Everybody loves toys. For Christmas, there’ll be several billion toys purchased. But behind the toys hides an ecological disaster. In France, for example, more than 40 million toys are thrown away every year. That’s because in most cases, they can’t be repaired in that spare parts don’t exist.
To make toys repairable, Dagoma, a European leader in 3D printing, and TBWAParis have launched Operation Toy Rescue.
Spare parts for toys that didn’t exist until now have been recreated as 3D printable files.
The concept is simple: After listing the most commonly lost or broken parts of the biggest selling toys in the last 40 years, a team of 3D designers modeled and recreated over a hundred spare parts with a 3D scanner.
These 3D replacement part files have been put online at Toy-Rescue.com
Anyone can go to the site, find the part they need, download it for free and print it. The spare parts can also be made in an eco-responsible way simply by using plant-based filaments.
The Toy-Rescue.com platform is collaborative. People who can’t find parts for their toy can ask for help from 3D designers who can model them.
And web visitors who don’t have a 3D printer can have printed parts sent to them thanks to the community of Dagoma “Makers.”
As outlined in this case study video, the objective of Toy Rescue is to give everyone the opportunity to repair an item, which before would only be thrown away.
