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The first Lego World Cup building contest is held in Billund. Lego Canada is established. The "Brick Separator" is introduced. 1989: Lego Pirates theme is launched. Lego Educational Products Department is renamed Lego Dacta. Brick Kicks, the first official Lego Club magazine, is introduced. Space Police I, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
Following the Second World War, plastics became available in Denmark, and Lego purchased a plastic injection molding machine in 1947. [ 3 ] : 25 One of the first modular toys to be produced was a truck that could be taken apart and reassembled.
At the end of World War II, many traditional materials used in the manufacture of products were not readily available, so manufacturers looked for other cheap, plastic alternatives. [9] In 1947, the Lego company was the first toy manufacturer in Denmark to purchase a plastic injection moulding machine, which was so expensive that it cost more ...
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 ...
Lego products are mass-produced, packaged and shipped on a large scale. Lego Produktion AG was a major production facility for Lego. It was founded in Switzerland in 1974. [54] At the time of its announced closing in 2001, 30% of the world's production of Lego was produced at the Swiss facility in Baar. [55] The Baar facility eventually closed ...
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 ...
‘World War III has already begun,’ Jamie Dimon warns — says he and his team are preparing for serious conflict with Russia, China. 3 assets to protect yourself in 2025 William Koblensky ...
In Musk’s view the end of any pretense of a rules-based international order is a necessary evil if the alternative is a third world war. That would be infinitely worse than a return to the last ...