next time you settle down for a spot of lego with your children , take a proper look at the faces on the figures . because while you may remember life in legoland as being perfectly content , these day things are a little more fraught . a study has revealed that the faces of lego characters are getting angrier . in the past , they all had a standard enigmatic smile . but this has changed as more sets are designed to tie in with films , often featuring battles between good and evil . lego characters are slowly getting angrier , say researchers who found that since the product launched in 1975 , the proportion of angry faces has been rising . for the first 11 years after lego was introduced , all characters were happy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- former child actor gary coleman remained in a utah jail monday after being booked on an outstanding arrest warrant relating to a domestic violence case , authorities said . `` he 's still our guest here , '' utah county sheriff 's spokesman lt. dennis harris said monday afternoon . police visited coleman 's santaquin city , utah , home sunday in response to a civil disturbance call , but no criminal charges were filed , a police spokeswoman said . a computer check , however , revealed a misdemeanor failure to appear in court warrant for the former `` diff ` rent strokes '' star stemming from a domestic violence incident last year , the spokeswoman said . coleman , 41 , was arrested and booked without incident sunday in the county jail in spanish fork , the spokesman said . coleman could get out of jail by posting a $ 1,725 bail , but that has not happened , harris said . coleman 's mug shot released by the jail showed that he was `` not too happy , '' harris said . police did not release details about the previous case related to the arrest warrant . cnn 's alan duke and jack hannah contributed to this report . ` lego themes have been increasingly based on conflicts -lsb- such as pirates or harry potter -rsb- . often a good force is struggling with a bad one , ' say the researchers . christopher bartneck , of new zealand 's . university of canterbury , has published research showing that lego . characters are becoming more conflict-oriented , and the human figures . featured in lego sets are getting angrier . the average household now owns 7.4 internet devices and four in 10 bought a tablet in the last year . smartphones are the most common internet-enabled device , at 1.7 per household , followed by laptops -lrb- 1.3 -rrb- and tablets -lrb- 1.2 -rrb- , the yougov poll of more than 2,000 consumers found . four in 10 households now own one tablet , one fifth have two , and 11 per cent own three or more . top of the table : smartphones are the most popular item , with an average of 1.7 per household . the study found that lego figures most frequently feature happy or angry expressions , but since their introduction in 1975 , the proportion of angry faces has been rising . the findings also raise questions about the role of the design of toys and its impact on children , say the researchers . previous research has shown that facial expressions are universal across languages and cultures , with the six most widely used being disgust , happiness , sadness , fear , anger and surprise . there are fears that the move from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces impacts how children play . according to the study , ` analysis shows that toy design has become a more complex design space in which the imaginary world of play does not only consist of a simple division of good versus evil , but a world in which heroes are scared and villains can have superior smile . ' however , it was the six most prominent facial expressions identified among lego characters that are possible cause for concern : disdain , confidence , concern , fear , happiness , and anger . it was only in the 1990s that lego began to introduce a wider variety of facial expressions to characters . for the first 11 years , only one smiley face was produced . happiness and anger remain the most . widely used , but now occur in greater range of intensity : two distinct . versions of both happiness and anger were found among the characters . the latest internet advertising bureau -lrb- iab -rrb- uk digital adspend report , conducted by pwc , found digital advertising hit a record # 7.2 billion . ` lego themes have been increasingly based on conflicts -lsb- such as pirates or harry potter -rsb- . often a good force is struggling with a bad one , ' says bartneck . ` the facial expressions are not directly matched to good and evil . even the good characters suffer in their struggle and the villians can have a smug expression . in any case , the variety of faces has increased considerably . ' ` we can not help but wonder how the move . iab chief strategy officer tim elkington said : ` advertisers are increasing their digital budgets to reach people as they go online through an increasing array of devices . ` it 's a win-win for consumers , because digital advertising pays for the wide range of free online services they increasingly rely on in their daily lives , but do n't necessarily want to pay much for . ' from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces . impacts how children play . the new faces of lego : disdain , confidence , concern , fear , happiness and anger . ` designers of agent faces should take great care to design the expressions and to test their effect since toys play an important role in the development of children . ' ` instead of focusing on highly realistic expressions , it may be worthwhile to increase the variability of expressions . a comic style expression is sufficient to convey a full spectrum of emotions and intensities . ' bartneck will present the paper on his findings at the first international conference on human-agent interaction in sapporo , japan , in august . the danish company lego is one of the . biggest toy manufacturers in the world , and produced more that 36 . billion bricks distributed to 130 countries in 2010 alone , equivalent to . 