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lego In 1934, Christiansen created the name LEGO by combining the Danish words leg godt, meaning play well.
lego In 1932, Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen began making wooden toys in his Billund workshop.
lego After devastating factory fires, LEGO stopped making wooden toys to focus solely on plastic bricks.
lego In 1949, LEGO started producing plastic "Automatic Binding Bricks," the direct predecessors to modern LEGO bricks.
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Six tiny bricks and the world is our design, A billion different ways that our futures can align.
lego Devastating fires repeatedly threatened to destroy the family toy business.
LEGO tire production: LEGO is technically the world's largest tire manufacturer, producing over 300 million tiny rubber tires every single year.
lego The iconic brand name comes from a Danish phrase meaning "play well."
A manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mold. Ole Kirk Kristiansen purchased Denmark's first injection molding machine in 1946 to manufacture toys.
In what year did LEGO purchase its first plastic injection molding machine to begin experimenting with plastic toys?
What does the Danish phrase "leg godt," which inspired the name LEGO, translate to in English?
Who took over the leadership of the LEGO company after the founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, passed away?
What material were the very first toys made by LEGO crafted from?
What were the original plastic LEGO bricks called when they were first released in 1949?
What did the founder of LEGO, Ole Kirk Christiansen, do for a living before making toys?
What major crisis prompted LEGO to completely abandon wooden toys and focus only on plastic in 1960?