The good people at Lego have unveiled the first-ever Lego figurine in a wheelchair, much to the delight of disability advocates and children the world over.

The new beanie wearing character, comes with his very own helper dog and was spotted at the recent Nuremberg and London toy fairs, with the above picture being posted on the Promobricks blog.

The appearance of the new inclusive toy is significant, not least because it follows a tireless campaign by advocacy group Toy Like Me, whose petition to have a more inclusive range of Lego characters garnered more than 20,000 signatures.

Image via Toy Like Me on Facebook.

The petition reads:

“Oh Lego, where are your basket balling wheelsters? Baseball playing Duplo folk with hearing aids? White cane using Lego Friends off to the gym? In fact, where is your positive disability representation at all?

“There are 150 million children with disabilities worldwide. Yet these kids are arriving into a world where, even before they’ve left their mums’ laps, they’re excluded or misrepresented by the very industry that exists to create their entertainment, the objects that fuel their development, the starting blocks of life: Toys!”

The organisers of Toy Like Me appear to be thrilled with the new edition to the the Lego City collection and have updated the page to say just that:

“We’ve got genuine tears of joy right now … Lego have just rocked our brick-built world!”