I still play with them. That’s the advantage of having children. You can still play with their toys and be cool. Here is a little bit of information for you neophytes.
LEGO brick curiosities
• There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants.
• Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• More than 400 million people around the world have played with LEGO bricks.
• LEGO bricks are available in 53 different colors.
• 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year.
• 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.
• More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.
• Two eight-stud LEGO bricks of the same color can be combined in 24 different ways.
• Three eight-stud bricks can be combined in 1,060 ways.
• There are more than 915 million combinations possible for six 2 x 4 LEGO bricks of the same color.
• 7 LEGO sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.
• The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.
• 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked on top of one another would connect the earth with the moon.
Jack says
Fee,
So very true.
feefifoto says
…Lego bricks hurt like the dickens when you step on them without shoes
Jack says
Misanthrope,
Lincoln Logs were one of the great joys of my life.
Gila,
Nah, you are really old. 😉
Gila says
So that is why Google has the header made of legos!
I had lincoln logs AND legos.
So I am sorta old.
Gila
The Misanthrope says
I must be too old because I never had Legos; only Lincoln Logs.