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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]
Mega Bloks won a case at the EU's top court in 2010 against Lego's trademark registration of a red toy building brick. On September 14, 2010, the European Court of Justice ruled that the 8-peg design of the original Lego brick "merely performs a technical function [and] cannot be registered as a trademark." [11] Best-Lock and Lego bricks compared.
Post WWII, Page designed and produced the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks, [9] that have been described as the "original LEGO". [10] Kiddicraft released a series of building sets that LEGO copied in both style and content. [11] Kiddicraft's Self-Binding Bricks could be stacked on each other and were held in place by studs on the top.
The addition was granted in 1947 as British Patent Nº 587,206. In 1949, the Lego Group began producing similar bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks." Lego bricks, then manufactured from cellulose acetate, were developed in the spirit of traditional wooden blocks that could be stacked upon one another but could be "locked" together ...
By 1949, the business was producing a plastic product called the Automatic Binding Brick. [9] In 1950, Christiansen's son Godtfred was named Junior Managing Director and the company spent the next decade focusing on the development of the plastic brick, which was modified from a self-locking building brick invented by Hilary Fisher Page.
Automatic Binding Bricks are renamed Lego Mursten, or "Lego Bricks." First baseplates are created. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen creates "system of play" that leads to the formation of Lego sets. [2] 1954: Godtfred Kirk Christiansen becomes junior managing director of Lego, and soon has the idea to turn Lego bricks into a building system.
The design was modified by the Christiansens and in 1953, the modified plastic bricks were given the name "Lego bricks". Unfortunately, initial sales were poor, as the bricks were not very sturdy and did not stick together very well. [7] In 1958, Godtfred played a pivotal role in the development of the modern Lego brick. On 28 January 1958 ...
Studio (initially Stud.io) is a freeware computer program for creating virtual 3D models with Lego bricks. It was released on BrickLink as an open beta on December 13, 2016. [ 8 ] The next major update to the program, version 2.0, was released in open beta on July 18, 2018.