Wilhelm might be a prince on land but Captain Simon is something of a prince himself on the high waters. They meet out at sea when Wilhelm is quite literally being shipped off to get betrothed. Maybe he’ll never make it to Wallonia, but if the princes can lay down their armor they might just make it to a far more magical place.
A Young Royals enemies to lovers Pirate Magic AU ft. historical inaccuracies, first mate Rosh, several bewitching characters and gay prophecies.
They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.
They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.
So its that easy huh
Of course it is
Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.
Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)
Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).
What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….
Funnily enough, Marcus was actually right during the attempted break-up scene in episode 3. Just not in the ways he thought. He first tells Simon that he’s not like Wille. Well that’s for sure, Marcus. Where Wille is kind and genuine and able to show humility, Marcus was pushy and pretentious and egotistical (the fact that he gets blown off or ghosted numerous times during the season, but it still doesn’t occur to him until the last episode that Simon doesn’t like him. He even asks Rosh and Ayub if Simon hasn’t been texting him back because he’s sick. Bro 😂) He also tells Simon he just doesn’t understand healthy relationships. Implying that he could show him. And he does. By showing Simon the contrast between their relationship situationship and the relationship he has with Wille. Simon’s relationship with Wille was natural. They were friends first because they actually liked each other as people and wanted to spend time together. Simon was only with Marcus in a desperate attempt to get over Wille. And because of gaslighting to not “destroy something this beautiful”. Wille was willing to let Simon go because he wanted him to be happy. Marcus refused to let Simon go because he thought he knew better than Simon about what would make Simon happy. Wille gave him space to make his own decisions which allowed the relationship to be equal. Marcus tried to keep control over the relationship situationship, even after it was obviously over. Marcus still needed to be the one to officially end it by degrading Simon and putting all the blame on him. Really highlighting how unhealthy being with Marcus was.
