Lego has issued an apology for describing one of its characters as “part back-of-the-bus window-licker,” a derogatory term for mentally disabled people, and has since deleted that wording from its website.
Lego recently faced backlash for a description of one of its newest toys.
The company’s website marketed the character figure named Turg as "an experiment that's gone very, very wrong! Part frog, part chicken, part back-of-the-bus window-licker, this Mixel has the longest tongue of them all."
Mixels are a line of quirky characters it developed with the Cartoon Network, and Turg is a one-eyed version with four bottom teeth and a long, swooping tongue.
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