LEGO has officially started their 90th anniversary celebration with a slew activities for fans coming next month. Fan around the world can participate in quizzes, building activities at LEGO Stores, watch LEGO Con, and build a brand new 90th anniversary set that is still to be revealed. Read a little bit more about the history of LEGO these past 90 years below.
Brick by Brick – building LEGO® love for 90 years
This summer, the LEGO Group is celebrating the creativity of fans and the power of play as the new LEGO® Play Well Study shows play is fundamental to the wellbeing and happiness of the whole family.
Ninety years ago, a Danish carpenter crafted a line of small wooden toys in his Billund, Denmark, workshop. His first collection had a modest 36 items that included cars, airplanes, and yoyos, all carefully crafted to help local children learn about the world.
What Ole Kirk Kristiansen couldn’t have known back in 1932, was that the LEGO Group would become one of the biggest toy companies in the world and inspire millions of children to play each year.
Twenty-six years after Ole made his first wooden toy, his son Godtfred patented the LEGO® brick we know today, with its interlocking tube system offering endless creative building possibilities. Since then, the LEGO brick has been busy. From a few simple bricks in primary colours, the humble brick has formed the basis of over 18,000 LEGO products, received the Hollywood treatment in THE LEGO MOVIE™, helped children learn about robotics
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