LEGO City

LEGO City is a line of LEGO sets, which feature different areas of a city. Some of the places represented in this line include the police department, fire station and airport. It is a small section of a larger LEGO theme called LEGO Town.

Using additional sets of regular LEGO building blocks to create buildings and support structures, an entire city can be created in which to place the sections provided by the LEGO City sets. In the video below, one possible setup is shown where an entire city was created using LEGO blocks and playsets, The addition of the LEGO City sets allows for scenarios to be created within the play that would otherwise not be as feasible.

LEGO founder Ole Kirk Christiansen began as a carpenter but moved into toymaking in 1932.http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline7 In 1934, he christened his company LEGO.http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline7 They began working with types of interlocking plastic bricks in 1949 but did not hit on the current design until 1958.http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline6http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline5 The product line has since been extended with action figures, themed sets, electronic and computer programmable elements. The computerized sets have tie-ins to media properties.

1. LEGO Bricks: Standard plastic bricks
2. LEGO Technic: Mechanical LEGOS
3. LEGO Duplo: For younger children
4. LEGO Primo: For toddlers
5. LEGO Mindstorms: Programmable LEGOs