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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  LEGO.com About Us - LEGO Company - Company and brand history
Representations of the LEGO mini figures Biff Starling and Sandy Moondust are the first earthlings to reach the planet Mars onboard the NASA Mars rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity".
LEGO Serious Play is unveiled in the autumn.
The LEGO Group achieves its budgeted surplus of DKK 500 million and employees are rewarded with a bonus and a global party.
www.lego.com /eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline   (342 words)

  
  Lego -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lego bricks from 1963 still interlock with those made in 2006, and Lego sets for young children are compatible with those made for teenagers.
The Lego Group itself has developed a form of business consultancy fostering creative thinking, called Lego Serious Play, in which team members build metaphors of their organisational experiences using Lego bricks, and work through imaginary scenarios using the visual device of the Lego constructions and by exploring possibilities in a 'serious' form of 'play'.
The Lego Group's name has become so synonymous with its flagship toy that many use "Legos" or "Lego" (collectively) to refer to the bricks themselves, though the Lego Group considers such use a dilution of their trademark.
en.wikipedia.4it.com.pl /wiki/Lego   (2535 words)

  
 Brick Fetish: Timeline: Overview
It was the forerunner of the Lego brick.
Lego changes the name from Automatic Binding Bricks to Lego Mursten, but sales of the bricks continue to be slow.
Lego begins true exporting: LEGO Spielwaren GmbH is established in Hohenwestedt, Germany.
www.brickfetish.com /timeline/timeline.html   (566 words)

  
 Lego Summary
Legos were certainly not the only building toys on the market during the better part of the twentieth century, but they were the ones that quintessentially represented the culture of the time.
The word Lego, from the Danish "leg godt," or "play well," epitomized the philosophy of the Lego company, which was to provide a "system" of play: simple, educational toys that allowed children to be creative and use their imaginations.
The Lego Group itself has developed a form of business consultancy fostering creative thinking, called Lego Serious Play, in which team members build metaphors of their organisational experiences using Lego bricks, and work through imaginary scenarios using the visual device of the Lego constructions and by exploring possibilities in a 'serious' form of 'play'.
www.bookrags.com /Lego   (3146 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Lego   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lego is a line of toys featuring colourful plastic bricks, gears, minifigures (also called minifigs or mini-figs), and other pieces which can be assembled to create models of almost anything imaginable.
The Lego Group's name has become so synonymous with its flagship toy that many use the words "Lego" (collectively) or "Legos" to refer to the bricks themselves, and even to any plastic bricks resembling Lego bricks, although the Lego Group discourages this as dilution of their trademark.
LEGO recently announced the procurement of worldwide toy rights with the cable TV channel Nickelodeon for building sets with themes from two hit TV shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Avatar: The Last Airbender which will be available Summer of 2006.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=LEGO   (2381 words)

  
 Bionicle™ - BZPower News, Reference and Discussion
The Planetary Society and LEGO have jointly sponsored "Red Rover Goes to Mars," an ongoing program to engage the public in space science and exploration.
LEGO also created a life-size replica of the Mars Rovers - in LEGO bricks, of course.
LEGO® and BIONICLE are trademarks of the LEGO Group.
www.bzpower.com /story.php?ID=1624   (410 words)

  
 Lego :: Toys : Gourt
Lego is a line of toys featuring colorful plastic bricks, gears, minifigures (also called minifigs or mini-figs), and other pieces which can be assembled to create models of almost anything imaginable.
The sets are produced by the Lego Group, a privately-held company based in Denmark.
The Ghost that is Haunting Lego Land - Article concerns the secret behind the Lego toy, claiming the original concept for interlocking plastic shapes came from Mr.
recreation.gourt.com /Collecting/Toys/Lego.html   (276 words)

  
 The LEGO Company - Brickwiki
The LEGO Company is a multinational, privately held corporation headquartered in Billund, Denmark, with worldwide annual revenues in excess of several billion US dollars.
In 1999, LEGO released the first licensed sets, which featured vehicles from the first Star Wars prequel and the Classic Trilogy.
LEGO has since released licensed products based on Spider-Man, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, and several more.
brickwiki.org /index.php?title=OMFG   (510 words)

  
 Toys for a Lifetime - Timeline
LEGO (The LEGO Company) comes from the Danish word meaning, "Play well," was born.
The continuing popularity of the LEGO brick probably stems from its ability to stimulate a child's imagination- just six bricks fit together in 102,981,500 different ways.
In 1969 The LEGO® DUPLO®; line is introduced designed for a preschooler's hands, LEGO DUPLO bricks are eight times the size of a standard LEGO brick.
www.drtoy.com /fao/toy-timeline.html   (1146 words)

