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 and for two decades sold its toys nowhere else; its first step abroad was a licence deal in Norway in 1953.

What were the very first Lego toys made of?

Wood came first: from 1932 the workshop turned out cars, planes and pull-along animals, and it kept making wooden toys until a blaze at the factory in 1960.

What prize did Lego's founder offer in the staff competition to name his company?

As the company tells it, Ole Kirk Christiansen offered a bottle of homemade wine and then won it himself with 'Lego', which he preferred to his other idea, 'Legio'.

When a 1930s yo-yo craze ended, what did Lego's founder turn his unsold yo-yos into?

Wheels for toy trucks: he split the leftover yo-yos into halves and fitted them to a new truck, which went on to sell well.

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

Hollow tubes inside the brick, patented in January 1958, gave it a firm grip; before that, bricks were empty underneath and models did not hold together well.

Why did Lego change its brick plastic in 1963?

Less warping was the aim: the old plastic, cellulose acetate, could lose its shape and fade, while ABS keeps both its form and its colour.

Which song is the theme tune of The Lego Movie?

Everything Is Awesome, sung by Tegan and Sara with The Lonely Island, was catchy enough to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.

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 for 'double', and the two sizes still click together.

Duplo bricks are designed for children of what age?

Ages 1½ to 5 is the target: Duplo bricks are big enough for small hands to hold and much harder to swallow than ordinary bricks.

Which animal appears on the logo of Lego's Duplo bricks?

A rabbit was picked from many animal drawings; in a test, the rabbit logo went down far better than the Duplo name on its own.

The first Legoland park opened in 1968 in which town?

Billund is Lego's home town, and the park was built there because some 20,000 people a year were already turning up to see the models at the factory.

What is the Legoland area of small-scale towns and landmarks built from millions of bricks called?

Miniland began as flat moorland reshaped with thousands of lorry loads of earth; model builder Dagny Holm and her team then filled it with brick-built towns.

Roughly how many visitors did the first Legoland park attract when it opened in 1968?

About 600,000 is right: 625,000 people came that first season, roughly double what Lego expected, and on opening day executives ended up washing dishes in the restaurant.

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

25 million bricks fill Lego House, and even lunch involves them: diners build their order out of bricks, scan it, and robots send the meal out on a conveyor belt.

Which of these was among Lego's first minifigures in 1978?

A policeman was among the first minifigures in 1978; unlike Lego's earlier little figures, they had printed faces and arms and legs that could move.

Until 2003, what colour was the skin of Lego's human minifigures?

Yellow was meant to stand for no particular skin colour, so anyone could be the figure; realistic skin tones first appeared in 2003 on a set of basketball players.

How tall is a normal Lego minifigure?

A standard minifigure stands 4 centimetres tall, exactly four bricks high, a size chosen so that it would fit the scale of ordinary Lego models.

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 Lego theme of 1989 gave minifigures their first beards and other new faces?

Pirates needed more than the standard face: the designer said a real pirate captain must have an eye patch, a peg leg and a hook, so new faces and parts were made.

Castle, Town and what were Lego's first three minifigure themes in 1978?

Space completed the trio, with Castle for the past and Town for the present; its first astronauts shared one helmet design with the other two themes because new parts were hard to make.

Lego's coast guard boats, harbours and airports all belong to which long-running theme?

City grew out of the Town sets of 1978, which in turn began with a plastic street map sold in 1955 to teach children road safety.

Which movie series was behind Lego's first licensed theme, launched in 1999?

Star Wars sets arrived in 1999 alongside The Phantom Menace; the licence was first signed to run only until 2009 but has been extended again and again, as far as 2032.

What martial art do the Ninjago ninja learn from Master Wu?

Spinjitzu, a blend of 'spin' and 'ninjitsu', turns each ninja into a whirling tornado; the first toys let children act it out with minifigures that battled on spinners.

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

Lloyd Garmadon is the villain Lord Garmadon's son, and he began as a spoiled boy who let loose a tribe of evil snakes before training showed he was the Green Ninja.

In Ninjago, Kai is the Elemental Master of what?

