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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 ...
Following the sponsored Lego Hero Factory: Breakout event, the Roblox Corporation and The Lego Group originally had a deal to release another Lego-tie in event on the platform later that same year, but this time, to promote the Lego Star Wars: The Clone Wars line of sets from 2012, that were directly based on the 2008 CGI-animated series of the ...
The book was listed by Forbes as one of their staff choices for "The Best Books Of 2013". [1] Johnny Davis, writing for The Guardian in 2017, mentioned that the book "has become a set business text", with Sony, Adidas and Boeing "said to refer to it", as the company's revival "has been called the greatest turnaround in corporate history".
The increase of Lego guns and other forms of weaponry in Lego sets has been a continued source of controversy. In May 2016, researchers at the University of Canterbury published a report in the scientific journal PLOS One, [4] which concluded that Lego had become “significantly more violent” after the research found that the violence of products highlighted in Lego catalogues had increased ...
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.
The Lego Group (also known as Lego System A/S or formally Lego A/S) [5] is a Danish construction toy production company based in Billund, Denmark. [6] It manufactures Lego -branded toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks.
The English company Best-Lock Construction Toys sued Lego in German courts in 2004 [16] and 2009. [17] The German Federal Court denied Lego trademark protection for the shape of its bricks in the latter case. [18] In 2011, Lego sued Guangdong Jumbo Grand Plastic Moulding Industrial over its BanBao brand's copycat packaging.
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.