Google seems to think so, changing their logo into lego bricks (at least for google.co.nz, any rate). The Lego site says the same thing.
I think I have heard before how old Lego really is, but it still surprises me. Must be one of the few toys to survive since the middle of the 20th century. Me – I remember playing with non-lego plastic construction blocks as a nipper. Lego would probably have been either too expensive or just not available here in the 1960s.
Anyway – just something mundane. Anyone got 50 year old Lego sets out there?
I’ve got some pieces in my collection that are definitely genuine Lego, but they’re really old and are slightly different from the more modern ones - I don’t think they’re as old as 50 years, but I think they might predate the switch to making them from ABS plastic in 1963.
I have a few Lego pieces from my earliest childhood that are so worn that their edges are round. Their design is different as well: the plate has square holes underneath into which the bumps on the next piece down fit, rather than the tubes of modern Lego.
I used to joke that I had Legos that were older than my roommates.
No (we did have some of that, but fairly new). The older lego I’m talking about is the same scale and pattern as modern sets, but as Sunspace describes, has square holes underneath the flat base plates, rather than the grid of circles. It’s been in the box since I was a small child, some 35 years ago, and may not have been new then. It’s not the same plastic as modern pieces - it feels sort of waxy - almost like fake ivory.
Per this Wiki, this is the anniversary of the current LEGO brick system, patented on January 28, 1958.
LEGO as a company dates to 1932. They began making plastic “Automatic Binding Bricks” in 1949, but enjoyed little success with them until the idea of a “toy system” was thought up.