75 bricks each for everyone on earth . to mark the 150th anniversary of london underground , lego has built a series of tube maps which show how the tube system has changed over time . the maps are currently on display at king 's cross station and other large stations across london . they are made out of nothing but lego and show how the tube map looked in 1927 and how it has changed over the years . lego has created a series of london underground maps which show how the network has changed over the years . image shows how the map looked in 1968 . according to london24 , the maps even show how the network will look in 2020 . the tube maps , which were made by duncan titmarsh , are each built from more than 1,000 lego bricks . the survey found the average briton who is online is willing to pay a maximum of # 1.53 a month for their email service , # 1.33 to use search engines , # 1.10 for video content , 92p for news websites , 88p for social media , 55p for online games and 52p for price comparison sites . popular : laptops were second , followed by tablets - with a fifth of homes owning two of the latter . just over half of people said banking and finance was the area of their lives that would be most affected without the internet or mobile phone , followed by keeping up with current events -lrb- 42 per cent -rrb- , shopping -lrb- 38 per cent -rrb- and their relationships with friends and family -lrb- 37 per cent -rrb- . each one took mr titmarsh four days to put together . once the maps have finished their tour of london stations , they will be put on show at the london transport museum .
smartphones are the most common web devices , at 1.7 per home . laptops and tablets are just behind , a yougov poll has found . meanwhile , digital advertising has hit a record high of # 7.2 billion .
next time you settle down for a spot of lego with your children , take a proper look at the faces on the figures . because while you may remember life in legoland as being perfectly content , these day things are a little more fraught . a study has revealed that the faces of lego characters are getting angrier . in the past , they all had a standard enigmatic smile . but this has changed as more sets are designed to tie in with films , often featuring battles between good and evil . lego characters are slowly getting angrier , say researchers who found that since the product launched in 1975 , the proportion of angry faces has been rising . for the first 11 years after lego was introduced , all characters were happy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- former child actor gary coleman remained in a utah jail monday after being booked on an outstanding arrest warrant relating to a domestic violence case , authorities said . `` he 's still our guest here , '' utah county sheriff 's spokesman lt. dennis harris said monday afternoon . police visited coleman 's santaquin city , utah , home sunday in response to a civil disturbance call , but no criminal charges were filed , a police spokeswoman said . a computer check , however , revealed a misdemeanor failure to appear in court warrant for the former `` diff ` rent strokes '' star stemming from a domestic violence incident last year , the spokeswoman said . coleman , 41 , was arrested and booked without incident sunday in the county jail in spanish fork , the spokesman said . coleman could get out of jail by posting a $ 1,725 bail , but that has not happened , harris said . coleman 's mug shot released by the jail showed that he was `` not too happy , '' harris said . police did not release details about the previous case related to the arrest warrant . cnn 's alan duke and jack hannah contributed to this report . ` lego themes have been increasingly based on conflicts -lsb- such as pirates or harry potter -rsb- . often a good force is struggling with a bad one , ' say the researchers . christopher bartneck , of new zealand 's . university of canterbury , has published research showing that lego . characters are becoming more conflict-oriented , and the human figures . featured in lego sets are getting angrier . the average household now owns 7.4 internet devices and four in 10 bought a tablet in the last year . smartphones are the most common internet-enabled device , at 1.7 per household , followed by laptops -lrb- 1.3 -rrb- and tablets -lrb- 1.2 -rrb- , the yougov poll of more than 2,000 consumers found . four in 10 households now own one tablet , one fifth have two , and 11 per cent own three or more . top of the table : smartphones are since toys play an important role in the development of children . ' ` instead of focusing on highly realistic expressions , it may be worthwhile to increase the variability of expressions . a comic style expression is sufficient to convey a full spectrum of emotions and intensities . ' bartneck will present the paper on his findings at the first international conference on human-agent interaction in sapporo , japan , in august . the danish company lego is one of the . biggest toy manufacturers in the world , and produced more that 36 . billion bricks distributed to 130 countries in 2010 alone , equivalent to . 