00:00The Lego story dates all the way back to the 1930s, in a little workshop in Denmark.
00:05Olker Christensen was an ordinary man who just wanted to earn a living for himself and his family by doing
00:10what he loved, working with wood.
00:12He started out making and selling wooden toys in this small workshop.
00:16But like most good stories, it didn't take long before the protagonists came up against some pretty stiff competition.
00:22In this case, it came in the form of the Great Depression.
00:25With people having less money to spend on toys during these hard times, Kirk had to think of a way
00:31to stay afloat.
00:32He decided to make cheaper toys out of a plastic material instead of the wood he normally used.
00:37This would prove to be a smart move because one day, a representative from a toy company found one of
00:42his creations and thought it was so good that he offered Kirk a job making toys for them.
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