What was the name of LEGO’s first wooden toy, made by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932?

LEGO’s first wooden toy, made by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932, was a wooden duck.

Ole Kirk Christiansen was a carpenter in Billund, Denmark, and began producing wooden toys during the economic difficulties of the early 1930s. The duck became one of the best-known early products associated with his workshop. It was a simple pull-along toy, made before the company became famous for interlocking plastic bricks.

The LEGO Group’s early history therefore began with woodworking rather than plastic construction. Other wooden products included toys and household items, but the duck is especially important in company histories because it represents the workshop’s move toward toy manufacturing.

The famous LEGO name was adopted later, in 1934. Plastic automatic-binding bricks arrived in the late 1940s, eventually leading to the modern LEGO brick system. The wooden duck is thus an origin story, not an early version of a brick set.