50 Fun Facts About Lego Trivia for Kids

The name Lego is short for a phrase meaning what?

Lego is short for 'leg godt', which means 'play well'; the company later noticed that 'lego' can also loosely be read as 'I put together' in Latin.

In which country was Lego invented?

Lego began in Denmark in 1932, in carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen's workshop in the small Jutland village that is home to the company to this day.

What were the very first Lego toys made of?

Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen made wooden piggy banks, pull toys and little vehicles from 1932.

When Lego held a competition to name the company in 1934, what was the prize?

Ole Kirk Christiansen offered a bottle of homemade wine as the prize, then chose his own entry, Lego, over his other idea 'Legio', meaning a legion of toys.

After a yo-yo craze ended in the 1930s, what did Lego's founder do with the leftover yo-yo parts?

When the yo-yo craze collapsed, Ole Kirk Christiansen reused the leftover yo-yo halves: he used them as wheels on toy trucks, at a time so lean that farmers sometimes paid him in food.

What is on the underside of a Lego brick that helps it grip other bricks, added in 1958?

Hollow tubes inside the underside, patented on 28 January 1958, grip the studs of the brick below; before the tubes were added, early bricks did not hold together well.

Since 1963, Lego bricks have been made of which plastic?

ABS is non-toxic and does not warp or fade as easily as the older plastic did.

In what year did Lego first put instruction manuals inside its sets?

Building instructions first came inside the box in 1964; Lego wheels had only arrived a couple of years earlier, in 1961 and 1962.

Duplo bricks are how many times bigger than a normal Lego brick in each direction?

Duplo bricks are twice the length, width and height of standard Lego bricks; the name comes from the Latin duplus, meaning double, and the two systems fit together.

Duplo bricks are designed for children of what age?

Duplo is aimed at children from one and a half to five years old; the bricks are big enough to be easy to hold and much harder to swallow.

In which year did Lego launch Duplo, its range of big bricks for toddlers?

Duplo launched in 1969 as a range of larger bricks for toddlers; the pieces are sized for small hands and the two systems were designed to connect.

The first Legoland park opened in 1968 in which town?

It sits right next to the original Lego factory and Billund Airport.

What is the name of the Legoland area made of miniature towns built from millions of bricks?

Miniland is the heart of every Legoland, with landmarks and towns modelled in millions of bricks; the original Legoland set the pattern for all the later parks.

How many people visited the first Legoland in its opening year?

Some 625,000 people visited the first Legoland in its opening season in 1968; the park started at about three acres and grew to more than eight times that size within twenty years.

Lego House, the visitor centre next to Lego's headquarters, is filled with roughly how many bricks?

Lego House, nicknamed the Home of the Brick, holds roughly 25 million bricks, including a 15-metre Tree of Creativity built from more than six million pieces.

In which year did the little Lego minifigure first appear?

The minifigure as we know it, with posable arms and legs and a head that can turn, debuted in 1978 and was designed by Jens Nygaard Knudsen.

Roughly how many minifigures had Lego made by 2020?

Lego has produced over 4 billion minifigures, most of them unnamed police officers, astronauts, knights and other everyday characters rather than licensed stars.

How tall is a normal Lego minifigure?

A standard minifigure stands about 4 centimetres tall, roughly four bricks high; nanofigures, used in big-scale models, are about the height of a minifigure's legs.

What did the very first minifigure faces look like?

The first minifigures all had the same simple face, two black dots and a smile, so that children's imaginations could decide who each figure was.

Which theme in 1989 got the first minifigures with beards, eye patches and different expressions?

The Pirates theme of 1989 introduced the first minifigures with new facial expressions, beards and eye patches, plus hooks and peg legs in place of hands and legs.

Of Lego's three original minifigure themes, which one represented the future?

Space stood for the future in Lego's original trio of minifigure themes, alongside Castle for the past and a theme of everyday modern life for the present.

In which year was Lego's range of police, fire and airport sets renamed City?

The police, fire and airport range was relaunched as City in 2005, after two years under the World City name, and has been one of Lego's biggest-selling themes ever since.

Which movie franchise became the first outside brand to get its own Lego sets, in 1999?

Star Wars sets tied in with The Phantom Menace in 1999, making it Lego's first licensed theme; the partnership was later extended through 2032.

What is the fictional martial art the Ninjago ninjas learn from Master Wu?

Spinjitzu is the spinning martial art Master Wu teaches the ninja; each of them is also an Elemental Master with a power of their own.

Who is the legendary Green Ninja who leads the Ninjago team?

Lloyd Garmadon is the Green Ninja, the prophesied leader of the team; he is the son of Lord Garmadon, the show's early villain, and the nephew of Master Wu.

In Ninjago, Kai is the Elemental Master of what?

