DID YOU KNOW?
Learn some BRICK-tastic and fun facts about LEGO Bricks, The LEGO Group and more!
- The LEGO® Group patented the LEGO brick on January 28, 1958
- Two eight-stud bricks can be combined 24 ways
- The first LEGO people were released in 1978 with round heads, movable arms, and bodies built from bricks
- 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked together would reach the moon
- Modern-style minifigures with printed faces and movable arms first appeared in 1978
- 36 billion LEGO bricks are produced each year — that's 68,000 every minute
- LEGO Ninjago launched in 2011 and put a whole new spin on martial-arts action
- LEGOLAND California in Carlsbad, CA, opened in 1999
- Bricks from 1958 can build with bricks made today
- There are 80 LEGO bricks for every person in the world
- Some minifigure heads get two faces painted on so you can turn them around and change the minifigure's mood!
