Lego By Christian Cafeo What is lego Lego

Lego By Christian Cafeo

What is lego? • Lego are little construction pieces that you can build many things out of. There are many different shapes and sizes of lego pieces.

Facts about lego • Lego was invented by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1947. • Approximately 20 billion Lego bricks are made every year in the Lego factory. • A professor of mathematics calculated that there are over 915 million ways to combine six Lego bricks. • The number of Lego bricks sold in a year would reach more than five times round the world. • If you put the 340 million Minifigures in a line, it would reach 7, 900 km

• The world's tallest Lego tower is 28. 7 m high and is made with 465, 000. • If you build a column of 40 billion Lego bricks, it would reach the moon. • The first Lego land park to open was in Billund, Denmark in 1968. • Over 100 million Lego minifigures are sold every year. • The first modern Lego minifigure was released in 1978. • A minifigure is exactly as tall as 4 Lego bricks stuck together.

• The word lego comes from the Danish word “Leg Godt” which means “play well”. • The world record for the largest Lego castle used 400, 000 bricks. • Lego bricks can be in 53 different colours. • It would take 1 billion minifigures lined up in a single row to wrap around the whole earth.

Lego themes • Some of the Lego themes are Lego Chima, Lego City, Lego Star Wars, Lego Friends, Lego Duplo, Lego Ningago, Lego Super Heroes, Lego Academy, Lego Lord of the Rings, Lego Hobbit, Lego Harry Potter, Lego Hero Factory, Lego Ninja Turtles, Lego Long Ranger, Lego Technic, Lego Castle, Lego, Galaxy Squad, Lego Monster Fighters, Lego Dino, Lego Minifigures, Lego Bricks, Lego Creator, Lego Racers and Lego Sponge. Bob

How was lego invented • Lego was invented when a person named Ole Kirk Christiansen got the word “Leg Godt” he took away some letters and made the word Lego. Then he started making lego bricks but in the olden days the lego brick didn’t stick to each other properly.

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