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O lovely Lego! How I adore thee!

There can never be too much Lego and Lego-related goodness in the world. Never. One of my most prized sculptural objects is a little Lego skeleton man riding a little Lego skeleton horse.They sit on a book rail in my house so that all who pass through may see and admire them.

Lego is love. Love is Lego.
Katy McDevitt
2009-10-07 16:00:18

Got to love Lego, I still have a big blue bucket of the stuff in my loft, its brilliant. I also have many posts on my blog dedicated to design using Lego its crazy but very fun, have a peek, I think playing with Lego at a young age boost creativity , how many designers had Lego when they were tots??
Marc Bubb
2009-10-07 16:45:14

With out doubt the best toy EVER! I built a whole village when I was a kid. I had to put it on a big 6 foot slab of chipboard so it could be slid under my bed. Happy days.
Chad's Eye View
2009-10-07 17:01:39

LEGO is great. Give it to your kids and they'll grow up to be designers... or at least creative.
The word LEGO is a derivation of the two danish words LEg GOdt, meaning play well or something like that. And is's still a family driven company.
janus
2009-10-07 17:17:57

does the book solve the problem of how much it hurts when you tread on a lego brick...?
jimdoes
2009-10-07 18:24:56

Playmobil rocks!
Hidayet Gurdal
2009-10-08 14:19:16

@jimdoes

I doubt it. But there's these new things that will solve that for you. They're called shoes. :P
A Burns
2009-10-09 10:50:08

Did you know that the company name Lego was coined by Lego founder Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well." By happy coincidence "Lego" means "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin... Nice.
Simon Verrall
2009-10-09 15:39:15

LEGO a British Invention!



Kiddicraft was the predecessor of Lego bricks. It was founded in 1932 by Hilary Harry Fisher Page (1904-1957), who created the self-locking bricks.



In 1939 Hilary Page applied for a patent for 'Toy Building Blocks'. In this and subsequent patents he described hollow bricks with 4 and 8 studs on top. These Kiddicraft 'Self Locking Bricks' were a Hilary Page 'Sensible' Toy made in England after the 1939-45 war. Lego [allegedly, Ed] copied that design of the Kiddiecraft brick when examining a sample given to them by a British supplier of an injection moulding machine they had purchased. Page was never aware of this, and his daughter has stated that she "was relieved that my father never knew about Lego before he died.” Lego eventually acquired the rights to Kiddiecraft in 1981 prior to beginning litigation against Tyco.

MarcC
2009-10-09 15:46:00

LOVE THE LEGO
i remember the walkie talkies, they were 2/3 the size of a lego figure!!

Graham
check out my creative review Karoshi Bros video in the feed online section if your abit bored with 3 minutes
to kill. DELOREANS ROCK!!!
graham smith
2009-10-10 01:13:27

I never knew about Lego when I was a kid and discovered it about 20 years after graduating from design school. I love it.
RitaSue Siegel
2009-10-10 01:45:13

That's such a shame. It seems to happen more often than it should. Why does business acumen not seem to dovetail very neatly inspiration and creativity? Do we need to be teaching business skills on BA courses to stop the majority of us creative types starving in garrets or sinking into obscurity? Or am I just having a bad day?

On a lighter note I used to build houses out of my Lego as I liked all the shuttered windows and 'see-thru' bricks. I used to put the finished models in my fish tank so the fish could swim through the rooms.

Alison Bates
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Alison Bates
2009-10-10 09:20:33

Somebody walked off with my lego Star Wars Speeder Bike and life has never been the same since. Perfection in miniature.
John
2009-10-12 22:59:04

I had an earlier version of this book, it was easily the most avidly devoured on the kids bookshelf.
Mike
2009-10-13 09:26:13

Please note: 80% of these comments are from males!
liza Whitney
2009-10-14 12:30:19

hey Liza what are you saying? That us males need to get out more? I know girls that love lego too.This review has obviously caught your eye! Thanks for the link I will surely buy this book as I'm such a fan of Lego.
George Hart
2009-10-17 05:40:21

I never had enough LEGO when I was little. I will by me some sets from my first stable salary. Must compensate for lost time!!!
karakamen
2009-10-22 01:33:45

I'm a fan of Lego Perfection in miniature.
oyunlar
2010-03-12 22:18:41

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