Lego Beats Hasbro as World's No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump

An early wooden toy locomotive manufactured by Lego A/S stands on display in the showroom at the company's headquarters in Billund, Denmark, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Lego, the Danish building-block maker, said first-half sales jumped 13 percent with the strongest growth in Asia amid a slower start to 2013 in the toy markets of North America and Europe. Photographer: Freya Ingrid Morales/Bloomberg via Getty Images