Lego is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Its pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Assembled Lego models can be taken apart, and their pieces can be reused to create new constructions.
Hilary Fisher Page's Interlocking Building Cubes by Kiddicraft, 1939
Boy from the UK playing with Lego in 1957. First sold in Denmark, the company expanded its sales across Europe in the 1950s, before expanding outside the continent from the 1960s.
The home factory at Højmarksvej, Billund, Denmark (pictured in 1973)
Lego bricks
A construction set is a standardized piece assortment allowing for the construction of various different models. Construction sets are most often marketed as toys. A popular longtime construction set toy brand is Lincoln Logs.
Kiddicraft and Lego building blocks in different colors.
Lego bricks are a construction set example.
Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C 60 Fullerene.
1970s No. 2 Meccano set
