The Lego Group world's largest toy company by revenue, with sales amounting to US$2.1 billion, surpassing Mattel, which had US$1.9 billion in sales. On 11 August 2017, Lego announced that Niels B. Christiansen would become the new CEO, effective 1 October of the same year. The history of Lego spans nearly 100 years, beginning with the creation of small wooden playthings during the early 20th century. Manufacturing of plastic Lego bricks began in Denmark in 1947, but since has grown to include factories throughout the world. In 1961, Lego was managed by Samsonite until 1972 in the United States and 1986 in Canada.
Lego gun The "SF Gate" expressed concern that the book could encourage children into aggression and gun-love. Will Chapman has circumvented Lego's opposition to modern weaponry by casting his own non-functional lego guns: he constructed aluminum molds from a CNC mill and injection-molded plastic from melted-down Lego bricks. On 29 January 2013 a woman from Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA reported that her 5-year-old son was threatened with suspension after making a Lego gun in an after school class. Lego gun A Lego gun is a toy weapon which is made out of Lego elements. There are both working guns (that either shoot rubber