The Best Thing To Ever Come Out of Denmark

No, it's not Helena Christensen. It's Lego bricks. Is there any better toy than legos? I submit there is not. I spent an inordinate amount of time as a kid playing with legos, and still get a kick out of those little plastic bricks and minifigures.

As you probably guessed by now, legos were created in Denmark. Ole Kirk Christiansen started building wooden toys in 1932 and started calling the company "Lego" in 1934 (which comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well"). The first plastic bricks were manufactured in 1949. Lego toys have gone from buildings, to spaceships, to knights and castles, to tie-ins such as Spider-Man. There are now four Legoland amusement parks and several Lego stores, including one in the Mall of America. If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, you can find various Lego-based video games and movies such as the one below.