In a recent episode of Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a castle in the style of the Spartans. It had white city walls — but the real Spartans famously refused to build a wall.
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Why do certain toys create a frenzy? Turning raw materials into something that sparks kids’ imagination is no small endeavour.
The most thoughtful gifts can also be the most sustainable, and last long after Christmas has ended.
A regular family ritual like a dinner and games night contributes to the rhythm and predictability of life and becomes part of a family's unique DNA.
The female characters appear to reinforce traditional gender roles.
Truly green plastic requires more than sustainable raw materials.
The power of play and how Lego is changing the world one brick at a time.
In a new book, philosophers argue that Lego's coloured bricks are not just a toy, but a tool that raises challenging questions about creativity, conformity and culture.
The Lego Batman Movie is a worldwide box office smash – but have the filmmakers delved too much into the character's more 'toxic' elements?
The 'alternative-right' has used social media to become a hugely influential movement in global politics. Where is the left's version?
Campaign pits power of press against social media activism.
Seymour Papert's vision has helped computers become widespread in education today, and gave birth to the movement to teach children to program.
A new study says that LEGO is becoming weaponised. But play is more sophisticated than many adults think.
Many voices have united in claiming the toy giant Lego is censoring the provocative Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. There are so many things wrong with those arguments it’s hard to know where to begin.
What makes Ai Wei Wei so powerful? Critics say if he didn't exist, he'd need to be invented: an artist who's combined his life and art into a politically charged performance that helps define how we see modern China.
An EU court has ruled that Lego's iconic mini-figures are a protected trademark and so cannot be copied. Here's why.
Lego Pompeii was painstakingly recreated from more than 190,000 individual blocks across 470 hours for Sydney University’s Nicholson Museum – it’s the largest model of the ancient city ever constructed…
Yesterday the Danish Toymaker Lego announced its plans for a reality TV show to be launched in 2015, rumoured to be based on the idea of Master Builders, the top “construction workers” in the insanely…
October 9 2014 was a big day in eco-activism: Lego announced that it would not renew a product-placement deal with Shell, following concerted pressure from Greenpeace as part of a campaign to ban Arctic…
So who went and bought some of the new Lego mini figures? Aren’t they super? The set, which is part of the new Lego “Research Institute”, features a female chemist, paleobiologist and astronomer. It has…
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