Basic, square molded, block shaped toys have been around for a long time. However it took a twentieth century Danish virtuoso named Ole Kirk Christiansen to concoct the interlocking pieces we know today as LEGO bricks. Everything began in 1932 in the town of Billund, some time before LEGO had accomplished global control as a brand.
An ace joiner and woodworker, Christiansen opened a humble carpentry shop with his child Godtfred, only 12 years of age at the time. They manufactured stepladders, pressing sheets and later expanded to make wooden toys, and in 1934 named their business LEGO, a compression of the Danish "leg godt".
What's more? They played well. The company expanded from just six employees in 1934 to forty out of 1942. LEGO was likewise genuinely dynamic, and turned into an early adopter of new advances and materials. Actually, the gathering turned into the principal Danish company to claim a plastic infusion trim machine. At the point when the Christiansens ran over models of a British toy called "Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks" in 1947, they received the thought and began producing their very own adaptation two years after the fact. The bricks had pegs on top and empty bottoms, enabling youngsters to bolt the bricks together and make expand structures never conceivable with the basic wooden squares of days gone by.
Naming them the (quite un-infectious) "Programmed Binding Bricks," they were the harbinger to the present LEGO block. Be that as it may, they hadn't exactly got the equation right yet. The bricks came up short on the cylinders found inside present day LEGOs which extraordinarily improve dependability. Further, it appeared the world wasn't prepared for plastic toys presently; sales of plastic LEGO toys in the mid 50s were average, best case scenario.
In 1958, the LEGO block at long last made its mark. And keeping in mind that organizer Ole Kirk Christiansen never lived to see his company's prime, his child Godtfred Christiansen spearheaded and protected the now-standard LEGO stud-and-cylinder design, and acquainted rooftop bricks with the "LEGO System of Play," which was contained 28 sets and 8 vehicles.
After a devastating warehouse fire in 1960, the company chose to jettison generation of wooden toys by and large and spotlight rather on plastics. LEGO hasn't changed the plan of their block from that point forward, which means the present sets are compatible with sets from 1958 ahead.
Lego is today one of the oldest surviving toy manufacturing brand. Lego has established itself as a classic piece of a plaything and has a historical and cultural importance among its loyalists and enthusiasts. Lego also entered into the venture of films as it aspired to cater for entertainment in other fields besides toys and expand to a dempgraphy beyond children.
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