By using this site you agree to the use of cookies.Business has been so brisk at the world's most profitable toymaker that Lego last year did something unusual: It began looking for ways to discourage customers from buying its products.The Danish company scaled back its advertising efforts amid a 25 percent rise in annual sales, according to Reuters. It simply couldn't make enough toys to satiate demand in North America, and needed a break while it boosted capacity at its factories and increased its workforce by nearly 25 percent. "We feel we need to invest, to build some breathing space," John Goodwin, Lego's chief financial officer, told Reuters. Lego, a family-owned company founded in 1932, has enjoyed booming growth for decades. The company has released thousands of sets of its eponymous blocks, forging licensing deals with popular brands including Star Wars, Angry Birds and Disney Princesses. It has also taken on iconic architecture: A model of the U.S. Capitol building is for sale on Lego's site for $99.99, while a White House set sells for $49.99.
A replica of the Ghostbusters firehouse, meanwhile, is listed for $349.99. The company's dominance also has extended into the company's six Legoland theme parks, 125 retail stores and dozens of video games. "The Lego Movie," a full-length movie released in 2014, brought in $468.1 million at the box office.The company's revenue has increased by an average of 15 percent a year in the past 12 years, according to Reuters. The efforts to quell demand seem to have worked — at least temporarily. Sales in the Americas remained flat during the first half of 2016, according to Reuters. (Revenue in Asia and Europe, meanwhile, continued to grow by double digits.) Overall, Lego's revenue rose 11 percent to roughly $2.35 billion in the first half of the year, ahead of the $1.83 billion reported by Mattel, the maker of Barbie.But executives at Lego are hoping to ramp up production in time for this year's holiday season, Goodwin said: "We are working very closely with our retail partners to ensure that as we go into the important holiday season, the back half of 2016, that we've got all of the levers pulled to get back on the growth trajectory."
The company is building its first factory in China, and is expanding existing plants in Mexico, Hungary and Denmark. Lego also hired 3,500 employees in the first half of the year, increasing its workforce to 18,500, according to The Wall Street Journal."In the past decade we have seen LEGO sales growth in the double digits year after year," Goodwin said in a statement in October. "We are of course very excited about this development. (But) the high demand also puts a strain on our factories around the world."The long-awaited TV return of the supernatural murder series “Twin Peaks” is not expected to arrive on our TV screens until the second quarter of 2017, but in the meantime, custom LEGO printing shop Citizen Brick has something very special for the show’s most dedicated fans in the form of some extremely unauthorized “Double Mountain” merchandise. At $60, the five-figure set is fairly expensive – custom LEGO printing is an expensive business – but it’s the perfect gift for fans of David Lynch’s soon-to-be-reborn cult classic.
The set includes Agent Cooper with a mug for his beloved coffee and a tape recorder for his memos to Diane; Laura Palmer, who appears to be both dead and wrapped in plastic; and The Log Lady, complete with her log. There is even The Man From Another Place and, appropriately enough, he’s shorter than all the other figures in the pack. RELATED: “Twin Peaks” Revival Reveals Full Cast Sadly, Citizen Brick hasn’t produced sets for any of the iconic Twin Peaks locations, but if you open the box carefully and fold it just right you can create a diorama of the show’s Waiting Room. You don’t even need to record yourself talking backwards. Unless you want to, of course. RELATED: “Twin Peaks” Revival Cast Talks Revisiting Iconic Series in BTS Video Directed by David Lynch, “Twin Peaks” is set to feature the return of much of the show’s original cast, including Kyle MacLachlan as Detective Dale Cooper, alongside an extensive list of new actors including Trent Reznor, Tim Roth, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Vedder, Naomi Watts, Ernie Hudson, and Ashley Judd.
The show is currently schedule to appear on Showtime in either April, May, or June of 2017.Sbirthday GiftG S 3RdLegos WantedBuy LegoAge AppropriateSmall PartsLego FriendsBirthday Wishes3Rd BirthdayForwardLego Friends if there's anything age appropriate. Log in, then simply search the database for the sets you own (for example, by theme, set name, or set number). When you've found them you'll find checkboxes labelled 'I Own' and 'I want' in set listings and also on the side of set details pages. Your collection is private until you enable it to be shared. To do that:- Log in, then click on your name at the top right of the page- Click on Edit my profile in the menu- Scroll down, check the box under Let other members contact you?, then press SaveThen, click on the big blue My Sets link at the top of the page. At the top of each grey box you'll see a SHARE link. Click on one to load the appropriate page and note its URL. This is the URL to share with others. If your dog has eaten the minifigs in your sets or you've simply lost them you can prevent them from appearing in your minifig collection.- Log in, then click on your name at the top right of the page- Click on Collection checkboxes in the menu- Enter 'Minifigs lost' or something next to the blue box, tick the checkbox next to it
, then press Save.Now, when you view set listings you'll see a 'Minifigs lost' checkbox with the usual 'Owned' and 'Wanted' ones. Tick it as appropriate. Find the set you want to add a note to, go to its set details page, for example, this one, then scroll down to see the Notes box in the menu. If the owned, wanted and the additional flags do not provide enough flexibility for you to record all that you want to about your collection you can enable the Advanced Collection Manager. When you've done so, 'ACM' links will be shown near the 'Owned' checkboxes to enable you to view and record additional information. Simply go the Minifigs page, then in the My collection drop-down list, select 'Owned loose'. If you want to indicate you own certain sets MISB, or they are in your kids' collection or something like that you can do so using additional collection flags. To enable them:- Log in, then click on your name at the top right of the page- Click on Collection checkboxes in the menu- Enter text next to those you want to use.
It can be anything: 'MISB', 'Little Johnny's collection' or whatever. - Press Save.Now, when you browse sets you'll see additional checkboxes along with the usual 'Owned' and 'Wanted' ones. Here's one way to do it:- Set up an additional flag and name it 'Trade'. See the section 'Add more flags to help organise my collection' on this page to find out how.- Find the sets you want to trade then tick the 'Trade' box.- Browse sets then in the 'My Collection' drop-down list select 'Trade'. /sets/mycollection-Flag1/runas-huw.- Share this link with others so they know what you have to trade. Brickset can indicate parts that you own when viewing parts lists and inventories. To enable this feature:- Log in, then click on your name at the top right of the page- Click on General site preferences in the menu- Scroll down to the Your parts collection section, check the box under it, then press SaveNow, when viewing parts lists you'll see a green box under parts you own showing the quantity you own.
Note that this data is only as good as LEGO's published inventories, which are not always accurate. Rebrickable is a site that tells you which sets you can build from the parts you already own, and also how many parts you need to build a particular set. To send your collection to Rebrickable and keep it in sync automatically:- Log in, then click on your name at the top right of the page- Click on Edit my profile in the menu- Scroll down to the Rebrickable section and enter your Rebrickable username and password - Click on the Check login details link to ensure you've entered them correctly.- Click on the big blue My Sets link at the top of the page, then in the 'Sets Owned' box, hover over 'Export', then click on 'To Rebrickable…'- Follow the instructions To import your collection from Rebrickable:- Log in, then click on your name at the top right of the page- Click on Edit my profile in the menu- Scroll down to the Rebrickable section and enter your Rebrickable username and password - Click on the Check login details link to ensure you've entered them correctly.- Click on the big blue My Sets link at the top of the page