The History Of The Lego By Ole Kirk Christiansos

The history behind Lego’s is an interesting story of how they came to be. The Lego was a great idea. The Lego is a fun, imaginative, creative, and educational toy! The story behind these amazing toys is interesting! The Lego goes way back to the great depression too! These bricks are cool to play with!

The Lego is a plastic building brick. It was made by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Denmark. The first Legos were actually plastic but had to go back to wood because, the people did not like them. But lets start at the beginning, Ole Kirk first started making wooden furniture. But one day, the workshop caught fire. Determined to continue on, Ole Kirk Christiansen wasn’t going to give up yet, so he built a new shop and worked on expanding his productions.

When the Great Depression hit, he lost many customers, so he had to work on smaller items. These items included miniature models of stepladders and ironing boards, and this, inspired him to make toys. In 1932, Ole Kirk’s shop started to produce wood toys like wooden pull toys, piggy banks, pull toys, cars and trucks, and houses. At first, he didn’t make too much money since it was during the Great Depression. Did you know that farmers traded food for some of his toys? He also made yo-yos, which was a big fad until it became un-popular. Instead of getting rid of the leftover yo-yos, he used them for wheels for cars and trucks. Later on his son Godtfred started to work for him.

In 1934, Ole Kirk held a contest for his staff to decide the name of the company, and offered a bottle of homemade wine as a prize for the winner. Ole Kirk Christiansen thought of two names himself, "Legio" meaning "Legion of toys" and "Lego", a word from the Danish phrase “leg godt”, which means "play well." Lat...

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The amounts of different combinations you can use are amazing huh? Just 7 bricks and so many creations! The best Lego sets are Lego Star Wars ™. The Lego Star Wars™ sets contain the different places, vehicles, and people! The Lego industry has gone far in its business. The Lego is a fun, imaginative, creative, great toy to have. You can express your self with a Lego to!

Lego’s are very fun to play with, they bring out your imaginative side. The Lego is very creative for your creative personality too! These toys had an interesting history about them and you know much of it now. The word Lego means what it is for, it means (I assemble, or I put together!). I hope you found this as interesting as much as I did.