NZ human interface expert urges Lego to bring back smiles

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A NEW ZEALAND expert wants the makers of Lego to get positive and stop drawing its famous brick figures with angry expressions.

Christoph Bartneck, director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory at the University of Canterbury, painstakingly reviewed the facial expressions on 6000 Lego figures to see what today's children are being faced with.

While once overwhelmingly positive, today's tiny brick men and women are far more likely to carry an angry or fearful expression.

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The only time Lego ever made me angry was when I was walking around the house barefoot and I stepped on a piece.

Maybe the objective is to prevent Lego from being used to express anger?

I guess it's due to the increase in action/adventure lines, like Star Wars and Chima. All that fighting..... Mind you, back in the day, kids would have their Lego pirates and knights brutally dismember each other while wearing eerily tranquil smiles.
Nearly all of my current minifigures are from City or Creator sets, so they're still happy. I have a maimed and burned Anakin Skywalker figure with a glum expression, who I tend to put sitting quietly on a bench or sofa recovering from his injuries. Poor guy.