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Initech

(100,078 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2013, 12:42 PM Oct 2013

There Will Soon Be More Lego People Than Real People

At the end of 2006, the company announced there were four billion miniature figures in existence, being played with by children across the planet.

Now, a physics graduate from Massachusetts, who is behind the web comic Xkcd.com has calculated that the predictions for the global population and predictions for the number of Lego Figurines will match up in 2019 and the plastic people will go on to out-number humans.

If the predictions are correct, there will be almost eight billion people and the same amount of Lego figures calling Earth home in 2019.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2473163/Invasion-tiny-plastic-people-Lego-figures-set-outnumber-HUMANS-2019.html#ixzz2ikjWj8Uw
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I, for one, welcome our new Lego overlords!

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There Will Soon Be More Lego People Than Real People (Original Post) Initech Oct 2013 OP

Not surprised. Skinner Oct 2013 #1

They're also the world's largest manufacturer of tires krispos42 Oct 2013 #3

Lego Turns 50 from The Onion FSogol Oct 2013 #2

Skinner

(63,645 posts)

1. Not surprised.

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 01:27 PM

Oct 2013

In my house, I think Lego people outnumber real people by a factor of 10.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)

3. They're also the world's largest manufacturer of tires

Reply to Skinner (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 10:29 PM

Oct 2013

http://xkcd.com/1281/

Check out the hovertext.

FSogol

(45,487 posts)

2. Lego Turns 50 from The Onion

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 03:36 PM

Oct 2013

"The Lego, invented by a Danish toy manufacturer, turned 50 last week. Here are some highlights from the history of this popular interlocking brick:

March 10, 1962: After four years of lagging sales, one of the designers has the idea to add a second color to the set.

May 15, 1965: Lego scientists create a momentary tear in space-time by building a giant Lego brick out of Lego bricks.

Aug. 24, 1968: Following a long and difficult struggle, Legoland's constitution is ratified.

June 6, 1971: Lego care package is sent to brother in Vietnam.

Oct. 19, 1974: The first Lego human minifigure journeys through the human digestive system.

June 23, 1989: CEO of Megablox accidentally refers to own product as "Legos."

Jan. 21, 1998: Story rights for blue, red, and green Lego bricks optioned by Dreamworks.

Dec. 9, 2007: The company estimates that there are more than 2 billion Legos on the floor of living rooms around the world that need to be picked up."

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