101 Facts About Lego

hello mother factors Dane's ducks and mersen's alike look at this crazy freaking awesome movie holy then look at this wooden duck they're made by the same company yes isn't that crazy crazy cool more like look him he's wearing sunglasses but which lego face is most common why would mr. Hillary Fisher Page be pissed at mr. ole Kirk Christiansen do you think at some point I'll stop my obsession with bees Sam is starting to get a bit annoyed at me about it two out of these three questions are gonna be answered so prepare your fingers for some building prepare your brainpower for some arbitrary instructions that I can never seem to understand why can I never figure out how to make the bloomin figures is not like it's hard I just want to make that star anyway this is 101 facts about Lego number 1 Lego is an abbreviation of the two Danish words leg got meaning play well number two the company was founded in 1932 by old Kirk Christiansen and passed it on to his son Godfrey code Christiansen who then passed on to his son killed Kirk Christiansen and his son Thomas Kirk Christiansen is part of the board wow that was hard to say once try saying that seven times fast number three the Lego brick has been named toy of the century twice once by Fortune magazine and once by the British Association of toy retailers number four the brick has undergone lots of development in its life and its most familiar form was presented in 1958 with its interlocking tubes it offers a limited building possibilities number five speaking of unlimited building possibilities and to a greater extent tires did you know that Lego is the world's largest manufacturer of tires currently those little rubber dealies that they make add up eat your heart out Michelin number six Lego has a hell of a lot of pieces in the sets most of which I always seem to lose when making them and in a way they end up but I always take hive cluttering when he's walking by anyway did you know that there is a Taj Mahal State which has nearly 6,000 pieces in it I can't even character 6000 how does that even work number seven Lego faces is a funny thing because even though the majority of the expressions are happy being 324 happy expressions at the time of recording the next expression down is that of anger at being 192 number eight but Lego isn't just them bricks which I'm sure you know it's got seven parks spread about the globe with at least another four in the mix a series of video games and now thanks to that movie deal with Warner Brothers it has his own cinematic universe number nine ole Kirk Christiansen was a master carpenter and establish his company in the village of Billund in Denmark number ten in 1934 the firm only had around seven members of staff which is super tiny humble beginnings as it were number eleven in 1935 the company released the lego duck a handmade wooden duck on wheels that could be pulled by a string it was a single piece that could not be taken apart to be put back together again as opposed to the monolayer that we are used to today number 12 the duck was the first toy that Lego released and it quickly sought to popularity among children however only 100 were made and the little fluffy but not fluffy because it's wooden product is no longer in production they can be found in antique stores and shows apparently number 13 god fred kirk christiansen olds third son started working at the factory at the age of 12 and began making models at the age of 17 he also took his dad's motto only the best is good enough and hung it on the workshop wall it was in Danish and I'm not even gonna pretend that I can read that number 14 in 1942 a fire broke out in the factory which resulted in the loss of many toys and sketches but the company quickly picked itself up and production quickly resumed number 15 the company pulled the big gun out in 1946 Lego brought a plastic injection molding machine for the toys the machine cost 30,000 danish kroner which is around four thousand US dollars with today's exchange rates number sixteen the lego group then released the board game Monopoly no no that one the game was based on slash taught children about road slash traffic safety and must have sold very well considering that it took layer 62 years to release any more lego theme board games number seventeen all was highly inspired by kiddicraft self-locking building brick toy set designed by mr. hilary Fisher page number eighteen allegedly all stole the idea from page and manufactured and branded his own automatic binding bricks with his new plastic machine always never sued for stealing the patent because page had died before he could find out number nineteen by the end of the forties the company produced two hundred different plastic and wooden toys including the successful brick each were then exclusively sold in Denmark number twenty on his 30th birthday in 1950 God Fred became jr. vice president of the company number twenty-one in 1952 the bricks were officially called like Homer stone which is Danish for Lego bricks the first baseplate and Lego sex being created as well number 22 funnily enough the packaging for the Lego Merson boxes looked virtually identical to the UK kiddie craft box sets that existed around the same time they were however only painted in the UK France and Switzerland number 23 in 1954 the door and window pieces were introduced to the range so you're able to make houses that can have little meat and eken didn't learn but then I can't have Jennifer loans Sana's Jennifer hands sounds travel cards number 