LEGO Brick 50th Anniversary

An anonymous reader writes "'The LEGO brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58pm today. This cool timeline shows these fifty years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the Legoland themed sets to Technic and Mindstorms NXT, as well as all kind of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.'" Of course, it all peaked in 1979 with the space set. These kids these days with their bionacle. bah.

Re:too many custom parts.

[kryten_nl]

"LEGO, training future IKEA customers since somewhere-in-the-eighties."

Re:Anonymous?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, I sent it.

Re:Lego people

[shish]

If you ever see a "white" person the same colour a lego model, I suggest you refer them to a doctor ASAP...

innovation? assembly?

[apodyopsis]

by selling a set with a plan to building the shape/figure on the front surely they are removing the element of innovation.

we used to get it by the box and be forced to think from day one about what we could build with it.

my civil engineering degree started with a room full of teenage would be engineers faced with huge amounts of Lego and a semi-serious challenge. whoever could build the lightest bridge out of the least bricks that would allow a 2kg train roll over it won the box of chocolates for their team. it broke the ice and got everybody talking to each other, lots of bridges collapsed in the testing zone that day.

and it got to engineers used to a career of sitting at a desk thinking about consuming chocolate.

Timeline is wrong!

[cvd6262]

The gray castle pictured as the first (1984) castle set is incorrect.

It should be this yellow one: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/375_2 [lugnet.com]

Why do I remember this? Because I was so green with jealously as I watched my older brother assesemble the one he got for his birthday. Oooo, how I hated that castle.

Re:Lego people

[91degrees]

Having proportions where you're roughly twice as high as you are wide and hands that rotate 360 degrees is also a little freaky.

Re:Before the idiotic "legos" starts appearing...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes but on the other hand, piss off you pedantic bastard.

How much did I like Lego?

[British]

My xmas present from my mom was the 8880 super car. The be-all-end-all of realistic cars at the time from Technic. 4 wheel steering, 4 speed tranny, all wheel drive. She hid it from me in the coat closet(I never found it).

The embarassing thing about it: I was 18.

Re:computer case

[Anonymous Coward]

Pics or it didn't happen.

Self Replicating Automaton

[Plazmid]

April 19th, 2011, some kids build a self-replicating automaton out of Lego. By 2015 50% of Earth's surface has been converted into Lego blocks. By 2020, they become self-aware.

Re:Google has also noticed

[Anonymous Coward]

Well this is LEGO we're talking about. Surely they could withstand a DoS by simply plugging more server bricks on.

Re:The space set was awesome!

[0racle]

Ya, you sure put that punk ass kid in his place.

Re:too many custom parts.

[morari]

I remember learning that trick from seeing a few Megablock sets. Let me tell you, that's the only good to have ever come out of Megablocks. Even their own pieces didn't fit together correctly, let alone when mixed with LEGOs. Furthermore, they were cheap and broke easily. Eventually my brother and I went through our entire block collection (about ten of those big plastic storage tubs you'd get at Wal-Mart) and purged it of Megablocks. That era was henceforth known as the Block Inquisition throughout our bedroom-sized LEGO city.

Re:too many custom parts.

[beav007]

"LEGO, training future IKEA customers since somewhere-in-the-eighties."

It's been a while since I've been to school, but being the 50th anniversary, I would suggest that we would looking somewhere in the late 50s.

Re:Google has also noticed

[HiggsBison]

Well this is Slashdot. Given the popularity of Lego bricks amongst the slashdotters, a good slashdotting would likely brick Lego's servers.