50th anniversary of the LEGO brick

Happy Birthday LEGO!!50th Anniversary brick.

Lego is a line of building toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Denmark.

The Lego Group had a very humble beginning in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark. Christiansen began creating wooden toys in 1932; the company began calling itself "Lego" two years later in 1934. The company expanded to producing plastic toys in 1947. In 1949, Lego began producing the now-famous interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks".

The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well".

One hobby among enthusiasts is to make short movies or recreations of feature films using Lego bricks. Such movies are called "Lego movies", "Brickfilms", "Legomations", "Brick Flicks" and "cinema Lego". They usually use stop motion animation.

Lego bricks have been used to recreate many music videos. Examples include a re-dubbed version of the song "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone, and "Feuer frei!" by Rammstein.

LEGO 50th Anniversary Brick Timeline