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The LEGO Group’s Plans for Increasing Sustainability

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Today, the LEGO Group announced that they are investing up to $400 million over a three years period to accelerate sustainability efforts. The next step is to begin to phase out single-use plastic bags from LEGO boxes in the latest move to make all packaging sustainable by 2025. Further investments will also be made to […] Read more

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LEGO Ideas Breaking Records & Other Updates

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The LEGO Ideas platform has been buzzing with activity this year. Back in May, a record-breaking 26 projects managed to hit the 10,000 supporter milestone and qualified to go under review. The LEGO Ideas team wrote that they were “utterly flabbergasted”, especially considering that they tend to see between 9-12 product ideas in a review […] Read more

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LEGO Ideas Contest – Head Back to Hogwarts

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It’s been a while since we have seen a LEGO Ideas contest, but now the LEGO Ideas team is back, challenging the fan community with another fun building contest! The new school year is here, and it’s time to head back to Hogwarts. The question is, what is your favorite return-through-the-school-gates scene from Harry Potter? […] Read more

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LEGO x Levi’s Co-Branded Products Press-Release

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The LEGO Group teamed up with Levi’s to release a collection of co-branded products. And these are not just the usual hoodies and t-shirts with LEGO colors and minifig graphics. They are actually customizable with LEGO DOTS elements! Very cool, in my opinion. Below is the press-release. Who doesn’t love LEGO bricks? And who doesn’t […] Read more

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Adult LEGO Fan Diversity & Inclusion Project

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There has been an ongoing conversation about an important topic (that branched out into several topics) at the LEGO Ambassador Network that I thought to share here as well. Maybe you have some ideas and insights that will help with finding solutions or at least gaining further clarity. The subject started out when some of […] Read more

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LEGO Haunted House Modular Modification

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Although the #10273 LEGO Haunted House is technically a part of the LEGO Creator Fairground series, it is very different from the previous sets in both color and design. Rather than being an obvious fairground ride, it’s a drop tower hidden inside a haunted manor. The manor itself is a nicely detailed building, similar in […] Read more

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September 2020 – New LEGO Sets & Promotions

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As we discussed about a week ago, LEGO finally released many of the summer sets that were delayed in the U.S. towards the end of August (see: LEGO Summer Sets Available on August 24th). And now, with a new month comes more new sets as well as new promotions. Take a look below. :arrow: FREE […] Read more

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Update on the Availability of LEGO Braille Bricks

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You might remember from last year’s press-release (see: LEGO Braille Bricks for Visually Impaired Kids) that the LEGO Foundation and the LEGO Group teamed up with associations of the blind and visually impaired to introduce a new product called LEGO Braille Bricks. The concept was first proposed to the LEGO Foundation in 2011 by the […] Read more

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Introducing LEGO World Builder Powered by Tongal

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Earlier this year, I participated as a beta tester for an exciting new platform that was developed by the LEGO Group in partnership with Tongal. Tongal is a platform for content creation that gives networks, studios, and brands access to a global community of creators to simplify and scale content development. It’s basically a virtual […] Read more

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LEGO Summer Sets Available on August 24th

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Great news for LEGO fans in North America who have been waiting for the delayed summer sets! As we discussed previously, these sets have been available in Europe for a couple of months now, and now we can get them too! Even better news is that most of these sets will be available on Monday, […] Read more

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