The Story of LEGO: How It All Started 📖 | LEGO Mini Movie | LEGO

You've probably seen one of these. A Lego brick.

But have you ever wondered how it all started, and why it's called Lego?

Actually, the name is much older than this plastic brick.

Are you curious?

Let me tell you how it all began. (BIRDS CHIRPING)

Many years ago, there was a skilled and hard-working carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen.

Ole was a respected carpenter with his own company.

But times were hard. So he didn't have much money and had to dismiss his last worker.

(DOOR KNOCKS) OLE: Come on in.

I've closed down the workshop and packed my things.

(SIGHS) Thank you.

I suppose that I better write you a paycheck.

(DRAWER CLOSES)

Take care.

Well, that was the last one.

I just didn't imagine it would come to this.

I know, it's hard to understand...

but at least now it can't get much worse.

But it did get worse. Shortly after Ole lost his wife.

But Ole was a special person.

He wasn't the type that gave up.

And with the responsibility of his four sons.

He had to think of something. (QUACKS)

Ole had got an idea, and for him, it never took long to put an idea into action.

Ole's little invention made his boys so happy but he thought,

"Maybe he should start making toys."

Ole decided to give it a try. Luckily, he had saved up a lot of wood from the carpentry production.

He can now use it to make toys.

Time passed by. And even though Ole was a skilled carpenter and had a good eye for quality and detail, sales were very slow.

Luckily, one of his sons, Godfrey started helping out his dad after school.

Together, they just barely managed to keep up the production.

Eventually, word began to spread that wooden toys of the finest quality were being made in the little workshop in Billund.

One day, a man drove into town. A man who would change Ole's future.

He was a wholesaler from Fredericia.

I've heard that you're making some very nice wooden toys.

Well, one does his best.

The wholesaler was very impressed with all the wooden toys.

And placed out big order before he left.

Now there's finally someone who can see the opportunities in what we're doing.