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1891

*Ole Kirk Christiansen born April 7

1895

*Billund Woodworking and Carpenter's Shop opened, later to become LEGO® factory

1916

*Ole purchases the woodworking shop

1920

*Godtferd Kirk Christiansen born July 8

1924

*Fire burns down much of Ole's shop

1932

*Ole begins making wooden pull toys to avoid bankruptcy

1934

*Ole's company comes to be called LEGO®, from Danish "Leg Godt", meaning "Play Well"

1937

*Godtferd begins designing toys

1942

*The factory burns down, forcing rebuild

1947

*LEGO® company purchases plastic molding machine

*Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen born December 27

1949

*First Automatic Binding bricks

1951

*First film about LEGO® shot

1953

*The name LEGO® Brick is used

*First LEGO® baseplates

1954

*Godtfred Kirk Christiansen becomes junior manager

*First LEGO® doors and windows

*First LEGO® beam bricks

1955

*First LEGO® set, Town Plan, is released

*First LEGO® trees

1957

*Godtferd is appointed managing director

*First LEGO® flags, lights, and window panes

1958

*Modern Stud-and-Tube brick released

*Ole Kirk Christiansen dies March 11

*Godtferd becomes company director

*First LEGO® sloped bricks

1960

*Another fire damages LEGO®

*Wooden toys discontinued

1961

*First LEGO® wheel

1962

*First 1/3 height LEGO® bricks

1963

*Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene used to create bricks

1964

*First LEGO® instruction manuels

1966

*First LEGO® 4.5V trains

1967

*First LEGO® hinges

1968

*First 12V LEGO® trains

*LEGOLand Billund opened

*First magnetic bricks

1969

*LEGO® DUPLO introduced

1972

*First floating boats

1973

*Current LEGO® Logo established

1974

*First LEGO® figures

1977

*LEGO® Technic introduced

1998

*Mindstorms released as first electronic sets

1999

*STAR WARS becomes first licensed product

2001

*BIONICLE is introduced

2007

*Ultimate Collectors Edition Millenium Falcon becomes first set with over 5,000 pcs, totaling 5,195

2008

*NX CAD/CAM/CAE PLM Software used for designing

2009

*Taj Mahal becomes second 5000+ pcs set, with 5,922, though the Falcon is still called the largest masswise

I'll finish later

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You forgot Slizers, the ancestors of Bionicle (by a few months), and Roboriders, the b****** children of Slizers and motorbikes.

And all of Lego Space.

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Slizers? i always called them throwbots, either way, those guys were rockin' awesome.

the discs were like the best idea ever since they actually worked. better than those squid launchers anyway...

and i found this when i looked up slizers lol pic

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You also forgot that

in 1954 the first beam brick was released

1955 saw the first lego trees

and in February of 1960, the wooden part of the Lego factory burnt down (In a fire, dur xD). This part was never rebuilt (They should remake it completely out of lego)

To please Epic, in 1966 the first train motor came out and in 1969 the first electric train track was made.

To answer Cyrem's question, Ole Kirk Christiansen died in 1958. His son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen died in 1995. As far as I know, Kjeld Kik Kristiansen is still alive.

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Kjeld Kik Kristiansen is still alive.

And was ceo to the Lego company until 2004 when he stepped down to focus on other stuff.

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*cough**cough*You forgot*cough*Cough*

You also forgot...

You forgot

You also succeeded in forgetting

You also forgot that

you all forgot to add

I'll finish later

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When did Kirk Christiansen die?

He is still alive.

I met him back in 2007.

At one of the dutch lego festivals, he was walking around the place. Before I realised it, my dad had arranged that he made a picture of him and me.

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Lair, what about all the LEGO space themes like my favorites of: LEGO life on mars, mars mission, power miners and all the other space themes. Put them iin the timeline too. :ninja::chief::docs: :ilaser:

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I'll finish later

Screw it, I forgot about this timeline, and now I'm just going to leave it here as it is until I want to fix it. Also, power miners is UNDERGROUND, Not Space.

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Look at all the "you forgot..." stuff!!! Yuo see, this is why I NEVER do timelines like this. If I did a politically correct timeline that made every fanboy on the PLANET happy, I'd no sooner lose my mind. Not even the Official LEGO Book (Which was authorized by LEGO, and was made for LEGO) was able to get everything right, accurate, and on those pages. "Jack" the LEGO Maniac??? Really? It's Zack. It's just nearly impossible to do it.

In other words, Lair, you did a fine job of starting this timeline. And everyone else: LAY OFF, WILL YEH? If you think you can do better, feel free. I'd like to see it. Heck, I'll bet JAMESSTER (THE jamesster; our walking LEGOcylepedia) would get some info wrong, or accidentally leave some things out, picking off fanboys everywhere. I surely can't do it. I've completely forgot about a whole crackload of things when I was arguing over whether or not Johnny Thunder was from a different era than LEGO Island (Lair actually asked me if I even PLAYED LI2. Which I had. Derp).

Lair, don't listen to these guys. I've finally noticed that a good bit of RRU is after each other's blood sometimes. They're just itching for a fight.

As you were.

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