Thank you from the Train wheel team.
First of all, we want to thank you for sharing the video in your communities. We’ve seen it on your online channels, and it’s been exciting to follow as well as receiving community reactions and questions.
We are happy to read that the video helped shed some light to some of the questions we received before making the video. With the video we answered the question about the reason why we changed the wheel. We’re grateful to read that you appreciate some of the new features as well as the support from you around the new element material coming from sustainable sources. We also see that the video motivated some new questions and a chance for us to further elaborate.
First of all, we want to highlight that we’ve changed the material to a material from sustainable sources and this doesn’t mean that the material we have used in the past will put children at risk. It is the first important step out of many on the journey towards LEGO Group using sustainable materials by 2030.
In the video we explain parts of our testing procedure that we hope gave some interesting insights. Unfortunately, we cannot share detailed information about the scientific tests because it’s company confidential information, but we can assure you that we take tests of trains and train wheels seriously. The intention of the wheel test in the video was purely to have visual content and we underestimated the signal it might have sent to community members that this is how tests are conveyed. Now we understand that you’re very interested in scientific test results.
Though we cannot share all details, we do want to open up test lab door and can share this: We’ve been through 3-4 different design prototypes of the wheels and several different combinations of material to find the wheel that was the best in efficiency and the best in overall performance. Further we can share that multiple tests have been conducted for each iteration and that the duration of each of these tests is a full week.
Some of you ask about the future elements and functionality and unfortunately we cannot reveal any specific details about future product and/or element designs, but just like train wheels, we are moving…
Thank you for taking an interest in our work.
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