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The Lego Company is based out of Denmark, and the word Lego comes from the Danish word Leg Godt which means “play well”. 7 LEGO sets are being sold by retailers every second around the world, and more than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been already produced since 1949. Stacked on top of each other, this is enough to connect the Earth and the Moon ten times over!
The number of combinations you can build are practically endless. With just six 8-stud LEGO bricks you can build over 102 million combinations! Multiply it by different possible LEGO uses and you get unlimited possibilities!
It is also estimated that there are about 50-60 Lego bricks for every person on the planet, and children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
Bored Panda did some investigation too, and found these 5 Cool Alternative Uses of LEGO. Enjoy, share and comment!
http://www.boredpanda.com/alternative-uses-for-lego-bricks/The Lego Company is based out of Denmark, and the word Lego comes from the Danish... more
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The Lego car looks fun and full of whimsy, sure, but like all Lego creations I can't help but feel it had a few extra, yet important pieces lying around when the builder finished.
Apparently the car is the property of a tshirt store in the Philippines called Artwork. Beyond that, we know relatively little, aside from the car's obviously limitless customization options.The Lego car looks fun and full of whimsy, sure, but like all Lego creations I... more
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The Lego Tower Bridge it's like the real one, but without the annoying rain and the fog. With 4,287 pieces and over 80 windows, it's 40 inches long (102cm), 17 inches high (45cm) and 10 inches wide (26cm).
• Includes 4 miniature vehicles: a black London taxi, a yellow truck, green automobile and even a traditional red double-decker bus.
• Features the iconic paired towers and a drawbridge that really opens and closes.
• Includes unique printed shield.
• Features hundreds of 1x1 slopes in tan!
• Many useful arches, angular bricks in tan!
• Includes 4 blue base plates and over 80 windows.
http://gizmodo.com/5609206/official-lego-london-tower-bridge-is-40-inches-longThe Lego Tower Bridge it's like the real one, but without the annoying rain and... more
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Pilot Extrafine Lego Tattoos
---Pilot Extrafine pens are being promoted with the symbol of low res technology, Lego, refined with high definition tattoos. Great care has been taken to design appropriate high resolution body art for six Lego minifigures, including a pirate, biker, prisoner and bikie.
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http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2010/pilot-extrafine-lego-tattoos/Pilot Extrafine Lego Tattoos
---Pilot Extrafine pens are being promoted with the... more
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Cafeterias are everywhere. Even the Death Star needed one. Who else will cater to those thousands and thousands of Storm Troopers who are constantly hungry after every planet they patrol. And where will Darth Vader get his food, chill and hang out with the boys in between battles with those intergalactic rebels? Here is a very hilarious Lego style re-enactment of Eddie Izzard's comedic prowess and his take of of what you might expect when Vader goes down there for lunch.Cafeterias are everywhere. Even the Death Star needed one. Who else will cater to... more
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The TED conference brings together some of the greatest minds of our time, all offering their own unique world-changing ideas. In between those people, Hillel Cooperman gave this breathless, highly entertaining rundown of the weird world of adult LEGO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KElS5nZD5yc&feature=player_embedded#!The TED conference brings together some of the greatest minds of our time, all... more
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This is yet another Lego animation. This time, instead of recreating highlights of the World Cup 2010 games, this one shows highlights for the history of the field of microbiology. It's actually good enough to show as an intro to a microbiology course.This is yet another Lego animation. This time, instead of recreating highlights of the... more
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This hilarious video satire is surprisingly well-done. It shows highlights of Mexico's shock 2-0 win over France in the world cup 2010, recreated in Lego.This hilarious video satire is surprisingly well-done. It shows highlights of... more
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Some of us might have missed Adam Buxton creating a tiny awesome song about saving 6 music radio in his Bowie voice. Though thanks to a fan on youtube they posted (in April) a lego music video to the tune. Enjoy, wuzza wuzza wuzza.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/Some of us might have missed Adam Buxton creating a tiny awesome song about saving 6... more
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This video shows the highlights from Germany's 4-0 thrashing of Australia. Like the others being created in this ongoing series, it's quite accurate, even though all the players are made of Lego!This video shows the highlights from Germany's 4-0 thrashing of Australia. Like... more
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Mighty Optical Illusions supplies the confusing and aargh pictures of crazy lego illusions they have on file. They cannot confirm if photoshop was used in some of the pictures, but to work it out you could always get the lego out and try some of these out your crazy self.
