Brickipedia News:LEGO Cuts Ties With Shell

by NBP3.0
September 9, 2014

And so it is over, LEGO has officially cut ties with Shell and has stated they will not renew their partnership with the oil company. Many eco-activists had begged The LEGO Group to cease working with Shell to save the Arctic, and it seems they listened. What do you think of this huge news?

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The Ultimate GamerNovice

122 months ago

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R.I.P shell sets, I'll personally miss u :(

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IchindarBrick Master

122 months ago

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But.....but......Shell is evil!!!

Really, they weren't that good anyway.

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

122 months ago

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Show me an oil company that isn't evil, please. :P If you want plastic, it's a necessary evil.

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CJCBricktastic

122 months ago

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Are we suggesting that a oil company is evil purely because it sells oil?

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Stormjay RiderAmateur

123 months ago

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I await the day of Lewa, Master of Environmentalism, and Kopaka, Master of Not Oil

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

123 months ago

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Ooh, I want to make a Toa of Petroleum now.

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Anonymous user #1

123 months ago

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While LEGO makes sets about drilling Arctic.....

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IchindarBrick Master

123 months ago

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Technically, its about mining crystals :P

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YamyamNovice

123 months ago

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..and this is all to show LEGO will do anything for money. :P

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AwesomeknightBricktastic

123 months ago

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I'm pretty sure there's a type of plastic made out of corn that's almost identical to ABS.

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

123 months ago

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I'd like to read about that, if you have a link to an article.

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

123 months ago

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Sad to see LEGO caving in, especially after the juvenile way that Greenpeace went about the whole thing :/

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AwesomeknightBricktastic

123 months ago

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Shell did nothing for LEGO. Sure, LEGO caved in. But there's no consequence of it.

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

123 months ago

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You do know plastic is made from oil, right? :P

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IchindarBrick Master

123 months ago

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...and that LEGO is hoping to make all their bricks from non-oil related plastic by 2020 (If I remember correctly)

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NBP3.0Brick Master

123 months ago

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^ Well that's an interesting proposal, not sure how they'd accomplish that so soon though.

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Soupperson1Legendary Brickipedian

123 months ago

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They're going to have to, Oils running out fast!

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

123 months ago

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LK is right (I could dig up our article about it if anyone wants too) but at the moment the millions of pieces they produce are made from oil, so it is kind of an important resource, even in matters where brick production isn't concerned, such as shipping.

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