Educational toy made in plastic versions. In the mid-1950s, more explicitly engineering-themed construction toys appeared, including plastic girders, columns, and panels that could be assembled into a model curtain wall skyscraper. Later, this Girder and Panel structural system was extended to a Hydro-Dynamic setup by adding pipes, valves, tanks, nozzles, and pumps to allow construction of model plumbing, HVAC, and chemical engineering systems like a simulated distillation column. Other extensions of the system supported suburban-style housing developments (Build-A-Home), or monorail transportation systems (Skyrail). The building toy Lego was originally developed by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund, Denmark, in the 1930s. The name
A Lego Brickumentary A Lego Brickumentary A Lego Brickumentary (also known as Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary) is a 2014 Danish-American documentary film co-directed by Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge, focused on the Danish construction toy Lego. The film was released on July 31, 2014. A LEGO Brickumentary offers a look at the global appeal of the LEGO building-block toy. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 53% rating based on 43 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a 53 out of 100 rating based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Peter Sobczynski