50 Years of Lego
I still play with them. That’s the advantage of having children. You can still play with their toys and be cool. Here is a little bit of information for you neophytes.
LEGO brick curiosities
• There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants.
• Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• More than 400 million people around the world have played with LEGO bricks.
• LEGO bricks are available in 53 different colors.
• 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year.
• 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.
• More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.
• Two eight-stud LEGO bricks of the same color can be combined in 24 different ways.
• Three eight-stud bricks can be combined in 1,060 ways.
• There are more than 915 million combinations possible for six 2 x 4 LEGO bricks of the same color.
• 7 LEGO sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.
• The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.
• 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked on top of one another would connect the earth with the moon.
Jack February 3, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Fee,
So very true.
feefifoto January 29, 2008 at 11:59 pm
…Lego bricks hurt like the dickens when you step on them without shoes
Jack January 29, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Misanthrope,
Lincoln Logs were one of the great joys of my life.
Gila,
Nah, you are really old. 😉
Gila January 29, 2008 at 7:44 am
So that is why Google has the header made of legos!
I had lincoln logs AND legos.
So I am sorta old.
Gila
The Misanthrope January 29, 2008 at 5:26 am
I must be too old because I never had Legos; only Lincoln Logs.