Nerd, and Proud

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

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This week Emily Pineapple and Forrest, Keeper of the Canon celebrated the work of 1b-bb-r and made a zine with the Trash People of Planet Scum! Plus, we were joined by Bryson, Jess, and AliceForeverCemetary!

Download the Zine:

Full Color Black and White

The zine includes image submissions from Skye, Uncle “Bryson”, beautifulcity, lindseypremmel, stephenpremmel, HeadCheese Henry, aguynamedmatty, alice, blogthoven, 1-bb-br, and HordeJedi.

Notes for Printing: Print it DOUBLE SIDED To print this as intended, you’ll want to print the zine using the paper size US Letter Borderless in your printer settings so that everything lines up correctly. You’ll also want to make sure to print it at a scale of 100% rather than scaling it to print. Here’s a video explaining how to fold a one page zine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqr9e3wCxI

Highlights From the Stream:

Our Interview with 1-bb-br The Only Way to Know Syllables “Bryson” Recaps Only Murders in the Building and the Origin of Horny Steve Martin One-Take Story Time with Alice: The Yellow Wallpaper

On Stream Guests:

1b-bb-r:

Art Blog: https://m-lau.tumblr.com/ DIY Jerseys: https://www.instagram.com/diyjerseys/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/singlewalkrun/ TW: https://twitter.com/singlewalkrun

Bryson:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/unclebryson/ TW: https://twitter.com/unclebryson

Jess:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/thejessicajimenez/ TW: https://twitter.com/thejessjimenez

Alice:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/malicecity/ TW: https://twitter.com/aliceinlosang

We Are Trash People is a Fan Project which celebrates Planet Scum. Originally created as a podcast, it is now a livestream which happens every Wednesday at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET at https://www.twitch.tv/wearetrashpeople.

Minifigure Typography

ANTI-BARFING SPIKES.

This is why they have such a problem with plastic bags. It’s because the unique structure of their esophagus makes it so that they can’t get rid of them.