Kai, the red ninja, is the Elemental Master of Fire; his younger sister Nya is the Master of Water.

Which Ninjago ninja is actually a 'nindroid', a robot?

Zane, the white ninja and Master of Ice, has a robot girlfriend called Pixal.

What is the TV series about the ninja team that started in 2023 called?

Ninjago: Dragons Rising, launched in 2023, follows a new generation of ninja after the Merge; it succeeded the original Ninjago series that began in 2011.

Lego Friends is set in which made-up town?

Lego Friends is set in Heartlake City, a fictional city; the line, launched in 2012, uses slightly bigger 'mini-doll' figures instead of regular minifigures.

Which of these was one of the five original Lego Friends characters?

Andrea, Emma, Mia, Olivia and Stephanie were replaced by a new, more diverse cast in 2023.

In which year did Lego launch Mindstorms, its programmable robot kits?

Mindstorms launched in 1998 with the RCX programmable brick, developed with the MIT Media Lab; the line ran until the end of 2022.

Which special pieces hold Lego Technic beams together through their holes?

Technic pins push through the holes in beams and hold them together; the line started in 1977 as 'Expert Builder' and got the Technic name in 1982.

In which year did Lego launch Bionicle, its line of buildable hero figures?

Bionicle launched in 2001 as a Technic sub-line of buildable Toa heroes with its own story; its success helped pull Lego out of deep financial trouble.

On the Lego Ideas website, how much of the money from a set does the fan who designed it receive?

A fan whose design becomes a Lego Ideas set receives 1% of the set's net sales; the platform began in Japan in 2008 as Lego Cuusoo, from a word meaning 'daydream'.

In The Lego Movie, who is the ordinary construction worker everyone believes is 'the Special'?

Emmet Brickowski, voiced by Chris Pratt, is the cheerful construction worker mistaken for the Special; Morgan Freeman voices the wizard Vitruvius.

In The Lego Movie, what is Wyldstyle's real name?

Wyldstyle, the master builder who rescues the hero, admits her real name is Lucy; she was voiced by Elizabeth Banks.

In The Lego Movie, what can Master Builders do?

Master Builders can build anything without instructions, improvising from whatever bricks are around; Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are Master Builders, while the hero at first is not.

Which superhero got his own Lego movie in 2017?

The Lego Batman Movie, with Will Arnett as Batman, came out in February 2017; The Lego Ninjago Movie followed the same year.

On the TV show Lego Masters, what do the teams do?

Lego Masters teams compete to build the best project in timed challenges judged by Lego experts; the format began in Britain in 2017 and has been adapted in many countries.

Which huge Lego set, announced in 2020, had 9,036 pieces?

The Colosseum, released in late 2020 with 9,036 pieces, was then the largest Lego set ever made; the Titanic overtook it a year later with 9,090 pieces.

Before Lego bricks, the founder's company mainly built what?

Ole Kirk Christiansen bought the carpentry shop in 1916 and built houses and furniture; the slump of the early 1930s pushed him into making toys instead.

Which family member later ran Lego after founder Ole Kirk Christiansen died in 1958?

Godtfred had the idea of making Lego a 'system' where all the sets fit together.

What year did Lego trains first chug onto the tracks?

Lego trains arrived in 1966, with sets that had a 4.5-volt motor, a battery box and blue rails.

What kind of animal was the 'brickvac' toy from 1993 that scooped Lego pieces off the floor?

The same year Duplo got its first train.

The first Legoland is its country's biggest tourist attraction outside which city?

The original Legoland is the largest tourist attraction in its country outside Copenhagen, the capital, having welcomed more than 50 million visitors since it opened in 1968.

In 1992, a castle built on Swedish TV set a Guinness record using how many bricks?

The castle, built from 400,000 bricks on Swedish television, earned a Guinness record in 1992, the same year as a 545-metre Lego railway with three locomotives.

What is Lego's motto, created by its founder in 1936?

'Only the best is good enough' was Ole Kirk Christiansen's 1936 motto, hung as a sign in the workshop so that his workers would never skimp on quality.

In 2011, where did astronauts assemble 13 Lego kits for a science program?

Space Shuttle Endeavour carried 13 Lego kits to the International Space Station in 2011 as part of the Lego Bricks in Space program; the astronauts built them inside a sealed glovebox.

Which life-size model, built from over 5 million bricks, was unveiled in New York in 2013?

The Star Wars X-wing fighter, built from more than 5.3 million bricks and weighing about 20 tonnes, was unveiled in Times Square in May 2013 to promote The Yoda Chronicles.

Which 2022 Lego set stands 149 cm high, taller than any set before it?

The Eiffel Tower set of 2022 stands 149 cm high and has 10,001 parts, second only to the 11,695-piece World Map for piece count at the time.