  
| Author: | wildchicken13  | | Posted: | Dec 28, 2023 17:38 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, Saitolegos writes:
| | Lego, in the new lego life magazine for 2024 has a little leaflet included that
promotes donating “old” bricks to lego so they can redistribute them to other
kids.
Sounds good right?
Helps the environment(does anyone you know just throw their old bricks they don’t
play with anymore in landfills or on the ground to rot?)
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There are people who simply throw away anything they no longer want/need/use.
| | and it gives kids who
don’t have LEGO(because it’s soooooo expensive these days, they don’t know about
Bricklink)) a chance to play with some.
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If anything, buying parts on BrickLink is probably even more expensive than buying
sets at retail. And some of these children may not have access to the internet,
so they can't just order unsorted bulk on eBay.
| | The old Lego will have to be sorted by every individual part. So think of this;
A box arrives at the donation depot, there are some old sets from the 70s, 80s,
and early 2000s. Some are in good condition and others are dirty and damaged.
Then the person looking in the box sees some loose bricks in the bottom of the
box. He picks up a handful. 7 out of the 16 bricks are off brand! He has five
choices.
(A) sort through every last brick to find all the non-LEGO.
(B) wash all the bricks, and ignore the non-LEGO and send it off.
(C) return the box to sender.
(D) throw the whole box out.
(E) go for lunch.
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(F) 
Anyway, it sounds pretty similar to sorting used bulk for sale on BrickLink.
Personally, if I were an underprivileged child, I would probably be happy just
to have toys and I'm not sure I would really care if a few off-brand parts
made their way into my collection. But since this program is run by the LEGO
Group, I can understand why they want to limit it to LEGO® brand parts only.
| | As you can see reuse of LEGO is not that simple. Who ever came up with the idea,
while they may have had good intentions, they weren’t thinking about the things
that need doing for a charity like this. The people who sort and wash will need
to be paid. And not all Lego collections are clean, and fake Lego free.
So while I think this is a great idea there are some problems.
Let’s hope the LEGO Group can handle the challenge.
I hope that if Lego does do sorting, they can hire some people that care about
the product that they are working with. 
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Here in the Chicago area, Bernie's Book Bank does similar work but with books
instead of bricks. People donate children's books to Bernie's and they
have volunteers who sort through donated books and pick out any that are damaged
or otherwise not appropriate for children. The vast majority of the books they
receive are fine, but since each of the children they serve only receive a few
books per year, it's important to make sure that every book is in good condition.
I'm sure the LEGO Group probably does something similar with their used bulk.
| | I know this is not a very nice look at the new charity, but if you have any good
information please let me know.
I would love to know that the brick we all know and love, will bring joy to the
less fortunate.
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It's okay to question or challenge how charities operate; some have been
used to hide nefarious activities.  This one is run by the LEGO Group which
is a corporation, so they're subject to the LEGO Group's corporate policies.
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Message is in Reply To:  LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” - Saitobricks.ca (37)  | Lego, in the new lego life magazine for 2024 has a little leaflet included that promotes donating “old” bricks to lego so they can redistribute them to other kids. Sounds good [...]
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Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” - Adjour (2480) | [...] [...] I've developed many critisms of TN since moving here. But I will say Dolly Partons book program is brilliant. Glad to hear about similar programs. I didn't [...]
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