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History of Lego. Lego began in 1932 in the carpentry workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish furniture maker. During the Great Depression he began to make miniature versions of his products, which inspired him to produce toys. The company was named "Lego" in 1934, a contraction from the Danish phrase "leg godt", meaning "play well".
Lego Games launched in 2009, was a series of Lego-themed board games designed by Cephas Howard and Reiner Knizia [115] [116] 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 ...
Lego releases Mindstorms, a programmable computerized brick with Lego-compatible sensors and motors. The red Lego logo introduced in 1973 is updated. It is a graphically tightened version of the logo used for the past 25 years. Lego rereleases the Crusaders, Black Knights, and Dragon Masters themes. Insectoids, a sub-line of Lego Space is ...
For children 4 years old or more Lego 2006–2008 Lego Dacta: Education: Duplo; Technic; Lego 1960–2003 Lego DC Super Hero Girls: DC Super Hero Girls: DC and Warner Bros. Animation Studios: 2016-2018 Lego Factory / Lego Design byME: Service that allowed fans to design their Lego sets on a program, and then order the set from Lego Lego 2005 ...
The closing of Design byME has not affected the ability of users to print custom instructions for their models. [6] On 21 January 2016, Lego announced the project had been defunded, and would not receive additional updates. [7] However, in March 2016, a new updated version, 4.3.9, was uploaded. [8] The latest version, 4.3.12 was uploaded in ...
Lego Creator. Lego Creator (stylized as LEGO Creator) is a Lego theme for generic models. Creator sets have few specialized bricks to create buildings, creatures, vehicles, and robots. Some sets featured instructions for three different possible builds from the bricks included and most sets in recent years have used the 3-in-1 label.
The Lego Mindstorms product line was the first project of "Home Education", a division of Lego Education established by employee Tormod Askildsen in 1995. Askildsen, who had previously spent ten years working for Lego Education, had grown frustrated working with teaching professionals and wanted to create an improved educational experience that was delivered directly towards children.
Lego Technic / ˈ t ɛ k n ɪ k / (stylized as LEGO Technic) is a line of Lego interconnecting plastic rods and parts. The purpose of this series is to create advanced models of working vehicles and machines, compared to the simpler brick -building properties of normal Lego.