LEGO started 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 produce small wooden toys in his job shop and marketed them locally. 2 decades after he titled his firm LEGO the name of which is based on 2 Danish words "Leg" and "Godt" which implies to "play well" and thus LEGO premiered. His first toy was a wooden toy duck.
Ole Kirk Christiansen did not actually invent toy building bricks. He was inspired by a kind of self indulgent construction brick patented in Britain. LEGO obtained all of the rights to this brick system when the inventor expired and the earliest LEGO bricks were more or less exact copy of the system.
LEGO bricks, as we know them at present, were made in 1958. The bricks assembled and the ones built interlock. This kind of consistency is among the factors which makes LEGO the terrific company it is now.
LEGO bits are engineered in such a manner that there's a product for everybody. From babies to schoolchildren, youths to adults, from standard brick sets to the large inspired sets that have the LEGO Airport, the LEGO Taj Mahal and LEGO Tower bridge. Whether you want to begin from scratch making up things as you go or constructing one of the many predesigned version collections, LEGO will at all times deliver.
Can You Know:
Each and every year, about 19 billion LEGO bricks are fabricated. That's 2.16 million LEGO bricks each hour or 36,000 per second.
The LEGO building procedure is so true that only 18 out of every 1 million LEGO bricks fabricated are regarded as flawed.
LEGO fabricates approximately 306 million tiny rubber tyres each and every year that means that they make more tyres than any tyre maker in the entire world.
There are roughly 62 LEGO bricks for every individual among the world's 6 billion inhabitants.
Youngsters around the world spend around 5 billion hours per year having fun with with LEGO sets.
Well over 400 billion LEGO bricks have been made since 1949. Piled on top of each other, this is sufficient to combine the Earth and the Moon ten times over.
7 LEGO sets are offered by outlets every second all around the world.
The LEGO bricks purchased in 1 year could circle the planet 5 times.
The World's highest LEGO tower in 94.3 feet (28.7 m) with 465,000 bricks.
The World's Longest LEGO Build at 5,179.8 feet (1,578.8 m) with 2.9 million bricks.
The World's Largest LEGO Picture at 870.15 ft (80.84), with 1.2 million bricks.
The world record for the biggest Lego castle used 400,000 bricks.
The Lego Group calculated that only eight-stud bricks could be ordered in 915,103,765 specific ways.
2.4 million LEGO bricks were utilized. The house needed an interior lumber support arrangement.
The tallest structure built with interlocking plastic bricks was 30.52 m (100 feet,1 in) high and has been assembled by the Stichting Limmen Ludiek (Netherlands) base on in Limmen, Netherlands, on 6 June 2010. The tapered tower arrangement took approximately three days to put together and needed the support of more than 1,800 volunteer employees. The first section was set by Kim Rosner Pedersen, first secretary in the embassy in The Netherlands. Two engineers from LEGO - Per Knudsen and Karsten Niebuhr - also travelled from Denmark to assist in overseeing the effort.
The largest collection of complete LEGO sets at a private collection is 1,091 and belongs to Kyle Ugone (USA) in Yuma, Arizona, USA, as of 23 July 2011. Kyle Ugone is at the Marine Corps and started his collection from 1986.
Germany is the worlds chief Lego marketplace, 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 2nd largest market place, together with the best selling lines being BIONICLE and Lego Star Wars.
The Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System set is the largest selling Lego set ever. Over 1 million of these have been marketed in the world since their roll-out.
The earliest three kinds of Lego sets were town, space, and pirates.
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