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The LEGO Group Owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen Announces His Successor

April 28, 2016 /

Yesterday, LEGO released a press release regarding the future of the company. It was announced that Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen and his son, Thomas Kirk Kristiansen will be switching roles on the board of directors as Thomas Kirk will be the new deputy chairman while his father becomes an ordinary member of the board.

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen says:

“The family has for some years been making careful preparations for the future. I am very pleased to say that we are now ready to take certain important steps toward the smooth generational handover that will continue to maintain active family ownership of the LEGO Group – not just for the next generation but also for generations to come.

“As part of the preparations, we have decided that in each generation one person should be taking on the role as the most active owner. The most active owner will on behalf of the whole family be close to the LEGO Group, the LEGO Foundation and KIRKBI. We in the family have agreed that Thomas should assume this role in the fourth generation. Thomas has built up an in-depth knowledge of the companies, and he enjoys the backing of the whole family.”

You can read more on the story in the link above or if you’re subscribed to The Wall Street Journal, they did their own piece about this story.

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LEGO April Fool’s Day 2016 Roundup

April 2, 2016 /

Another year, another April Fools Day has passed. As a tradition, there were plenty of LEGO fan sites that put out some false articles in hoping to catch readers off guard.

We announced LEGO Ideas Revisited which gives rejected LEGO Ideas projects a second chance in passing the review stage.

BrickLink

The popular service introduced the 1×5 Finder.

Brickset

They did a review of the 7538491478894966 Assault on Echo Rebel Wampa Snowspeeder Base on Hoth which makes fun of the upcoming UCS Assault on Hoth (75098).

They also announced the expansion of the LEGO Cinematic Universe consisting of Deadpool, Galidor, and DUPLO movies.

Brick Fanatics

An Australian and New Zealand breakfast cereal called Weet-Bix announced Weet-Brix which is a new cereal based on LEGO bricks.

Bricksfans

They announced Little Bricks Magazine which focuses on DUPLO.

Brickpedia

They uncovered LEGO’s secret communist society.

BrickNerd

They revealed the AutoSort 2600 which is an auto sorting machine costing around $9,000 and will be released in 2017.

Eurobricks

They changed the primary language on the site to Korean.

LEGO

LEGO themselves announced that LEGO minifigures have been granted legal population status.

Minifigures.com

They announced their latest minifigure, Mr. Invisible.

Mixels Wiki

They announced Background Mixels which takes a look at some of the not so prominent characters.

Reddit

Mattel takes over LEGO which has been used before on other sites in previous years.

The Brothers Brick

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BrickCon 2016 Builder Registration Now Open

April 1, 2016 /

If you want to be a registered attendee for BrickCon 2016, the registration for the event is now open. This means you can bring your MOCs, attend games and activities, access to seminars and presentation, and more. You’ll also get two engraved, customizable 1×8 bricks as well as the red BrickCon 2016 brick.

Early Bird Registration – until August 1st – $65
Regular Registration – August 2nd through September 18th – $75
Late Registration – September 19th through September 25th – $100
At-The-Door Registration – Beginning September 30th – $120

This year’s theme is MADNESS.

MADNESS – What is it?

Is it Anger? Hysteria? Absurdity? Foolishness? Mania? Delusion? Stupidity? Lunacy? Craziness?

Explore what MADNESS means to you.

Build something to show us your MADNESS!

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LEGO.com Celebrates 20 Years on the World Wide Web

March 23, 2016 /

It may not seem like that long ago but the term “World Wide Web” was coined less than 30 years ago. Today is LEGO.com’s 20th Anniversary on the internet and they have posted a page showing some of the different iterations of the site. The simplicity of the site in 1996 is just pure nostalgia as I remember seeing other websites looking similar when I first got online in school. Ah, who remembers using good ol’ Netscape as your browser back then and that dial-up modem sound. If you want to actually use the older versions of LEGO’s site, head on over to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and you can still browse around.

At the bottom of the page, there’s a matching game and if you match up five things, you get to download wallpapers from various classic themes like Town, Western, Technic, Trains, Time Cruisers, Pirates, Aquazone, Space, Castle, and a MOC using classic parts. If you know a browser trick, you don’t actually have to play the game and directly download the images but where’s the fun in that?

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LEGO Digital Designer 4.3.9 Update Now Available

March 14, 2016 /

Here’s something for fans of the LEGO Digital Designer software. A few months ago, there was a report that LEGO would continue to support LDD with its functionality with updates coming from time to time. It looks like that time is today.

LEGO has updated the software to version to 4.3.9 with 318 new bricks from newer themes like Speed Champions and Nexo Knights. The update also fixes some issues for people who are using Mac OSX.

Head on over to the LDD site to download the latest version.

**Via Eurobricks**

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LEGO ReBrick Relaunches

March 1, 2016 /

Earlier today, LEGO ReBrick announced the relaunch of the site. Currently, there isn’t much to see on there but they do have a contest going called the Build for the Sky: LEGO Worlds Challenge. The contest revolves around building something creative in the sky. The only caveat is that you must build your entry in LEGO Worlds.

The deadline to submit your entry is April 4, 2016 and the winner will have their creation in the game and the model will be recreated by a known Brick Artist and displayed at the LEGO Worlds booth at E3 Expo in June.

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The LEGO Group 2015 Annual Report Results

March 1, 2016 /

Just a short while ago, The LEGO Group wrapped up their 2015 Annual Report and the numbers show you why they are still one of the top toy brands in the world.

The top themes for 2015 were in random order DUPLO, Ninjago, City, Star Wars, Ninjago, Friends while the best selling sets were Elsa’a Sparkling Ice Castle, Millennium Falcon, City Police Station, Mindstorms EV3, and Heartlake Grand Hotel.

Key Figures

  • Revenue growth excluding foreign exchange impacts was 19% year over year on a local currency basis.
  • Revenue increased by 25% in DKK to DKK 35.8 billion against DKK 28.6 billion in 2014.
  • The year’s operating profit increased to DKK 12.2 billion against DKK 9.7 billion in 2014 – an increase of 26%.
  • Net profit was DKK 9.2 billion compared to DKK 7.0 billion in 2014 – an increase of 31%.
  • Injury rate per million work hours was 1.4 compared to 1.7 in 2014.
    More than 90% of waste from production sites recycled.
  • The number of employees in the LEGO Group increased from 14,762 at the end of 2014 to 17,294 at the end of 2015.

You can check out some of the highlights as well as more details on the press release. You can also download a PDF of the 2015 annual report.

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