Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, third generation owner of the LEGO Group, was determined to bring technological innovation to the brick – and 40 years ago, the company introduced the first ever smart brick to allow children to program robots

This could be a big month for a little man, given that is now 60 years since Action Man first came on parade. Manufactured by Palitoy of Coalville, Leicestershire, the moulded plastic “action figure”

Travelling back through the years to look at some of the most memorable LEGO items

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The LEGO Group has always been keen to provide floating boats and had a unique solution to making it happen back in the 1970s

lego.com Pele won the World Cup on three occasions, but never got to construct the latest iteration of the trophy from the bottom up using tiny studded bricks of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plasti