happy 50th, lego

today lego celebrates its 50th anniversary.

that's 50 years of kids learning by putting the colorful blocks together.

that's 50 years of children all over the world building their dreams out of blue, red, and yellow squares.

that's also 50 years of six-year-old boys in south carolina spending hours building a scale-model f-14 tomcat, only to have it destroyed when they run into the sliding glass door on their way outside to show their parents, who are sitting on the patio.

happy birthday.