BROOKINGS – Lego Man visited the Brookings Public Library as part of Lego Week and showed the kids (and some adults) his collection of Legos, which is the largest in Colorado, and let them use their imaginations to invent and build musical instruments out of the classic toy.
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BROOKINGS – Lego Man visited the Brookings Public Library as part of Lego Week and showed the kids (and some adults) his collection of Legos, which is the largest in Colorado, and let them use their imaginations to invent and build musical instruments out of the classic toy. Then they had a parade with their instruments.
Above, Lego Man (aka Curtis Mork) shows Jack Kollars the MTT Transport from Star Wars Episode I. “The first Lego set I ever owned,” Mork said.
A few dozen kids dug into piles of Legos to construct their inventions. Below, building their creations were Kaden Mertz, left, and Kennedy Livingston.
Legos have been around for more than 90 years, Lego Man told the kids. Legos were started in Denmark by the family that still owns it, he added.
They started with wooden toys like cars and trucks, but kids got bored with them, so the company knew they needed to come up with something the kids could build with. Plastic came into the mainstream about that time, and they decided to make blocks. They kept refining them until they came up with the Lego brick, which is 60 years old this year, Lego Man said.
Lego people turn 40 years old this year.
“There now more Lego people than there are people on earth,” Lego Man said. Next year Lego Star Wars will turn 20 years old, he added.
Lego Man answered some questions from the audience, including what was the first Lego Star Wars set produced. He said they came out with 13 sets the first year and added the kids could go to brickset.com to check out every Lego set.
