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In honor of Lego's 50th Anniversary, we thought we'd go looking for impressive examples of Lego architecture.
We found 8 pictures plus 2 videos of particular interest--at least to us, including the picture above of a Lego sports arena. It's one of the largest Lego buildings in the world.
From Wikipedia:
The Lego Group had a very humble beginning in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark. Christiansen began creating wooden toys in 1932; the company began calling itself "Lego" two years later in 1934. The company expanded to producing plastic toys in 1947.
In 1949, Lego began producing the now-famous interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based largely on the design of Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were released in the UK in 1947.
The first Lego bricks, manufactured from cellulose acetate, were developed in the spirit of traditional wooden blocks that could be stacked upon one another; however, these plastic bricks could be "locked" together. They had several round "studs" on top, and a hollow rectangular bottom. The blocks snapped together, but not so tightly that they could not be pulled apart.
The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense, "I read". The cognate Greek verb "λέγω" or "lego" also means "gather, pick up", but this can include constructing a stone wall.
It was not until 1958 that the modern-day brick design was developed, and it took another five years to find exactly the right material for it. The modern Lego brick was patented on January 28, 1958, and bricks from that year are still compatible with current bricks.
The video below is of a Lego factory--producing Lego cars
The video below has over 1.6 million views on YouTube since being uploaded up almost two years ago.
It's a remake of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video--using Legos.
Pixelaneous #27: A Real Fairy Tale Castle
by Mondoreb
images:
* letsgo
* brickmasterpieces
* Wikipedia
Sources:
* Wikipedia - Legos
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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