10 Fun Facts About LEGO including 100 pieces of LEGO per Human on Earth!

in #share2steem6 years ago

Australian 60 Minutes had a great story about the LEGO company, it was fascinating !

I don't know anyone who didn't build with Legos as a kid, boys and girls.

Here are the highlights below and a link to the story AND a couple really old sets of Lego we found.

  1. "Bricks" is an alias for LEGO
  2. 60 years in business
  3. A family owned company with a 7 billion dollar fortune
  4. Lego was invented and has it's headquarters in Billund, Denmark
  5. HQ reminds me of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory
  6. HQ reminds me of Tom Hanks in Big
  7. They have a vault where they keep EVERY set of Lego ever made
  8. Obsessive LEGO collectors are called AFOL Adult Fans of Lego
  9. There are 100 pieces of LEGO for every single person on the planet
  10. LEGO headquarters looks like it's made of LEGO it's very cool. Check out the view from above below.

Vintage LEGO Police Set.jpg

Vintage Lego Fork Lift.jpg

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I didn't build with Legos as a kid... :-)

haha Are you one of the adult LEGO lovers?

No, actually I've never understood the fascination with those things. Even the one time I went to LegoLand and all they talked about was how many Legos were used to build this and that. And I'm like, yeah, so what? Who cares? :-)

I think it's cool to see the crazy big stuff they build with them but I had no patience as a kid to put together something based on the instructions so I gave up!

OH and I think its amazing they are a family company still.

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