Question: How many total pieces are included in the Space Needle Lego Set?
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All tires (and wheels) for Lego products are manufactured by Lego, which has produced tires between in diameter.
In 2006 the Lego Group produced 15 billion individual pieces of Lego, which included 306 million tires.
By 2011 Lego's annual production was increased to 381 million, more than twice as many as any of the other tire companies, including Bridgestone, Michelin, and Goodyear.  
In late 2007, a new motor system was released called "Power Functions"; it was included within Lego set 8275 Motorized Bulldozer.
It comprised a set of motors, two IR receivers, remote control and a battery box, thus resulting in a remote-control model.
With these sets it is possible to build or convert manually-operated mechanical movement to motorized using electric motors which are controlled via switches or IR remote control.
Future plans for this set include more parts which will add even more functionality/control possibilities.
Lego has already started to design and sell Lego Technic models (sets) which can be easily retrofitted with Power Functions blocks.
For example models like the 8294 Excavator, 8295 Telescopic Handler or 7645 MT-61 Crystal Reaper are sold like classic Lego Technic models with manual motorization but are designed with free space for the Power Functions components with factory instructions on how to perform the conversion to an electrically operated model.
The Power Functions line-up also includes a Linear Actuator currently not sold separately, but already used in many models like the 8294 Excavator and the 8043 Motorized Excavator. 
In addition to the regular minifigure-scale sets, Lego has released a decent sized number for the Ultimate Collector Series.
These models are considerably larger and more detailed and are meant for display purposes and cost more than regular Lego sets.
Many of them include an information plaque and often a display stand.
On October 10, 2007, the Lego Group released a UCS version of the "Millennium Falcon", complete with six minifigures.
At 5195 pieces, it is the largest Star Wars Lego set ever released; and the second largest set of any collection ever commercially released (only topped by the Lego Taj Mahal).
The newest Ultimate Collector Series set is the Red Five X-wing fighter. 
 1990 * Lego Model Team sets are released.
* Lego is one of the top 10 toy companies of 1990.
* Forestman is discontinued.
* The Blacktron I and Futuron themes are discontinued.
* Space Police I is discontinued.
* M:Tron, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Lego Malaysia is established.
* The Duplo Zoo is launched.
* 9V Technic motors are first introduced in Europe, starting phase-out of 4.5V system.
1991 * 9V Technic motors are introduced in other markets including North America.
* 9V Trains motors are made 9V to bring the system into line with the rest of the Lego range.
* Lego Paradisa is launched.
* Blacktron II, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Imperial Guards, a sub-line of Lego Pirates is introduced.
* The company grows to 7,550 employees.
1992 * Lego sets two Guinness World Records.
Lego Castle and Lego Tower.
* Paradisa and Duplo Toolo sets are introduced.
* On Swedish television, the world's largest Lego Castle is built.
* The Crusaders theme is discontinued.
* Wolfpack, a sub-line of Lego Castle is introduced.
* Space Police II, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Lego Japan is established.
* Lego Hungary is established.
* The first Lego Imagination Center is opened in Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis, United States.
1993 * Duplo introduces a train and a parrot-shaped "brickvac" that could scoop Lego pieces up off the floor.
* Space Police I is re-released.
* Wolfpack, a sub-line of Lego Castle is discontinued.
* Dragon Masters is introduced.
* M:Tron, a sub-line of Lego Space is discontinued.
* Blacktron II, a sub-line of Lego Space is discontinued.
* Space Police II, a sub-line of Lego Space is discontinued.
* Ice Planet 2002, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Lego South Africa re-established.
* The orange transparent brick is introduced.
1994 * The Black Knights theme is discontinued.
* Ice Planet 2002, a sub-line of Lego Space is discontinued.
* Unitron, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Spyrius, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Islanders, a sub-line of Lego Pirates is introduced.
* Lego Mexico is established.
* The company grows to 8,880 employees worldwide.
* First pink Lego bricks.
* Brick Kicks, the official Lego Club Magazine, is renamed Lego Mania Magazine.
1995 * Lego Primo series is introduced.
* Lego Aquazone is introduced.
* Royal Knights, a sub-line of Lego Castle is introduced.
* Unitron is discontinued.
* Imperial Guards, a sub-line of Lego Pirates is discontinued.
* Lego TechBuild, a sub-line of Lego Technic is introduced.
* Lego TechPlay, another sub-line of Lego Technic is introduced.
* Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, son of the company's founder, dies.
* Lego Belgium and Lego Netherlands become Lego Benelux.
* Lego dolphin element is introduced.
1996 * Legoland Windsor is opened in the United Kingdom.
* The Lego Watch System is launched.
