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in 1916 Ole Kirk Christiansen purchased the woodworking shop in Denmark that
constructed houses and furniture. After a few years in business, the workshop was struggling.
Ole had to think of something else if he wanted to remain in business.
After experimenting with a few other projects, the workshop began
producing wooden toys, piggy banks, JoJo's (wat are these) , pool toys, cars, trucks and miniature houses.
Following World War II Ole's son Godtfred began working for the company which now officially went by the name of Lego
In 1947, Ole and Godtfred obtained samples of interlocking plastic bricks produced
by the British company kiddicraft kiddicraft called them self-locking
building bricks inspired by this the LEGO Group began producing its own
bricks which they instead called automatic binding bricks in the coming
years the company grew exponentially under the leadership of Olli son gut
Fred since oleh had passed away the production of wooden toys was abandoned
completely as the company now solely focused on working with plastics the
Legoland park was open in Denmark and as the bricks grew in popularity Lego
quickly became a household name all over the world
the name Lego is an abbreviation of the two Danish words lie gods meaning play
well and while not intention from the beginning it was later discovered that
in Latin the word Lego can loosely be interpreted as I put together or I
assemble they also considered the name lay Keo with the implication of a legion
of toys
another important part of leggo are the mini figures but the minifigs weren't
invented until 30 years after the laïkó bridge its inception came in 1978 in the
form of a policeman with black clothes and a white hat and to be honest the
design has stayed more or less the same ever since the figs became more and more
diversified as more variations were released but for the next 11 years they
would all have the same face every single one of them it wasn't until 1989
that someone realized how creepy this becomes after a while and thus some
other facial expressions were introduced so far over 4 billion minifigs have been
produced after the company's decline in the late 1990s and hitting its lowest
peak in 2004 when they almost had to file for bankruptcy the LEGO Group has
done quite well for themselves in fact since the release of the lego movie Lego
is now the largest toy manufacturer in the world and since 1958 the company has
produced over 560 billion bricks which means that as of this moment if divided
equally everyone on earth would have 78 Lego bricks if you tried connecting a
Lego brick from 1958 with a brick from today
they would still interlock this is because Lego uses a universal system
that means that despite variation in the sign size and purpose they all remain
compatible even LEGO DUPLO bricks which are several times larger than ordinary
bricks still connect which is quite impressive given that only 6 pieces of
2x4 bricks would produce a staggering 950 million 100 3765 possible
combinations some quite amazing things have been constructed using Lego bricks
for example the world's tallest Lego structure at 34.76 metres top gear
presenter James May built a real house made out of Lego using 3.3 million
the absolute largest model ever built with only Lego bricks is this full-scale
model of an x-wing fighter from Star Wars
it required 5.3 million bricks and four months to build according to the company
the only proper way of describing the bricks is by using the word Lego as an
adjective and not as a noun so saying Legos is actually wrong and you should
instead be saying Lego bricks since 2007 on beaches all over the world
people have found this giant mini figurine okay that sounded extremely
paradoxical a giant Lego man has washed ashore on beaches across the globe with
the message no real than you are obviously the message is that you can't
trust Google Translate it's believed that these things were created by a
Dutch artist that goes by the name of ego Leonarda which is almost certainly
fake as the first four letters spell out Lego when inverted no one's entirely
sure why he or she is doing it but the LEGO Group has at least on several
occasions denied any involvement if you take a look at the head of a minifig
you'll find that it has a hole at the top the reason for this is that in case
a child should accidentally swallow the head they would still be able to breathe
even if it got stuck in their throat
while the lego movie might look like it was created using stop-motion the entire
movie is actually CGI the entire production process was specifically
designed to make it look like stop-motion tiny dense specks of dust
and even smudges of fingerprints on the models the lighting and of course the
iconic shopping movements stop-motion is so well known for
of course known exception will be the live-action segments but a really cool
thing is that they made sure that every brick in piece seen in the movie also
exists in real life so that if you passed any scene you could actually
build it for yourself even in a scene like this all the buildings and the
grass and everything you see were made using
individual digital bricks and pieces you want to know why they did that because
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