Book on the 25th Anniversary of the LEGO Company

Gary Istok posted over on Bricklink:

Clark Bakker, a New York LEGO enthusiast recently notified me of a very very rare LEGO book that he had gotten a copy of.

It was the 1957 25 YEARS OF THE LEGO COMPANY book, in Danish... and supposedly made just for the LEGO employees (which numbered about 140 by the end of 1957). So even with extra copies for LEGO suppliers, the total population of this book
is very low, and may be the rarest of all LEGO paper items.

Check it out here on FLICKR. Clark Bakker got some Danish folks to translate the Danish printing, and I added comments to about 1/2 of images of the 40 page book that is spiral bound...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57225047@N05/sets/72157625632807718/

My favorite pages are 32-33... which show the LEGO products that were soon discontinued (page 32, by 1960), as well as the newer LEGO System of Play products that had recently been introduced (page 33, in 1955) and would be the future direction of the company.

This book is really a treasure trove of old historic facts about the company...

Yes, this is a great historical find, indeed!

A LEGO Book on Love

So this past weekend, my wife and I went to the LEGO store and saw they had new Valentine's Day sets in stock, #40016 and #40015. I was more excited about the "Love You" set, since it contain a lot of new black macaroni bricks; wasn't so impress with the heart book... or is it a book? From the packaging, it's a little misleading, that you're putting a "picture" of a minifig into the heart book -- my wife kept asking me, "is there suppose to be a minifig in this set?" In the back of my mind, I knew there wasn't going to be one, especially for a $4.99 set with 51 parts.

Anyway, I ended up putting the set together... it's cute, but unlike in western movies, where there's a gun secretly stashed in a Bible, the compartment in this book of love is not deep enough to hold a minifig... Then I rechecked the packaging and saw that it was a "picture" of a minifig that you give to your sweetheart. Oh, and the picture isn't included with the set. *sigh* So is it really a book, or just a fancy photo frame...

How do I print pictures from my iPhone again?