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LEGO is a Danish toy enterprise, which admits particularly for its LEGO-Steine in such a way specified became. With LEGO it concerns a building block principle, with which multicolored plastic gear wheels, figures and other small articles are plugged together, in order to build thereby models from nearly all erdenklichen things to.
Cars, airplanes, railway trains, buildings, castles, sculptures, ships, spaceships and functioning robots are only some the many things, which can be built with LEGO-Steinen. High production quality and special detail loyalty guarantee that LEGO-Steine in innumerable variants can be joined, what also one of the reasons for the success of this toy are.
Similarly as with the model railroadmen there is an active community of adults put OF to (ELFs or English AFOLs called), the models collects or new after own ideas builds and these issues. These are called MOC (English "my own creation ", too German "my own work ").
The enterprise was created 1932 by the Danish carpenter master Ole Kirk Christiansen. It manufactured at the beginning of Holzspielzeug. 1934 it invented the name "LEGO" as abbreviation for puts godt, Danish for play well.
1949 was introduced LEGO of stones, which already resembled the today's stones. It concerned colored plastic right parallelepipeds out of Celluloseacetat, whose top side as with the today's stones it was occupied with burls whose lower surface was completely hollow however, which led to the fact that from these stones built models were not particularly stable. The method of the a tap was eliminated of already in 19 the century admitted, from Steinmehl pressed anchor components taken over and by LEGO on a 8mm system on plastics this problem, as at the lower surface of the stones hollow tubes were attached. This system became generally accepted and is still used.
The product range was constantly extended, approximately by plates and diagonal parts of roofs, later by wheels, transparent stones and figures. Today there are thousands different construction units (as for instance LEGO Technic), still can however all somehow be combined.
In the year 2003 the enterprise made substantial losses (approx. 180 to 190 million euro). To lead back this was on fatal management errors, which gave the classical child topics up, e.g. the imported label names Duplo and the classical topic Legoland (city). Instead mode topics had been taken up like "star Wars" and "Harry Potter", did not find however not the hoped for buyers. In the year 2006 a return to proven successes is to be tried. First successes showed up in the first quarter 2005 as the losses to 13.2 million euro were reduced. 2006 is to be closed the manufacturing plants in Switzerland (in the Luzerni Willisau), as well as the distribution centers in Billund, high west EDT, Flensburg, Dunkerque and Lyon and shifted after Tschechien.
Since their introduction 1949 LEGO-Steine in all variants primarily part of a system were. LEGO-Steine from the year 2005 fit despite all changes in form, color and Design still with the stones from 1963. 2004 were made for the first time a more serious coloured adjustment, a change of the colour of light-grey, dark grey and brown stones.
The stones, axles, figures and all other elements in the LEGO system are manufactured with high register accuracy. If they are plugged together, the stones must have exactly the correct measure of adhesion. They must remain so long together, until they are intentionally pulled apart. They may not fall apart simply, otherwise the LEGO creations would be unstable. In order to achieve these special characteristics, the LEGO elements with a tolerance are manufactured by only two micrometers.
Since 1963 Legosteine of the plastic acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer (ABS) are made. Precision-worked on forms and control by human examiners are to prevent inadmissible fluctuations of the color or the wall thickness of the construction units.
Worn out forms are cast in in the foundations by buildings, in order to prevent that they fall into the hands of the competition.
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