24 also in the same year Lego was officially registered as a word in Denmark number 25 the 50s also brought many new and now classic pieces to the world of Lego such as the beam bricks trees sloping roof bricks and letter bricks number 26 in 1955 Lego Merced was rebranded as Lego sister my leg which is a Lego system of play in Danish number 27 when God first showed off the new and improved toy at a Toy Fair in Nuremberg Germany it got negative reactions don't worry got Fred they don't know anything keep each in up number 28 and clearly he did keep it China because a year later Lego established a foreign sales company in a hoe in western Germany number 29 by the end of the year Lego was selling to companies such as Norway Germany Switzerland and the UK number 30 in 1958 godfrid officially took over the company after the passing of his father ol number 31 so other than the loss of all everything in Lego was going smoothly but life being in the cruel and heartless that it is caused a fire to spread at the warehouse destroying the wooden toys within it at this the wooden toys were completely discontinued and the company focused more on the infamous plastic building bricks number 32 the 60s brought a wide range of products for the company motorized truck sets the Jumbo bricks which were actually produced by Samsonite in the u.s. battery-driven trains the Lego wheel modern cars are the wheels to go on like so much number 33 in 1961 Lego began to sell in the US and Canada through a license agreement with Samsonite corporation in order for them to create Lego products Leigha in the minibar the company grew bigger throughout the year the staff in villain growing to 450 and countries like Singapore Spain Hong Kong Australia Japan and Peru began to import the toys number 35 in 1963 got fur coat Christensen presented the company to the ten product characteristics and limited play potential for girls and for boys fun for every age year-round play healthy quiet play long hours of play development imagination creativity the more Lego the greater the value extra sets available and quality in every detail number 36 do you want a free calendar versus for a bit the big the red and the go fast um does Bernard the time because progestin is a real big problem learn the guys who done it at that look how bad it is but we're not talking about real buses because this is 101 facts about Leggett no 101 facts about London buses anyway in 1966 they released a LEGO version of the London bus lookup cuties number 37 it will get to use to the quaint little bus because they remade it in 1973 then we released it in 1975 is some reason they remade the bus a few more times once in 2011 for the opening of the Lego store in Westfield Shopping Centre in London and once again in 2016 with the sign now is the time to visit because it definitely is a time to visit London pleased we need the chairs trade please number 38 on the 7th of June 1968 the first Legoland opened its doors to the public in the town of Dillon the hometown of ole Kirk Christiansen and the first Lego factory it attracted 625 thousand visitors in its first season five percent of these were from the opening day number thirty-nine the idea for the park came from God Fred and was originally a measly 14 acres when first opened today the park has grown to nearly thrice its original size at 45 acres and also has alongside rise in entertainment hotels in the ground number 40 the park was an instant success and its success is still as prevalent as ever in 2011 1.9 million guests visited the park and since its opening more than 50 million guests have visited overall and to put that in perspective that's like all of England number 41 it was so successful that lego lands have opened up all around the world Windsor in 1996 California in 1999 Gunzburg Germany in 2002 Florida in 2011 Malaysia in 2012 and Juba in 2016 the meaning of life in 1969 giggity the duplo series 4-under fires was launched internationally after product testing in Sweden the bricks were 18 times larger than a regular system brick number 43 in October of 1969 got Fred and his daughter Hahn were driving home from a movie but their car skidded off the road and hit a tree the accident killed Han and severely injured got Fred this shook him so much that he seriously considered selling the company he didn't know and the Christiansen family recovered it from the incident number 44 the 1970s was a huge decade for Lego starting off the decade with a bang the factory in Finland nearly reaching the big 1k with its employees number 45 in 1972 Lego introduced an educational range of Lego toys designed with the intent to be used in nurseries and schools encouraging group play number 46 Legoland start off was opened in 1973 and boy are we gonna have a fun time in our friendly little Germany Legoland booked some tickets a sad store Legoland number 47 in 1974 the Legoland Billund made this enormous beauty using 1.5 million bricks which M is cool I guess is yours need your instead of founding fathers if you're Danish number 48 in the same year the Billund legoland welcomed its five millionth visitor I can only imagine the pure horror of the individual as the entity the colorful Lego made gates and an elation was made of them how wonderfully terrifying number 49 minifigures also started being released they didn't look like that however they'll allow this they were released originally as a part of the LEGO DUPLO range and can move their arms or legs their heads being the only moveable piece whoa in 1969 mankind