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Lego is usually in the form of a little yellow brick. In this report you will learn about the art of lego building, history of legos, and fun facts.


 * __ The art of lego building __**

Have you ever made a lego creation that you thought was really cool? Legos can be combined in numerous ways. The more Lego bricks you have the more chances for creativity. Lego’s are colorful interlocking plastic bricks and they may have gears, mini figures and various parts for building vehicles, buildings and robots. Any creation that is made can be taken apart again and made different.

Lego pieces are made from resilient plastic also known as acrylonitrile butadie styre also for short called (ABS). Inspectors check if the molds are suitable for play. The ABS plastic is heated to 232°C until dough like consistency. It’s injected into a mold of 25 and 100 tons. It takes approximately 7 seconds to cool.


 * __ History of Lego __**

There was a time in history for ever thing like rockets and sports cars, but its lego times to shine. In 1934 the founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen took two letters from the Danish language, Leg +godt which means to play well and put the letters together to make Lego. The new owner by 1950 was godfred Kirk Christiansen, The founder’s son. By 1958 they were making notched lego bricks. There are many possible ways to combine Lego bricks. In 1974 Lego figures were produced by Godfreds KJeld. Three years later the lego technique included gears, beams, and gear boxes to build vehicles and machines.

Back in the late 1960’s they started making Lego Duplo for small children. Lego Duplo is twice as long, twice as wide and twice as thick as a regular Lego brick. In 1979 the Lego group went above and beyond and invented Lego space series. In 1984 the lego group invented electronic programmed Lego robots figures. Then the lego group started making warrior like figures that were made of Legos called Bionicle.

Lego Land opened in 1968 in Denmark .than in 1996 another Lego land opened in England and Britain .After that another one was opened in 1999 in California. In 2002 the fourth Lego land was built in gunzubure, Germany. Fifty million Lego Bricks were used. In 2007 they opened in Berlin, Germany.

**__ F __****__ u __****__ n __****__ F a c t s  __**

YOU may think lego is already fun, but you may not know about these fun lego facts! The Lego group produced a Little Yellow man figure 30 years ago. There has been 4 billon made since then. The little yellow figures have been shaped into the fowling forms such as a knight, astronaut, police man, racecar driver, star wars people, Harry Potter, Santa clause, Steven Spielberg, crane operator, football player, Spiderman, scuba diver, explorer, basketball player, nurse, fire fighter, skeleton, pirate, skater, American Indians, queen, Vikings, castles, dinosaurs, wild west, airport, miners, sponge bob, Batman, Indiana Jones, Bionicles, exoforce, avatar the last air bender and speed racer.

More than 400 million children and adults play with Lego bricks this year. If you built a Column of Lego Bricks, it would take about 40,000,000,000 to touch the moon. Approximately 7 lego sets are sold each day. Laid end to end the number of Lego sets that are sold each year would reach more than 5 times around the world.

The Lego group has 2.7 million members worldwide. Lego.com is the website that is its declared official website. 18,000 visitors sign in on the website. The top of the list is the Bionicle pages.

Two times a year the Lego creators let special tourist go through the company in Billund, Denmark. They have been making groups to share their hobbies. Their club names are the “Afols”, meaning adult Lego fans of Lego’s.

Lego has a wide variety of video games from action with Lego Indiana Jones to rocking out with Lego Rock Band and just regular building with Lego Battles.

Now you know about legos so get out there and build with them!

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