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schema:articleBody	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. The 78-year old former designer passed away on Wednesday at a hospice centre where he had stayed for a week, according to Lego designer Niels Milan Pedersen, a former colleague for Nygaard Knudsen. "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. Nygaard Knudsen, who died at the Anker Fjord Hospice outside the small town of Hvide Sande on the Danish west coast, was a designer at the Danish toy brick maker from 1968 to 2000. He worked with developing the now legendary minifigure with movable arms and legs in the 1970s, before it was first released in 1978. According to Lego, it was decided when the figure was created that it - besides having a yellow face with a neutral happy expression - would have no sex or race as these would be "determined by the child's imagination and play." "He was a man of ideas. The figure was created so that there would be life in the houses," his widow Marianne Nygaard Knudsen told broadcaster TV2. "At the time Lego's houses were empty, but then he drew this man," she added. In addition to the Lego figure, Nygaard Knudsen was also responsible for developing some of Lego's classic themes, such as Space and Pirates. Founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, the group employed over 17,000 people at the end of 2018. The iconic Lego brick started being manufactured in the 1940s, but was launched in its modern form in 1958, according to the company. jll/cdw
schema:headline	Creator of LEGO figure dead at 78
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schema:datePublished	2020-02-22 (xsd:date)
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