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What's their anger?
Updated On: 14 June, 2015 06:00 AM IST | | Meher Marfatia
<p>I stared. It was raw rage I saw. When angry faces weren't glaring back at me, they were sneering, superior or plain smug. This was a day I just spent assessing book projects themed around Lego. Presented by graduating students of a city art college, some of them focused on the changing facial emotions of over 4 billion mini figures, made famous by the Danish toy company</p>
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I stared. It was raw rage I saw. When angry faces weren't glaring back at me, they were sneering, superior or plain smug. This was a day I just spent assessing book projects themed around Lego. Presented by graduating students of a city art college, some of them focused on the changing facial emotions of over 4 billion mini figures, made famous by the Danish toy company.
I was struck by something more staggering than the huge number of these tiny figurines enthralling generations of children (and adults — AFOL is the official name for Adult Fans of Lego and there are global thousands of them). It's the unsettling fact that the two-inch-tall figures inhabiting Pleasantville wear uniformly unfriendly expressions today.
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