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An interesting email came in today from LEGO where they are introducing a new buyback program called LEGO Brick Take Back. LEGO is basically buying back your preowned LEGO bricks and you can trade it in for LEGO e-Gift Cards.

It seems that LEGO is buy bulk back and they are offering $6 per pound (USD) for conforming bricks which include LEGO bricks and elements that are fully disassembled and in good condition, LEGO Minifigures and Mini-dolls (no need to disassemble), and LEGO Baseplates. Your parts are then checked to meet eligibility criteria and their goal is to keep as many bricks in play as possible. It looks like this is a test run to see the best way to accomplish their agenda.

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A few days ago, LEGO put up a survey regarding the future of LEGO Building Instructions and the potential switch to digital instructions. The survey was quickly taken down after an overwhelming amount of backlash across LEGO fan sites and social media or just timely coincidence.

Today LEGO has released an official statement regarding the issue and they have confirmed that they have no plans to stop using physical building instructions.

We would like to reassure fans that we have no plans to stop using physical building instructions in our products.

We conducted this survey to understand more about our adult fans’ preferences regarding our products and building experience, something we do regularly across a range of topics.

We would like to thank our LEGO® Insiders members who took the time to respond to the survey – your feedback is important to us and helps us make our LEGO experiences even better.

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First seen on Brickset, there’s a new activity survey asking about the future of LEGO Building Instructions and the potential switch to digital instructions. It’s a quick eight question survey in the Insiders Rewards Center about the possibility of you purchasing LEGO sets without paper instructions and if you would accept any incentives for buying these sets without paper instructions. For completing the survey, you will earn 50 points.

Sustainable Building: Help us decide the future of LEGO Building Instructions!

We want to play our part in building a sustainable future for generations to come. One way we can do this is to reduce our paper usage by switching to digital building instructions. It’s a small change that can make a big difference – and we’d love to know how you feel about it. Let us know by taking this quick survey.

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The LEGO Insiders Reward Center has a free sweepstakes for a chance to attend the Piece by Piece premiere in New York City. LEGO is giving you a chance to win two tickets to the premiere of the movie as well as hotel accommodations and airfare to New York. The cost is 0 Insider points and the sweepstakes ends today. Sorry for the short notice but I just saw it today.

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BrickLink has revealed the pricing for the BrickLink Designer Program Series 3 sets which are slated to start pre-orders on October 8. There will be 30,000 of each set produced provided that they reach a minimum of 3,000 pre-orders. The more popular ones will most likely sell out within the first few days after pre-orders start.

Harbormaster’s Office – $209.99

The Art of Chocolate – $229.99

Forest Stronghold – $299.99

Camping Adventure – $54.99

Lost City – $289.99

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The upcoming Pharrell Williams biopic Piece by Piece has released a new poster showing some of the other guest stars as LEGO minifigures. It has been known that Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg, just to name a few, will be in the movie but the poster also confirms that Daft Punk will be in the movie as well. As you can see on the top left corner, the electronic duo are in their usual outfits including the iconic helmets.

The movie might be our only time seeing them as LEGO minifigures. Daft Punk has been featured a few times on LEGO Ideas but didn’t pass any review stages. It has been rumored that there is a LEGO set for the movie with the set number 10391 but we’ll just have to wait for LEGO to reveal it to see what it is.

There's never been an artist like him. There's never been a movie like this.

PIECE BY PIECE is premiering this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival. Only in theaters October 11 🚀 pic.twitter.com/mqBoRCY25g

— Piece By Piece (@pbpthemovie) August 29, 2024

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LEGO has released their financial results for the first half of 2024 and they have delivered double digit top and bottom line growth. Revenue grew by 13% while consumer sales grew by 14% which was driven by a demand for a strong and diverse portfolio.

For the first half of the year, LEGO has released about 300 sets and some of the top performing themes include LEGO Icons, LEGO City, LEGO Technic, LEGO Star Wars, and LEGO Harry Potter.

The LEGO Group delivers double-digit top- and bottom-line growth in H1 2024

Significantly outpaced toy industry and grew market share.
Continued strategic investments to drive growth while further accelerating sustainability initiatives.

Highlights vs. H1 2023

• Revenue grew 13 percent to DKK 31.0 billion.
• Consumer sales grew 14 percent driven by demand for a strong and diverse portfolio.
• Market share grew as the LEGO Group continued to significantly outperform the toy market.
• Operating profit grew 26 percent to DKK 8.1 billion driven by strong top-line while spending on strategic initiatives increased as planned in H1. Net profit grew 16 percent to DKK 6.0 billion.
• Free cash flow was DKK 3.0 billion due to strong top-line performance while investments continued in building new factories and expanding facilities and offices.
• 30 percent of all resin purchased in H1 was certified mass balance, which translates to an estimated average of 22 percent material from renewable and recycled sources in the raw materials the company uses to make LEGO® bricks.

BILLUND, Denmark, August 28, 2024: The