took their first steps on the big circular pie we sometimes called Luna well instead of making Lego for that they instead made a lego moon landing set in 1975 when the Apollo program closed maybe there's a correlation there maybe Lego was responsible for the ending of the Apollo program number 51 North America welcome the moon landing set the year after because reasons number 52 DUPLO became an independent unit from the main lego theme releasing five sets that consisted solely of DUPLO bricks number 53 the year after welcomed the closing of lego Saks store where a second wife tells all the flight gets closed for like four years now number 54 Keld kirk christiansen godfrid son joined the management team in 1977 three generations of the Christiansen family part of the Lego brand how the phone number 55 if you look carefully you can also find that Kel was a model for the products packaging and marketing materials number 56 Duplo renamed themselves this year as well into preschool releasing a whole new set of toys including archers and their own set of figures they didn't move much though the figures that is number 57 however in 1979 the preschool theme changed back to DUPLO and was given the rabbit logo that we know and love today the preschool range did come back for a show time in the 80s however but only as a subcategory number 58 as well as the Duplin range for younger children being reintroduced the expert range was made these toys were designed for children age 9 and up and worked by using axles and gears parts that weren't often seen in Lego at that point number 59 in 1978 minifigures were re-released but this time in the full leg arrange the little Lego figure was a policeman and it took on the traditional shape that we know and love today so thank the model designer Jen's Nygaard Knudsen for that number 60 the first lego Roadshow opened its case in Dayton Ohio 4133 miles from Finland to another place the hammock number 61 in 1979 our good old pal got Fred was appointed a knight of the order of the Dannebrog what's that I hear you ask well it's essentially the Danish version of the Knights of the Garter what's that I hear you ask well it's like a knighthood except more exclusive go look it up and under the tab it's super interesting but please come back please number 62 Cal took over after his father but instead of becoming the managing director he anointed himself as CEO devil by BECU I have anointed myself CEO of this voiceover booth number 63 in 1980 Lego released that 70% of Western European families with children under 14 had Lego in their home which i think is pretty neat Nintendo 64 remember the like a road show in Ohio Waller was introduced to Denmark except it got called the Lego world show instead kinda makes sense of taking place there though but they're not being the birthplace of Lego and/or number 65 1982 welcomed the golden jubilee of Lego 50 years had passed and all the employees in Berlin celebrated the birth six-six and for the golden celebration the book 50 years of play was released which I can guarantee is a better read than 50 shades of grey number 67 Duplo updated its minifigures giving them movable arms and legs also some different skin tones and facial expressions also some differing skin tones and facial expressions and they're not scary number 68 okay so back to 1983 McDonald's that old enormous conglomerate that has been known to lead to obesity diabetes I mean happiness happiness and joy in this year they released a co promotion with Lego to create two unique 5 piece toys a duck a classic in my opinion and a sailor in a boat with no sides I want you to take some much water number 69 Oh sex bag because 69 remember the larger universe mmm oh remember how it didn't last very long at all well that was because they wanted to develop a penis detection software so that they could erase the penises that plays built-in the game but it turned out to be too expensive to monitor all them pucks that went around although that sound like a normal Friday night to me why is that so difficult so they closed the game and that's as they say is that number 17 by the way McDonald's is the leading manufacturer of toys is not really related number 71 anyway back to 1984 remember the expert builder series well they renamed it to technic you may recognize that name a little more especially since it's a longest lasting theme in the history of Lego number 72 in 1985 Lego boasted 5000 employees around the globe 3,000 of them being in the Berlin branch that's a lot of people that's like 10,000 nostrils number seventy-three light and sound sets were introduced this year to look at that police back light it's all shiny like an actual police fun just grant number seventy for the next year LEGO Technic introduced their own minifigures this was only short-lived though and I guess that's good because it's kind of creepy number 75 on the 16th of April 1986 Queen Margaret of Denmark's birthday the LEGO Group was granted the title purveyor to a Majesty the Queen she must look like her then number 76 god Fred resigned for the Lego company for good which is sad pretty early good run number 77 the first lego world cup building championships began in the same year the best of the best Lego builders came and tested their skill 38 children from 17 countries took place in the championships number 78 in 1989 the Lego educational department gets his own name and about time too it got called Lego dax-ur which derived from the Greek word atactic meaning intending to teach particularly when having