About Exclusive FIRST LEGO League
FIRST LEGO League is a robotics program run by FIRST together with the LEGO Group, in which teams take on science and technology challenges with robots they build from LEGO. It began in 1998 as a partnership between Dean Kamen, the founder of FIRST, and the LEGO Group's Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, and LEGO first produced sets for it in 2001.
2004 LEGO Sets
2004 was a pivotal recovery year following financial losses in 2003. LEGO updated its color palette, introducing light nougat for licensed minifigures and brighter grays and browns. The company partnered with Ferrari under LEGO Racers and launched Knights’ Kingdom II, a story-driven reimagining of Castle. QUATRO expanded the preschool range, while World City, Orient Expedition, Spider-Man, and Gravity Games concluded. These shifts, along with strategic licensing, began LEGO’s long-term turnaround.