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Since it began producing plastic bricks, the Lego Group has released thousands of play sets themed around a variety of topics. Examples include, but are not limited to, space, robots, pirates, vikings, ninjas, medieval castles, dinosaurs, holiday locations, the wild west, the Arctic, airports, miners, Star Wars, SpongeBob SquarePants, Harry Potter and Exo-Force. New elements are often released along with new sets. There are ... Lego sets designed to appeal to young girls such as the Clikits line which consists of small interlocking parts that are meant to encourage creativity and arts and crafts, much like regular Lego bricks. Clikit pieces can interlock with regular Lego bricks as decorative elements.
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In addition to the contest, Lego has developed two products to mark the brick's anniversary. One of the special sets is an "open-ended Lego set with a village theme including a gold 2- by 4-inch Lego brick," which goes on sale in August, Laursen said. And the second commemorative set is a "one-of-a-kind town plan, featuring city hall, movie theater, gas station, car wash, two automobiles, and eight minifigures, including a letter from Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen," which he said is available at
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Lego pieces of all varieties have been, first and foremost, part of a universal system. Despite tremendous variation in the design and purpose of individual pieces over the years, each remains compatible in some way with existing pieces. Lego bricks from 1963 still interlock with those made in 2008, and Lego sets for young children are compatible with those made for teenagers.
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Numerous alternate spellings of "Lego" have been used in the past. Most of these are correct, particularly the mangled ones such as "Leggo!", especially in the use "Leggo my Eggo", but one particular spelling is unacceptable: you should never, ever, ever, ever, ever refer to the pieces as "LEGO® bricks" (Just as the plastic rectangles with raised circular discs on the highest elevated point).
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Six 2x4 Lego bricks of the same color can be put together in 915,103,765 ways, and just three bricks of the same color offer 1,560 combinations. The figure of 102,981,500 is often given for six pieces, but it is incorrect. The number 102,981,504 (four more than that figure) is the number of six-piece towers (of a height of six).[5][6][7]
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On average, there are about 62 Lego bricks in circulation at any one time for every person in the world, he said, attempting to put in perspective the mushrooming growth of the Lego brick concept over the past five decades. There are roughly 6 billion-plus people in the world, according to the United Nations Web site, so that brings the total number of Lego bricks out there to more than 370 billion.
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