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Lego Is for Girls Walk into one of Lego’s 74 red-and-yellow retail stores around the world, or even down the toy aisles of your local Target (TGT), and two things are immediately clear: Lego, the Danish maker of plastic toy bricks, is everywhere, and it’s not for everybody. Rows of classic building kits for police helicopters, rockets, and trains soon give way to contemporary releases such as Lego Alien Conquest, a daffy War of the Worlds scenario with spaceships and laser cannons, and Lego Ninjago, a “spinjitzu” warrior-themed product line heavy on martial arts and supernatural powers. Humbled before the Lego Star Wars sets there’s invariably a baffled parent on a cell phone: Am I meant to get the one with clone troopers or the Mandalorians?
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With New Toys, Lego Hopes To Build Girls Market hide captionThe new Lego Friends toys are not yet public, but the company gave a sneak peek at its "Olivia" minifigure from the set. Courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek. Photographed by Nick Ferrari The new Lego Friends toys are not yet public, but the company gave a sneak peek at its "Olivia" minifigure from the set. LEGO STAR TREK - 10,000 Piece U.S.S. Reliant Patience is definitely a virtue for this Star Trek fan! A Eurobricks user known as Myko built this awesome 10,000 piece LEGO model of the U.S.S. Reliant - and it took him over a year to finish. Games at Miniclip.com - Play Free Online Games Games at Miniclip Welcome to Miniclip.com, the leading online games site, where you can play a huge range of free online games including action games, sports games, puzzle games, mobile games, iPhone games, Android games and many more. Player Games and Achievements On Miniclip you can play games to compile games statistics such as high scores, and rankings on your own player page and can receive awards for playing games. You can also create your own Miniclip avatar with clothing and accessories to represent you in our fun Miniclip games. You can play single player games or play advanced massive multiplayer games with other players from around the world.
Lego Has a Gender Problem - Design One big difference between the Lego blocks that I grew up playing with and the Lego toys the company sells today: My Lego bricks never yelled anything at anyone, much less catcalled women on the street. Josh Stearns, the public media campaign director for the Free Press , found a set of stickers featuring Lego construction workers. The stickers depict Lego construction workers doing Lego construction worker stuff, including operating heavy equipment, using a jackhammer, and street-harassing women. Among other innocuous sticker phrases like "I dig dirt" and "I love the smell of concrete in the morning" is one sticker of a Lego guy in shades yelling, "Hey babe!" Why Legos Are So Expensive — And So Popular : Planet Money Notes Lego is crushing Mega Bloks, a rival that sells cheaper blocks. I went to Toys R Us recently to buy my son a Lego set for Hanukkah.
About Us The LEGO Group - The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It’s our name and it’s our ideal. The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen. The company has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder. It has come a long way over the past almost 80 years - from a small carpenter’s workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now, in terms of sales, the world’s third-largest manufacturer of toys. The LEGO brick is our most important product.
History of Lego Early Lego wood models from the 1930s The History of Lego spans almost 100 years of the existence of a toy that grew from small wooden playthings in the early 20th century into the center of a vast market of plastic building bricks that dominated the world markets for decades. It is one of the oldest plastic toys in the world. Its manufacturing was started in Denmark, but was eventually replaced by factories throughout the world. Today it is one of the most successful toys and has remained an iconic brand with a loyal and continuing following. The traditional date for the first Lego blocks is 1947, and the toys have continued to be produced with little interruption since around that time.
The LEGO Gender Gap: A Historical Perspective “Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?” Even a child can see something is wrong in our toy stores. The gender gap* that frustrates Riley in the above video does more than tell her which toys it socially appropriate for her to play with, it separates her from a whole realm of experience - masculinity. As Riley grows older and decides what sort of person she wants to be, she will encounter this gap again and again. Part III: Historical Perspective on the LEGO Gender Gap The splashy introduction of the new LEGO friends line earlier this year stirred up a lot of controversy. My goal with this set of posts is to provide some historical perspective for the valid concerns raised in this heated debate. This is Part III, see also: 2004-2011: Lean LEGO Fighting Machine As discussed in Part II, between 1989 and 2003, LEGO had introduced a stream of lines aimed specifically at girls.