LEGO promotes LGBT movement with stop motion video of minifigures 'on their way to celebrate Pride'



LEGO recently shared a stop motion video meant to celebrate the LGBT movement.

"These LEGO minifigures are on their way to celebrate Pride at their very own spectacular parade. This fab stop motion film shows their journey through a home, getting ready for their celebration!" the description on a YouTube short reads.

"These dazzling minifigures are ready for Pride with their very own spectacular Pride celebration!" an Instagram post reads.

A message at the end of the video reads, "happy PRIDE."

'Build a LEGO® Progress Flag and take it home with you!'

The company sells an "Everyone is Awesome" set, designed by LEGO Group vice president of design Matthew Ashton.

"We've made sure to include black and brown colors to represent the broad diversity of everyone within the LGBTQIA+ community. We've also added in the pale blue, white and pink to support and embrace the trans community as well. I purposely put the purple drag queen in as a clear nod to the fabulous side of the LGBTQIA+ community. I hope it's a joy to build and a joy to look at, and hopefully it will bring a lot of joy to people's lives," he noted.

"Because of the statement that it's making, I'm really proud that I'm working for a company that wants to have a voice on topics like this. I am really happy that it has allowed me to create something that all our LGBTQIA+ employees can be really proud of as well and can feel acknowledged by," he stated.

LEGO appears to have recently offered an event at stores where people could build a LEGO progress pride flag.

"Build a LEGO® Progress Flag and take it home with you!" a post proclaims. "LEGO® Progress Pride Flag make and take event is intended for participants aged 6+ years. The LEGO Progress Pride Flag model will be available on a first come first serve basis, while supplies last," the post notes. "LEGO Progress Pride Flag model cannot be purchased."

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Lego's attempt to ditch oil-based bricks is a costly failure; 'sustainable' alternative would have created higher emissions: Report



Fossil fuels keep people around the world clothed, fed, mobile, housed, entertained, and comfortable. Despite the extensive utility of oil and gas, there is a concerted effort in the West to instead drive reliance upon resources of dubious environmental benefit. This endeavor has been long pursued by governments and companies alike, sometimes at great cost.

The Danish toy company Lego, among the organizations that vowed to cut down on oil usage, has recently discovered that transitioning is not as clean or as easy as it looks on paper.

Lego, like other large woke corporations, is captive to ESG goals, claiming on its website to be playing a "part in building a sustainable future and creating a better world for children to inherit."

The company indicated in 2018 that it had set a target to swap the oil-based plastics it uses in the 110-120 billion pieces it produces every year for sustainable materials by 2030. This would mean that the 4.4 lbs of petroleum required for each 2.2 lbs of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plastic granules — used to make up to 85% of the company's bricks — would need to be replaced.

"Everything about them is plastic," said Sharon George, a senior lecturer in environmental sustainability at Britain's Keele University. "It's certainly not an easy challenge for them. But I really hope that Lego can do something innovative because if anybody can they can, thanks to their prices."

Tim Brooks, Lego’s head of sustainability, told the Financial Times at the time, "We are making a toy for children. ... We can't make a toy that harms their future. If we are not doing a good job on the environment, then we have short-changed them."

In 2021, the company indicated it had found a winning alternative: older oil-based plastics in the form of recycled drink bottles. Lego's reliance on such a recycled supply would demand the continued primary manufacture of oil-based bottles for their expensive bricks.

The company has since blown $1.2 billion on "sustainability initiatives" only to discover that secondhand plastics weren't all they were cracked up to be.

Niels Christiansen, the CEO of Lego, told the Financial Times Sunday that the use of recycled polyethylene terephthalate would have led to the creation of higher carbon emissions.

"In order to scale production [of recycled PET], the level of disruption to the manufacturing environment was such that we needed to change everything in our factories. After all that, the carbon footprint would have been higher. It was disappointing," said Brooks.

Christiansen admitted that the company's search to "find this magic material or this new material" that could replace oil-based plastics while still affording Lego bricks comparable "clutch power" and durability has come up wanting.

"We tested hundreds and hundreds of materials," said the Lego CEO. "It's just not been possible to find a material like that."

While defeated and decided against adopting recycled plastic as the stuff of its bricks, Lego has attempted to give hope to climate alarmists and fans of its oil-based pro-renewables wind turbine kit.

The Times indicated that Lego will kick the can farther down the road such that by 2032 it hopes both to be using only so-called sustainable materials and to see a 37% reduction in emissions compared to 2019.

The BBC reported that as of 2021, the company was emitting roughly 1,322,773 tons of carbon a year. By way of comparison, the average American emits roughly 17.85 tons a year.

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Lego vows to get rid of 'gender bias' in its toys



Woke culture has invaded nearly every corner of American society — and the toy department is no exception.

Lego — the company that creates plastic building blocks that can be fashioned into pretty much anything and sells those molded pieces at exorbitant prices — announced Monday that it would work to get rid of the "gender bias and harmful stereotypes" surrounding its toys, the UK Guardian reported.

No longer can parents find Legos "for boys" or "for girls," and the company's website does not let shoppers search for toys by gender, the Guardian pointed out.

And the company did not stop there.

What's happening?

Lego, one of the biggest toy makers in the world, made its woke announcement about ridding itself of gender bias and stereotypes following the publication of a study that it commissioned, which "found attitudes to play and future careers remain unequal and restrictive," the Guardian said.

Apparently boys and their parents are just to bigoted about the idea of playing with "girls' toys," so Lego is going to do what it can to combat such "harmful stereotypes."

