The Danish are known to be talented at many things, such as pillaging, riding bikes, and having the oldest flag in the world. But if there’s one thing the people from Denmark do better than anyone else, it’s create little plastic bricks that can be put together to build cool stuff.
Founded as a company that simply built wooden toys by carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen back in 1934, it wasn’t until much later that LEGO came up with the brilliant innovation of a system of interlocking plastic bricks that could be used to build basically anything.
Today you can buy LEGO sets for everything from Darth Vader heads to real-life castles to just thousands of random bricks. And by the way, reminder that the plural of LEGO is just LEGO — there is no such things as LEGOs. There are only LEGO bricks.
While the choices today are plentiful, there was a time when children only had one set that they could buy, put all the bricks together into one really tall tower, and then push it over and watch it break. Which LEGO set was the first?
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The answer is: Automatic Binding Bricks. If you decide to look around on the internet (generally speaking, not the best idea) you might find conflicting answers for this one. But the science (and LEGO’s own historical timeline) is clear — the very first set of plastic bricks released by LEGO was the Automatic Binding Bricks set, released in 1949.These were so cutting-edge that the design hadn’t been perfected, meaning if you somehow got your hands on one of these (paying at least over $3,000 to get one today, btw) it sadly wouldn’t fit with all your other bricks. The glorious system was still to come, but this was the first time you could build stuff made with LEGO bricks.Source
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