History of Lego Star Wars

Lego Star Wars has quite the interesting historycompany's business. From then on, the Lego began
when it comes to the fact that the game entertainsspreading around the world and through the years
children everywhere. It all stems from the popularhad 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'sbuildings. The possibilities were endless.
imagination can think up. Anyone under the age of 60However, the Legos of today are much different
has most likely played with Legos, so that meansthan the Legos both we and our parents played with.
that many of the children playing with them todayOur children are playing with Lego theme parks, there
have grandparents who once used their imaginationsare 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 KirkLego Star Wars, which later led to the Lego Star
Kristiansen began a new business that made woodenWars video game.
toys, stepladders, and ironing boards. What no oneThe 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 nameWars Trilogy that began in the late 1970's and early
Lego, which is derived from "leg godt," which are the1980's. However, the game was actually released a
Danish words for "play well." However, in Latin, themonth before the last of the Star Wars films was
word Lego means "I put together." Unfortunately inreleased.
1942, the plant burned down and Kristiansen had toIt was developed by LucasArts and Eidos Interactive
rebuild, but just two years later, Kristiansen's plantfor the Sony PlayStation2, the Microsoft Xbox, and
purchased an injection molding machine that createdfor personal computers running the Microsoft
plastic toys, but he was yet to invent the buildingWindows 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 wasA Mac port was developed for the game to be
introduced for sale only in Denmark and looked like aplayed 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