Talk:History of Lego

message: As most of this history article has great material, but isn't exactly an easy read, I'll be simplifying it a bit, making it easier to read. I plan on just taking out the examples of cool creations and then moving things around when I modify the main page. Until then, I'm aiming on making this thing easier to read, with relevant stuff.
Mabye organizing things by year?
So anyways. Here it goes!
Cyberguy34000 03:51, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: General

message: Slightly confused by this quote, I think the first date is wrong- anyone know what it should be? 
  "....In 1974, Christiansen purchased a woodworking shop in Billund ........
 His workshop burned down in 1924....." ''
Responce first date should be 1917  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.90.137.226 (talk) 16:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: should the date in the opening sentence claiming lego started in 2017 also be amended 2405:6E00:22ED:27CB:A49C:952F:B38:1A91 (talk) 11:07, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect Date?

message: In paragraph 5 (Lego bricks had always...) of the Expansion section this is listed as "Lego Dacta", but in paragraph 10 (In August of 1988...) it shows as "Lego Dakta".  Are the 'c' and 'k' interchangable or is one correct?
Dancehallwraith (talk) 10:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of educational division? 

message: In today's edit of the section cut off  Decline and recovery, 1998-present  introduced a description of decline and recovery, with which I agree. Since the decade long "recovery" (since 2005) appears to last until now, I divided the decade long decline (1992-2004) into a new subsection; maybe further description of the "Recovery 2005 until present" section needs to be discussed. --Wuerzele (talk) 17:50, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  new subsection 1992-2004 

message: Profits may have declined beginning in the early '90s, but there was no explosion in specialized pieces at this time. There was a one-time spike in specialized pieces with the Aquazone environment in '95, but that happens with the launch of every new environment. If you look at what was happening to the rest of the product line, it was still pretty quiet. The Royal Knights theme introduced a new crown and sword, and not much else. The Exploriens theme didn't add anything except a single new helmet piece, which was recycled for Roboforce. Armada added a new helmet and cuirass, and not much else. Late 1996 was when we saw the beginning of an explosion of new environments such as Wild West, Outback, Divers, Adventurers, Ninja, Rock Raiders, Arctic etc., each of which had its own set of specialized pieces, only one theme, and no long-term potential; Time Cruisers, also launched in late 1996, recycled specialized pieces from other environments and therefore managed to avoid contributing to piece bloat. So if you want to claim that the design philosophy shift occurred in the early '90s rather than '97 or late '96, please provide a citation.
UPDATE: it looks like this was also the beginning of a major attitude shift regarding minifigure heads. Prior to 1996, all minifigures intended to represent living humans had heads based on the original "two black dots and a smile" pattern. These were sometimes obscured by other features (lipstick, sunglasses) but they always visibly used the classic pattern as a base; the only truly unique patterns were the skeleton and the Spyrius droid. Beginning with Time Cruisers, there was an explosion in new and more complex patterns for living humans, with open mouths (Flatfoot Thompson from Wild West, Willa the Witch from Fright Knights), eyes with visible whites (Dr. Cyber and Tim from Time Cruisers), and so on, while the UFO and Insectoids themes consisted entirely of non-humans and the Hydronauts and Stingrays were genetically engineered half-human monsters. All things considered, it looks like late '96 was the flashpoint for crippling overspecialization of Lego elements. 73.70.13.107 (talk) 16:04, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed for some questionable content