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This article is about the construction toy. For the company, see The Lego Group. For other uses, see Lego (disambiguation).

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Lego

The Lego logo

Type
Construction set

Inventor
Ole Kirk Christiansen

Company
Lego Group

Country
Denmark

Availability
1949–present
Official website

Lego[a] is a popular line of construction toys manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company 's flagship product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts. Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects.

Lego began manufacturing interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Since then a global Lego subculture has developed, supporting movies, games, competitions, and six themed amusement parks. As of 2013, around 560 billion Lego parts had been produced.[2]

Contents [hide] 1 History
2 Sets
3 Design
4 Manufacture 4.1 Licensed themes
4.2 Robotics sets
4.3 Clones of Lego

5 Related products and services 5.1 Video games
5.2 Official website
5.3 Business consultancy
5.4 Theme parks
5.5 Retail stores
5.6 Children 's clothes
5.7 Board games
5.8 Films and television
5.9 Books and magazines

6 In popular culture
7 Notes
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links

History[edit]

Main articles: History of Lego and Lego timeline

Lego bricks
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (born 7

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