Lego produces first minifigure of a young man in a wheelchair

Lego has produced its first disabled minifigure, to the delight of a campaigning parent upset that millions of children were not represented in some of the world’s most popular toys.

Pictures of the plastic figure of a young man using a wheelchair and apparently accompanied by an assistance dog were spotted at the Nuremberg toy fair in Germany and shared on websites devoted to the world’s largest toy firm’s products.

Lego confirmed that the wheelchair would form part of a set which would go on sale in June.