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TED partnered with LEGO Group and LEGO Foundation for a groundbreaking event exploring how creative play can build brighter minds and more imaginative futures. The five-hour Play@TED summit featured inventors, athletes, and designers sharing how play transforms lives at every age.
The LEGO Group just doubled down on fighting climate change, adding $8 million to its carbon removal program and bringing total investment to over $54 million. The toy maker is testing cutting-edge technologies while supporting forests and communities from Mexico to the ocean floor.
Lego just announced its first fully functional pinball machine set, complete with real flippers, bumpers, and a spring-loaded launcher. The 2,273-piece space-themed set lets builders create an arcade experience they can actually play.
A German YouTuber built a fully functional Lego clock that measures time from single seconds all the way up to billions of years. The weight-driven mechanical marvel runs on solar power and showcases mind-bending cosmic timescales through simple plastic bricks.
Football legends Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi joined forces again for a viral LEGO campaign that's earned 180 million views in one day. The playful ad featuring Mbappé and Vinícius Jr. celebrates the upcoming 2026 World Cup with a heartwarming twist.
Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia basilica finally reaches completion after 143 years, and LEGO is honoring the architectural marvel with its largest set ever. The $800 masterpiece features 12,060 pieces and celebrates 100 years since visionary architect Antoni Gaudi's death.
Lego and Sega are bringing back a slice of 90s gaming glory with a buildable Genesis console complete with tiny controllers and a Sonic cartridge. The 479-piece nostalgia trip hits stores next month for just $40.
LEGO Education just released four new STEM sets designed to turn kids into independent scientists through hands-on play. The sets tackle real-world challenges in space, animals, and nature while helping parents bridge the curiosity gap. #
A Lego spaceship from the hit film "Project Hail Mary" just set a Guinness World Record by soaring 115,000 feet into the stratosphere and making it back to Earth. The playful publicity stunt combined Hollywood magic with real engineering to send miniature astronauts on an unforgettable journey.
Lego just launched education sets that teach physics through hands-on space experiments. Kids build Mars rovers and moon bases, then solve real engineering challenges using creative problem-solving.
A Project Hail Mary Lego set just earned a Guinness World Record after traveling nearly 22 miles into the sky and returning to Earth. The incredible eight-hour journey proves even toy bricks can reach for the stars.
A Lego spaceship based on the hit film "Project Hail Mary" just broke the world record for highest altitude launch and retrieval, reaching nearly 115,000 feet on a stratospheric balloon. The miniature astronaut figures even made it back safely to Earth. ##
David Aguilar built his first functional prosthetic arm entirely from LEGO bricks when he was just 9 years old. Now the inventor, known as "Hand Solo," creates affordable prosthetics for people who can't afford traditional ones.
A lifelong Peanuts fan designed the first official Lego Snoopy set, and it's everything fans hoped for. The 964-piece doghouse comes complete with Woodstock, marshmallows, and 75 years of nostalgia.
On January 28, 1958, a Danish carpenter's son filed a patent for interlocking plastic bricks that would become the world's largest toy company. LEGO's simple design has remained virtually unchanged for nearly seven decades, with bricks from 1958 still clicking perfectly into pieces made today.
A boy born without a right forearm built his first functional prosthetic arm out of LEGO bricks when he was just 9 years old. Today, David Aguilar creates affordable prosthetics for people who can't afford traditional ones.
A man who broke three Guinness World Records walking barefoot on Legos turned his painful childhood memories into a charity that's delivered 20,000 building sets to 62 children's hospitals. Russell Cassevah cashed out his retirement to make sick kids smile.
What if success wasn't measured by everyone getting the same answer, but by everyone discovering different ones? Lego Education has built an entire philosophy around this radical idea, and it's changing how we think about leadership.
LEGO Education just released four new science kits designed to turn living rooms into launch pads and Arctic camps. The sets combine hands-on experiments with beloved building bricks to make STEM learning feel like pure play.
When Ollie Faircloth beat cancer, he used his Make-A-Wish to buy LEGO sets for kids still fighting at his hospital. His selfless choice sparked a community movement that delivered over 500 sets to young patients.
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