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The Toys That Made Us LEGO Review

The Toys That Made Us is a Netflix series that focuses on some of America’s greatest toy franchises, including the companies and the people that created them. Some of the featured toys in the series include Barbie, G.I. Joe, Star Wars and in Season 2 episode 3 LEGO.

The 45-minute episode covers LEGO’s 80 plus year history. Starting at its humble beginning in the Danish countryside through its quest for global toy market domination.

The documentary does a great job covering big events in LEGO history including the many struggles and triumphs of the company. While most of the information shared is common knowledge in the LEGO community. The documentary is excellent for those not as familiar with the companies history or for those looking to brush up on their LEGO facts for LEGO trivia night.

Do you know how the founder Ole Kirk Christiansen got the name LEGO? Ole took the first two letters of the Danish words Leg Godt meaning to play well and smashed them together to create LEGO.

There are plenty of other fun LEGO trivia that fans would appreciate it.

In addition to the history, struggles, triumphs, and trivia there is also a lot of talk about LEGO toys themselves and all the different sets. LEGO fans young and old will see a lot of their favorites in the 45-minute documentary.

You will also learn about the values behind LEGO and the importance of the System.

If you consider yourself a knowledgeable LEGO fan you could probably pass on this documentary. For everyone else or if you just can not get enough of LEGO I highly recommend checking it out.

AFOL, TFOL, KFOL … oh my

When we first started our journey with Leonidas’ Lair, we were overwhelmed with these acronyms, and I am ashamed to admit we didn’t know what they meant.

What is even more embarrassing about it all is the AFOL community was the first and loudest to come to our banner.  The first to start following us and several of them became some of our best and most supportive internet friends.

So to hopefully save someone else the embarrassment and headache. 

AFOL = Adult Fan of Lego

TFOL = Teen Fan of Lego

KFOL = Kid Fan of Lego

Like a lot of acronyms when you spell them out in context it seems painfully obvious but it took us awhile.

As a parent and an AFOL it was exciting to learn that there are online communities dedicated to older fans of Lego. Lego was not only bringing multiple generations together in our household but across the globe as well.

A few quick links to AFOL communities online worth checking out.

• Reddit AFOL
• Facebook AFOL
• Meetup AFOL

There are also a lot of awesome Instagram AFOL accounts worth mentioning but that is another post.

The creativity and level of detail in some of the AFOL builds are just incredible. It is also fun to see some pop culture references recreated in Lego Format.

So good news to Lego fans young and old! You are never too old at least until. . .

Once again thank you to the AFOL community for being so supportive of this project! Hope to do some dedicated posts to some of our favorite AFOL internet friends in the near future!