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Lego House is a 12,000-square metre building filled with 25 million Lego bricks in Billund, Denmark, located near Legoland and the headquarters of The Lego Group. It is also known as Home of the Brick with reference to Billund, where Lego originates.
Legoland Billund Resort (also known as Legoland Denmark), the original Legoland park, opened on 7 June 1968 in Billund, Denmark.The park is located next to the original Lego factory and Billund Airport, Denmark's second-busiest airport.
LEGO House, "The Home of the Brick," pays tribute to the Toy of the Century. Come see – and build – for yourself.
Lego is a shortened form of the Danish word Leg godt, meaning "play well". [12] The company eventually became known as The Lego Group. [citation needed] Years later, he said, "Not until the day when I said to myself, 'You must make a choice between carpentry and toys' did I find the real answer." [13]
The Lego company was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter whose primary business of producing household goods had suffered due to the Great Depression. Initially producing wooden toys, the company later developed a system of interlocking bricks. Manufacturing of plastic Lego bricks began in Denmark in 1947.
Lego (/ ˈ l ɛ ɡ oʊ / ⓘ, LEG-oh; Danish:; [1] stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears , figurines ...
It allowed users to upload their own Lego set designs into a competition. The winning designs had the opportunity to be crowdfunded and, if successful, sold on the BrickLink marketplace. [15] The program was similar to Lego Ideas, where the designs that get more than 10.000 likes get accepted to finals and the winning one becomes an official ...
The word Lego is officially registered in Denmark. First beam bricks are released. 1955: Lego releases its first building "system" of the Town Plan along with 27 other sets. [3] Lego bricks begin selling better, but are not yet the core Lego product. Lego first exports toys to Sweden.