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Godtfred Kirk Christiansen's patent image of the LEGO Brick.

A Brick is a general term for any LEGO part. However, technically it is an element three plates or more thick, rectangular in shape, with at least one stud on top. LEGO studs are tiny round dots on a brick that can peg into other bricks to make them stack or connect. The bricks sometimes have stickers or printings on them, like many other LEGO elements. They come in many sizes, from a tiny 1x1 brick to the largest 12 x 24 brick plates. The original brick did not have the "Sockets" that the present-day brick had. They were just a tub on the inside. This made it hard to stack them and LEGO corp realized people were getting angry about that and added the sockets.

Sizes[edit | edit source]

Bricks are referred to by their dimensions. When they are only three plates high, they can be referred to as a 2x2 brick. If they are taller, then a third number is added, referring to their height. An example is the 1x2x5 brick, which is a relatively rare brick only used in certain sets.

The only odd-number bricks are the 1x and 3x sizes. All sizes above are even numbers.

1 stud wide[edit | edit source]

The first brick only one stud wide (as opposed to two) was the 1x2 brick introduced in 1953.

Size Part Introduced Image
1x1 3005 1954 1x1brick.jpg
1x2 3004 1953 3004.png
1x3 3622 1978 Part 3622.png
1x4 3010 1964 3010.png
1x6 3009 1955 3009.png
1x8 3008 1955 3008 peeron.png
1x10 6111 1993 Part 6111.png
1x12 6112 1993 Part 6112.png
1x16 2465 1988 2465.png

2 studs wide[edit | edit source]

These are the oldest bricks.

Size Part Introduced Image
2x2 3003 1949 Part 3003.png
2x3 3002 1953 Part 3002.png
2x4 3001 1949 3001.png
2x6 2456 1990 2456.png
2x8 3007 1954 Part 3007.png
2x10 3006 1954 Part 3006.png
2x12 1954 (discontinued)
2x14 1954 (discontinued)

Wider bricks[edit | edit source]

Size Part Introduced Image
4x6 2356 1986
4x10 6212 1995
4x12 4202 1981
4x18 30400 2000
8x8 4201 1981
8x16 4204 1981 4204.png
10x10 733 1961
10x20 700 1953 700 (3).png
12x24 30072 1996

TECHNIC Bricks[edit | edit source]

Main article: TECHNIC brick

Known in other circles as beams, these bricks have hollow studs and have holes through them for pins. The holes have a diameter of 4.8 mm.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]