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the tiny brick that conquered the world and ambushed your bare feet at 2am
means the Danish-made interlocking plastic building bricks that snap together into anything a child (or adult) can imagine.
from From the Danish phrase 'leg godt,' meaning 'play well,' coined in the 1930s by the company's founder Ole Kirk Christiansen as a name for his toy firm. There's a happy coincidence often pointed out: in Latin 'lego' can mean 'I put together' or 'I assemble' — but this is almost certainly an afterthought, not the source. The Danish playfulness came first.
- clutch power
- two bricks from 1958 still snap together today
- tire empire
- Lego makes more tires yearly than any company
- pain physics
- stepping on one survives 950 pounds of force
- name origin
- Danish 'leg godt' means play well
- infinite combos
- six 8-stud bricks make 915 million arrangements
lego house billund — theme park in billund, denmark opened in 1968, built entirely from lego bricks
lego movie 2014 — film that grossed $469 million worldwide, featuring lego minifigures as main characters
lego mindstorms nxt — programmable robotics platform launched in 2006, allowing users to build and code robots from lego