LEGO® Appearance - CBS Sunday Morning

Normally all of the major fan sites are great at posting LEGO related items that appear in the media. If you’re a regular reader of The Brothers Brick site, you’ll note that on Mondays they do a role up for the week to include LEGO items that appeared on various blogs, websites, and news media outlets.

Well I found one video that I haven’t seen anyone post yet. CBS Sunday Morning pushed a roughly 5 minute long clip about LEGO on 16 December 2018 that you can see here:

The video’s main focus is on the quest to find alternative, sustainable materials to make bricks out of. There are some clips of testing materials and some interviews with the company personnel involved in finding new materials. There is also a short discussion on the material used to make some of the plant parts. Definitely check it out.

Happy building!

Sustainable Bricks

LEGO bricks are made out of plastic which comes from oil that is removed from the ground after it is refined. And that’s about as technical as I’m going to get… I applaud the LEGO Group and their efforts to move away from oil. When your main product is derived from oil, it puts a lot of pressure on to make changes and LEGO has done it. Set 40320, Plants from Plants was released as a promotional set back in August.

It included 29 pieces of foliage made from sugarcane. I realize I’m a bit late in reviewing this set, but I had to do it because I was a bit skeptical. LEGO has high standards on quality and I wasn’t sure if they’d hold up to those standards.

LEGO proved me wrong. I am impressed that the pieces feel the same and look the same. I am unable to see any major differences and I don’t see any issues with quality. I guess the real test will be to see whether they hold up over the years like the plastic pieces do.

It looks like LEGO is going to start rolling this material out into sets too. The Vestas Wind Turbine (#10268) being re-released this November (2018) is reported to have some plant based plants too. I’m guessing we’ll see more appear as TLG continues to produce them.

Bravo to The LEGO Group for following through this this initiative!