472 Billion Bricks and Counting

[spener90]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/10/would-could-you-build-with-all-the-worlds-lego-bricks

[Legodog]

Very cool. 333,509 of those bricks are in my Brickfolio :)

[comicblast]

This is a very impressive number, so it looks like the LEGO market has very few signs of tanking! YAY! MITB

[Blackjack]

Only one pyramid? What a rip off.

[Ambroise]

Very cool. 333,509 of those bricks are in my Brickfolio

So you own about 1% of an annual production. Not bad at all .

EDIT : not 1%, 0.001% (mistaken billion for million). Still not bad (100 000 people like you are enough to buy 1 year of Lego production).

[Maverick2k1]

Crazy to think that that many bricks will be around for eternity.

[Grolim]

That's a crazy number. Even more boggling is the number added each year. Anyone else think, hang on they are talking about bricks, so what about plates and other pieces? Then realise it was a generic term they used and then assumed all 472b were the iconic 2x4 brick to make their comparisons.