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Epic! thank you! I loved going to Valley Faire Mall in San Jose and scooping parts by the pound. I didnt see any of the lego store by-the-pound model. An int
by samstave 3y ago
Epic! thank you!
I loved going to Valley Faire Mall in San Jose and scooping parts by the pound.
I didnt see any of the lego store by-the-pound model.
An interesting method for sus-ing up what parts they had would be looking into the shipments to-from lego entities in NL and USA - sea shipping bills of lading can be found on import yeti (now obviously unless someone has digitized historic bills of lading, etc (and we all know that ship hands (pirates) and long-shoremen (mob) have famously been the definition of corruption - so we can hardly ever trust any bill of lading...
So with that in mind though:
Lets look at the shipments of LEGO https://i.imgur.com/HgLlBuF.png https://i.imgur.com/HgLlBuF.png
Nathan appears to be a top importer of Lego https://i.imgur.com/xYDvko5.png https://i.imgur.com/xYDvko5.png
Ships mostly a container a month to LA. https://i.imgur.com/7ZALaMi.png https://i.imgur.com/7ZALaMi.png
LegoLand is his customer: https://i.imgur.com/I0oS1wu.png https://i.imgur.com/I0oS1wu.png
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But I cant find out contents of shipment .... AH Check this out: https://i.imgur.com/7CjqVBW.png https://i.imgur.com/7CjqVBW.png
So you can see that they are ~1,000 lbs per shipment... rounding up - then remove ~30% for weight of packaging and basically you have 750 pounds of plastic bricks - then apply part existance probability and you can see how much of each part is being imported and a costing idea...
We could probably map out all lego sets and shipments with some dilligence.
Should also look at the environmental impact of lego long term. its a LOT of plastic.
- dsr_ 3y agoPart existence probability changes every couple of months, probably not enough time for you to be able to make good estimates. LEGO tends to get hoarded, resold or donated, not thrown away. I believe I have more than 99% of all the LEGO I or my parents ever bought, going back to 1976 or 7.
- samstave 3y agoI have lost all mine sadly. And I had so much given to me. But my life took me in a path that separated me from all my Lego. :-(
- londons_explore 3y ago> LEGO tends to get hoarded, resold or donated, not thrown away. I doubt this. Outside Lego enthusiasts, most people see it as a children's toy which is probably disgustingly covered in saliva and in no fit state for anyone else to touch. It's one of the first things to go into the trash when more space is needed in the attic.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoYou can put them into a pillowcase and wash in a washing machine. Given how expensive Legos are many people will gladly pick them up from your place, especially if you live in a city. You can look up Buy Nothing and similar groups in your area on FB.
- londons_explore 3y agoSure, but most people don't know that. So they chuck them out with the rest of the dog-eared teddy bears.
- swores 3y agoI'm not convinced you're correct in your belief that most people are like you in this respect. But I don't have evidence to disprove you either.
- irrational 3y agoTell that to my Mother. She threw away all of our 1970s and 1980s legos, transformers, Star Wars, He-man, etc. toys after we left home. Didn’t even donate them - straight to the landfill.
- lostlogin 3y agoOne day an archeologist is going to be grateful.
- irrational 3y agoUnfortunately, this was in South Florida. The landfill will be underwater at some point.
- Freak_NL 3y agoI was surprised by how complete some sets of mine where when they came over. I don't doubt the 99%, although in my case they are not mine any longer as such, but my five year old son's. Lego stashes do indeed get hoarded for a generation at a time; a lot of it is kept as valuable for the next generation (lucky bastards).