Did you know these fun LEGO facts?
More than 400
billion LEGO® bricks have been produced since 1949.
The LEGO® minifigure
represents the world's largest population of people! Over 4 billion minifigures
have been produced in the last 30 years. This is almost 12 times the population
of the United States!
LEGO® minifigures
are out of this world, literally. The 2 Mars Rovers have an image of the LEGO®
minifigure etched into their front grill.
Approximately 7
LEGO® sets are sold each second.
There are about
62 LEGO® bricks for every one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants.
Laid end to end,
the number of LEGO® bricks sold in a year would reach more than 5 times around
the world.
There are 915
million ways to combine six eight-stud LEGO® bricks.
Children around
the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO® bricks.
With a production
of about 306 million tires produced a year, the LEGO® group is the largest
producer of tires in the world.
LEGO® is the
contraction of two Danish words, "leg godt" which means "play
well".
There are about
62 LEGO® bricks for every one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants.
19 billion LEGO®
elements are produced every year. 2.16 million LEGO® elements are molded every
hour, or 36,000 per minute.
The LEGO KidsFest
is a giant traveling LEGO expo coming to Milwaukee’s Frontier Airlines Center June 15
– 17, 2012. This
hands-on, educational, all-ages LEGO extravaganza features millions of LEGO
bricks not to mention lots of construction zones, dozens of life-sized LEGO
models and displays, LEGO Ninjago and LEGO Games, group builds such as Creation
Nation, live LEGO Master Builders, and so much more covering three acres of
space.
Five identical
Sessions are available. Tickets are $18
for kids and $20 for adults.
Stay tuned Friday morning for a giveaway good for TWO tickets to LEGO KidsFest Milwaukee!!




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