moral instruction as an ulterior motive Thank You Google number 79 funnily enough until this grand old year of 89 minifigures heads only had a simple facial expression of two black dots for eyes and a black curved smile that was until the Pirates that came along not only were they produced with the are expressions they also came with wooden legs and hooks for hands at first to come away from the traditional hands and legs number 18 also in this grand old year all got his good old self inducted into the toy industry Hall of Fame for being the founder of Lego yeah and I writers and selling either number 81 and then them 90s only 90s kids remember the 90s fortunately I'm a 90s kid so we could talk about Lego in the 90s in 1990 the LEGO Group gets themselves in the top 10 largest manufacturers of toys in the world and the only one out of the 10 in Europe number 82 in the same year Legoland Billund also gets the raditch Eve Minh of getting 1 million visitors in a single year go them number 83 in 1992 the best year ever lego set two World Records and surprisingly with Lego products a castle was built with 400,000 bricks and the building of it was broadcast on Swedish television and a Lego railway was built being 545 meters in length that's 1788 point zero six feet for you Imperial measures number 84 remember the order of Dannebrog well Cal gets appointed as a knight of the order he gets to be alongside his lovely old papa number 85 in July of 1995 godfrid passed away at the ripe old age of 74 number 86 from 1995 to 96 danger composer frederick maggle was commissioned by the lego group to compose a symphonic lego Fantasia it premiered a year later at a concert in the st. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle by the London Philharmonic Orchestra number 87 in 1998 the performers recorded the performance being released to compact discs by the LEGO Group number 2 Hertz but back in 96 Lego Billund reaches 25 million visitors since its opening which is pretty neat number 89 with the release of a western-themed minifigures with racial characteristics were introduced these were titled Indians for what their members Native Americans the set included Chiefs medicine men teepees and other such paraphernalia number 90 however it wasn't until 2003 when minifigures with natural skin tones were introduced as part of a basketball set where minifigures represented real people like Shaquille O'Neal number 91 way let's go back to 1986 lego.com got officially opened doesn't it look great doesn't it just look really great looking it I bet it's so user-friendly number 92 a 700 meter square Lego imagination center was opened in the Disney village in Orlando Florida so go Lego they're getting their foot into Disney number 93 in 1998 Lego introduced their brand statement just imagine into the Lego universe number 94 ironically however Lego were actually facing a deficit for the first time ever it resulted in a whopping loss of one point four billion Danish kroner which at the time was like 220 million dollars I bet a cat stolen number 95 but they still released the raddest products of them poor Lego Mindstorm which were set that combined traditional Lego bricks and the LEGO Technic bricks the set was controlled by a master brick of which various motors and sensors could be attached to it this thing you're seeing on screen is what someone has created using the milestone set it is to Mindstorms NXT 2.0 microcomputers connecting via bluetooth utilizing 4 servo motors 2 linear actuators two ultrasonic sensors to touch sensors and two color sensors to accomplish its task I think the only word I can use to describe this whole thing is number 96 as well as the Legoland the first lego only store opens in Dartford london the first of many to come ok flagship store in London you should come because the tourist trade number 97 as of 2003 Lego had produced four billion minifigures there were at least three thousand six hundred and fifty five different minifigures produced between 1975 and 2010 and the number of new minifigures per year is increasing rapidly in 2010 more than 300 new minifigures were introduced number 98 also in 2003 Cal the points jørgen vig NOS stop as the new CEO of the company being the first CEO to not be part of the Christensen family number 99 in 2010 the world's largest Lego mosaic is assembled in the grand old city of kings er I mean London it measures fifteen point three by six point four meters and has 384 thousand Greeks and 1500 building plates in it [Music] this song made its debut with a lego movie came to cinemas in 2014 it grossed a whopping two hundred and fifty seven point eight million dollars which i think is pretty rad number 101 Lego has been a factor in everyone's lives which makes sense because there have been more than 400 billion Lego bricks produced since 1958 which means there are about 62 Lego bricks per person if the Earth's population yet not just a pretty face I've got the maths knowledge as well wake live don't put on the screen just [Music] close hey sorry you androgynous they're doing a Q&A that would put onto my fans about Lego now if you enjoyed that why don't click Subscribe and you'll get lots and lots more videos like this also be sure to tune in for our Q&A special where my friend Libby 9 will be going through some of your cues now then what's this other video that's give out appear on screen ready it's gonna be really good click I didn't see pointing what's a subscribe to

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Published: Fri Jan 27 2017