Brick Fetish 3rd ed

Imprint Brick Fetish (def.) is a narrative timeline of the history of LEGO®: the company, their toys and the Kirk Christiansen family (q.v.). It is also a repository of set images, catalogs, ads and promotional literature, idea books, patents, photographs, and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on.

See the table of contents (← to your left) for more information. If you are still looking where to start, try the beginning, or, for the really good stuff, try the Archive.


Third Edition, Third printing, with additions and corrections.

Preface

Part IThe Timeline

Overview — Lego history, from the dawn of time to 1973
1891 — The Kirk Christiansens
1916 — Billund Maskinsnedkeri og Tømreforretning
1932 — Wooden Toys
1934 — LEGO
1940 — World War II
1947 — Kiddicraft
1949 — The Automatic Binding Brick
1950 — Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
1952 — Lego Mursten
1953 — Export
1955 — System i Leg
1956 — Germany
1957 — Jubilee Year
1958 — The Lego System
1959 — Bilofix
1960 — The End of the Wooden Toys
1961 — Samsonite
1962 — Bilofix Revisited
1962 — The Wheel
1963 — Modulex
1964 — The Airport
1965 — Gear Wheels
1966 — The Lego Train
1967 — The New Scale
1968 — Legoland

Part IIThe Archive

Archive — All of the materials in the vast Brick Fetish collection.
Set-o-matic — A visual guide to the sets in the collection.
Supplementariat — The Supplementary sets.
Catalog-a-rama — A visual guide to the catalogs in the collection.

Appendices

Lego Sales Companies

Bibliography

Colophon

Contact