LEGO®LEGO®History

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A LEGO® wooden duck
An isometric image of a 2x4 LEGO® brick
The current LEGO® logo
LEGO® Wooden Single Bus, from 1949

LEGO® Wooden Toys 1932 – 1959

LEGO® plastic fish

LEGO® Plastic Products 1949 – 1958

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1890-1929

  1. Billund in the early 1900s

    Ole Kirk Kristiansen settles in Billund

  2. Journeyman's certificate

    Ole Kirk Kristiansen's childhood and youth

  3. first product line from 1932

    A new reality

  4. Ole Kirk typing a typewriter

    Dealing with the crisis

  5. three generations of the owner family

    Kristiansen or Christiansen

  6. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen sitting with bricks in his hand

    Godtfred Kirk Christiansen

1930-1939

  1. Ole Kirk reconstructing the wooden duck

    The beginning of the LEGO Group

  2. sign with company motto

    A new milling machine

  3. Model builder Dagny Holm posing with one of her creations

    Dagny Holm

  4. Model of a LEGO train from 1966

    LEGO® trains

1940-1949

  1. The wooden workshop destroyed by fire

    Disaster strikes

  2. a baby's rattle shaped like a fish

    Entering the age of plastics

  3. Two red Automatic Binding Bricks

    Automatic Binding Bricks

  4. open box of LEGO plastic building bricks for preschoolers

    Early experiments with preschool products

  5. Aerial view of LEGO factory in Billund

    Molding factories in Billund

1950-1959

  1. LEGO mould from 1958

    New technologies

  2. Employee measuring a LEGO® brick

    Quality in every detail

  3. A grey LEGO Ferguson tractor

    The LEGO® Ferguson tractor

  4. Image of a LEGO Town Plan

    LEGO® System in Play

  5. Drawing of two LEGO bricks

    The stud and tube principle

  6. LEGOLAND® Town bus and bus stop

    LEGO® City

  7. The Reykjalundur facility in Iceland

    An unusual partnership in Iceland

  8. Norwegian child playing with toys

    Earliest sales and manufacture outside Denmark

  9. LEGO sales office in Sweden

    Earliest export

  10. Old railway building

    Early expansion

  11. People operating machines

    Mold production in Billund

  12. Aerial view of factory

    Mold production outside Billund

  13. worn out mould

    Disposal of obsolete moulds

1960-1969

  1. Children playing with DUPLO bricks

    Further development of the system

  2. Two LEGO train wagons hinged together

    Focus on product development

  3. LEGO car from the 1960s

    Developing the LEGO® wheel

  4. Child playing with LEGO DUPLO bricks

    LEGO® DUPLO

  5. Photo from the construction of the LEGOLAND park in Billund

    The first LEGOLAND park

  6. LEGO owner Godtfred Kirk Christiansen with a brick built model of an airport terminal

    From private airfield to international airport

  7. groundbreaking ceremony

    Production of LEGO® bricks in North America

  8. rows of moulding machines

    The LEGO® moulding philosophy

1970-1979

  1. White LEGO Space minifigure

    Role Play

  2. employees manually packing LEGO sets

    Pre-pack bags

  3. A blue LEGO car with a white caravan

    The LEGOLAND range

  4. outside the LEGO Group's premises in the US

    A modern, international company

  5. various LEGO Space sets

    LEGO® Space

  6. small LEGO Castle set from the late 1970s

    LEGO® Castle

  7. LEGO FABULAND gas station including two characters and a truck

    LEGO® FABULAND

  8. Main entrance of a LEGO factory

    LEGO® molding in Switzerland

  9. Machine from a Danish factory

    Danish LEGO® factories outside Billund

1980-1989

  1. Image of a built LEGO Pirates set

    LEGO® Pirates

  2. LEGO Education set

    LEGO® Education

  3. exterior of a LEGO factory in South Korea

    LEGO® factories in South Korea

  4. Front of the LEGO factory in Brazil

    Production in Brazil

1990-1999

  1. a brightly coloured red entrance to the LEGO factory in Kladno

    Setting up in the Czech Republic

2000-2009

  1. Small LEGO Architecture set of the Paris skyline

    LEGO® Architecture

  2. Aerial view of Flextronics factory in Hungary

    Outsourcing and Insourcing

  3. LEGO models outside factory in Mexico

    LEGO® production in Mexico

  4. entrance

    Establishing production in Hungary

  5. LEGO Vikings set

    LEGO® Vikings

2010-2019

  1. Aerial view of factory

    Returning to Asia

  2. LEGO maze

    LEGO® Ideas

  3. Ninjago Fire Temple

    LEGO® NINJAGO

2020-2029