Lair Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrem Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 When did Kirk Christiansen die? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEPICtrainrider Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 *cough* that's a lot of BIONICLE*cough*You forgot the first Lego trains*cough*Cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INB681 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 You also forgot TECHNIC. Remember BIONICLE started out as an offspring... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theextractor Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acmex Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 You also succeeded in forgetting the MindStorms series, the Dacta series, and a whole lot of others. Keep working on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 MINDSTORMS!!! WOOHOOO!!! I always program my NXT in a language similar to C :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acmex Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Mindstorms also seems to hate vista. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retsnom Kcor Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 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 ). 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEPICtrainrider Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 On 11/14/2009 at 9:58 PM, Retsnom Kcor said: Kjeld Kik Kristiansen is still alive. And was ceo to the Lego company until 2004 when he stepped down to focus on other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acmex Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 That would be around the time LEGO started selling out, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEPICtrainrider Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 yea, I'd say so. But he's still working with Lego, he's just not the CEO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS Engineer Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 you all forgot to add rock raiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero_Lief Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 This is a timeline of LEGO® history, and major developments, not theme startings. For that, make a new timeline... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lair Posted February 14, 2010 Author Share Posted February 14, 2010 On 10/22/2009 at 11:54 AM, TheEPICtrainrider said: *cough**cough*You forgot*cough*Cough* On 10/22/2009 at 5:59 PM, INB681 said: You also forgot... On 10/22/2009 at 11:41 PM, Cirevam said: You forgot On 11/10/2009 at 11:26 PM, Acmex said: You also succeeded in forgetting On 11/14/2009 at 9:58 PM, Retsnom Kcor said: You also forgot that On 2/12/2010 at 1:05 AM, LMS Engineer said: you all forgot to add I'll finish later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartvbl Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 On 10/22/2009 at 1:02 AM, Cyrem said: 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devestater Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 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. :ilaser: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lair Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 On 2/14/2010 at 8:52 PM, Lair of Rockwhales said: 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 On 6/20/2011 at 5:53 PM, Devestater said: power miners and all the other space themes As Lair said. LRN2GEOGRAPHY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig9292 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 1989 *First ever stop motion animation prominently featuring LEGO was created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic322 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I have seen that video before. It is still one of the best LEGO videos I have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUDZ Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic322 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 On 8/1/2011 at 8:46 PM, McStudz said: "Jack" the LEGO Maniac??? Really? It's Zack. It's just nearly impossible to do it. Actually there were 2 kids in 2 different commercials. The Nostalgia Critic explained it is one of his commercial videos at 6:15: Revenge of the Commercials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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