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British LEGO Ltd. was set up in late 1959 and the first sets were sold the following year, three years following Page's death. LEGO eventually acquired the residual rights to the Kiddicraft brick designs from Page's descendants in 1981 [18] ahead of legal suits it filed against other plastic building toys made by Tyco and others.
In 1949, the Danish company Lego began industrial production of its Automatic Binding Brick, which, however, like its predecessors, was hollow inside and therefore produced very little adhesion. The bricks are an almost identical copy [21] of the 1947 Self-locking Building Bricks of the English brand Kiddicraft by toy developer Hilary Page. [22]
Best-Lock was founded in 1997 by Torsten Geller after he looked into the legalities of Lego and other clones, which led him to look into Lego's past to find that Lego had copied their bricks from a British psychologist and inventor Hilary Page in the 1940s. [1] [2] Best-Lock has been involved with multiple legal cases involving Lego.
Today, Lego is a profitable [1] brand offering construction kits and related products and services, including Lego board games, retail stores, video games, films, theme parks, and consultation services. Despite its expansion, the company remains privately held. [2] Lego has had a significant impact on various areas of popular culture.
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.
Although Lego itself originally copied their bricks from British psychologist and inventor Hilary Page in the late 1940s, the company has sued others whom it perceived as producing overly similar products (Lego claims that when contacted by LEGO in the late 1950s, Kiddicraft gave no objection to the Danish company manufacturing the bricks; Lego ...
Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks were marketed in the 1940s and 1950s. Lego is an interlocking plastic building brick toy line based on the Kiddicraft bricks above. Lego clones imitate Lego brand bricks. Rasti is an Argentine toy interlocking brick. Tente is a Spanish toy interlocking brick. EverBlock Systems is an American brand of ...
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