Police department posts photos of suspects with Lego heads to protect IDs under new California law
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NY Post ^
| 3/20/2024 | By Snejana Farberov
Getting arrested is no child’s play — except for these California cops. The
Murrieta Police Department has been posting hilarious arrest and lineup photos with suspects’ faces replaced by Lego heads to comply with a woke state law protecting offenders’ rights. Images on the department’s Instagram page show the Lego blocks with a variety of facial expressions — crying, frowning, smirking or raging — digitally superimposed onto the bodies of people being busted. The agency said replacing suspects’ faces with Lego blocks allows it to be in compliance with a new state law. One appears to show two people handcuffed...
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LEGO Leaves San Francisco — before Christmas — as Retail Flight Continues
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Breitbart ^
| 12/04/2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK
The LEGO store in the San Francisco Centre mall has officially closed, right in the middle of the Christmas retail season, joining a retail exodus from the city that is driven by crime, homelessness, drugs, and the nation’s slowest post-pandemic recovery. As
Breitbart News has noted, Westfield stopped making mortgage payments on the San Francisco Centre mall in June, after losing Nordstrom, which was its anchor tenant. Many other retail businesses, small and large, boutique and chain, have left.
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Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"
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CBS ^
| 9/25/23 | CBS/AP
Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark's Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world's largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work. Lego
said it has "decided not to progress" with making its trademark colorful bricks from recycled plastic bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate, known as PET, and after more than two years of testing "found the material didn't reduce carbon emissions." Lego enthusiastically announced in 2021 that the prototype PET blocks had become the first recycled alternative to pass its "strict" quality,...
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Lego drops plans to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles
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CNN via Yahoo ^
| September 25, 2023 | Anna Cooban
Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks. Lego
made the decision — first reported by the Financial Times Sunday — after it spent years testing recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a more climate-friendly alternative to the acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) it uses in the majority of its toys. The toymaker has pledged to use only sustainable materials in its products by 2032 and, two years ago, unveiled a prototype brick made from recycled PET. The plastic was sourced...
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Backlash over 'transgender' LEGO sets leads to boycott calls
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ABC3 ^
| 5/31/23 | Zachery Rogers
WASHINGTON (TND) — Makers of the classic build block toy LEGO are the latest to receive criticism and calls for boycotts after one popular social media account claimed the toymaker was "featuring transgender building sets for kids." Before
Pride Month last year, The LEGO Group announced its "A-Z of Awesome" campaign, which features "a colorful alphabet of identities built from LEGO bricks, created by our incredible LGBTQIA+ fans!" Conservative British influencer Oli London apparently thought the campaign was selling the LGBTQIA+ sets, potentially to children. Sharing a video clip of the campaign on Twitter, London exclaimed: "LEGO turns TRANS!"
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In Honor Of Pride Month, Lego Introduces Sodom And Gomorrah Playset
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Babylon Bee ^
| 5-21-23 | Babylon Bee
The entirely flammable, destructible set includes dozens of pagan minifigs plus a bonus Lot and his wife, who is, of course, a pillar of salt. Children
can press a button on the set and the whole thing explodes in flames, and they can even participate in the carnage using the included brimstone launcher. "Hooray! The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against the unrighteousness of men!" shouted one child in a new commercial for the set as he chucked some Lego brimstone at his village full of screaming minifigs. "Flee, fornicators, for the Lord's anger is kindled against...
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Father Confronts LEGO Clerks for Pushing LGBTQ Propaganda on Little Children
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DISNTR ^
| April 13th 2023 | Publisher
One has to ask the question: why is the LGBTQ industry so hell-bent on targeting children? Why
is LEGO holding a queer festival in its stores to promote sexual deviancy to children who would otherwise not even think about such things? To be clear, the LGBTQ movement and its various symbols, including the pride flag, have absolutely nothing to do with love. Friends, even friends of the same sex, can love each other—but it is not sexual. The LGBTQ movement is a movement designed for the sole purpose normalizing aberrant, dangerous, and violent sex acts among people of the same...
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Man Goes Off On Lego Cashiers Wearing LGBTQ Flags
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Conservative Twins ^
| April 13, 2023 | Conservative Twins
Man Goes Off On Lego Cashiers Wearing LGBTQ Flags
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LEGO announces departure from Enfield office by end of 2026
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WTNH Television ^
| Jan 25, 2023 | Samantha Stewart
LEGO officials announced that the company will be clearing out of its Enfield office by the end of 2026.
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Man arrested for stealing Lego sets from Walmart
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CBS 4 News ^
| October 17, 2022 | Kassidy Ebrahimi
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Branford resident Richard Fredrick Torrey, III, 35, was arrested Sunday after allegedly stealing Lego sets from Walmart. At 3:59 p.m. Torrey entered Walmart with re-usable shopping bags going to the Lego section of Walmart in Butler Plaza, Gainesville, Florida. Torrey filled the shopping bags with 26 Lego sets with
a value of $1,001 and walked past cash registers. A Walmart loss prevention employee called Gainesville Police to report Torrey exiting the store.
