Forget about those happy LEGO characters from your childhood. Today's LEGO characters are looking increasingly angry and carrying more weapons, indicating an important shift in the way kids play ...

but just adding the smiley faces somehow makes them seem super endearing. This is technically part of the Lego Art line, which includes recreations of famous works of art such as the Mona Lisa.

“The children that grow up with Lego today will remember not only smileys, but also anger and fear in the Minifigures’ faces.” Is that such a bad thing? The people behind the study—a team ...

Sponsor Message He tells The New Zealand Herald that "while Lego figures in the 1970s all had the same smiley face, from 1989 the range expanded to include hundreds of different emotions." ...

New research by robot expert Christoph Bartneck at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand shows the number of happy faces on tiny LEGO figures is decreasing. "We cannot help but wonder how ...

Most of us remember the classic LEGO dude. Small, yellow, smiling. He had a few basic poses and a single, smiling face. But as LEGOs have gotten more and more varied, the company has given the ...