I’ve always been a Lego fan, since when my grandmother gave me my first lego back in 1979 (this one!)
Then i grew up, and as a teenager there is no way you’d admit to anyone that you still like lego (right?!?) and i “forgot” about Lego for a very long time. Until i turned 27ish… then the latent kid-side turned on suddenly, thanks to the RIS 1.0 (that gave me the perfect excuse to buy a Lego set: i had to have it as you could build robotics inventions and program those with a computer!).. and so this is how i got back into my child-hood and started to collect Legos as i used to in the ’80s.
But how big is Lego? how popular is it? I’ve been searching some interesting stats and facts and here is the most affascinating ones i’ve discovered.
LEGO stats:
- 400.000.000.000 – There have been 400 billion LEGO elements made in the 50 years of the brick (since 1958).
- 4.000.000.000 – Four billion mini-figures have been made since 1978. – this means that every 100 lego bricks created, 1 is a mini-fig!
- 915,103,765 – Six eight-stud Lego bricks of the same colour can be put together in 915,103,765 ways, and just three bricks of the same colour offer 1,560 combinations. The figure of 102,981,500 is often given for six pieces, but it is incorrect. The number 102,981,504 (four more than that figure) is the number of six-piece towers (of a height of six).
- 306,000,000 – The LEGO Group is the world’s largest tire producer, with an annual production of 306 millions.
- 62 – There are enough LEGO bricks in the world for each human to own 62.
- 32 – “Legot” (or “leegot”), plural form of “lego” (or “leego”) is also used as a Finnish slang term for human teeth (32), because of the rectangular shape of the teeth.
- 7 – LEGO sets sell somewhere in the world every second.
- 7 – It takes about 7 seconds in the mould for a LEGO element to cool from 232 degrees celcius.
- 5 – End to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would go around the word 5 times.