Lego facts

For the short film based on the events from 1932 to 1969, see The Lego Story.

Lego began in 1932 in the carpentry workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish furniture maker.

During the Great Depression, he began to make miniature versions of his products, which inspired him to produce toys. In 1934 the company was named "LEGO", a contraction from the Danish phrase "leg Godt", meaning "play well".

In 1947, after World War II, when injection molding was introduced to Denmark, Christiansen bought an injection molding machine for the company to make toys. That same year, he and his son obtained samples of plastic, interlocking Kiddicraft bricks, which inspired the first Lego brick created in 1936.

Who invented lego

The Lego bricks in its present form, with hollow tubes in the underside for better interlocking capability, was patented in 1958. Over the decades, the Lego system continued to be modified, with new molds and colors being added and removed.

Today, Lego is a profitable