LEGO's 50th anniversary

Today is LEGO's 50th birthday, or rather the anniversary of the patent approval for the original brick. Joel Johnson has more at Boing Boing Gadgets, including a timeline of LEGO technology advances. From LEGO.com:

The LEGO history began in 1932 in Denmark, when Ole Kirk Christansen founded a small factory for wooden toys in the unknown town of Billund in the south of the country. To find a name for his company he organized a competition among his employees. As fate would have it however, he himself came up with the best name: LEGO – a fusion of the Danish words “LEg” and “GOdt” (“play well”).

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[#1 posted by Jeff , January 28, 2008 10:11 AM]

Google has a very cute little Lego logo.

[#2 posted by Haldor , January 28, 2008 10:28 AM]

Best toy EVER!

[#3 posted by Moon , January 28, 2008 10:52 AM]

Am I the only one feeling LEGO-ed out?

/A shout out to Sparkdale in the steampunk thread!

[#4 posted by roguecnidarian , January 28, 2008 11:31 AM]

It figures: the same inscrutable Scandinavian minds that brought us the flat-pack to-it-yourself furniture would be the same ones that made the snap-together building toy!

IKEA: legos for adults?

Nah--no one ever really grows out of LEGOs.

[#5 posted by racer x , January 28, 2008 4:15 PM]

I just heard on NPR that they had to sell Legoland because they haven't been doing very well. That sucks for it to be on their birthday.

[#6 posted by Suburban Kamikaze , March 12, 2008 5:04 PM]

The hardest part of being a mom is knowing when to Lego:

http://suburbankamikaze.typepad.com/suburban_kamikaze/2008/03/the-hardest-par.html