  
 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for LEGO
Because of the high degree of uniformity in LEGO bricks, they have also been used in fields such as computer vision, in which knowing the exact dimensions and relative positions of objects is useful for creating test data.
LEGO itself sells a line of sets named "LEGO Studios," which contain a LEGO web cam (repackaged Logitech USB Quickcam), software to record video on a computer, clear plastic rods which can be used to manipulate minifigures from off-camera, and a minifigure resembling Steven Spielberg.
The LEGO Group's name has become so synonymous with its flagship toy that many use the words "Lego" or "Legos" to refer to the bricks themselves, and even to any plastic bricks resembling LEGO bricks, although the LEGO Group discourages such dilution of their trademark name.
www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=lego   (3000 words)

  
 History of LEGO Toys
Godtfred saw the immense potential in LEGO bricks to become a system for creative play, but the bricks still had some problems from a technical standpoint: their "locking" ability was limited, and they were not very versatile.
LEGO bricks manufactured from ABS plastic in 1963 still hold most of their shape and color 40 years later, and still neatly interlock with LEGO bricks manufactured today.
Lego League for elementry and middle schools, in which contestants can compete their robotic entries in a compitetion that changes anually.
www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/lego.htm   (2824 words)

  
 cars - LEGO
LEGO bricks had always had a constructive potential that was seen by some educators as being an invaluable asset in helping children to develop creativity and problem-solving abilities.
The LEGO line grew again in 1989 with the release of the LEGO Pirates series, which featured a variety of pirate ships, desert islands and treasure; the series was also the first to depart from the standard minifigure smiling face to create an array of piratical characters.
The LEGO Group avoided making green bricks for a long time, fearing they would be used to build modern military vehicles and use LEGO bricks as a war toy, but that fear seems to have abated.
www.carluvers.com /cars/Lego   (4858 words)

  
 Lego History - Invention of LEGO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
By 1966, however, LEGO kits were guiding young hard hats in snapping together all kinds of buildings, trucks, planes, and ships.
The LEGO Group expanded its audience with the 1969 addition of the DUPLO line of big bricks for preschoolers and, in 1977, the TECHNIC line of sophisticated projects for older kids and teens.
LEGO came to the United States during some of the coldest years of the Cold War, a period that also saw a heightened interest in education and toys that could teach.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story045.htm   (1099 words)

  
 PromoBricks.com - Your One Stop Site For Lego Duplo Promotional Brick Information!
I have tried to list the bricks in the order they came out to help show the timeline of the bricks, and also broke it down into smaller pages sorted by theme or where they were given out.
When this happens Lego usually makes a special Duplo brick that is given out to people who just happen to be at the special event or store opening.
Lego, Legoland, and Duplo are registered tradmarks of the Lego Company.
www.promobricks.com   (765 words)

  
 LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki - A Wikia wiki
LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick is a LEGO-brick mini-movie spoof loosely based on Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
LEGO classic mini-figures are also made more 3-D in their detail, with more flexibility in movement portrayed to facilitated the film's action sequences.(i.e sqash and stach.)
Dooku points his LEGO finger at Grievous to Grievous at the exact position that shows a clear picture of the battle outside.
starwars.wikia.com /wiki/LEGO_Star_Wars:_Revenge_of_the_Brick   (1354 words)

  
 Lego at AllExperts
Lego is a line of toys featuring colorful plastic bricks, gears, minifigures (also called minifigs or mini-figs), and other pieces which can be assembled to create models of almost anything imaginable.
The Lego Group's name has become so synonymous with its flagship toy that many use the words "Lego" (collectively) or "Legos" to refer to the bricks themselves, and even to any plastic bricks resembling Lego bricks, although the Lego Group discourages this as dilution of their trademark.
Lego pieces from 1963 still interlock with pieces made in 2006, despite radical changes in shape and design over the years.
en.allexperts.com /e/l/le/lego.htm   (2546 words)

  
 Main Rules Tome
This, in itself, wouldn't frighten many Lego "maniacs", but the game goes beyond creative construction, and steps into the violent realm of killing things and making things blow up into a thousand pieces which rain down onto a battlefield littered with the corpses of SpaceMen.
In short, building with Lego bricks is fun, and you know that if you ever want to build anything else with those bricks, you will have to disassemble your first creation, so why not disassemble it in a grand fashion by having it blown to smithereens?
These values are given in dots, so it may be handy to make a "key" of sizes out of Lego bricks, so you can quickly measure the sizes of various weapons, without having to always count the dots.
mama.indstate.edu /users/sean/legowars/mainrulestome.htm   (8291 words)

  
 1Timeline
LEGO added other programmable bricks: the Scout which can be accessed and
LEGO and the MIT group mostly use infrared devices for communication; the Cybermaster is radio controlled.
Typically, the user code itself is compact and consists of byte codes which are interpreted by a program that is loaded into volatile memory and stays there until the batteries are empty.
www.cs.rit.edu /~ats/plcr-2004-2/html/skript-1.html   (383 words)

