Today is the 50th birthday of the LEGO Brick. Gizmodo has a timeline summarizing it’s lifetime.

I never had one of the really big sets growing up, but you better believe I remember helping my friends put together the LEGOLAND Castle and LEGOLAND Pirates sets. And then there were the guys who had enormous totes full of LEGOs who built all their own stuff.

While I had a few small LEGO kits, I had lots of Construx. Most people don’t really remember these because they were only around for a few years and they weren’t well advertised, but I had several sets and played with them for years. My favorite thing to do was build bases on opposite sides of the basement and create a zipline to send the figures back and forth. I wonder if my old sets would be worth any money today…