The creation of this website was inspired by my nephew Zach and one
of his favorite hobbies, ' Legos '.
Zach is also a big fan of 'Starwars', so
a lot of his Lego
Brick
Building is dedicated to Starwars movies.
I have taken a few
Photos of some of his
Lego Brick Building
Masterpieces to share with Lego fans.
I also share with you all the cool stuff that I found on the
internet about the Lego World, and there's a lot.
I played with Lego's when I was a kid in the 1960's. I can't
believe how much this toy has advanced and how much this toy has
inspired creativity in so many people around the world. All toys
should be like this.
The Building Blocks of Life
In 1958, the LEGO brick with the familiar tubes inside and studs on was patented. This was done on 28 January, 1958 and all 2 x 4 LEGO bricks since then have been produced to the exact measurements of this patent. A LEGO brick from 1958 would still interlock with a LEGO brick made today. The patent introduced was called a “universal system” so that each piece is compatible with all other pieces, regardless of the year or set it belongs to. You can combine six of the eight-studded LEGO bricks in 915,103,765 ways.
LEGO was originally called “Automatic Binding Bricks, or
Self-locking Bricks”. LEGO were not
actually the first company to market the bricks. They modified and
improved the original
Kiddicraft bricks to create their own. The LEGO
Group eventually purchased the rights to the Kiddicraft block in 1981.
In 2000, LEGO was named “Toy of the Century” by the British
Association of Toy Retailers. LEGO beat both the common teddy bear and the
Barbie doll.
In 2014, the LEGO Group became the world’s largest toy
company. They are now larger than Mattel.
Everything Is
Awesome - Lyrics - Lego Movie (youtube)
45.7 billion LEGO
bricks were produced in 2012. This actually works out to be a rate of 5.2
million LEGO bricks per hour, 19 billion LEGO elements every year. Seven
LEGO sets are sold every second. If you laid all of the LEGO bricks sold
in 2012 end-to-end, they would stretch around the world more than 18
times. There are actually enough LEGO bricks to stack from the
Earth to
the moon – ten times. As of 2013, over 700 billion LEGO parts have been
produced. On average, that is 86 LEGO bricks for every single person on
the earth.
LEGO is the world’s largest producer of rubber wheels.
They produce more than Bridgestone, Goodyear and all other car
tyre
manufacturers.
In 2011, astronauts took LEGO to space. It was
caused the “LEGO Bricks in Space” program and 13 LEGO sets were taken to
the International Space Station to see how they react in microgravity.
The largest commercially produced LEGO set is
The Taj Majal.
Today the company is based in
The town of Billund, Denmark
History of Lego's
Brick Artist, a Lego Genius
Art of the Brick Artists who sculpt their work exclusively using LEGO. Nathan Sawaya was the first artist to ever take LEGO into the art world.
Sean
Kenney
Life Size Lego Car Lego Machine Gun (youtube) Lego.com |
Brick Engineer
Legos Fan (Youtube Video Channel)
Lego
Ideas
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