Investing in bricks of the tiny plastic sort can be surprisingly lucrative. The top-performing LEGO theme has surged in value by an average of almost 25% a year, beating everything from the stock ...

Tamara Beckwith The savvy service engineer is one of a growing number of investors shelling out their hard-earned cash on plastic bricks — at a time when Lego’s resale value has been growing ...

Two years on, after a fire destroyed its wooden-toy warehouse, Lego chose to stick with only plastic bricks. Chart: The Economist Lego nearly went under in 2003-04 after branching into too many ...