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The BrickLink MOC Pop-Up Store has recently added nine more submissions to their expansive list of custom designs that you can purchase. This makes the count of designs up to 50 to choose from. If you’re not familiar with the store, it is made up of projects that did not pass the various phases of the BrickLink Designer Program but is allowed to sell their designs by also gathering the required parts from various BrickLink stores or through LEGO Pick a Brick.

The BrickLink MOC Pop-Up Store is still a pilot program and will be ending around the middle of November. You can order instructions and/or parts during this timeframe. After the pilot closes, BrickLink will evaluate the program and see if they will continue it in the future or make any changes to it.

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If you’ve been to past LEGO events and conventions and there are LEGO employees attending, there’s times where they could hand out minifigures representing their business cards. The minifigure would resemble the employee in some ways and would also have their names on it. Since these are fairly rare, and do fetch a premium on the secondary market.

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Today LEGO has announced that they will be discontinuing this tradition and will only be for the owner family and their Executive Leadership Team. There’s no official reasoning given in the statement but there’s a chance that LEGO could bring it back for other LEGO employees and departments, although there’s no guarantees yet at this point. I was fortunate to get one from a former employee many years ago and I’ll keep it stashed away in my vault.

We recognize the culture of trading amongst fans and trading minifigures with employees. We recently made the change that employee minifigure business cards will be for the active owner family and ELT. We could see a new culture develop for other LEGO employees and departments but with this change just happening, we don’t know what the future holds.

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In some news over in the sustainability front, it has been reported that The LEGO Group has abandoned their efforts to use recycled plastics for their bricks after findings that the new material caused higher carbon emissions. As reported from the Financial Times and Reuters, the plastics from recycled polyethylene terephthalate led to higher emissions in which the company is trying to reduce to greenhouse gas emissions by 2032 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The new bricks made from recycled bottles were revealed back in 2021 would also required new equipment to produce over the product’s lifetime.

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Just like that, submissions for the Series 3 BrickLink Designer Program is now live and you can submit your entries in hopes that it will get chosen for fans to purchase your design. You’ll have until September 29 at 12:00pm PT which isn’t that much time to get your entries in unless you already have it ready to go. The crowd support will be happening from October 9-20 where fans can vote for their favorite submissions. After that, it’ll go into review and the final five designs will be announced on November 20. Crowdfunding won’t happen until October 24 and the final products won’t be released until March 2025.

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Leaders of the world are attending the UN General Assembly in New York and The LEGO Group CEO Niels B. Christiansen along with 26 other Danish businesses have urged others companies to commit to a greener future. LEGO hopes to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and is part of their overall plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 37% by 2032.

LEGO Group CEO joins Danish businesses in calling for companies and policymakers to stand together globally for a just and green transition to a net-zero future

Billund, September 18, 2023: Today, as leaders of the world are convening at the UN General Assembly in New York LEGO Group CEO Niels B. Christiansen has joined CEOs from 26 Danish businesses, to support UN Secretary-General Guterres’ call for ambitious and credible commitments and clear and transparent plans to “rescue the SDGs”.

The LEGO Group is committed to playing its part in building a better planet for our children to inherit. In August 2023, the company pledged to work with the Science Based Targets initiative to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions) by 2050.

The pledge is an extension of its existing near-term climate target to reduce GHG emissions by 37% by 2032 from a 2019 base, which was previously approved by the SBTi.

A Carbon KPI, which will be tied to executive remuneration from 2024, will track progress towards carbon omissions and science-based targets.

To meet this ambition, the company has recently announced its plans to triple investment in

A few days ago, The LEGO Group announced that they have planted 50,000 trees at the new LEGO factory in Vietnam. The number of trees planted is more than double the amount that was removed for the construction of the new factory which will be opening in 2024.

The LEGO Group plants 50,000 trees, marks significant milestones in Vietnam towards production in 2024

• Ceremony attended by His Excellency, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Le Minh Khai.
• Planting of 50,000 trees completed ahead of plan, marks environmental milestone for LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam.
• Next phase of local community partnerships to benefit 5,000 children.
• Recruitment to reach 100 employees by end of 2023, up to 500 employees by end of 2024.
• Production on track to start in H2 2024.

BING DUONG PROVINCE, VIETNAM, September 15, 2023: The LEGO Group today celebrated the completion of 50,000 trees being planted at its new LEGO® factory in Binh Duong province in southern Vietnam. The event was attended by His Excellency, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Le Minh Khai, national and provincial officials, as well as business and community partners.

The tree planting comes as the next round of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam’s community engagements begin, which are expected to reach nearly 5,000 local children, and as the company accelerates recruitment towards a total of 100 employees by the end of 2023.

Preben Elnef, General Manager of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam and Vice President of the LEGO Group, said: “Today is about taking a moment to celebrate the positive environmental