From the Guardian:

Researchers found that while girls were becoming more confident and keen to engage in a wide range of activities, the same was not true of boys.

Seventy-one per cent of boys surveyed feared they would be made fun of if they played with what they described as “girls' toys" — a fear shared by their parents. “Parents are more worried that their sons will be teased than their daughters for playing with toys associated with the other gender," said Madeline Di Nonno, the chief executive of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, who conducted the research.

“But it's also that behaviours associated with men are valued more highly in society," said Di Nonno. “Until societies recognise that behaviours and activities typically associated with women are as valuable or important, parents and children will be tentative to embrace them."

The study found that parents still encouraged sons to do sports or Stem activities, while daughters were offered dance and dressing up (girls were five times more likely to be encouraged in these activities than boys) or baking (three times more likely to be encouraged).

Actress Geena Davis, who started the company that did the study for Lego, decried "how ingrained gender biases are across the globe."

Another "expert," professor Gina Rippon, a neurobiologist and author of "The Gendered Brain," warned of the dangers of gender biases within the toy industry — especially how it could hurt boys to not get them to play with dolls.

"We encourage girls to play with 'boys' stuff' but not the other way around," she told the Guardian, adding, "So if girls aren't playing with Lego or other construction toys, they aren't developing the spatial skills that will help them in later life. If dolls are being pushed on girls but not boys, then boys are missing out on nurturing skills."

In response to the study showing alleged gender bias in toys, Lego is working to be "more inclusive," according to Lego Group chief product and marketing officer Julia Goldin, the paper said, adding:

“Traditionally, Lego has been accessed by more boys, but products like [arts and crafts line] Lego Dots or Lego City Wildlife Rescue Camp have been specifically designed to appeal to boys and girls," said Goldin. The Lego mandate is now to promote nurturing and caring as well as spatial awareness, creative reasoning and problem solving.

The Let Toys Be Toys campaign was launched in 2012 in the UK to put pressure on children's brands to expand their marketing and include both genders, so that no boy or girl thinks they are playing with “the wrong toy". But progress is slow. A 2020 report by the Fawcett Society showed how “lazy stereotyping" and the segregation of toys by gender was fuelling a mental health crisis among young people and limiting perceived career choices.

Lego is all in on the woke agenda of treating boys and girls exactly the same.

"Our job now is to encourage boys and girls who want to play with sets that may have traditionally been seen as 'not for them,'" Goldin said.

PAT GRAY: The 'LEGO threat' under investigation by the FBI



The FBI took a man into custody and confiscated a fully constructed LEGO set of the US Capitol.

Robert Morss was arrested on June 11 in connection to the events that happened on January 6 at the Capitol building. Morss's charges include breaking into the Capitol building, organizing a shield wall of rioters against police, and entering the building through a broken window.

Pat Gray discussed the arrest on Friday's show and decided to have some fun with the story.

Pat laid on the sarcasm as he broke down details of the story. "The LEGO Capitol was fully built...the FBI is investigating the "LEGO threat," Pat said.

Pat used images of children playing with LEGOS and a photoshopped image of the Director of the FBI to poke fun at the story.

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LEGO Embraces Drag Queen Marketing

The LEGO Group recently released the "Everyone is Awesome" set, a display model inspired by the "Progressive Pride" flag. The set features LEGO monochrome minifigures assembled on a LEGO flag.

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'This isn’t something we’ve created'

LEGO rolls out its first-ever LGBTQ-inspired set just in time for Pride Month — and folks let LEGO have it



LEGO has rolled out an LGBTQ-inspired set titled "Everyone is Awesome" just in time for Pride Month.

And it's the company's first-ever official LGBTQ Pride set, NBC News said.

What are the details?

The company said in a news release that the 11 monochrome minifigures — each with its own individual hairstyle and rainbow color — along with the rainbow stand and background are "designed to celebrate the diversity of our fans and the world around us."

Set designer Matthew Ashton, who's also LEGO's vice president of design, said he "wanted to create a model that symbolizes inclusivity and celebrates everyone, no matter how they identify or who they love. Everyone is unique, and with a little more love, acceptance, and understanding in the world, we can all feel more free to be our true AWESOME selves! This model shows that we care, and that we truly believe 'Everyone is awesome'!"

LEGO said the set goes on sale June 1 "to mark the start of Pride Month." The set costs $34.99.

Ashton added that "Everyone is Awesome" is also a celebration of the LGBTQ community within the LEGO Group and among the brand's adult fans.

"I am fortunate to be a part of a proud, supportive, and passionate community of colleagues and fans," he said. "We share love for creativity and self-expression through LEGO bricks, and this set is a way to show my gratitude for all the love and inspiration that is constantly shared."

What did observers have to say?

As you might imagine, not everyone was thrilled with LEGO's "Everyone is Awesome" roll out — and aired their sentiments on Twitter:

  • "This is so stupid. Just stupid and pandering," one user declared. "If you wanna help LGBTQ people, create a legal fund and raise money to help trans people who are being attacked and killed at an unacceptable rate. A rainbow lego set? GTFOH."
  • "I don't understand why kids need to be exposed to this and know about it at a young age," one commenter said.
  • "Absolute rubbish," another user exclaimed, adding that "very soon it'll be illegal to be straight."
  • "Grooming," another commenter observed.
  • "Please stop pushing this agenda," another user pleaded. "It's getting ridiculous what you guys are trying to shove down people's throats."
  • "No more LEGO products," another commenter concluded. "Add it to the woke list."

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