Kai is the Elemental Master of Fire and wears red: in early tests children could not tell four black-clad ninja apart, so each one was given a colour.

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

Zane, the white ninja and Master of Ice, is a robot built by an inventor, Dr. Julien, to protect people who cannot protect themselves.

What is the Ninjago TV series that began in 2023 called?

Ninjago: Dragons Rising picks up after 'the Merge' has smashed Ninjago together with every other realm, and adds new young heroes to the team from the 2011 series.

Lego Friends is set in which made-up town?

Heartlake City is home to the Lego Friends, whose sets use slightly bigger 'mini-doll' figures; launched in 2012, the line doubled Lego's sales forecast.

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.

Which Lego line, retired in 2022, let builders program their own robots?

Mindstorms grew out of a programmable brick developed at the MIT Media Lab and took its name from the work of Seymour Papert, an MIT pioneer of teaching children to program.

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

Pins push through the holes in Technic beams to lock them side by side or let them pivot, which is how Technic models get moving joints without ordinary bricks.

Which Lego line of buildable heroes called Toa launched in 2001?

Bionicle told a long-running story about its Toa heroes and sold so well that it is credited with helping to rescue Lego from a financial crisis.

Lego Ideas began in 2008 as 'Lego Cuusoo', a trial run in which country?

Japan hosted the trial, a tie-up with a crowdsourcing site called Cuusoo; today a fan's design needs 10,000 supporters before Lego will consider making it.

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

Emmet Brickowski, voiced by Chris Pratt, turns out not to be chosen at all: the wizard admits he invented the prophecy, and Emmet saves the day anyway.

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

Lucy is the real name she finally reveals in the first film, and it sticks: in the 2019 sequel she goes by Lucy rather than Wyldstyle.

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?

Batman earned the spin-off after his supporting role in The Lego Movie three years earlier, with Will Arnett returning as his voice.

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 ancient landmark became the biggest Lego set ever when it launched in 2020 with 9,036 pieces?

The Colosseum, a 9,036-piece model of the arena in Rome, was the biggest Lego set ever on its release in late 2020, a record it lost within a year.

Before he ever made toys, Lego's founder ran a workshop that mainly built what?

Houses and furniture kept Ole Kirk Christiansen's workshop busy from 1916, until the farm slump of the early 1930s left his customers unable to pay and he turned to toys.

Which family member was running Lego when its founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, died in 1958?

His son Godtfred had been managing director for a year by then, and had already turned Lego into a 'system' in which every set fits together.

What powered Lego's first motorised trains in 1966?

Batteries came first: a 4.5-volt pack drove the 1966 trains along blue rails, and mains power fed through electric rails only followed a few years later.

In The Lego Movie, the villain's superweapon, the Kragle, turns out to be a tube of what?

Glue is all it is: the Kragle is a tube of Krazy Glue with some letters rubbed off, which Lord Business plans to use to stick the whole world in place.

What are the round bumps on top of a Lego brick called?

Studs press into the underside of the next brick, and that tight grip, which Lego calls clutch power, is what holds a model together.

Six classic two-by-four Lego bricks can be joined together in roughly how many different ways?

About 900 million is right: Lego puts the exact figure at 915,103,765, thanks to the 1958 design that lets one brick grip another in so many positions.

What is Lego's company motto, coined by its founder?

'Only the best is good enough' was the founder's rule: when a batch of toy ducks went out with two coats of varnish instead of three, he had them fetched back from the station and redone.

In 2011, where were 13 Lego kits sent to be built as part of a science program?

Space Shuttle Endeavour carried 13 Lego kits to the International Space Station in 2011, where the crew built them to see how the models behaved in microgravity and shared the results with schools.

Which life-size model, built from over 5 million Lego bricks, went on show in New York in 2013?

An X-wing starfighter built at full size took a team of 32 four months to make in the Czech Republic, then travelled to New York by ship before going on show in Times Square.

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

The Eiffel Tower set of 2022 stands 149 cm high with 10,001 parts; its arches are made from Lego roller-coaster track, and it lifts apart in sections so it can be moved.