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| February 4th, 1960 |
Fire destroys LEGO's wooden toy division
The LEGO company's warehouse for the wooden toy division (Bilofix) is destroyed by a fire. This ended the LEGO company's wooden toy division completely, and was the 4th fire to affect the Christiansens.
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| February 1st, 1997 |
Mike Rayhawk posts his revised rules to Eric O'Dell and Robert Ogrin's LegoWars game, calling it "BrikWars".
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| February 5th, 1999 |
German AFOL forum goes online
German LEGO Fan Forum goes online, founded by Michael Schian (became part of 1000steine.de in 2000)
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| February 3rd, 2001 |
A small group of Train AFOLs from around the United States were invited to meet with LEGO Direct (Brad Justus, Peter Andersen, Jorn Kristian Thomsen, Jake McKee and Steven Hawco) in New York city and talk about the future of LEGO trains. The AFOL attendees included John Neal (GMLTC), Steve Barile (PNLTC), Conan Collopy (GMLTC), John Gerlach (GMLTC), James Mathis (PNLTC), Dan Parker (PNLTC), Larry Pieniazek (poly-LTC), Mike Poindexter (BAYLTC), James Trobaugh (NGLTC)
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| February 1st, 2005 |
The first cycle of 15 LEGO Ambassadors is announced by Jake McKee.
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| February 4th, 2005 |
After having the website hacked, FBTB re-deploys its forums in "FBTB 2.0".
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| February 6th, 2006 |
After more than 5 years with LEGO working with the community, Jake McKee decides to move on.
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| February 3rd, 2010 |
Mark Benz, president of BayLUG has many of his models stolen from his truck. Most were recovered more than two weeks later on the 16th.
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| About the Project | |
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This project is intended to mark the major milestones in the history of the LEGO hobbyist community. Although it is in part a history of the LEGO company, it's moreover intended to focus more on the myriad of happenings that we in the community remember-- landmark MOCs, community firsts, momentous events, and so forth. The project was originally developed by Jason Wittenburg in early 2008, but was abandoned some months afterward. Using saved data from the original version, this incarnation is an attempt to keep the project alive, and is currently maintained by David Eaton. | |
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Help us by adding an event that you don't already see listed. If you aren't sure which ones we have, check the complete timeline. Events in the AFOL History Project should focus on something that affected the LEGO community. Try to avoid events such as release dates for LEGO sets or themes, unless they made a particularly outstanding effect on the community. It's good to provide community 'first' events, such as a club's first meeting, but try to avoid subsequent repetitive events such as regular LUG meetings or train shows. Your event text may not be accepted if it doesn't seem to fit, if it looks inaccurate, or if not enough data is provided, but we hope to include most submissions. Also be aware that your exact text may be altered in some cases to match the style of the existing entries. | |
| Things we'd like to know | |
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There are some things we've looked for but don't have yet. Please let us know if you have any of the following information:
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