I see a News Ltd story claiming the faces on Lego characters are getting angrier to the point where some believe it will 'harm childrens development'

Obviously some people don't have enough to occupy what passes for 'their minds'

Every study done on this type of thing,books,TV, video games, music etc comes up negative on the question of inciting or inculcating negative or violent behaviour in kids. The most important influences on a child's development are the adults around them, particularly their same sex parent, the people who try to find other environmental factors do so because they are indoctrinated with materialist political "science".
The goal of the "Materialists" has always been the destruction of biological families and interpersonal relationships in favour of state controlled child rearing, these are the same type of people who used to train little kids to denounce their parents to the Stasi or Cheka if they saw political crimes being committed in the home.

Prax,

Don't worry too much. Yes the faces have been gaining more expression over the years, but LEGO gainfully upholds gender stereotypes in their products. They haven't caught up with the nasty feminists taking control of the world.

Here's the boy's selection.

http://city.lego.com/en-us/products/

Here's a selection aimed at girls.

http://friends.lego.com/en-us/products/41008-heartlake-city-pool/

(Scroll down for the "Heartlake Pet Salon" and the "Heartlake City Pool - amongst other things)

In regards to anger and children I have a wonderful daughter. When she was a little girl she made a crossword puzzle to give to Daddy for his birthday. The answers were anger, furious, grouchy etc. They were all cross words. Now she is a mother of teenage children, and her daughter told me she is fascinated by her mother's outpourings.

The Lego Techincal sets they put out in the late '70's have never been surpassed, my biggest criticism of the products would be the sets today are dumbed down. My little brother and I spent whole weekends building the grader, bulldozer, space shuttle and F1 car sets, it was valuable experience because you had to sort all the parts, follow the plan and then be able to diagnose and fix problems if you made a mistake or the model didn't work as expected. Then we'd do stuff like mess about with gear ratios to make them go faster or slower add modifications and do all sorts of experiments with them like pulling loads or the ever popular "crash testing" LOL.

LEGO is actually a fantastic toy. It's the only thing made of plastic that has any value (maybe apart from a bucket and spade). It's because it is reduced to many small parts which can be modified. A child can either follow the directions and make up the prescribed mode or - and this is the beauty of the product - they can actually use their own creative capacities and make whatever they like. In a world where toys are now produced to carry out a small number of tasks, it's great that something like LEGO is still going strong.

At the moment our dining room table is festooned with LEGO. Our son has taken it out again I actually think we might have too much as some of it was handed down from his much older sister who used to pick things like the pirates and knights, police station, etc.

We have a LEGO train track running the full circumference of the spare room, weaving around a chair and dresser.

Great stuff - who gives a toss about the expressions (and the only angry expressions I can note are a few "bad guys" amongst the collection).....