| Lego Star Wars has quite the interesting history | | | | company's business. From then on, the Lego began |
| when it comes to the fact that the game entertains | | | | spreading around the world and through the years |
| children everywhere. It all stems from the popular | | | | had developed various themes such as sets that |
| plastic building blocks that can be used to build cars, | | | | focused just on building cars or on just building |
| space ships, buildings, and whatever a child's | | | | buildings. The possibilities were endless. |
| imagination can think up. Anyone under the age of 60 | | | | However, the Legos of today are much different |
| has most likely played with Legos, so that means | | | | than the Legos both we and our parents played with. |
| that many of the children playing with them today | | | | Our children are playing with Lego theme parks, there |
| have grandparents who once used their imaginations | | | | are Lego themed movies, and there are even Lego |
| to do the same exact thing. | | | | themed video games that are based off of particular |
| The Lego saga began in 1932 in Billund, Denmark, | | | | toy lines created by Lego. One of those toy lines is |
| where a carpenter by the name of Ole Kirk | | | | Lego Star Wars, which later led to the Lego Star |
| Kristiansen began a new business that made wooden | | | | Wars video game. |
| toys, stepladders, and ironing boards. What no one | | | | The video game was first released in 2005 and is |
| realized at that time was that Legos had been born. | | | | based during the prequel trilogy to the actual Star |
| It was in 1934 that Kristiansen created the name | | | | Wars Trilogy that began in the late 1970's and early |
| Lego, which is derived from "leg godt," which are the | | | | 1980's. However, the game was actually released a |
| Danish words for "play well." However, in Latin, the | | | | month before the last of the Star Wars films was |
| word Lego means "I put together." Unfortunately in | | | | released. |
| 1942, the plant burned down and Kristiansen had to | | | | It was developed by LucasArts and Eidos Interactive |
| rebuild, but just two years later, Kristiansen's plant | | | | for the Sony PlayStation2, the Microsoft Xbox, and |
| purchased an injection molding machine that created | | | | for personal computers running the Microsoft |
| plastic toys, but he was yet to invent the building | | | | Windows Operating System. It was also developed |
| blocks. | | | | for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. In August 2005, |
| It was in 1949 that the Automatic Binding Brick was | | | | A Mac port was developed for the game to be |
| introduced for sale only in Denmark and looked like a | | | | played on Mac computers and in October 2005, a |
| tiny plastic brick with eight or four studs. However, | | | | version was released for the Nintendo GameCube. |
| by 1950 the Lego accounted for half of the | | | | |