Thursday, March 5, 2009

Lego Facts - Add #8 to My List

Interesting article 3/2/09 by Martin Waller at the TimesOnLine - here.

Titled: The key to saving Lego was about breaking it apart and rebuilding it, brick by brick

Basically:
Lego is making money.

Lego facts and fancies from the article-

Seven things you didn't know about Lego

1. There are 2,200 Lego elements, and they come in 55 colours There are 55 different Lego colors! Wow!

2. Seven Lego sets are sold around the world every second My 9YO just bought a big set from the Lego Store with his Christmas/Birthday money.

3. Lego is the world's fifth-largest toy manufacturer

4. The core age for users is between four and ten years old, although there is a programmable robot for the considerably older

5. The first patent for Lego bricks, as we know them, was filed on January 28, 1958, in Copenhagen

6. The Lego name comes from two Danish words, “leg godt”, meaning “play well”

7. In the early years, under the founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the Lego workshop burnt down twice

They forgot the eighth fact:

8. Lego wins the "Toy Most Likely to Step on in the Middle of the Night" Award and the "Toy Most Painful to Step On" Award.

Am I right parents???



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