Top 10 facts - Lego

1. In 1916 Ole Kirk Christiansen purchased the wood working shop in Denmark that constructed houses and furniture.  After a few years in business, the workshop was struggling. Ole had to think of something else if he wanted to remain in business. After experimenting with a few other projects, the workshop began producing wooden toys, piggy banks, Jo-Jo's (watt are these) , pool toys, cars, trucks and miniature houses. Following World War II Ole's son Godtfred began working for the company which now officially went by the name of Lego In 1947, Ole and Godtfred obtained samples of interlocking plastic bricks produced by the British company kiddicraft called them self-locking building bricks inspired by this the LEGO Group began producing its own bricks which they instead called automatic binding bricks in the coming years the company grew exponentially under the leadership of Ollie son gut Fred since Oleh had passed away the production of wooden toys was abandoned completely as the company now solely focused on working with plastics the LEGO LAND park was open in Denmark and as the bricks grew in popularity Lego quickly became a household name all over the world

2. the name Lego is an abbreviation of the two Danish words lie gods meaning play well and while not intention from the beginning it was later discovered that in Latin the word Lego can loosely be interpreted as I put together or I assemble they also considered the name lay Keo with the implication of a legion of toys

3. another important part of Lego are the mini figures but the mini figs weren't invented until 30 years after the laïkó bridge its inception came in 1978 in the form of a policeman with black clothes and a white hat and to be honest the design has stayed more or less the same ever since the figs became more and more diversified as more variations were released but for the next 11 years they would all have the same face every single one of them it wasn't until 1989 that someone realized how creepy this becomes after a while and thus some other facial expressions were introduced so far over 4 billion mini figs have been produced

4. after the company's decline in the late 1990s and hitting its lowest peak in 2004 when they almost had to file for bankruptcy the LEGO Group has done quite well for themselves in fact since the release of the Lego movie Lego is now the largest toy manufacturer in the world and since 1958 the company has produced over 560 billion bricks which means that as of this moment if divided equally everyone on earth would have 78 Lego bricks

5. if you tried connecting a Lego brick from 1958 with a brick from Today they would still interlock this is because Lego uses a universal system that means that despite variation in the sign size and purpose they all remain compatible even LEGO DUPLO bricks which are several times larger than ordinary bricks still connect which is quite impressive given that only 6 pieces of 2x4 bricks would produce a staggering 950 million 100 3765 possible combinations

                                    

6. some quite amazing things have been constructed using Lego bricks for example the world's tallest Lego structure at 34.76 meters top gear presenter James May built a real house made out of Lego using 3.3 million the absolute largest model ever built with only Lego bricks is this full-scale model of an x-wing fighter from Star Wars it required 5.3 million bricks and four months to build

7. According to the company the only proper way of describing the bricks is by using the word Lego as an adjective and not as a noun so saying Legos is actually wrong and you should instead be saying Lego bricks

8. since 2007 on beaches all over the world people have found this giant mini figurine okay that sounded extremely paradoxical a giant Lego man has washed ashore on beaches across the globe with the message no real than you are obviously the message is that you can't trust Google Translate it's believed that these things were created by a Dutch artist that goes by the name of ego Leonardo which is almost certainly fake as the first four letters spell out Lego when inverted no one's entirely sure why he or she is doing it but the LEGO Group has at least on several occasions denied any involvement

9. If you take a look at the head of a mini fig you'll find that it has a hole at the top the reason for this is that in case a child should accidentally swallow the head they would still be able to breathe even if it got stuck in their throat

10.while the Lego movie might look like it was created using stop-motion the entire movie is actually CGI the entire production process was specifically designed to make it look like stop-motion tiny dense specks of dust and even smudges of finger prints on the models the lighting and of course the iconic shopping movements stop-motion is so well-known for of course known exception will be the live-action segments but a really cool thing is that they made sure that every brick in piece seen in the movie also exists in real life so that if you passed any scene you could actually build it for yourself even in a scene like this all the buildings and the grass and everything you see were made using Individual digital bricks and pieces you want to know why they did that because Everything is awesome.