LEGO wins Speed Racer rights

LEGO have added another Warner Bros produced franchise to their collection after winning the rights to produce four playsets based on Speed Racer. The sets will include key figures from the movie and will hit the shelves around April.

Sean Kenney Interview

BBC interview with Sean Kenney, a LEGO certified professional.

Listen here.

Google LEGO Logo

Google celebrated LEGO's 50th birthday today by having a special logo made up of LEGO bricks on its home page today.



The founders of Google have admitted to having a certain fondness for LEGO, Google's first servers were "modded" with LEGO and Google has LEGO art in its office.

Billund Woodworking and Carpenter's Shop

In 1916 Ole Kirk Christiansen purchased the Billund Woodworking and Carpenter's Shop and earnt his living making houses and furniture for farmers in the region. The workshop burned down in 1924 when a fire, started by Christiansen's sons, ignited some wood shavings.


Christiansen took the opportunity of what could have been a disaster to construct a larger workshop and expand his business even further renting out most of the space and using the rest for his own shop.

Unfortunately in 1932 he nearly went bankrupt due to the Great Depression and with a lack of carpentry jobs started producing toys, mainly wooden pull toys.

Happy Birthday LEGO

50 years ago LEGO was born although it could be said that the history of LEGO begins many years earlier back in 1891 when Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of the Lego Group, was born. The woodworking shop "Billund Woodworking and Carpenter's Shop", which would eventually evolve into the LEGO group opened in Billund, Denmark.

LEGO is now one of the world's largest toy manufacturers and largest in construction toys with the world's children spending an estimated 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO.