It's fair to say that Lego is one of the classical toys of all times. We have all played with them and some of us still have them at home. Lego toys are great for children as they can improve their learning capabilities and even hand-eye coordination. What few people know, however, is that Lego has been around for more than 70 years.
The building frenzy has started a long time ago and it is still continuing. Children seem to be mesmerized with the toys and also adults love to play with them. The history of Lego started back in 1947 when the first injection machine was introduced in the factory. But the small bricks that we know today have not taken life until 1958. Ever since this brick was patented, the frenzy surrounded the Lego toys is still growing. There are the kid Duplo versions and the Lego technic and the Lego mindstorms NXT sets, and Lego has evolved with the times better than most other toys over time. You're now able to visit the multi-million pound Legoland Theme Park in Windsor, and have tie ins with all the latest Hollywood Blockbuster films, producing Batman, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars lines, even extending into video games for each.
The toy has became such a worldwide phenomenon that each year, children spend about 5 billion hours playing with the toy. The Lego factory actually produces about 19 billion Lego toys in a single year and there are about 915 million combinations possible for the 2 x4 Lego toys of the same colour.
The beauty of Lego toys is their appeal to such a broad range of people and ages, from pre school age and can even be applied in the pre university levels in order to teach maths, language skills, science, engineering and all sorts of technology principles. Indeed, the Lego toys have been an inspiration for many people including Jonathan Gay, the man that invented Flash, the programming code.
Some companies actually use Lego toys in their recruitment system as it can prove how creative the candidate really is. It is true is that Lego’s can be used both for kids, adults and basically anyone that likes to be creative. Probably this is why they are so widely sold. If you take all the Lego bricks that are bought in a year and connect them all together then you will actually circle the world five times.
My son loves Lego, and I'm sure that when he grows up and one day has children of his own, they'll experience the same wonder and joy from the toy as his Mum and generations before. What are your experiences of Lego?
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