when did the first lego set come out
Lego The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891â€“1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932.[7][8] In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". In 1947, Lego expanded to begin producing plastic toys.[9] In 1949 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 1939[10] and released in 1947. 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.[11] The bricks, originally manufactured from cellulose acetate,[12] were a development of the traditional stackable wooden blocks of the time.[9]
History of Lego In 1999, the first Lego products featuring licensed characters, i.e. not designed in-house, were Lego Star Wars and Winnie the Pooh Duplo, followed in 2000 by Lego Harry Potter characters to figures from other Steven Spielberg movies.[14] Soren Holm, the head of Lego Concept Lab said toy weapons had always been heavily debated, but that since the Lego Star Wars release Lego has grown "more comfortable with conflict".[14] Mr Laursen, executive North American operations suggested to make "violence not explicit, but humoristic."[14] After 1999 a number of in-house characters were strongly characterised with media utilisation and non-Lego System merchandising, most notably Bionicle from 2001â€“2010 and then again in 2016.
Minecraft A Lego set based on Minecraft called Lego Minecraft was released on 6 June 2012.[285] The set, called "Micro World", centres around the game's default player character and a creeper.[286] Mojang submitted the concept of Minecraft merchandise to Lego in December 2011 for the Lego Cuusoo program, from which it quickly received 10,000 votes by users, prompting Lego to review the concept.[287] Lego Cuusoo approved the concept in January 2012 and began developing sets based on Minecraft.[287] Two more sets based on the Nether and village areas of the game were released on 1 September 2013. A fourth Micro World set, the End, was released in June 2014. Six more, larger Lego minifigure scale, sets became available November 2014.[288]
Lego Minifigures (theme) On average a new series has been released every four months. Release dates sometimes vary between countries.