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[Image]A book showing children how to make guns out of LEGO is climbing the list of must-have Christmas presents.
The manual, written by two former employees of the Danish plastic-brick firm, is a big hit in the US.
The authors of Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against promise "you'll learn to create working models that LEGO would never endorse".
Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley added: "Try your hand at a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates, a candy catapult, a high voltage LEGO vehicle.
"Or a continuous fire ping-pong ball launcher, and other useless but incredibly fun inventions."
The book was published in August by No Starch Press, a small independent publishing house based in San Francisco.
And it has become a surprise hit with Americans, shooting up the Amazon sales charts.
But in Britain, there has been concern about the effect the book may have on children.
The Daily Telegraph has dubbed the tome "the Anarchist Cookbook of the nursery".
And a commenter on ThisIsLondon.co.uk said: "This is a very dangerous idea.
"Kids could make atomic bombs out of LEGO, and just think what would happen if some Islamic terrorist get hold of a copy. The possibilities are terrifying."
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