Two of my great loves...
I'll spare you the Lego related details of my childhood but the highlights included my parents buying me a $150 Castle set when I memorized my multiplication tables and nobody being able to play pool unless I had several hours notice to remove ALL my Lego sets from the table.
Anyways - Frank Lloyd Wright has had two of his famous works reproduced by Lego. The Guggenheim (where i've been) and Fallingwater (where I haven't been).
I ordered the set today (after some searching online... I can forward the site if anyone is interested) for $100 plus shipping.
Brick by brick, Lego has been building its way out of the near bankruptcy it suffered around the turn of the century. It has done this by a seemingly simple strategy — making awesome product after awesome product. Now it is releasing the almost ridiculously fitting Architecture series, beginning with the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, six planned sets including the Guggenheim in New York and Fallingwater, the iconic cantilevered waterfall-house outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Fun Lego Facts:
- Worldwide, seven boxes of Lego are sold every second.
- Heo Young-Ho of South Korea left Lego on the top of Mount Everest in 1987.
- According to Lego, even just two bricks give 24 different combinations.
- All Legos are made equal. Every brick is compatible from the first brick made in 1958 (the year before the Guggenheim was completed and Wright died) to those made today.
- The Lego minifig was born in 1974, and it took another 30 years for them to get proper, skin-colored faces when licensed figures dropped yellow for flesh-tone.
- Kids waste around 5 billion hours a year playing with Lego.
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