Lego A/S profit rose 36 percent in the first half of the year as sales of new building-block sets for girls surged and as Europe’s biggest toymaker grabbed global market share. Net income climbed to 2 ...

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The first female minifig — those 4-centimeter people with the yellow jugheads — to appear in the January 2012 LEGO catalog is a doctor ably holding up the back end of a stretcher with her male ...

And yes, a stop-motion Lego version of The Wire might just be more proof Yahoo is stil capable of doing something fun. Stop what you're doing and watch this.

In December 2011 the Lego Group (TLG) announced the launch of Lego Friends, the company's sixth attempt to market a product to girls. Lego Friends, which was supported by a $40 million global ...

When I sent photos of the best Lego X-Wing ever created to the company headquarters in Billund, Denmark, they told me that it was awesome—but it didn’t show ...

In the summer of 2012, Allyson Smith went to the History Colorado Center in Denver to see LEGO-rado, a 700-foot homage to the state’s past and future built entirely out of LEGO bricks, and said to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman and Alison Brie have joined Warner Bros and Village Roadshow’s Lego feature film. They join Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett and Morgan ...

to celebrate all things plastic and fantastic. The Lego name was invented in 1934 by the Group’s founder, Ole Kirk Kristiansen. Kristiansen took the first two letters of “Leg” and “godt” (Danish for ...