it right until now.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm going to be very surprised if the quality is worse from this.

EDIT: translating this to finance terms: the Lego Group is still majority-owned by the founder's family. This is not your average public company which has to deal with constant shareholder pressure to make More Profit Right Now at the cost of future growth and sustainability. Lego knows that the only reason parents happily pay their obscene prices is because their minds go "well, ok, it's a fortune, but it's also very high-quality stuff". No other toy brand has this reputation. If they'd burn that, it would be the most stupid move in the company's history.

[dtx1]

Legos Quality in the last decade has been on a steady decline to an absurd degree. Most of their sets now are substandard in part count, part quality, full of stickers and it's all star wars and other tie ins while the prices skyrocketed. Meanwhile the Competition has stepped up significantly and there are now multiple manufacturers selling lego compatible pieces and sets of equal or higher quality for significantly less.

[chiggsy]

>(despite being very higher-educated-Danish which means most employees are very environmentally-everything)

Sounds expensive. These academic purists are happy working in a factory, are they? Good for them! I always thought that housing costs there would be exorbitant, but I think I get it now. Legos must be what they build the houses from!

Solve one problem and you will probably need to solve another one. So I guess they live in the Lego houses, and they used what they learned to make a nice lil family business, selling high quality bricks made of oil to kids worldwide.

>I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm going to be very surprised if the quality is worse from this.

I have some bad news for you fam. "Biodegradable" means that they will dissolve in kid spit, and in landfills and especially when floating in the sea under sunny skies. Right now legos are one of the closest things we have to the One Ring, except that to get them melted down our Frodo would have to swim down to the subduction zones of the earth and deposit them into the mantle.

I know Greta is from Sweden, but surely there are no shortage of Danish 13 year olds who will furiously demand that a more environmentally friendly process for these toys be implemented. After all, you know the old quote right?

>God save us from the fury of the Northmen.

Purists be damned, call that presser and learn to compromise!

[candiddevmike]

Sets I've purchased within the past couple of years have not withstood repeated rebuilds. The pieces become too loose and don't stay together.

[szastamasta]

Exactly. The most eco product is the one you don’t produce. Longevity and reuse is what we really should strive for.

[oulipo]

well, honestly I think it'd be better if lego had a bio-degradable brick

[jazzyjackson]

They did a test run of PLA bricks resembling plants back in 2018

#40320 Plants from Plants

https://brickarchitect.com/2018/40320-plants-made-from-plant...

Trouble with anything biodegradable is it biodegrades while you're using it, you'd essentially have to keep it in a cool, dry place away from sunlight

[dijit]

why? isn’t it better to keep re-using the brick rather than having something that degrades and can’t be passed along due to shoddy quality?