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This launch inspired Ryan Taggart, who works in the film industry and is a LEGO enthusiast,  to start designing MOCs (My Own Creations), initially designing buildings from his imagination and later challenging himself to replicate real-life structures in LEGO form.\r\n\r\nAfter completing his first two MOC modular builds, Taggart embarked on a third. As he explains, ‘I remembered all my LEGO town layouts when I was growing up, in which I’d created a basic construction site with all my LEGO construction vehicles and workers. The idea developed from there.’ During this time, he was reading 'Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry' by David C. Robertson (Crown Business, 2013). It was then that Taggert realised, ‘the project I was working on and struggling to finish was actually something else. I realised that its strength lay in its unfinished state. I set about recreating it as an unfinished building, and the result was my Construction Site'.\n\nAiming to make the build as interesting and challenging as possible, Taggart included a variety of elements and techniques to avoid repetition, including LEGO Technic elements in the structure and LEGO Bionicle elements to support the first-floor stairwell. In the building’s façade, above the ground-floor windows, he featured a large element of S.N.O.T (Studs Not On Top), a complex process of geometry to build with LEGO bricks sideways. The project took around two years and was created in LEGO Digital Designer and underwent five digital rebuilds. He submitted the project to the LEGO Ideas portal, where it received 10,000 votes and was considered as a potential ‘IDEAS’ set, though it was not ultimately selected. \n\r\nLEGO acquired BrickLink in 2019, an online marketplace for LEGO enthusiasts, where users can buy and sell parts, sets, minifigures and accessories. Under this new direction, LEGO aimed to create a limited run of sets that would appeal to LEGO enthusiasts. Since Taggart’s construction site set had previously been under consideration, BrickLink contacted him, along with other enthusiasts, to take part in this new initiative. After a crowdfunding-style campaign, the set was selected for development within specific guidelines and requirements. Once the process was complete, the set was produced as a limited edition of 10,000 pieces. 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The name of the company is derived from the Danish phrase ‘leg godt’, meaning ‘play well’. LEGO’s output in its early years was mainly wooden toys. However, in 1947, the company purchased an injection moulding machine and a set of interlocking plastic bricks from UK company Kiddicraft, which they copied. By 1955, LEGO had developed an interlocking system whereby any LEGO brick can combine with any other. In 1958, LEGO introduced its trademark hollow tubes to the underside of bricks, allowing them to lock together more securely. Bricks are still made to this same basic design, meaning a brick manufactured today will combine with a brick made in 1958. This system enables ever-expanding building possibilities using a wide range of brick styles, a cornerstone of LEGO’s approach to education through play. 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