75 bricks each for everyone on earth . to mark the 150th anniversary of london underground , lego has built a series of tube maps which show how the tube system has changed over time . the maps are currently on display at king 's cross station and other large stations across london . they are made out of nothing but lego and show how the tube map looked in 1927 and how it has changed over the years . lego has created a series of london underground maps which show how the network has changed over the years . image shows how the map looked in 1968 . according to london24 , the maps even show how the network will look in 2020 . the tube maps , which were made by duncan titmarsh , are each built from more than 1,000 lego bricks . the survey found the average briton who is online is willing to pay a maximum of # 1.53 a month for their email service , # 1.33 to use search engines , # 1.10 for video content , 92p for news websites , 88p for social media , 55p for online games and 52p for price comparison sites . popular : laptops were second , followed by tablets - with a fifth of homes owning two of the latter . just over half of people said banking and finance was the area of their lives that would be most affected without the internet or mobile phone , followed by keeping up with current events -lrb- 42 per cent -rrb- , shopping -lrb- 38 per cent -rrb- and their relationships with friends and family -lrb- 37 per cent -rrb- . each one took mr titmarsh four days to put together . once the maps have finished their tour of london stations , they will be put on show at the london transport museum .
next time you settle down for a spot of lego with your children , take a proper look at the faces on the figures . because while you may remember life in legoland as being perfectly content , these day things are a little more fraught . a study has revealed that the faces of lego characters are getting angrier . in the past , they all had a standard enigmatic smile . but this has changed as more sets are designed to tie in with films , often featuring battles between good and evil . lego characters are slowly getting angrier , say researchers who found that since the product launched in 1975 , the proportion of angry faces has been rising . for the first 11 years after lego was introduced , all characters were happy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- former child actor gary coleman remained in a utah jail monday after being booked on an outstanding arrest warrant relating to a domestic violence case , authorities said . `` he 's still our guest here , '' utah county sheriff 's spokesman lt. dennis harris said monday afternoon . police visited coleman 's santaquin city , utah , home sunday in response to a civil disturbance call , but no criminal charges were filed , a police spokeswoman said . a computer check , however , revealed a misdemeanor failure to appear in court warrant for the former `` diff ` rent strokes '' star stemming from a domestic violence incident last year , the spokeswoman said . coleman , 41 , was arrested and booked without incident sunday in the county jail in spanish fork , the spokesman said . coleman could get out of jail by posting a $ 1,725 bail , but that has not happened , harris said . coleman 's mug shot released by the jail showed that he was `` not too happy , '' harris said . police did not release details about the previous case related to the arrest warrant . cnn 's alan duke and jack hannah contributed to this report . ` lego themes have been increasingly based on conflicts -lsb- such as pirates or harry potter -rsb- . often a good force is struggling with a bad one , the most popular item , with an average of 1.7 per household . the study found that lego figures most frequently feature happy or angry expressions , but since their introduction in 1975 , the proportion of angry faces has been rising . the findings also raise questions about the role of the design of toys and its impact on children , say the researchers . previous research has shown that facial expressions are universal across languages and cultures , with the six most widely used being disgust , happiness , sadness , fear , anger and surprise . there are fears that the move from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces impacts how children play . according to the study , ` analysis but wonder how the move . iab chief strategy officer tim elkington said : ` advertisers are increasing their digital budgets to reach people as they go online through an increasing array of devices . ` it 's a win-win for consumers , because digital advertising pays for the wide range of free online services they increasingly rely on in their daily lives , but do n't necessarily want to pay much for . ' from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces . impacts how children play . the new faces of lego : disdain , confidence , concern , fear , happiness and anger . ` designers of agent faces should take great care to design the expressions and to test their effect since toys play an important role in the development of children . ' ` instead of focusing on highly realistic expressions , it may be worthwhile to increase the variability of expressions . a comic style expression is sufficient to convey a full spectrum of emotions and intensities . ' bartneck will present the paper on his findings at the first international conference on human-agent interaction in sapporo , japan , in august . the danish company lego is one of the . biggest toy manufacturers in the world , and produced more that 36 . billion bricks distributed to 130 countries in 2010 alone , equivalent to . 75 bricks each for everyone on earth . to mark the 150th anniversary of london underground , lego has survey found the average briton who is online is willing to pay a maximum of # 1.53 a month for their email service , # 1.33 to use search engines , # 1.10 for video content , 92p for news websites , 88p for social media , 55p for online games and 52p for price comparison sites . popular : laptops were second , followed by tablets - with a fifth of homes owning two of the latter . just over half of people said banking and finance was the area of their lives that would be most affected without the internet or mobile phone , followed by keeping up with current events -lrb- 42 per cent -rrb- , shopping -lrb- 38 per cent -rrb- and their relationships with friends and family -lrb- 37 per cent -rrb- . each one took mr titmarsh four days to put together . once the maps have finished their tour of london stations , they will be put on show at the london transport museum .
