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by Kim Merrikin, Seattle GoodwillMay 16, 2014 For the last 55 years, LEGO has been inspiring children and adults alike to engage in creative play, bigger dreams, and teaching us how to build amazing things from little pieces. Lego is one of the world’s most popular toys, and the Lego Group is the third-largest toy manufacturer in the world. Recently, the toy has turned blockbuster with The LEGO Movie, the current top-grossing film of 2014. Locally, The EMP Museum is celebrating LEGO with their exhibit: Block By Block: Inventing Amazing Architecture. The story of LEGO begins in 1916 in Billund, Denmark with a man named Ole Kirk Christiansen when he purchased a small woodworking shop. Over the next 33 years, Christiansen endured many hardships, including the loss of his wife, the Great Depression, WWII, and his factory burning down twice. After trial & error beginnings to what we now know as LEGO bricks, including the “Automatic Binding Brick” and the first brick system “Town Plan”, Lego Group patented the current design in 1958.
That same year Ole Kirk passed away, and his son Godtfred inherited leadership of the company. In 1960, a warehouse fire consumed most of the company’s wooden inventory—and at that point Godtfred decided to leave behind wooden toys and focus solely on plastic ones. The story of Lego is truly a story of building, rebuilding—and rebuilding again. For the next 54 years, Lego grew to include North American production and sales, added numerous lines, perhaps most notably the LEGO Space sets, the Expert Builder series, and the Technic Line. In 1978, the first mini figure was released: A red-suited astronaut. At Seattle Goodwill we sell LEGO and we put a lot of effort into making sure the LEGO Bricks, minifigures, sets and pieces are actually LEGO brand. (We sort out impostors by hand!) Our staff look for the LEGO logo on each brick, know the difference between certain sets, and even generations of sets. If you’re looking to add to your collection, here are a few pointers on finding the right pieces:
Always look for the LEGO logo on each piece. Each brick will have it! If you’re looking for a specific era/set piece, make sure you check the markings. For example, different Boba Fett minifigures from different sets have different markings. If you’re looking for value, look for unique, non-standard colors—like Yoda green.Some LEGO sets and pieces are worth more than others because of their age and how many were produced. For example, Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean pieces tend to be worth less than Star Wars (most valuable) and Batman pieces because of the quantity produced. Start your hunt for LEGO pieces at Seattle Goodwill’s eBay storefront. We have sets of minifigures, lots of various pieces, and assorted factory-sealed set bags. And as we mentioned—we hand sort our LEGO pieces to make sure you’re getting what you pay for! Kim fancies herself a professional communicator. She has experience in writing, graphic design, and social media, and is always looking to expand her knowledge base into other fields of communication.
She loves people, coffee & Seattle (including the rain).The Lego Movie: Socialist Toys Are Just Another Brick in the WallYou might not realize it yet, but we've just set your weekend plans: Take the kids to The Lego Movie — the funniest, cleverest, most exhaustingly exhilarating animated feature in ages — then leave them to play with their toys and see it again for your own wicked amusement. A few days each year, every family deserves to be happy.To a short list of wonderful animated features about cloth or video playthings — Pixar's Toy Story trilogy and Disney's Wreck-It Ralph — add this delight from directors and co-writers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The liveliness of their Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs cartoon and the live-action 21 Jump Street hardly prepares audiences for their ability to transform blocky Lego figures, with painted faces and no arm or leg mobility, into charming or rapacious characters a viewer can instantly accept and believe in. The technique, which combines stop-motion, animation and CGI, has an aptly rough, faux-primitive look, as if some brilliant kid made a madly elaborate home movie the whole world could love.
(MORE: Richard Corliss's Review of Lord and Miller's 21 Jump Street)The story, which moves so fast that viewers should wear seat belts, begins in the super-regimented city of Bricksburg, where employees of the megalith Octan Corp. do everything they're supposed to: work in the Octan factory (this is an alternate America that still has a thriving manufacturing sector), drink overpriced beverages ($32, no $40, for a cup of coffee), watch the nightly sitcom Where Are My Pants? and follow the Instruction Booklet as their Bible. Our hero Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt from Parks and Recreation) is the droniest of drudges: he consumes the party line yet feels ignored by his longtime co-workers — because they completely ignore him.One day he stumbles upon the legendary Piece of Resistance: a toy piece that could trigger the revolution dreamed of by underground rebels, including the blind seer Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) and the prole punkster Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks). They believe Emmet could be the Special One, the Neo of the Lego Matrix, which would make him "the greatest, most interesting, most important person in the world" — basically the Dos Equis guy with a liberal agenda.
("When he proposes s single-payer health plan, Republicans vote for it.") Emmet is none of these things, at least not yet; he's friendly but a little short of IQ, which leads Wyldstyle to conclude, "It's brilliant that you're pretending to be a useless nobody." He and the insurrectionists must battle long odds to overthrow the Legoland ruler, lord and tycoon President Business (Will Ferrell).(MORE: Mary Pols on the Similarly Energetic Wreck-It Ralph)"Hi, I'm President Business, president of the Octan Corp. and the world," his genially authoritative voice booms across the land. "Let's take extra care to follow the instructions" — and he malevolently whispers, "Or you'll be put to sleep," before returning to his cheerful pitchman's tone — "And don't forget Taco Tuesday's coming next week!" Under his secret identity of Lord Business, he plans to glue the world together with a weapon known as KRAGLE (KRAzy GLuE) so that "everyone will stop messing with my stuff." To this nightmare amalgam of John D. Rockefeller, Boss Tweed, Kim Jong Il and some bratty rich kid who won't share his toys, conformity is peace and imagination is insurrection.
Like Mayor O'Hare in The Lorax and the evil oil baron in the 2011 relaunch of The Muppets, business is bad, Bad, baaad — exactly the attitude you'd expect from a company founded and based in socialist Denmark, whose name comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, or play well (with others). We expect no less from those movie Trotskyites on the Left Coast. : "The Lego Movie is the latest example of Hollywood drumming anti-capitalist messages into its youthful audience." Has the Fox News Channel chimed in yet with its jeremiads?(MORE: The Fox New and Business Take on The Lorax)No question that the movie promotes what Prez Biz would call a subversive message: Be creative with your toys. It also urges kids to venture out of the virtual world they live in and use their hands for something other than typing. But if the Lego Movie workers have seized the means of production, it's only to increase production — to sell more toys, and tickets for a film whose official title is The Lego® Movie. With a market value of $14.6 billion, the Lego Group is the world's largest toy company, and with a single, almost infinitely adaptable product.
Over the years it has produced 560 billion Lego pieces, or about 80 for each person on the planet. (Confession: I was never a Legomaniac. So somebody out there must have 160 pieces.)Sales will surely increase from this feature-length infomercial, which summons hundreds of other characters that have been franchised to Lego. Wyldstyle's boyfriend is Batman, who may be less interested in her than in his Gotham-saving rep. Instead of Christian Bale, who played Batman in The Dark Knight trilogy, Lord and Miller go with Will Arnett, who's even funnier. Channing Tatum, not Man of Steel's Henry Cavill, voices Superman. But some Lego franchisees bear the original voices: Shaquille O'Neal from the NBA All-Stars set and Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian) from the Star Wars movies.(SEE: The New Lego Set for The Simpsons — House and Family)Toward the end, the movie get pretty meta, with a live-action sequence suggesting that the most authoritarian dude in toyland could be the Dad who shouts, "Leggo my Lego."