This is a great blog, especially for the random button sending you to another confusing mind image.Mighty Optical Illusions supplies the confusing and aargh pictures of crazy lego... more
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If you missed the world cup match the why not catch the highlights in lego form. The goal from Gerrard and the slip up from Green, which does look more funny/less painful in lego.If you missed the world cup match the why not catch the highlights in lego form. The... more
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This is genius. Somebody on B3ta has made a full working printer, out of a felt tip pen and loads of Lego. It might take a while to print but it's probably more reliable than most.
The person behind the brilliantly laborious invention is, according his YouTube profile, a 30-year-old guy from the UK called Adam. In the video description, he writes: 'This is not a kit you can buy and does not use mindstorms. I designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a "wiring" board.'
Fair enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZYThis is genius. Somebody on B3ta has made a full working printer, out of a felt tip... more
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A lego animation video to Vlor's "Watch Me Bleed" by Michael Keech. From the album Six-Winged on Silber Records - http://www.silbermedia.com/vlorA lego animation video to Vlor's "Watch Me Bleed" by Michael Keech.... more
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A great 2 minute stop motion animation running through the Star Wars plot, must have taken some time to make this. Not to mention the massive amount of lego needed, good quality filming too (guessing they used a stills camera).A great 2 minute stop motion animation running through the Star Wars plot, must have... more
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The multi-colored brick of childhood was on its way out. The company had spread itself thinly, and profits were falling. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the first outside of the founding family to head Lego, has changed all of that with some truly ‘out of the box’ ideas. Find out how strong leadership and simple, executable ideas make a critical difference.
You will find out:
* Proven, key strategies for adapting your enterprise to current market conditions
* How to identify the unique reason to exist that every company needs
* How to win hearts and minds during company-wide transformationThe multi-colored brick of childhood was on its way out. The company had spread itself... more
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The Lego Group began its life in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund in Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. By 1934 the company was known as Lego – from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning “play well”. While the introduction of plastic moulding mechanisms breathed new life into Lego, giving us the now infamous multi-coloured plastic bricks of our childhood, over time the company found it was spreading itself too thin. As the world around Lego moved into an increasingly more digital era, the Lego Group appeared to be on its way out. A traditional family business had always been at the heart of Lego; but by the time current CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp – the first man outside of the founding family to head the company – came onto the scene, the model was no longer working.
In an exclusive interview for MeetTheBoss.tv - CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp shares his radical rethinking of the Lego Group and how he not only breathed new life into the company, but also saved it from near-destruction. Make no bones about it: Jørgen Vig Knudstorp is the man who rescued Lego.
Speaking exclusively to Adam Burns, Editor-in-Chief at MeetTheBoss.tv, Knudstorp explains some of his truly “out the box” ideas that helped make a critical difference at Lego. And, now that the brand is up and running again and is doing incredibly well once more, Lego is now facing a multitude of options for future opportunities.
“I think it is a golden rule in business that most companies don’t die of starvation, but die of indigestion,” jokes Knudstorp. “There is so much opportunity if you open your eyes to it. One of the rules I stick to is that you can really only build an adjacency to your core business every three to five years, because it’s such a major undertaking in terms of culture and in terms of capability.”
And Knudstorp knows what he is talking about. Not only is he responsible for the reimagining of culture at Lego, which has helped the construction toy maker to redefine its business model, but he also admits that “indigestion” is where Lego struggled before – and that the group won’t be making those mistakes again. “You run the risk that people will lose their focus on their core business as they pursue these new adjacencies that have become the ‘new and sexy thing’ to do.
“So for me, a major paradigm shift is that the core business is the most exciting and what we need to continue to do is reinvent every year and make sure we build our business on this in the future.”
Lego remains a staple of the childhood toy box. Currently approximately seven Lego sets are sold each second, and the world’s children reportedly spend 5 billion hours a year playing with Lego bricks. Children can buy Lego products in more than 130 countries, and the company has theme parks in four countries across the globe.
To see the video visit MeettheBoss.tvThe Lego Group began its life in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter... more
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