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The first known stop motion brickfilm is made. 1974: Lego figures are launched, starting with the Lego family. Bricks and Pieces, the first official Lego newsletter, is introduced in the United Kingdom. Lego Spain is established. 1975: The company grows to 2,500 employees. The Expert Series sets are introduced. 1977:
By the end of the year, the Lego Group was employing more than 500 people. [15] In 1961 Lego wished to expand sales to North America but did not have the logistical capabilities to do so. Lego made an arrangement allowing Samsonite to begin producing and selling Lego products in the United States and Canada.
Lego bricks were invented by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1958. The first Legoland Discovery Center was opened in Berlin in 2007, and since then a total of 12 Legoland Discovery Centers have been opened.
The world’s oceans still hide the secret of millions of pieces – and one woman’s fascination with the miniatures became a global award-winning project that’s inspired a book and a film ...
Lego Games launched in 2009, was a series of Lego-themed board games designed by Cephas Howard and Reiner Knizia [117] [118] in which the players usually build the playing board out of Lego bricks and then play with Lego-style players. Examples of the games include "Minotaurus", in which players roll dice to move characters within a brick-build ...
The group, best known for its plastic bricks and whose name is a contraction of "play well" in Danish ("Leg godt"), launched around 300 new sets during the first half of 2024, while continuing to ...
In 2020, Lego launched its adult-focused category, which boasts big (and more expensive) sets. Think Harry Potter’s Gringotts building , $700 Titanic replicas, and a $500 set of a town from The ...
Brick Fiesta or BrickFiesta is a Lego convention and exhibition held yearly in Texas, United States.It was first held in 2011 at Austin, Texas.It is a four-day event, operating generally Thursday through Sunday, and is typically held during the late June or early July.