The designer, 78, worked for Lego from 1968 to 2000, according to AFP. The publication said he died last Wednesday while in hospice care in a small town on the Danish west coast.

Now the minifigures are dressed up as anything from Batman to a firefighter, and the LEGO movie, with the minifigures as the stars, was released in 2014. "It's quite magic," Pedersen said. Written ...

Jens Nygaard Knudsen, LEGO Minifigure Creator Who Inspired 'Generations of Builders,' Dies. The designer created the iconic toy figure in 1978 ...

Lego, the Denmark-based toy company, has approved designs for a new collection titled “Research Institute,” an all-female line with characters such as astronomer, paleontologist, and chemist.

Jens Nygaard Knudsen, who created the iconic LEGO Minifigure, has died at the age of 78, his former colleague told AFP. In speaking to the news agency, veteran LEGO designer Niels Milan Pedersen ...

Lego designer Milan Madge reveals the hidden details of the new NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set with the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though not Lego minifigure-scale, ...

Lego Minifigures Online launched on PC last October as a free-to-play, Diablo-like game centered around the Minifigures collectible line.Developer Funcom decided a few months ago to overhaul parts ...

Lego is adding to its Speed Champions line with the Azores orange McLaren 720S. ... A minifigure car designer, a design studio desk, a cup of coffee for those tough Monday mornings, ...

The LEGO Ideas Minifigure Vending Machine set was submitted by Belgium-based Fan Designer, Rob Vangansewinkel, as part of the LEGO Ideas programme.