What Is a Lego Piece?
Lego pieces are small plastic elements used to build structures. Constructed of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), each Lego piece comes in various brightly-colored varieties to help complete your masterpieces.
Lego piece 26047 stand out from other construction toys by being interconnectible from both ends, with studs on both sides for added durability.
What is a Lego piece?
Lego pieces are bricks that form part of the building process. As the core component of any set, bricks come in various colors and sizes that allow you to customize your creations. Bricks can connect with other Lego pieces both vertically and laterally; Thin pieces called plates also connect but do not feature any studs on their bottom surface – only anti-studs.
Travis Bricks are modified 1×1 bricks featuring studs on all sides, designed by fan Travis Kunce in honor of his enthusiasm and passion for Lego community. It bears his name.
The LEGO Group is the privately owned parent company for all Lego brands and companies, including their innovative ideas platform (Lego Ideas) where fans submit designs that may become official LEGO sets in the future. Based in Billund, Denmark; an AFOL refers to an Adult Fan of LEGO.
How is a Lego piece made?
LEGO bricks are composed of an ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) thermoplastic polymer composed of three monomers; these include: acrylonitrile for strength; 1,3-butadiene to make them resilient against cracking; and finally styrene which provides their characteristic shiny, hard surface. Lego purchases pre-made ABS granules from suppliers and uses injection molding techniques to form them into brick shapes on an industrial scale.
Lego pieces have long been celebrated for their tolerances; and rightly so; building bricks that stay together without disintegrating requires special skills and patience.
Tiny granules of ABS are delivered by truckload to Lego factories where they’re melted down and injected into molds for pieces, using a molding machine heated to 230@C that pumps in plastic goo into molds until all brick shapes have been formed into complete brick shapes within seven seconds. They then cool off before being collected by robots for assembly halls where designs or mini figures may be stamped onto them before finally returning home in bins or robots for distribution back out into bins for sorting into bins awaiting shipment back out before coming back out to assembly halls where assembly halls if needed or stamped with designs or assembled by stamping machines for stamping onto plastic goo into molds at this stage of production.
What is a Lego set?
Lego sets are collections of Lego bricks and minifigures designed to form objects or scenes with specific themes in mind, such as Castle, City or Star Wars. Many Lego sets include extra pieces so the builder can customize his or her creation or replace lost or broken ones as needed.
In 1949, the company created its inaugural plastic interlocking brick play set – which proved pivotal to their production costs and allowed for greater creativity with designs.
In 1955, Lego announced its initial train set and also began producing sets that helped builders extend their cities with cars, trucks and garages.
In 1962, Lego introduced a new type of wheel for use when building vehicles – smaller than its predecessors and paving the way for Lego vehicles that eventually included minifigure drivers. These newly introduced “System wheels” remain in use today.
What is a Lego character?
Lego figures serve to portray humans or animals of any race, age, culture, time or place; or alternatively can represent fictional creatures like robots and machines as non-human characters.
LUG (Local LEGO Users Group) – is a community of brick builders who gather mostly offline or in real life settings, although many also maintain online platforms as part of their interaction.
Little Ugly Rock Piece (LURP) – A Lego element resembling elbow macaroni. Technically it is composed of two 2-by-4 panels with smooth sides and 8 rows of four studs in two rows on either end and anti-studs along its bottom surface.
KFOL (Kid Fan of LEGO) – The Lego Group is focused on serving children from five to twelve years old as its primary target audience.
MOC stands for My Own Creation and refers to any Lego creation made without following instructions; commonly referred to as MOCpages.
STUDS – These tiny bumps on LEGO elements that allow them to “stick” together are known as studs or pins and make assembly much simpler.
