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LEGO Brick Patent Celebrates 55 Years Today

January 28, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

On January 28, 1958 at 1:58pm, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and LEGO filed the patent for the modern LEGO brick. Before, the bricks’ locking ability were very limited and Christiansen and his engineers came up with an updated design for the now stud-and-tube coupling system, which we all know and love. This new design made all the models more stable with better locking ability. One unique feature is that the bricks will hold well together but can also be taken apart by anyone with ease. On this day 55 years ago, the original design was sent to Danish patent offices and patent DK92683C. Legetøjsbyggeelement. was granted on January 29, 1962. Many years after that, LEGO has became one of the most successful toy companies in the world.

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LEGO Minifigure Infographic

January 25, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Everybody loves LEGO minifigures. Who doesn’t like minifigs? Above is an fun and interesting infographic of facts about the little guys created by Visual.ly and designed by Hot Butter Studio. The infographic even includes information about female minifigures including the Friends line. There are a bunch of statistics that you may not know about including the 18:1 ratio of male minifigures to female minifigures. Also, did you know that there are 122 million minifigures sold each year? That’s more than some populations of some of the larger populated countries in the world including Mexico, Germany, and the United Kingdom! The amount of them sold even comes close to the estimated population of Japan which has about 127 million people in the country. Click on the image above to see it better and let us know what you think about it. We hope you enjoy it like we did and hopefully learn something more about some of the most important pieces in a LEGO set.

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LEGO Holiday Christmas Set 2012 (3300014) Review

January 20, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Back in November of last year during Black Friday, LEGO was giving away a free exclusive Holiday Christmas Set (3300014) with every $99 purchase. I recently received this set from Richard at Brick Fanatics and am excited to get this set reviewed. The Holiday Set contains 109 pieces an did retail for $14.99 for a short time during after Black Friday. The box contains one instruction booklet, two un-numbered bags, the horse, and a white 4×12 plate.

LEGO Holiday Christmas Set 2012 (3300014)

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The Brick Fan Turns 1 Year Old

January 18, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today, The Brick Fan turns 1 year old. As I stated in a previous blog post, I began blogging under a different URL but I had to change it to thebrickfan.com on this day in 2012. At first, I was just using this blog to review LEGO sets that I purchase but I shifted to adding LEGO news a few months in and has evolved into what you now see today.

Now for some interesting facts I’ve gathered on the site. In a year, there have been 449 blog posts and have gotten 143 article comments. As you can see on the stats below, the site didn’t get that much traffic until July when San Diego Comic-Con started and doubled again when news of the 2013 LEGO sets became public. The site got 418,660 unique visitors with 647,740 page loads. My goal for this year is to double the traffic that the site currently gets now.

Here’s some other neat stats:

Pages/Visit: 1.55
Avg. Visit Duration: 00:01:34
New Visitors: 81.33%
Returning Visitors: 18.66%
58.29% Search Traffic
27.20% Referral Traffic
14.51% Direct Traffic
Email Subscribers: 131
Facebook Page Likes: 1039
Twitter Followers: 2116

What I like the most about blogging is the friendships I’ve made this past year including, in no particular order, Richard over on Brick Fanatics, Stud from YourCreativeFriends, Beyond the Brick, the guys over at Brick Picker, Jeff, Ed, TheOrcKing, just to name a few. I would like to also thank our regular readers as well as the commenters who … Continue

The Sun LEGO Promotion

January 10, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Brick Fanatics is reporting that The Sun newspaper will be having a LEGO giveaway, mostly likely some of the polybags that have been reported. Brick Fanatic’s member, Adwil24, tweeted the first image of the promotion from The Sun a few days ago. Over on the Sun’s promotions page, it states to “Smile in the face of winter blues with The Sun’s Big Smile Giveaway. Family fun and amazing offers to keep us all smiling through ’til spring.” This probably means that there will soon be giveaways throughout winter until March when spring ends. More updates will be available as news comes.

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End of 2012 Updates at The Brick Fan

January 1, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

After coming out of the “Dark Ages” in late 2011, I decided to start a blog just writing about the LEGO sets that I purchase but under a different URL. There were some complications with the URL so I had to change the blog name. On January 18, 2012, The Brick Fan URL officially went live. The site started off slow with very small traffic coming through, like all beginning sites do. We decided to shift our focus from reviewing just what we purchased to more general news in addition to reviews. It wasn’t until San Diego Comic Con 2012 when the site started to pick up and an uptrend of traffic ever since.

We’ve had a great year in 2012 on the blog, much more than I’ve ever expected. The site had 589,000 pageviews from 377,000 unique visits. All of this would not have happened without our loyal readers and we thank you. We’ve also had the pleasure to connect with a lot of amazing people in the LEGO community.

So what does this all mean? It means that we have bigger visions for next year and in the future. We have some things that we plan on rolling out, which some of you might be excited to see. We would also like your suggestions on how to improve the site such as what you like to see more or less of. Just fill out our contact form and give us your suggestions.

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Inside Look at the LEGO Office in Denmark

December 12, 2012 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’ve wondered what the LEGO office in Billund, Denmark looked like, now you can. Toxel.com has posted a few images of what the development department looks like. The office was designed by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord and has many modern yet fun features including the slide from the upper level. What a neat place to get your creative juices flowing! Check out Toxel.com to see more images of the LEGO office.

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