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#2786 HISTORY OF: 3001, The 2×4 brick!

It may seem like the most basic LEGO brick, but it has one of the most complex histories of any LEGO part! Everybody knows and loves the 2×4 brick, the staple of LEGO iconography and included in more than 6000 sets, but do you know the many variations of the part, the different scales, different colours, and how it was originally designed? Find out in todays post!

References taken from:

The LEGO website

Brickipedia

Brickarchive

New Elementary

BrickNerd

The Daily Record

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