How was LEGO invented?

Welcome back to History's Not Boring by Kidopoly.com with your hosts, Mira and Finn! Have you ever built a towering castle, a spaceship, or a super-fast race car out of colorful plastic bricks? Of course you have! But did you know that the world's most famous toy actually started out made of wood?! Join us as we travel all the way back to Denmark in 1932 to meet Ole Kirk Christiansen! He was a humble carpenter who just loved making toys. In fact, he named his workshop LEGO, which comes from the Danish words for "play well"! But Ole's journey to success wasn't easy. He nearly went bankrupt twice and had to overcome huge challenges before finally switching to the snap-together plastic bricks we know and love in 1949. How did a tiny wooden workshop survive to become the biggest toy company on the entire planet? And how did they go from carving wooden ducks to selling billions of plastic bricks every single year and opening massive Legoland theme parks?! Grab your favorite building blocks and tune in to find out!