Classic covers the earliest LEGO school sets, dated 1960 to 1965, well before the Dacta name existed. The oldest is 700K Kindergarten Set from 1960. It came in a wooden box with a sliding lid and holds basic bricks, slopes, transparent bricks, a green 10 x 20 baseplate and a red garage door. 700L from 1961 and 90 Educational Box from 1965 are the wooden boxes sold empty for storage. The three Terapi sets of 1965, numbered 91, 92 and 93, also came in wooden boxes and were sold in Denmark, Norway and Finland, then in Germany in 1974. Each had a twin without the box, numbered 94, 95 and 96.
1965 LEGO Sets
By 1965, LEGO employed more than 600 people as production scaled rapidly. Packaging was redesigned to feature only buildable models, improving clarity and consistency. In North America, Samsonite introduced the first LEGO gears—designed in Billund by Knud Møller Kristiansen—allowing mechanical motion and simple transmissions. Though initially exclusive to the U.S. and Canada, these parts marked LEGO’s first step toward functional construction.