Jesus that was heavy handed. I loved the Lego movie though, and Shell really is fucking evil so this was pretty good.

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Drowning Santa in oil?...maybe just a little bit heavy handed.

I don't know why sane people still choose mild-discourse over visible, public outrage, after so many decades of this.

I can imagine any decedents I have in the future will just end up in some virtual chat-space saying:
"II don't know why sane people still choose mild-discourse over visible, public outrage, after so many centuries of this."

Lego is made from what?

What is from which substance?

Man, that was depressing.

This is not Lego taking a shot at shell as your comment may be insinuating or maybe i'm reading to much into your comment and you're just pointing out a fact. If that's the case just ignore me This is from Greenpeace and is more of a plea for Lego to disassociate itself from Shell. Lego has teamed with Shell to put out Lego/shell sets at Shell stations. Seems they are more allied then anything. Then again maybe you all already knew that.

http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/07/01/time-lego-block-shell/

http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/07/07/lego-responds-greenpeaces-campaign-drop-shell/

I think his point is that the plastic in LEGOs are refined from oil. It is a bit silly to protest the association of an oil based toy with an oil company.

Lego is just another corporation making money. Why is a relationship with Shell any different than their other corporate relationships? (The Simpsons, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, The Hobbit, DC Comics, Disney, Marvel, Indiana Jones etc). Because it's good publicity... people don't like "dirty" energy. Shell may be a bunch of assholes, but if you're going to slam the industry Greenpeace, make sure you don't drive a car to work, and you might want to reassess how far you look down your nose at companies like Shell when you send a pollution spewing, fuel sucking Sea Shepherd out to make a TV show, surrounded all day long by polymer materials made mostly from the gas and oil that make your life easier and less costly. Hypocritical bunch of bullying asshats that will fuck anyone over for some publicity.

Green Peace does some good in the world and does some amazing work.
BUT
Step away from my Legos!!!

Utter bullshit from radical left.

Turn off your electricity, stop diving, forget the bicycle, it has rubber tires and oil based seat, grips and pads.

If you hate oil stop buying things that are made from oil and go live in a cave

Said as simply as possible: "Legos are Plastic, Made from Oil."

Sort of... (come on, some geek had to come out and say it). Legos are made from ABS plastic. The Acrylonitrile bit are usually derivatized from gases - acrylonitrile from propylene from cracked propane, and the Butadiene bit more often these days (but not always - depends on your feed stream) from ethylene made from cracked ethane . The 'S' bit, styrene, is produced from benzene (which is very, very bad juju) which indeed comes from Erl, as it is pronounced here in the deep south. Sorry, no offense intended, but what's breakfast without a bit of a science lesson?

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