Watch The Lego Cartoon Sequel ' title='Watch The Lego Cartoon Sequel ' />Lego Wikipedia. Lego Danish leo 12 stylized as LEGO is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The companys flagship product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Lego pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct objects vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects. The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1. Since then a global Lego subculture has developed. Supporting movies, games, competitions, and six Legolandamusement parks have been developed under the brand. As of July 2. 01. Lego parts had been produced. In February 2. Lego replaced Ferrari as Brand Finances worlds most powerful brand. History. The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen 1. Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1. In 1. 93. 4, his company came to be called Lego, derived from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means play well. In 1. 94. 7, Lego expanded to begin producing plastic toys. In 1. Luke Plunkett. Luke Plunkett is a Contributing Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs. Over 22,000 fans were evacuated from the Tomorrowland music festival in Barcelona on Saturday after an unspecified technical malfunction caused the stage to. Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them Automatic Binding Bricks. These bricks were based in part on the Kiddicraft Self Locking Bricks, which were patented in the United Kingdom in 1. Lego modified the design of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample that they received from the supplier of an injection molding machine that Lego purchased. The bricks, originally manufactured from cellulose acetate,1. The Lego Groups motto is det bedste er ikke for godt which means roughly only the best is the best more literally the best is never too good. This motto, which is still used today, was created by Ole Kirk to encourage his employees never to skimp on quality, a value he believed in strongly. By 1. Lego Companys output, even though the Danish trade magazine Legetjs Tidende Toy Times, visiting the Lego factory in Billund in the early 1. Although a common sentiment, Lego toys seem to have become a significant exception to the dislike of plastic in childrens toys, due in part to the high standards set by Ole Kirk. By 1. 95. 4, Christiansens son, Godtfred, had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group. It was his conversation with an overseas buyer that led to the idea of a toy system. 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 versatile. In 1. ABS acrylonitrile butadiene styrene polymer. The modern Lego brick design was patented on 2. January 1. 95. 8. The Lego Groups Duplo product line was introduced in 1. Lego blocks and are aimed towards younger children. In 1. 97. 8, Lego produced the first minifigures, which have since become a staple in most sets. In May 2. 01. 1, Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS 1. Lego kits to the International Space Station, where astronauts built models to see how they would react in microgravity, as a part of the Lego Bricks in Space program. The results will be shared with schools as part of an educational project. In May 2. 01. 3, the largest model ever created was displayed in New York and was made of over 5 million bricks a 1 1 scale model of an X wing fighter. Other records include a 1. In February 2. 01. Lego replaced Ferrari as the worlds most powerful brand. In popular culture. Legos popularity is demonstrated by its wide representation and usage in many forms of cultural works, including books, films and art work. It has even been used in the classroom as a teaching tool. In the USA, Lego Education North America is a joint venture between Pitsco, Inc. Lego Group. 2. 7In 1. Lego bricks were one of the original inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York. Design. Lego pieces of all varieties constitute a universal system. Hi-Def Quality Canvas here. Despite variation in the design and the purposes of individual pieces over the years, each piece remains compatible in some way with existing pieces. Lego bricks from 1. Lego sets for young children are compatible with those made for teenagers. Six pieces of 2x. Each Lego piece must be manufactured to an exacting degree of precision. When two pieces are engaged they must fit firmly, yet be easily disassembled. The machines that manufacture Lego bricks have tolerances as small as 1. Dimensions of some standard Lego bricks and plates3. Primary concept and development work takes place at the Billund headquarters, where the company employs approximately 1. The company also has smaller design offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, and Japan which are tasked with developing products aimed specifically at these markets. The average development period for a new product is around twelve months, split into three stages. The first stage is to identify market trends and developments, including contact by the designers directly with the market some are stationed in toy shops close to holidays, while others interview children. The second stage is the design and development of the product based upon the results of the first stage. As of September 2. D modeling software to generate CAD drawings from initial design sketches. The designs are then prototyped using an in house stereolithography machine. These prototypes are presented to the entire project team for comment and for testing by parents and children during the validation process. Designs may then be altered in accordance with the results from the focus groups. Virtual models of completed Lego products are built concurrently with the writing of the user instructions. Completed CAD models are also used in the wider organisation, for marketing and packaging. Lego Digital Designer is an official piece of Lego software for Mac OS X and Windows which allows users to create their own digital Lego designs. The program once allowed customers to order their custom designs3. Digital Designer to consumers the service ended in 2. Manufacturing. The Lego factory in Kladno, Czech Republic. Lego injection moulding machines, made by the German company Arburg. A Lego mould, showing the moulded bricks and the channels through which the plastic enters the mould the sprue, runners and gates, Jiaxing, China. Since 1. 96. 3, Lego pieces have been manufactured from a strong, resilient plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene ABS. As of September 2. Lego engineers use the NXCADCAMCAEPLM software suite to model the elements. The software allows the parts to be optimized by way of mould flow and stress analysis. Prototype moulds are sometimes built before the design is committed to mass production. The ABS plastic is heated to 2. C 4. 50 F until it reaches a dough like consistency. It is then injected into the moulds at pressures between 2. The moulds are permitted a tolerance of up to two micrometres, to ensure the bricks remain connected. Human inspectors check the output of the moulds, to eliminate significant variations in colour or thickness. According to the Lego Group, about eighteen bricks out of every million fail to meet the standard required. Lego factories recycle all but about 1 percent of their plastic waste from the manufacturing process. If the plastic cannot be re used in Lego bricks, it is processed and sold on to industries that can make use of it. Manufacturing of Lego bricks occurs at a number of locations around the world. Moulding is done in Billund, Denmark Nyregyhza, Hungary Monterrey, Mexico and most recently in Jiaxing, China. Brick decorations and packaging are done at plants in Denmark, Hungary, Mexico and Kladno in the Czech Republic. Its Looking Very Good for Syfys Adaptation of George R. R. Martins Scifi Horror Tale Nightflyers. Weve known since May that Syfy was circling an adaptation of George R. R. Martins 1. 98. Nightflyersand now comes word that the project is moving forward at a rapid pace. Multiple sources are reporting that a straight to series order is very close to being announced. Both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter shared the news that Nightflyersan expanded version of which was also part of a Martin short story collection released in 1. Netflix, which could make a deal to stream the show internationally, as well as stream it once its aired on Syfy in the US. Nightflyers already has a showrunner Dan Cerone of The Blacklist and The Mentalist, as well as a director Mike Cahill of I Origin and Another Earth he also directed the pilot for another Syfy show, The Magicians for its currently in production but not yet cast pilot episode. The pilot script is by Jeff Buhler, who co wrote the upcoming Jacobs Ladder remake as well as the Clive Barker adaptation Midnight Meat Train THRdescribes the plot thusly It is set in the future on the eve of Earths destruction and follows a crew of explorers who journey on the most advanced ship in the galaxy, The Nightflyer, to intercept a mysterious alien spacecraft that might hold the key to their survival. As the crew nears their destination, they discover that the ships artificial intelligence and never seen captain may be steering them into deadly and unspeakable horrors deep in the dark reaches of space. Unspeakable horrors in deep space is one of our all time favorite genres, so this is very good news indeed, and were hopeful that the series gets an official greenlight soon. And lest you worry this is yet another project that will distract George R. R. Martin from what should be his sole focus in life at the moment finishing The Winds of Winter, duh, fear nothis exclusive HBO deal for Game of Thrones means his involvement in Nightflyers would be solely inspirational.