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

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

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

Model Designer Stijn Oom joins Blocks Editor Graham E. Hancock to put 10349 together Happy Plants while talking about his journey from building Star Wars models as a child to crafting sets for Art and Botanicals

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”