Milan Reindl: the only Czech designer for LEGO
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- 14 Jul 2022
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Milan Reindl, a former English teacher from a small town of Sušice, is the only Czech working as a model designer at the toy giant LEGO. He only fell for the LEGO bricks in his mid-twenties and just a few years later, he landed a dream job in the LEGO Technic department. This autumn, Milan Reindl will also star in the first Czech edition of the Lego Masters show.
I spoke to him on the phone to Denmark’s Billund and I first asked him how he got the dream job in LEGO:
“In 2010, LEGO Group was looking for new designers and I was bold enough to send my CV with a few images of my best-looking models. Nobody called me back for about half a year but then I was invited for my first job interview.
“I passed it successfully but within a few days I was informed that they actually occupied the new designer position internally and I would have to wait.
“I really wanted to show them they made a big mistake and luckily for me there was another vacant position within a year. So we shook hands and since 2012 I have been working as a LEGO designer in the LEGO Technic department over here in Billund.”
have you always been interested in LEGO, since your early childhood?
“I wouldn’t even call it early childhood. The first time I touched LEGO bricks was when I was ten and it wasn’t even my LEGO.
“It was at my friend’s place and really fell in love with the infinite possibilities of what you could build with limited amount of bricks, how much you could combine them into all sorts of different models. Read More...
