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January 2026

  • Dave Filoni and Asad Ayaz stand before an advertising backdrop for Lego's new Star Wars playsets, featuring two boys playing with Luke Skywalker's X-wing and Darth Vader's TIE fighter

    Lego introduces ‘smart bricks’ with sound and light effects to new Star Wars sets

    But some argue new ‘Smart Play’ technology undermines the Danish construction toy’s gift for harnessing a child’s own imagination

November 2025

  • gifts for children ages 0 to 5 displayed on a colorful background

    The Filter US

    The 30 gifts for kids in the US under five, as picked by parents and family members

  • A fully assembled lego christmas tree against a red background

    The Filter US

    The best US Lego gift sets to click together a creative Christmas

  • chapstick, harry potter books, a stuffed elephant, sneakers, and a person wearing an oversized sweatshirt

    The Filter US

    The 47 best gift ideas for US tweens in 2025 – picked by actual tweens

  • presents under a holiday tree

    The Filter US

    Fifteen nostalgic gifts in the US that will take you back to simpler times

August 2025

  • Four vases with brightly coloured flowers made from Lego

    Lego builds record sales of £4bn as parents steer children away from smartphones

  • Lego pandas.

    UK toy sales rise as nostalgic adults turn to Pokémon and Lego

April 2025

  • A young girl holding a Lego mini doll

    Lego drops diversity terms from its annual sustainability report

    Move by Danish toymaker appears to reflect US pressure on inclusivity initiatives worldwide

March 2025

  • Lego Smoothie Odyssey

    Lego to build up digital games plus Nike and F1 tie-ups to keep tweens’ interest

  • various legos riding a bike, walking and standing near a lego house

    Man accused of stealing $25,000 worth of Lego from northern California stores

January 2025

  • Squishmallows

    ‘Pocket money’ toys costing less than £10 sell well as UK parents cut costs

  • A still from an episode of the children's TV show Bluey.

    Lego links up with TV hit Bluey for toy sets to be launched this year

December 2024

  • Man dressed up for Christmas.

    The Shining, burritos and $5 gifts: readers’ unusual holiday traditions

  • LEGO Friends Sunflower User Ryan

    New Lego characters aim to represent hidden disabilities such as autism

November 2024

  • In an all-Lego room, a Lego figure is enraptured by the synaesthesia colours coming out of a speaker playing music.

    Piece by Piece review – Pharrell Williams biopic told in Lego is a bit of plastic fun

  • Pharrell Williams in Piece by Piece

    Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego

September 2024

  • A still from Piece By Piece

    First look review

    Piece by Piece review – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster

    Toronto film festival: The endlessly inventive musician gets an unlikely yet deserving biopic told via plastic bricks – a big swing that more than pays off

August 2024

  • Children play with Lego

    Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026

  • The worn down Lego shark on top of a book

    ‘Catch of the week’: fisher lands Lego shark lost at sea for 27 years

July 2024

  • Police recover $200,000 worth of stolen Lego sets

    Get bricks quick: collectible Lego sets fuel growing black market

    International authorities work to foil thieves as they steal hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of the toys

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