50 Fun Facts About Lego Trivia for Kids

The name Lego comes from two Danish words that mean what?

The company later found out that 'lego' also loosely means 'I put together' in Latin.

In which country was Lego invented?

It started in 1932 in a carpenter's workshop in a small town in Jutland.

What were the very first Lego toys made of?

Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen made wooden piggy banks, pull toys and little vehicles from 1932.

When Lego held a competition to name the company in 1934, what was the prize?

The founder nearly picked 'Legio', meaning a legion of toys, before settling on Lego.

After a yo-yo craze ended in the 1930s, what did Lego's founder do with the leftover yo-yo parts?

Money was so tight then that the workshop sometimes accepted food from farmers as payment.

What is on the underside of a Lego brick that helps it grip other bricks, added in 1958?

Before the tubes were added, the early bricks did not stick together well enough.

Lego bricks used to be made of cellulose acetate. Since 1963 they have been made of which plastic?

ABS is non-toxic and does not warp or fade as easily as the older plastic did.

In what year did Lego first put instruction manuals inside its sets?

Lego wheels had only arrived a couple of years earlier, in 1961 and 1962.

Duplo bricks are how many times bigger than a normal Lego brick in each direction?

The name comes from the Latin duplus, meaning double, and the two systems still fit together.

Duplo bricks are designed for children of what age?

Their size makes them easier to hold and much harder to swallow.

In which country are Duplo bricks made?

The factory is in the city of Nyíregyháza.

The first Legoland park opened in 1968 in which town?

It sits right next to the original Lego factory and Billund Airport.

What is the name of the Legoland area made of miniature towns built from millions of bricks?

Every Legoland built since is modelled on the original park.

How many people visited the first Legoland in its opening year?

The park started at three acres and grew to more than eight times that size over twenty years.

Lego House, the visitor centre next to Lego's headquarters, is filled with roughly how many bricks?

It is nicknamed the Home of the Brick and includes a Lego museum.

In which year did the little Lego minifigure first appear?

The first ones had a single head with a smiling face and posable arms and legs.

Roughly how many minifigures had Lego made by 2020?

Most of them are unnamed police officers, astronauts, pirates and other everyday characters.

How tall is a normal Lego minifigure?

Nanofigures are tiny versions about the height of a minifigure's legs.

What did the very first minifigure faces look like?

Lego wanted children's imaginations to decide who each figure was.

Which theme in 1989 got the first minifigures with beards, eye patches and different expressions?

Some older fans grumbled that the new faces looked too cartoonish.

Lego's three original minifigure themes stood for past, present and future. Which was the future?

Castle was the past and Town was the present.

Before it was renamed City in 2005, what was the theme with police, fire and airport sets called?

For two years in between it was briefly called Lego World City.

Which movie franchise became the first outside brand to get its own Lego sets, in 1999?

The sets tied in with The Phantom Menace, and the licence now runs until 2032.

What is the fictional martial art the Ninjago ninjas learn from Master Wu?

Each ninja is an Elemental Master with a power of their own.

Who is the legendary Green Ninja who leads the Ninjago team?

He is the son of Lord Garmadon, the show's early villain.

In Ninjago, Kai is the red ninja and Elemental Master of what?

His younger sister Nya is the Master of Water.

Which Ninjago ninja is actually a 'nindroid', a robot?

Zane, the white ninja and Master of Ice, has a robot girlfriend called Pixal.

What is the TV series about the ninja team that started in 2023 called?

Ninjago was the first ninja theme since the original Lego Ninja line ended in 2000.

Lego Friends is set in which made-up town?

The line uses slightly bigger 'mini-doll' figures instead of regular minifigures.

Which of these was one of the five original Lego Friends characters?

Andrea, Emma, Mia, Olivia and Stephanie were replaced by a new, more diverse cast in 2023.

What job does the 'Smart Brick' do in a Lego Mindstorms creation?

Mindstorms kits ran from 1998 until the end of 2022 and had no single model to build.

Lego Technic sets are known for special pieces like gears, axles and what?

Technic started in 1977 as 'Expert Builder' and got its name in 1982.

Bionicle figures were mainly aimed at children of what ages?

The line launched in 2001 as part of Technic and helped rescue Lego from money trouble.

On the Lego Ideas website, how much of the money from a set does the fan who designed it receive?

The site started in Japan in 2008 as Lego Cuusoo, from a word meaning 'daydream'.

In The Lego Movie, who is the ordinary construction worker everyone believes is 'the Special'?

He is voiced by Chris Pratt, and Morgan Freeman voices the wizard Vitruvius.

In The Lego Movie, what is the Kragle really?

Lord Business wants to use it to glue the whole Lego universe in place forever.

In The Lego Movie, what can Master Builders do?

Wyldstyle and Batman are Master Builders; Emmet, at first, is not.

Which superhero got his own Lego movie in 2017?

The Lego Ninjago Movie came out the same year.

On the TV show Lego Masters, what do the teams do?

It began in Britain in 2017 and now has versions in many countries.

Which huge Lego set, announced in 2020, had 9,036 pieces?

The Titanic beat it a year later with 9,090 pieces, and the Eiffel Tower reached 10,001.

Before Lego bricks, the founder's company mainly built what?

He bought the carpentry shop in 1916, long before any toys were made there.

Which family member later ran Lego after founder Ole Kirk Christiansen died in 1958?

Godtfred had the idea of making Lego a 'system' where all the sets fit together.

What year did Lego trains first chug onto the tracks?

The first sets had a 4.5-volt motor, a battery box and rails.

What kind of animal was the 'brickvac' toy from 1993 that scooped Lego pieces off the floor?

The same year Duplo got its first train.

The first Legoland is the biggest tourist attraction in its country outside which capital city?

More than 50 million guests have visited since it opened.

In 1992, a castle built on Swedish TV set a Guinness record using how many bricks?

The same year saw a 545-metre Lego railway with three locomotives.

What is Lego's motto, created by its founder in 1936?

Ole Kirk Christiansen wanted his workers never to skimp on quality.

In 2011, astronauts built Lego kits where, to see how bricks behave without gravity?

The Space Shuttle Endeavour carried 13 kits up as part of the Lego Bricks in Space program.

The biggest Lego model ever, shown in New York in 2013, was a life-size what?

It used more than 5 million bricks.

Which Lego set from 2022 is the tallest, standing 149 cm high?

It has 10,001 parts, second only to the World Map set for piece count.