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These pieces of LEGO news came out yesterday but it was a packed with LEGO reveals so I didn’t want to overshadow it. I rarely do any political content but it is LEGO related and relevant to the US.

Yesterday, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs for Canada, Mexico, and China. This involves a 25% duty on all imports from from our neighbors. As we know, LEGO manufactures a majority of the sets for the North America market at the Monterrey, Mexico factory.

We’ll have to see if LEGO raises their prices on the LEGO Shop and in stores in response to these tariffs. The LEGO Group does have a factory in Virginia that is set to open in the second half of 2025 but it won’t go into full production mode until 2027. Time will tell if LEGO moves up their scheduling to try to offset these tariffs.

In other news, Elon Musk’s X has sued LEGO along with other companies such as Nestle, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest, and Shell International for not advertising on the platform. They are accused of illegally boycotting and stopped buying ads on X which resulted reduced revenue.

LEGO’s X account has been pretty much silent since September 2024 but they respond to fans’ posts. I’ve been wondering why they haven’t posted and we now know why.

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This year, The LEGO Group will be increasing their solar capacity to help in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The company will be installing panels in six LEGO factories around the world and is planning to further increase solar capacity globally by 72% this year. LEGO is still on track to reduce greenhouse gas emission by 2032 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

Increase in solar capacity to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions

• Increased solar capacity by 61 percent globally over the past two years
• Solar panels installed across 6 LEGO factory sites
• Plans to further increase solar capacity globally by 72 percent in 2025
• Solar expansion is a key initiative towards ambition to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 37 percent by 2032 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Billund, Denmark, 31 January 2025: At the LEGO Group, we want to play our part in creating a more sustainable world for children to inherit.  A critical part of our sustainability strategy lies in limiting our impact on the planet’s resources and climate. We are focused on better understanding, and then reducing, our total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout our value chain, which includes continuing to look for improvements in our own operations and increasing capacity and production of renewable energy across our production sites.

We have added 22 MWp of solar energy capacity to our operations globally since 2022. Major developments included doubling solar capacity in our factory in Kladno, Czech Republic and a 400% increase, at our headquarters in Billund, through

Long-time LEGO designer Marcos Bessa has officially turned in his badge and left The LEGO Group. Bessa has hired by LEGO shortly before I came back into the hobby and went through many positions within the company throughout the years from being a Product Designer to Design Manager and Creative Lead for various themes to Design Master. He has designed or had a hand in over 100 LEGO sets in his 15 years and you can check them out here.

Bessa made the announcement that he would be leaving The LEGO Group at the end of 2024 and would be joining PANDORA Jewelry as a Design Development Portfolio Manager which he’ll be starting in February. Good luck Marcos on your next adventure!

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Yesterday, The Brick Fan celebrated 13 years of being online as a LEGO news/review site. I still remember the day that the URL became live in the afternoon and was just hoping for anybody to read my posts. Thank you to everyone who has visited the site even once for whatever topic you were searching for. I know some of you are still here after all these years.

Things have grown and regressed throughout the years and I couldn’t be more happy that this is my job. I can pretty much work at my own time without being pressured to push out articles. You may have noticed this when sometimes I skip a day of posting or just one post a day because there’s not that much news going on. There will be changes soon to how rumors are posted so we’ll just leave it at that for now.

I’ll continue to do what I’ve been doing throughout these years and it seems that time is flying by faster than ever so cherish your friends and family. Remember this is a hobby for a majority of us and don’t take things too seriously.

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BrickLink will be celebrating their 25th anniversary this year and they have revealed a new logo for the event. The logo features a LEGO parrot which references the original logo that had the blue and green parrots on each side of the logo.

BrickLink was originally founded by Daniel Jezek which transformed from a small marketplace for buying and selling LEGO to what we see today.

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Today LEGO officially launches a new Instagram page which celebrates the LEGO fandom and will be an entertainment destination for LEGO fans big and small. The page will be a platform to spotlight builders and their creations from around the world and will also be a dedicated space for LEGO fans to connect and engage. There will also be fun challenges and Insider Rewards as well as opportunities to be featured as a fan creator.

Follow LEGOBuilds and upload your MOCs and tag @legobuilds while using the hashtag #LEGOBuilds

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2025 is well underway now and it’s time to do a 2024 recap on what happened on The Brick Fan. You know me, I love stats.

We had a total of 909 posts last year which equated to 25,849,939 page views. This marks a 15% decrease in page views from 2023. Pretty much every stat was down across the board but still respectable numbers. I’m not really sure why there’s a significant difference whether it be the Google algorithms not indexing the posts or being shadowbanned on my social media accounts but I’m not really too worried. I’ve learned that numbers aren’t everything and if my posts just get out to one person, then I’m happy. With that said, we’ve also passed the 200 million page view mark!

Not surpringly, May was again the best month out of the year with 2.7 million page views with May 6 being the best day out of the year with 224,647 views. The official announcement for the LEGO Ideas Tuxedo Cat (21349) was one of the big factors for this.

One thing that stands out from last year is that pretty much nobody reads my reviews. When I look at the numbers that I send to the Ambassador Network, they’re abysmal. The social media numbers reflect that as well. One main thing is that we’re not known as a review site compared to others and that’s one of the reasons so I guess that’s okay.

Social media has been a big part of our posting strategy, whether it be … Continue