40 Years of Minifigures – Advertising
I’ve been slowly plugging through the plethora of information, images and videos from The LEGO Group, as a part of the celebrations for the 40th Anniversary of the Minifigure…
40 Years of Minifigures – Assembly
It’s been a great week exploring the intricacies and details of the minifigure as we celebrate it’s 40th anniverary. Today I’m looking in depth at the assembly process. We’ve seen the patents, the prototypes, and the design and manufacture process…
40 Years of Minifigures – Design and Manufacture
It’s the 40th Anniversary of the Minifigure, and I recieved a huge stack of images and videos from LEGO to help celebrate it! There’s a plethora of information, with loads of images that haven’t been seen before…
40 Years of Minifigures – Minifigure Evolution
We’re continuing with the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Minifigure by exploring how the minifigure has changed over the last 40 years, and it’s more drastic than you might think! …
40 Years of Minifigures – The Patents
August 29th, 1977 was the date the first patent for the current minifigure was handed in. It’s 40 years today since the minifigures were launched (a year later, in 1978) and to celebrate that, The LEGO Group has sent through a huge pile of images, information and videos, for me to share with you…
LEGO Homemaker & A History of Girl Centred Sets
I was fortunate enough a while ago to be able to purchase some incredibly maintained vintage LEGO sets from the late 1960s to early 1970s from a colleague. Included in …