Citations › Citation ID: 55

C55. BOOK: Jens Andersen, The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination (Mariner, 2022), p. 172.

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen: "When I think back, I really didn’t get much time with him as a father. He was always busy, either physically absent or sitting by himself, absorbed in his own thoughts. The only way I could really reach him was by showing him my LEGO buildings. Then he lit up, and we’d have a conversation, while he asked for my opinion, for example about my Scalextric racing track, where I had built stands and pit stops around the track out of LEGO bricks."

Kjeld's only way to connect with his father was through the models he built out of LEGO bricks.