preloaddefault-post-thumbnail

LEGO has been building our plastic dreams since 1947. It’s a killer when you stand on a piece, but it’s a great toy for firing imaginations.

Built in Billund, Denmark, it’s no faceless corporation. The LEGO Group is family owned. Established by Ole Kirk Kristiansen in 1932, the business is now run by his grandson.

LEGO (the name is an abbreviation of the Danish words “leg godt” meaning “play well”) is the third-largest manufacturer of toys in the world.

What doesn’t the LEGO stardust cover? There’s not much. There are Legoland parks around the world – in Denmark, England (Windsor), the USA, Germany, USA (fabulous Florida) and Malaysia – clothes shops, LEGO shops, board games, a movie voiced by Hollywood heavyweights, even beaches in Cornwall where LEGO pieces are regularly washed upon the shore.

Over the years LEGO has hitched its star to Hollywood, licensing themes from cartoon and film franchises. All these can be built – Avatar: The Last Airbender, Batman, Ben 10, Bob the Builder, Cars, Disney Princess, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Prince of Persia, Speed Racer, Spider-Man, SpongeBob SquarePants, Star Wars, Super Heroes, Thomas the Tank Engine, Toy Story, The Lone Ranger and The Hobbit.

In 2015 Lego Marvel Avengers and Lego Batman: Beyond Gotham will cheer all you Lego-Marvel-DC fans out there. And Lego Jurassic World will be released in June, just in time for the big Jurassic movie release.

Check out these LEGO versions of iconic monuments around the world:

Search flights to Florida

Natural History Museum, London

 

 

The Reichstag, Berlin

 

 

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

 

#golden #gate #bridge #sanfrancisco #lego #legoland #california A photo posted by JaseAURadio (@jaseauradio) on

 

The Shard, London

 

 

Grand Central Station, Manhattan

 

Statue of Liberty, New York

 

Chrysler Building (kinda), Manhattan

 

 

St Paul’s Cathedral, London

 

Mount Rushmore

 

 

London Olympic Park

 

 

Sacre Coeur, Paris

 

 

Tower Bridge, London

 

 

Rockefeller Centre, Manhattan

 

 

Tokyo Tower

 

 

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

 

 

Houses of Parliament, London

 

 

The Great Pyramid, Giza

 

 

The Acropolis, Athens

 

 

Itsukushima Shrine, Hatsukaichi

 

The world heritage “Itsukushima shrine” 厳島神社. It is made of LEGO. A photo posted by Hauto (@uki_yoshimura) on

 

The Kremlin, Moscow

 

 

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy

 

Mont Saint Michel, France

 

 

The Colosseum, Rome

 

 

Easter Island

 

 

Swayambhunath, Kathmandu

 

Swayambhunath Temple in Kathmandu by Lego A photo posted by Naonori KUWATA (@zoffy) on

 

Blue Mosque, Istanbul

 

The Blue Mosque (Sultan ahmed Mosque-Istanbul) lego model. Though I was looking for the Hagia Sofia..

A photo posted by jo (@muffincovers) on

 

Taj Mahal, Agra

 

 

Hwaseong Fortress, South Korea

 

 

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

 

 

Sydney Opera House

 

 

Ancient Egypt

 

 

Cologne Cathedral, Germany

 

 

And finally, it’s not just the destinations that come in Lego – here’s a Singapore Airlines plane:

 

Cheap flights to Florida

(Feature image: Brickset)

About the author

Adam ZulawskiAdam is a freelance writer and Polish-to-English translator. He blogs passionately about travel for Cheapflights and runs TranslatingMarek.com. Download his free e-book about Poland's capital after it was almost completely destroyed by the Nazis: 'In the Shadow of the Mechanised Apocalypse: Warsaw 1946'

Explore more articles