Some Super Cool Facts About Lego

LEGO is among those institutions of our time together with the very best assortment of toys ever made.

LEGO began like most amazing companies from very humble beginnings when in 1932 a Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen's carpentry business was embroiled in a recession and pretty much went bankrupt. To pay the bills, Ole began to generate little wooden toys at his work shop and promoted them locally. Two decades later he titled his company LEGO the title of which relies on 2 Danish words "Leg" and "Godt" which implies to "play well" and consequently LEGO premiered. His first toy was a wooden toy.

Ole Kirk Christiansen did not invent toy building bricks. He was motivated by a kind of self indulgent construction brick patented in Britain. LEGO obtained all the rights to this brick system when the inventor died and the earliest LEGO bricks were more or less exact replica of the system.



LEGO bricks, as we all know them at present, were created in 1958. The bricks constructed and those now, constructed interlock. This type of consistency is among the aspects which makes LEGO the terrific company it is.

LEGO bits are engineered in such a way that there is a product for everyone. From infants to schoolchildren, youths to adults, from standard brick places to the big inspired sets that have the LEGO Airport, the LEGO Taj Mahal and LEGO Tower bridge. Whether you would like to begin from scratch making up things as you go or constructing among the various predesigned version collections, LEGO will at all times deliver.

Can You Know:

    Every single year, roughly 19 billion LEGO bricks are manufactured. That's 2.16 million LEGO bricks each hour, or 36,000 per minute.

    The LEGO construction process is so accurate that only 18 out of every 1 million LEGO bricks fabricated are regarded as flawed.

    LEGO fabricates about 306 million tiny rubber tyres every single year that means that they create more tyres than any tyre maker in the world.

    There are approximately 62 LEGO bricks for every individual among the planet's 6 billion inhabitants.

    Youngsters across the world spend around 5 billion hours a year having fun with with LEGO sets.

    Approximately 400 million people around the world have played with LEGO bricks.

    Well over 400 billion LEGO bricks have been made since 1949. Piled on top of each other, this is enough to combine the Earth and the Moon ten times above.

    7 LEGO sets are offered by outlets every second all around the world.

    The LEGO bricks purchased in one year could circle the planet 5 times.

    The World's greatest LEGO tower in 94.3 feet (28.7 m) with 465,000 bricks.

    The World's Longest LEGO Build at 5,179.8 ft (1,578.8 m) with 2.9 million bricks.

    The World's Largest LEGO Image at 870.15 ft (80.84), with 1.2 million bricks.


    The Lego Group calculated that only eight-stud bricks could be arranged in 915,103,765 unique ways.

    69 metres (15 ft 4 in) high, 9.39 metres (30 ft 9 in) long and 5 75 metres (18 ft 10 in) wide and has of two floors with four chambers entirely. 2.4 million LEGO bricks were utilized. The house needed an interior lumber support arrangement.
    The tapered tower arrangement took around three times to put together and wanted the aid of more than 1,800 volunteer employees. The first part was set by Kim Rosner Pedersen, first secretary at the embassy in The Netherlands.
    The greatest collection of total LEGO sets in a private group is 1,091 and belongs to Kyle Ugone (USA) at Yuma, Arizona, USA, as of 23 July 2011. Kyle Ugone is at the Marine Corps and started his collection from 1986.

    In 2000, The British Association of Toy Retailers named the Lego brick "Toy of the Century", beating the teddy bear, Barbie and Action Man.

    Germany is the worlds chief Lego market, in fact, Lego is your number one toy company in Germany. The popular lines in Germany are Lego TECHNIC and Lego CITY.

    The U. S. is the second biggest market place, with the best selling lines being BIONICLE and Lego Star Wars.

    The Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System place is the biggest selling Lego set. More than 1 million of these are marketed from the entire world since their roll-out.

    The earliest three kinds of Lego sets were city, space, and pirates.
   

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