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Following "Classic" Castle in 1984, Lego released the first Castle sets that had more realistic castles, knights, and colors (such as grey castles rather than yellow) in order to depict the Middle Ages more accurately as compared to the Classic Castle sets from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The 1984 castle sets featured many newly-introduced ...
A Lego theme is a product line of Lego construction toys produced by The Lego Group based on a central concept. Before 1978, Lego produced several construction sets with common themes, but they were not necessarily branded as part of a single series or theme.
Since 2008, LEGO has had a program titled “LEGO Ideas” where netizens can pitch sets, which, if they get enough votes, end up being made into real sets, with the idea creator getting a 1% royalty.
Lego sets two Guinness World Records. Lego Castle and Lego Tower are released; Paradisa and Duplo Toolo sets are introduced. On Swedish television, the world's largest Lego Castle is built. The Crusaders theme is discontinued. Wolfpack, a sub-line of Lego Castle is introduced. Space Police II, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
Lego also expanded into space with the creation of Lego Space sets with astronaut mini-figures, rockets, lunar rovers, and spaceships, and into the medieval territory with the Castle theme. In 1979 Lego introduced the Scala series, featuring jewelry elements marketed towards young girls. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen also became the president of Lego ...
Child World was an American toy retailer founded in 1962. It grew to 182 sites and revenues of $830 million (~$1.62 billion in 2023) before failing in 1992. It was known for the distinctive stylized castle store exterior adopted after its 1975 purchase of the Children's Palace store chain.
Lego and Tyco Industries fought in US courts over Tyco's line of interlocking bricks in the 1980s with Tyco prevailing. [4] On August 31, 1987, the US District Court ruled that Tyco could continue making Super Blocks, its Lego clone bricks, but ordered Tyco to stop using the Lego trademark and not to state that they were "Lego, but only cheaper".
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