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next time you settle down for a spot of lego with your children , take a proper look at the faces on the figures . because while you may remember life in legoland as being perfectly content , these day things are a little more fraught . a study has revealed that the faces of lego characters are getting angrier . in the past , they all had a standard enigmatic smile . but this has changed as more sets are designed to tie in with films , often featuring battles between good and evil . lego characters are slowly getting angrier , say researchers who found that since the product launched in 1975 , the proportion of angry faces has been rising . for the first 11 years after lego was introduced , all characters were happy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- former child actor gary coleman remained in a utah jail monday after being booked on an outstanding arrest warrant relating to a domestic violence case , authorities said . `` he 's still our guest here , '' utah county sheriff 's spokesman lt. dennis harris said monday afternoon . police visited coleman 's santaquin city , utah , home sunday in response to a civil disturbance call , but no criminal charges were filed , a police spokeswoman said . a computer check , however , revealed a misdemeanor failure to appear in court warrant for the former `` diff ` rent strokes '' star stemming from a domestic violence incident last year , the spokeswoman said . coleman , 41 , was arrested and booked without incident sunday in the county jail in spanish fork , the spokesman said . coleman could get out of jail by posting a $ 1,725 bail , but that has not happened , harris said . coleman 's mug shot released by the jail showed that he was `` not too happy , '' harris said . police did not release details about the previous case related to the arrest warrant . cnn 's alan duke and jack hannah contributed to this report . ` lego themes have been increasingly based on conflicts -lsb- such as pirates or harry potter -rsb- . often a good force is struggling with a bad one , ' say the researchers . christopher bartneck , of new zealand 's . university of canterbury , has published research showing that lego . characters are becoming more conflict-oriented , and the human figures . featured in lego sets are getting angrier . the average household now owns 7.4 internet devices and four in 10 bought a tablet in the last year . smartphones are the most common internet-enabled device , at 1.7 per household , followed by laptops -lrb- 1.3 -rrb- and tablets -lrb- 1.2 -rrb- , the yougov poll of more than 2,000 consumers found . four in 10 households now own one tablet , one fifth have two , and 11 per cent own three or more . top of the table : smartphones are survey found the average briton who is online is willing to pay a maximum of # 1.53 a month for their email service , # 1.33 to use search engines , # 1.10 for video content , 92p for news websites , 88p for social media , 55p for online games and 52p for price comparison sites . popular : laptops were second , followed by tablets - with a fifth of homes owning two of the latter . just over half of people said banking and finance was the area of their lives that would be most affected without the internet or mobile phone , followed by keeping up with current events -lrb- 42 per cent -rrb- , shopping -lrb- 38 per cent -rrb- and their relationships with friends and family -lrb- 37 per cent -rrb- . each one took mr titmarsh four days to put together . once the maps have finished their tour of london stations , they will be put on show at the london transport museum .
 The article discusses how Lego characters are becoming increasingly angry and aggressive, citing studies that show a rise in conflict and violence in Lego sets over the years. It also mentions how this trend is reflected in other areas of popular culture, such as movies and video games.