Kooijman's original proposal included 12 female figures, including a geologist, a robotics engineer, a firefighter, a judge and a falconer. Follow @JolieLeeDC on Twitter.

It turns out that Charlotte was onto something: Shortly after going on sale, the $19.99 minifigure set is already sold out at the Lego store.

Girl Lego builders can now use three female scientists as their protagonists in a new set so popular it is already out of stock. The 165-piece Research Institute features a female paleontologist ...

Created by geophysicist Ellen Kooijman on Lego Ideas, the crowd-sourced design platform, the collection features three female scientists: an astronomer, a paleontologist and a chemist.

Lego, the Denmark-based toy company, has approved designs for a new collection titled “Research Institute,” an all-female line with characters such as astronomer, paleontologist, and chemist ...

“All right, Lego, maybe it’s not your job to dictate culture and produce female mountain climbers. But then don’t dictate culture by making female pretzel girls. Lego is modular.

Photo/LEGO The words of a 7-year-old just might have been the final push needed to make a set of female scientist LEGOs a reality. In January, a letter to the company by a little girl named ...

Online campaign inspires Lego to add female scientist figurines And they won’t be drenched in pink. Gavia Baker-Whitelaw Updated on May 31 2021 4:35 am CDT ...

Lego announced this week that it would be launching a new series of minifigures -- all girls, and all scientists. Helene Haga plays with Legos at the annual Lego Festival at the Technical Museum ...

At long last, LEGO will actually have new female figurines who do something other than bake and hang out at the beach. The Denmark-based toy company has approved new designs for female scientist ...

Months after a girl took the company to task for its female toy figures, Lego has released the Research Institute, a play set created by a "real-life geophysicist, Ellen Kooijman," the company says.