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THIS MECHANICAL LEGO SOLAR SYSTEM ACTUALLY TRACKS PLANETARY ORBITS WITH 99.8% ACCURACY
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yankodesign.com ^
| 08/01/2022 | SARANG SHETH
Standing at an impressive 20.5 inches tall and 30 inches wide, this LEGO Ideas entry doesn’t just demonstrate the solar system’s movement, but it does so while staying true to each planet’s orbit time. The
Clockwork Solar System from LEGO builders Chris Orchard and Brent Waller is a nearly 3000-brick marvel that replicates our solar system’s celestial dance with 99.8% accuracy while a set of clocks at the bottom even count down the year while the planets rotate around the sun. Orchard and Waller are both self-professed LEGO nerds, while Waller even mentions he’s been associated with the LEGO Ideas...
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A toymaker raised $145,000 for Ukraine by creating a Lego-based Zelenskyy figurine
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NPR ^
| 3/31/22 | LINAH MOHAMMAD
It didn't take long for Citizen Brick to sell out of its custom LEGO-based figurine of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Their tiny Molotov cocktails featuring the Ukrainian flag went just as fast.
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Chuck Grassley Shows Off Gingerbread Capitol After DOJ Confiscated Lego Set from January 6 Rioter
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Breitbart ^
| 12/20/2021 | Paul Bois
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) posed with a “fully constructed” gingerbread replica of the U.S. Capitol months after the Department of Justice (DOJ) confiscated a Capitol building Lego set from an alleged January 6 rioter. “The
gingerbread replica of the US Capitol is sure to get u in the Christmas mood,” Grassley tweeted.
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Seattle police bust lucrative Lego trafficking scheme
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The Guardian UK ^
| 25 October 2021 | Lauren Aratani
Police in Seattle went undercover to break open what they said was a trafficking ring involving the sale of expensive stolen goods: Lego, taken from an Amazon store. Saying
they had seized 171 sets, police released a picture showing the boxes stacked together. Biden urges action on infrastructure and spending in New Jersey speech: ‘Let’s get this done’ – as it happened Read more The accused store owner denied knowingly selling stolen goods, protested against the picture and said he would fight the resultant charges. According to one expert, Lego theft and trafficking has become a major concern....
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Lego commits to removing ‘gender bias and harmful
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New York Post ^
| October 11, 2021 | 8:30am | Lee Brown
Lego is striving to make sets "more inclusive" to boys and girls, according to chief product and marketing officer, Julia Goldin. Getty Images Lego on Monday vowed to rid its toys of “gender bias and harmful stereotypes” in a push to make them more accessible to girls. The
world’s largest toymaker has already stopped labeling its products as “for girls” or “for boys” and its website does not allow searches by gender, The Guardian noted.
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Lego says it will remove gender bias from its toys after survey shows boys still fear they will be made fun of if they play with girls' toys
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Daily Mail ^
| 10/11/2021 | JAMES ROBINSON
Lego has vowed to remove gender stereotypes from its toys, after a survey revealed how boys fear they will be 'made fun of' if they play with toys marketed for girls.
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Lego to release a 9,090-piece scale model of the Titanic — its biggest set, ever
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CNN ^
| Oct. 9, 2021 at 7:46 p.m. | Amy Woodyatt,
At more than 53 inches long, the model is a replica of the doomed liner, which, at the time of its maiden voyage, was the largest passenger ship afloat. The
original Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, to New York on April 10, 1912. Late on April 14, around midnight, it struck an iceberg and sank in less than three hours. According to the US Senate report on the disaster, 1,517 people died and 706 survived out of 2,223 passengers and crew. Made up of 9,090 pieces, the replica model divides into three sections to reveal the interior of the...
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Botched: More Embarrassing Details Emerge In FBI’s Snag Of Rioter With Lego Set
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https://www.dailywire.com ^
| Jul 11, 2021 | Ashe Schow
Remember last week when The Daily Beast published a “scoop” revealing that one of the men charged in the January 6 Capitol riot had a “fully assembled” Lego model of the Capitol in his home? It
turns out it wasn’t true; the man merely had the unopened box set.
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No Relief for Lego Man or Other January 6 Detainees
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American Greatness ^
| July 8, 2021 | Julie Kelly
No Relief for Lego Man or Other January 6 Detainees Prospects look dim for those caught up in Merrick Garland’s Capitol protest witch hunt. Joe
Biden’s Justice Department wants the Lego Man kept behind bars—indefinitely.Federal agents seized a plastic replica of the Capitol building from the Pennsylvania home of Robert Morss during his arrest on June 11. Justice Department officials are citing the Lego model as evidence in the criminal case against Morss for his involvement in the January 6 protest: “During his arrest, law enforcement recovered some clothing and other items that appear to match those he carried with...
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Based On LEGO Evidence, FBI Believes Capitol Rioter Was Also Planning Attack On Hogwarts Castle
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The Babylon Bee ^
| July 7th, 2021
PITTSBURGH, PA—The FBI released disturbing new details today regarding alleged January 6th rioter Robert Morss, who had a fully-constructed LEGO Capitol building in his home. Agents
say Morss was also building several LEGO Harry Potter sets, leading authorities to believe he was planning a similar attack on Hogwarts Castle. “The suspect had several completed LEGO Harry Potter building sets and was about 80% of the way through building the advanced-level LEGO Harry Potter Castle,” said FBI bureau chief Warren Alvarez. “We feel we caught him just in the nick of time before things turned violent once more.” Alvarez said a...
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