Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment and breaking news for over five years. Jens Nygaard Knudsen, the designer who put a face — and ...

Jens Nygaard Knudsen, the designer best known for creating the iconic Lego minifigure, has died last week at the age of 78 after suffering from the nerve cell disease ALS. Knudsen worked for ...

Lego’s iconic brick is getting its biggest upgrade since the modern design was unveiled in 1958: meet the Lego Smart Brick.

On May 1, LEGO will release a series of Muppet Minifigures depicting Jim Henson's most iconic creations: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Rowlf the Dog, Gonzo the Great, Animal, Janice, ...

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For five years, they have voyaged through space, going farther and faster than any Lego minifigures have ever traveled before. On Monday night (July 4), the three tiny stowaways aboard NASA's Juno ...

Jens Nygaard Knudsen, who created the iconic LEGO Minifigure, has died at the age of 78, his former colleague told AFP. In speaking to the news agency, veteran LEGO designer Niels Milan Pedersen ...

What do you call cocktail trivia that’s aimed at 10-year-olds? Regardless, Lego’s humanoid minifigures are one of the most iconic toys worldwide, but they have a strange design feature: a hole ...

Their numbers have reached 7.8 billion if not more, roughly the population of the Earth. Their ranks include police officers and firefighters, pirates and knights, astronauts and elephant keepers.