collections
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A short catalogue of a personal collectionTRANSCRIPT
Lego Characters“The Collecters Edition”
Lucy Kelly
Contents
Arctic Expedition 6-7
The Jolly Roger 8-11CSI 12-15
The Rescuers 18-21
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IainD.O.B 27/10/90Occupation InuitHobbies Ice Skating
Lego (trademarked in capitals as LEGO) is a 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 colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures.
Arctic Expedition
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JackD.O.B 27/10/90Occupation PirateHobbies Sword fighting
Lego (trademarked in capitals as LEGO) is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Bil-lund, Denmark. The company’s flagship product, Lego.
The Jolly Roger
RalphD.O.B 14/10/90Occupation ImposterHobbies Blending in
Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects. The toys were originally designed in the 1940s in Europe and have achieved an international appeal.
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PeteD.O.B 02/07/89Occupation PirateHobbies Rowing
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934 his company came to be called Lego.
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ChristopherD.O.B 11/12/62Occupation Police LieutenantHobbies Arresting criminals
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” and “I assemble” in Latin.
CSI
ThomasD.O.B 14/11/62Occupation Police OfficerHobbies High speed driving
Lego modified the design of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample given to it by the British supplier of an injection-moulding machine that the company had purchased.
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SteveD.O.B 25/09/83Occupation Police OfficerHobbies Shooting
The Lego Group’s motto is kun det bedste er godt nok which means ‘only the best is good enough’. This motto was created by Ole Kirk to encourage his employees never to skimp on quality.
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UnknownThe name and whereabouts of this spirit are, to everyone, unknown and although being sighted on several occasions no one has an understanding of his motives. Be sure to keep an eye out for him, as we know he is extremely harmless.
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The Rescuers
LynneD.O.B 05/12/60Occupation KidnapperHobbies Tieing knots
Lego pieces of all varieties are a part of a universal system. Despite vari-ation in the design and purpose of individual pieces over the years, each remains compatible in some way with existing pieces.
AlfD.O.B 01/01/86Occupation SWAT TeamHobbies Weightlifting
By 1954 Christiansen’s son Godtfred Kirk Christiansen had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group. It was his conversation with an overseas buyer that struck the idea of a toy system..
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BillD.O.B 02/04/75Occupation SWAT TeamHobbies Abseiling
Lego (trademarked in capitals as LEGO) is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. can be assembled and connected in many ways.
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