Creator of iconic Lego figure dead at 78

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COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Jens Nygaard Knudsen, who designed the iconic Lego minifigure with interchangeable legs and torsos, has died while in hospice care from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), his former colleague said Saturday (Feb 22).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

COPENHAGEN - Jens Nygaard Knudsen, who designed the iconic Lego minifigure with interchangeable legs and torsos, has died while in hospice care from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , his former colleague said Saturday .

"His imagination was so fantastic. If we had a brainstorm it was more like a brain hurricane, because he had so many ideas," Milan Pedersen told AFP. He worked with developing the now legendary minifigure with movable arms and legs in the 1970s, before it was first released in 1978.

 

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