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LEGO,
a plastic toy, with infinite possibilities. Open up
a kit of Lego and you don't just have the model on
the front of the box to build (although everyone usually
builds that one first). A box of Lego opens up a whole
new world. You can be a king of a castle then a manager
of the worlds biggest shopping mall, onto a oil rig
controller, to a space commander. The kits are not
limited by the picture on their box, they are only
limited by your imagination. |
Ole
Kirk Christiansen, master carpenter and joiner, opens
a business in the village of Billund, Denmark. He
manufactures stepladders, ironing boards and wooden
toys. His son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen soon after
works with his father. The name of the company is
formed, LEGO. Comprised from the Danish words "LEg
GOdt" ("play well"). |
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The
company switches from producing wooden toys to plastic
toys and then soon comes upon the idea of making interlocking
brick toys that allow people to build fantastic models.
The company begins selling kits to build models and
the rest is history. Now there are millions of Lego
kits sold world wide each year. |
Lego
is now known world wide, there are Lego toys in almost
every country around the world, there are thousands
of model kits and there are even Lego theme parks,
with massive models standing over a hundred feet high
built buy tiny little Lego bricks. |
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Current
Lego model themes include: Alpha Team, Belville, Bionicle,
Galidor, Harry Potter, Island Extreme, Jack Stone,
Orient Expedition, Racers, Sports, Star Wars and Trains.
There are more including Lego Mindstorms, the robotic
Lego kits that actually allow you to build working
robots with logic and intelligence truly a leap in
toy technology. |
Lego
toys are extremely flexible, they can be joined together
in more than the standard ways, of just normal connection.
They also work with all the other Lego kits. Just
because you bought the Harry Potter kit doesn't mean
it won't work with the Castles sets or Bionicle sets.
Just think, Harry Potter could battle Alpha Team,
while Bionicle models create havoc and then out of
no where a train comes in and saves the day for everyone,
and that's just from the kits. You can recombine the
kits to form whole new worlds, the level of creativity
is only limited by your imagination. |
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You
don't have to buy kits, there are boxes of Lego, simply
for building, buy 10 or 20 and you could build a whole
city!
The
next time you pick up a box of Lego, don't just think
how cool the one model is, you can do better than
that. Play Well!
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