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Beginning in 1939, Halsam Products manufactured its American Bricks from pressed wood. [18] "ELGO Plastics, Inc. was established as a division of Halsam Products Company in 1941." It produced building blocks under the name American Plastic Bricks from 1946, and was the dominant American supplier through the 1950's. [19] A full history of Halsam ...
American Skyline was a construction set sold in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Elgo Plastics/Halsam Products Company from Chicago, Illinois. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With an American Skyline set, its owner could piece together models of high-rise city buildings.
It manufactures Lego-branded toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks. The Lego Group has also built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates numerous retail stores. The company was founded in 1932, by Ole Kirk Christiansen. [7]
Image credits: Jojuj #19 Guinness World Record LEGO Brick Diorama. Haven’t seen it mentioned here yet, but I recently passed by this LEGO exhibition in Hong Kong that displayed the “worlds ...
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The Christiansens are inspired by samples of the "Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick", a design patented by the Briton Hilary Fisher Page. [1] December 27 - Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is born. 1948: The company grows to 50 employees. 1949: Lego begins producing similar plastic bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks."
Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks.
Lego Modular Buildings (stylized as LEGO Modular Buildings) is a series of Lego building toy sets introduced in 2007, with new sets usually being released annually. Created in response to feedback and suggestions from the Adult Fans of Lego bricks (AFOL) and Teen Fans of Lego (TFOL) communities, the sets in this series are generally intended for more advanced builders.