LEGO Toys

LEGO Toys — page 7 — quality He used only the best materials and the most talented craftspeople In construc tion his toys were second to none There is a story that shows how strongly Christiansen felt about this idea Chris tiansen had asked his workers to use three coats of paint on the toy wooden ducks for extra durability But one worker gave the ducks only two coats of paint The finished ducks were boxed They were taken to the local train station for shipping Before they could be picked up however Christiansen learned what his employee had done Furi ous he sent the boy to the train station to a fetch the ducks The unlucky employee spent the night in the factory repainting the t toys to meet Christiansen's high standards p This attention to detail got results LEGOn toys were soon known across Denmark for o 6 LEGO Toys

LEGO Toys — page 8 — painted wooden toys have been popular for very long time high quality Stores stocked them and eople bought them Christiansen hired workers to fill the orders that piled up n his

LEGO Toys — page 9 — Despite his success Christiansen wa not satisfied He came up with new de signs for his toys He also looked for be ter ways to build them When he cam across something he liked he made it pa of his business Plastic Arrives In the mid 1940s Christiansen came acros a material that he thought might work we with his toys That material was plastic Plastic had been developed years earlier had been used for jewelry car parts an some other things Few people had thougl of making toys out of plastic It had bee tried at least once though Hilary Harr Fisher Page of England started making an selling plastic toys in 1937 He once sai he liked the idea of plastic toys because

LEGO Toys — page 10 — Did You Know A type of plastic called poly styrene was invented in 1927 Polystyrene was not the first plastic but it was the first type strong enough to be made into toys their hygienic qualities attractive colors d and absence of dangers from sharp edges and corners n Christiansen also liked the idea of plas toys New processes for making and d using plastic had been developed by the d 1940s Using a process called injection molding raw plastic could be shaped into Only the Best 7

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