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Everything is awesome! Emmet's 70-year epic

When an ordinary, uncreative LEGO® minifigure is mistaken for the Special — a figure prophesied to save the LEGO world — an epic adventure begins. But that adventure is built on LEGO's own epic past, which starts 70 years before Emmet …

1934

Ole Kirk Kristiansen's Denmark-based business of fashioning ladders, ironing boards, stools — and wooden toys — takes the name LEGO, from the Danish words "LEg GOdt" ("play well").1

1949

LEGO produces around 200 different plastic and wooden toys, including Automatic Binding Bricks, a forerunner of today's LEGO bricks.1

1951

The first film about LEGO is shot by photographer Christian Lund. The silent movie is in black and white.1

1955

With the word LEGO officially registered in Denmark the previous year, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the founder's son and company VP, helps launch the revolutionary "LEGO System of Play."1

1956

LEGO's first human figures appear. These motorcyclists and bicyclists are single pieces — rider and vehicle — with no moving parts. They look nothing like today's minifigs.1

1958

The current LEGO stud-and-tube coupling system is patented, and the LEGO brick we know today is introduced.1

1968

LEGOLAND® opens in Billund, Denmark, attracting 3,000 visitors on opening day and 625,000 in its first season.1

1978

Minifigures! LEGO introduces figures with simple faces and movable arms and legs. Among the first minifigs are spacemen with helmets and oxygen tanks.1

1980s

The LEGO® Movie writer/directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller grow up playing with LEGOs. "We'd build spaceships and all kinds of crazy things, but it wasn't just the building, it was the infinite possibilities of things to make and express that was so irresistible and exciting," says Miller.2

2010

The online game LEGO Universe launches.1

2014

Warner Bros. Pictures presents The LEGO® Movie, the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO adventure.

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