User:Legoland/lego

Lego is a toy company based in Denmark. Its main product line, also called lego, consists of many colourful,plastic elements that come in many shapes and sizes. The element are desinged to be built with. Possible constructions include planes, cars, houses, trains, spaceships and much much more. The main nine lego blocks can be used to create a person known as a minifigure. Lego is similiar to the Danish word

Early History
In the 1800s, Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from billund, purchased a workshop that had been made in 1567. He made furniture for the local people, who were mostly carpenters. The workshop burnt down in 1924 although Ole Kirk took this as an oppurtunity to construct a larger one. A few years later, when the great deppression hit Denmark, he began to create miniature versions of the models he made to minimize spending costs. This inspired him to create toys.

In 1932, the company began producing toys. His shop became popular alhough the toys were to expensive for most people to afford. Due to this, he had to continue producing furniture as well. One of his first peroids of great sucsess was during the yo-yo fad in the mid 1930's.

In 1934, the company changed its name to lego.

By 1947, plastic was becoming cheap and common. To keep up with the times, the company began making plastic toys.

NOT FINISHED YET

I am trying to extend the lego section of wikipedia.