From wooden ducks to computer controlled creations and everything plastic in between, LEGO has come a long way since the early 1930s. To highlight the 60th anniversary of the LEGO brick patent, the company has pulled together some of its most important milestones in the timeline below.
What was LEGO up to the decade you were born in? What year did flesh color faces make their debut? What were LEGO bricks originally called? When was LEGO named the toy of the century?
Check out the timeline of LEGO milestones below for all your answers and more.
Timeline reproduced with permission from The LEGO Group.
So, the launch of castle isn’t even in the official timeline anymore.
sad, isn’t it?
We certainly didn’t overlook it in our own, unofficial LEGO timeline! ;-)