Life is funny as our children grow up and become adults how they still navigate to certain toys from there childhood and even adults do as well. In our home it’s Lego and hot wheels. How about your home? Although I hated finding Legos on the floor and stepping on them in the middle of the night. Have you done this?
One thing I can say is Legos have changed since Charlie was a toddler and instead if costing a few bucks some kits are hundreds of dollars and geared towards adults like this set from Friends the tv show which showcases The Friends Apartment or the Record Plays and TV set I would like to have it they didn’t cost so much which is crazy expensive.
Lego is colorful bricks that have entertained children and even adults around the world for nearly 70 years. Lego is used to make toy buildings, vehicles, creatures, machines, and sometimes imaginable. Legos can be taken apart and put back together as often as you’d like which means Legos offers us endless creative play.
LEGO DAY ACTIVITIES
- Plan to visit a Legoland theme park which is located in Carlsbad, California, and Winter Haven, Florida. There’s also a Legoland Discovery Center in Tempe, Arizona. If you’re looking for more of a day trip, you can visit one of the 132 Lego retail stores across America.
- Watch The Lego Movie (2014) or The sequel, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, which was released 5 years later in 2019. You can also head over to YouTube and watch a Lego creator build breathtaking structures.
FACTS ABOUT LEGO
- Two eight-pipped Lego bricks can be combined 24 different ways. The number goes up exponentially with the addition of other bricks; only six of the same bricks can be combined in over 900 million unique ways.
- Lego makes 400 million tires a year for its various vehicles, far outstripping any real-life tire maker.
- The UK’s James May built a house out of 3.3 million bricks and the house contained a working toilet, shower, and bed.
- That iconic hole in the head of a Lego minifigure is not there, as many of us suspected as kids, so you can attach a head to a brick. It’s there so a child can continue to breathe in case he or she accidentally swallows it.
- The injection molds used in creating Lego have tolerances of less than two micrometers meaning that today’s Lego still fit perfectly with those from 60 years ago.
WHY WE LOVE LEGO DAY
- Research suggests that Lego and other construction toys can improve a wide range of mental aptitudes in young children, including spatial intelligence and hand-eye coordination.
- A Lego set isn’t one toy it’s hundreds of toys! Lego has some of the best “mileage” out of any toy on the market. It’ll be years before your child can exhaust all the possibilities of even a small Lego set.
- The Lego Group has made Lego bricks since 1949 and the company rebounded from a major sales slump in the early 2000s, becoming the world’s most valuable toy company. Lego is also the world’s most powerful brand. All this, while remaining privately held and run by the same family that founded Lego.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
