Laura E. HallHappy Friday! It's time for my end-of-week links roundup, a collecting of interesting stuff I've seen or read over the last week
Today: sewer rats, vintage video games, forever toys, fancy pigeons, and the entrance to hell 🐀 👾 🧱 🦆 🔥
1) A look at plastic Lego bricks as a “forever toy”
“The LEGO Group estimates that about 97% of all LEGO set consumers hold onto their bricks or pass them on to families, but the LEGO Group also worries about the remaining 3%, and that fuels the company’s deep investment in environmental sustainability efforts.”
https://padandpixel.com/sustainability-and-the-everlasting-lego-brick/
Stefaan Henninck 🕹️🎥🍿🍺@lauraehall Quote: “The LEGO Group estimates that about 97% of all LEGO set consumers hold onto their bricks or pass them on to families
Glad to admit: That's me. 80% is color sorted in my garage, the bricks from the '70's and onward, and my #LEGO Space sets are proudly displayed in my spare bedroom. Something something 'from my cold dead hands' 🤣 My legacy and heritage will be multi-colored Danish plastic bricks. 😉
KWHCoaster@77slevin @lauraehall My very old LEGO, early 70s, is still at my parents' home. My nephews, nieces and great nephew have play with it.
@KWHCoaster @lauraehall as nature intended...same for me when I was a kid in the 80's, I played with my aunt's bricks from the 1960's. Yes, they have always been expensive toys, but they do stand the test of time.