CNN Opinion | Why Lego is the best toy ever invented

The toy brand Lego is celebrating 90 years on Saturday with Lego Con, a virtual convention streaming live on YouTube.

(CNN) – Lego was my favorite toy as a kid. My best friend and I would spend countless hours crouched over a giant pile of bricks, using our own Lego language — hundreds of names for hundreds of different pieces — to communicate which one we needed and what we were building. Now that I’m a parent I’m doing the same with my own kids, and it means so much more.

Lego has been around for generations. The Lego Group, the company behind the fantastic plastic, is celebrating its 90th anniversary this Saturday, June 18 with Lego Con, a virtual convention streaming live on YouTube from the Lego House in Billund, Denmark — a 130,000-square foot complex shaped like Lego bricks and filled with 25 million of them.  –read more–