LEGO World

Lego is known around the world as a toy for all ages, but where did this creative toy come from?

Everyone remembers his or her first Lego castle, plane, tower or wagon with little people in it. Year after year this simple toy makes children create anything and everything. But with over 200 million sets a year, sold in over 100 countries, the question is — where Lego actually comes from?

The story begins in 1932 when Ole Kirk Christiansen opened a small business in the village of Billund in Denmark. His company made

stepiadders1, ironing boards2... and some wooden toys. In 1934 the company took the name LEGO which is made up of the Danish words “LEg GOdt” or “play well". It is interesting that in Latin the word means “I study” or “I put together”. The most popular shelf in the shop was the one with toy stepiadders and ironing boards, so in 1932, Ole Kirk started making different kinds of wooden toys. His shop became very popular.Later Ole Kirk began making bricks1 of plastic. In 1954 Kirk’s son understood that it was not necessary to make a toy, but it was more interesting to make sets of bricks so that children could make toys themselves. In 1958 the modern brick design was worked out.

On June 7, 1968, the first Legoland Park was opened in Billund. The first visitors were very much impressed with the beautiful models of small towns, castles and towers built out of LEGO bricks. After the opening of the park, LEGO toys became the most popular toys in Denmark and soon all over Europe.

'Jow LEGO sets are everywhere. Today children may not ily enjoy the LEGO sets but also play LEGO on computers sating their own sets of LEGO. “What is LEGO’S future?” — me people ask. The next 15 years will bring more and ore models and more and more children running to their / boxes to create their own world with LEGO.