  
 From the Lab to the Home: SRI International to Provide Glimpse into the Future of Robotics
SRI International is a pioneer in the field of robotics and SRI's Center for Technology in Learning is working with LEGO MINDSTORMS in optimizing the programming environment for children in their use of the Robotics Invention System.
The culmination of ten years of technology development between LEGO and the MIT Media Lab, this system is a comprehensive robotics construction platform that includes a microprocessor, light/contact sensors, an infrared transmitter, over 700 pieces and a learner-centered graphical programming language.
Lego's Mindstorm Robotics Invention System allows users to create real robots that can move, act and think on their own.
www.sri.com /news/releases/8-24-98.html   (424 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Ultimate Lego Book: Books: DK Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lego "maniacs" are no mere invention of Lego Group's industrious marketing machine.
A visual timeline near the beginning of the book gives you some sense of when many of the important pieces were introduced to the world.
There are no actual instructions for LEGO models in the book but the photos (especially those of the theme park `miniland' models) provide a huge amount of inspiration for young and old builders alike.
www.amazon.com /Ultimate-Lego-Book-DK-Publishing/dp/078944691X   (2415 words)

  
 PromoBricks.com - Timeline of all bricks
This brick was used to commemorate the opening of the Lego store in the Glendale Galleria in the outskirts of Los Angeles, California.
The only place this brick was given out was to children once they took the Lego Factory Tour and were lucky enough to be greeted by the Legoland employee staffing that area who had this brick for the short time she had them.
In this celebration guests made Lego flowers that were placed in a Lego version of the famous flower fields located in the outskirts of Miniland.
www.promobricks.com /all.html   (6825 words)

  
 Halfbakery: health check for lego men (and women)
I think that pretty much all races have been covered by Lego, but as [po] points out, that is a very different thing to providing ethnic diversity in all of the run-of-the-mill lego sets.
After a lot of unsuccessful poking around, I switched to an image search for "lego" "people", and that happens to have a picture of the set as the last image on page one.
Last time I looked, nobody wandering the streets was day-glo yellow so I think LEGO do a nice job by not favouring any particular race for their toys.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/health_20check_20for_20lego_20men_20(and_20women)   (616 words)

  
 BayLTC Lecture at MoAH
LEGO trains, produced since 1965, are toys not models.
Examples of the LEGO train timeline will be present, plus there will be demonstrations and Q&A. Kenny Paul has been a member of the Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) since July of 2001.
Russell Clark, a fan of LEGO for almost 20 years, is co-founder of the Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) in 1998 and the Bay Area LEGO Train Club (BayLTC) in 2000, two very active LEGO clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
www.baylug.org /upcoming.cgi?moah-lecture-20050216   (386 words)

  
 LEGO Store - Product
Packed with interesting facts about LEGO toys and the LEGO company -- the book begins with a detailed visual timeline that tells the remarkable history of the company and the making of LEGO toys.
The rest of the book is dedicated to the Master Model Builders and the amazing models they build and display around the world.
LEGO, LEGOLAND, BELVILLE, BIONICLE, BLOCK-O-DILE, CLIKITS, DUPLO, EXO-FORCE, KNIGHTS KINGDOM, MINDSTORMS, QUATRO, ROBOTICS INVENTION SYSTEM, the DUPLO logo, the QUATRO logo, the LEGO and LEGOLAND logos are trademarks of the LEGO Group.
shop.lego.com /product.asp?p=B500   (124 words)

  
 Open Directory - Recreation: Collecting: Toys: Lego: Builders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Laura's Lego Page - Laura recalls two letters from her youth from Lego, and the castle she built in college.
Lego Building Instructions and Catalogs - Text and graphic scans of numerous Lego models organized by theme, number, or name.
Lego Realistic - Cars, trains, spaceships, robots, and Lego versions of Christian parables: The Gospel According to Lego and The Good Bellvillite.
dmoz.org /Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Lego/Builders   (1724 words)

  
 Star Wars: Kids | Drawing LEGO Han Solo and Stormtrooper
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy takes the fun of LEGO customization and combines it with the epic story and characters from A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Two of the game characters to choose from include the wily Han Solo and the stormtrooper who always seems to be hot on his heels.
Most LEGO Star Wars characters share the same body type, so at this point both Han Solo and the stormtrooper are still going to look the same.
www.starwars.com /kids/activity/draw/f20060823/index.html   (586 words)

  
 Jake's LEGO® Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
BrickFest is also hosting a contest run by the LEGO Group and the National Trust.
Enter the LEGO® Brick to the Future: 2055 building challenge, sponsored by The LEGO Group and National Trust for Historic Preservation.
LEGO is a trademark of The LEGO Group, which does not necessarily sponsor, authorize, or endorse this site.
www.bricksonthebrain.com /blog/index.cfm?commentID=335   (360 words)

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