* Lego Wild West is introduced.
* Lego.com is launched.
* Dark Forest, a sub-line of Lego Castle is introduced.
* Time Cruisers is introduced.
* Spyrius theme is discontinued.
* Exploriens, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Imperial Armada, a sub-line of Lego Pirates is introduced.
* Legoland Billund reaches 25 million visitors since its opening in 1968.
* It is estimated that 180 billion Lego elements have been made and over 300 million people worldwide play with them.
1997 * Lego launches its first computer game, Lego Island.
* Lego introduces fiber-optic elements.
* Lego Paradisa is discontinued.
* Lego Divers is introduced.
* Fright Knights, a sub-line of Lego Castle is introduced.
* Time Twisters, a sub-line of Time Cruisers is introduced.
* Roboforce, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* UFO, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Aquaraiders, a sub-line of Lego Aquazone is introduced.
1998 * Lego launches the Lego Creator, Loco, and Chess computer games.
* Lego introduces beige bricks.
* Lego Adventurers and Insectoids series are introduced.
* Lego releases Mindstorms, a programmable computerized brick with Lego-compatible sensors and motors.
* The red Lego logo introduced in 1973 is updated.
It is a graphically tightened version of the logo used for the past 25 years.
* Lego rereleases the Crusaders, Black Knights, and Dragon Masters themes.
* Insectoids, a sub-line of Lego Space is introduced.
* Lego Cyberslam, is introduced.
1999 * Legoland California opens in Carlsbad, California.
* Lego Rock Raiders series is introduced.
* Lego produces the first licensed theme with Lucasfilm - Star Wars!
* UFO and Insectoids themes are discontinued.
* Jungle a sub-line of Lego Adventurers is introduced.
* Lego Underground is introduced.
* Lego Slizers (Throwbots) are introduced.  
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (born 7 April 1891), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932.
In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", from the Danish phrase "leg godt", which means "play well".
It expanded to producing plastic toys in 1947.
In 1949 Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now famous interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks".
These bricks were based in part on the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were patented in the United Kingdom in 1939 and then there released in 1947.
Lego modified the design of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample given to it by the British supplier of an injection-molding machine that the company had purchased.
The bricks, originally manufactured from cellulose acetate, were a development of traditional stackable wooden blocks that locked together by means of several round studs on top and a hollow rectangular bottom.
The blocks snapped together, but not so tightly that they required extraordinary effort to be separated.
The Lego Group's motto is "det bedste er ikke for godt" which means roughly "only the best is the best" (more literally "the best is never too good").
This motto was created by Ole Kirk to encourage his employees never to skimp on quality, a value he believed in strongly.
The motto is still used within the company today.
By 1951 plastic toys accounted for half of the Lego Company’s output, although Danish trade magazine "Legetøjs-Tidende" ("Toy-Times"), visiting the Lego factory in Billund in the early 1950s, felt that plastic would never be able to replace traditional wooden toys.
Although a common sentiment, Lego toys seem to have become a significant exception to the dislike of plastic in children's toys, due in part to the high standards set by Ole Kirk.
By 1954, Christiansen's son, Godtfred, had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group.
It was his conversation with an overseas buyer that led to the idea of a toy system.
Godtfred saw the immense potential in Lego bricks to become a system for creative play, but the bricks still had some problems from a technical standpoint: their locking ability was limited and they were not very versatile.
In 1958, the modern brick design was developed, and it took another five years to find the right material for it, ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) polymer.
The modern Lego brick was patented on 28 January 1958.
The Lego Group's Duplo product line, introduced in 1969, is a range of simple blocks which measure twice the width, height and depth of standard Lego blocks, and are aimed at younger children.
In 1978, Lego produced the first minifigures, which have since become a staple in most sets.
New elements are often released along with new sets.
There are also Lego sets designed to appeal to young girls such as the Belville and Clikits lines which consist of small interlocking parts that are meant to encourage creativity and arts and crafts, much like regular Lego bricks.
Belville and Clikit pieces can interlock with regular Lego bricks as decorative elements.
Lego Fabuland ran from 1979 to 1989.
The more advanced Lego Technic was launched in 1977.
Lego Primo is a line of blocks by the Lego Group for very young children that ran between 2004 and 2006.
In 1995 Lego Baby was launched for babies.
In May 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-134 brought 13 Lego kits to the International Space Station, where astronauts will build models and see how they react in microgravity, as part of the Lego Bricks in Space program.
The results will be shared with schools as part of an educational project.
In May 2013, the largest model ever created was displayed in New York, made of over 5 million bricks; a 1:1 scale model of an X-Wing.
Other records are a 112-foot tower and a 4km railway.