It’s difficult…

The sheer quantity of effort and time required to supply the precise paper-based packaging for LEGO is outstanding.

As LEGO explains: “Packing LEGO bricks into paper-based luggage may sound easy however the actuality is extra complicated.

“We examined round 180 completely different paper varieties and codecs to seek out the precise answer.

“We needed to discover a bag that will not compromise the excessive requirements LEGO followers anticipate from us. It needed to face up to the manufacturing course of and never tear or injury on the best way from the LEGO manufacturing facility to LEGO builders.”

It provides: “Paper is extra delicate than plastic to adjustments in humidity, so it was necessary to discover a materials that may be made and utilized in all our factories, whether or not in a sizzling, humid local weather or a colder one.”

LEGO additionally examined 15 completely different prototypes, with tons of of kids and fogeys making an attempt varied shapes, supplies and graphic designs.”

The transfer to paper-based luggage is prone to have an meant consequence – making the kits much more enjoyable.

“Paper has the unintended good thing about being extra fulfilling to unwrap, as a result of whereas clear, single-use plastic luggage permit builders to see the contents, we found in testing that kids loved the suspense of opening the paper-based luggage.”

 Our bigger paper-based luggage are available in a form that allows them to face, which is especially helpful for storing free bricks throughout the constructing course of.