These are Lego's original plastic bricks. Since they were hollow inside, they didn't stack together well. They were invented in 1949, and became the beginning of Lego's worldwide toy empire. But the company has just celebrated its 80th birthday.
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Looking at Lego's most impressive creations -- its giant "Star Wars" sets, its Master Builder Academy initiative, its programmable Mindstorms system -- it's easy to forget that it was 80 years ago that Ole Kirk Christiansen started a little wooden toy company in Billund, Denmark that eventually became a global behemoth.
Today, Lego is celebrating its 80th birthday, and touting its growth from a tiny outfit in a single building in Billund to the world's third-largest "producer of play materials," employing 10,000 people, many in its variety of production facilities in Europe and beyond.
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