We love our road trips. And our Legos. I thought the experience would be a great Christmas present for the kids AND it still cost much less than Hot Guy and Lovebug's coveted Lego Death Star
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Giant. Piles. Of. Bricks.
After the initial huge piles of Duplos (which my kids never play with anymore, except for when there are HUGE piles of them), we strolled over to the Lego creations. This Lightning McQueen was pretty sweet.
Life-sized Lego Hagrid.
I make a point of encouraging Ironflower's Hermione obsession.
Giant pile of regular Legos. Hugmonkey and I did this while Hot Guy and the big kids went to the Lego Master Builder Academy. The Master Builder Academy was Lovebug and Ironflower's favorite part of the whole experience. They got to meet a Master Builder and learn some building strategies.
Hugmonkey and I also hit the Lego City area; you could build vehicles or buildings and add them to the Lego City display.
We met up again at the monochromatic build. All the bricks were the same color (obviously) and the same size - the classic two by four. And yet the projects were amazing.
Ironflower's.
Hugmonkey's.
Lovebug's. And theirs weren't even the best.
Squee! Lego Harry Potter!
I wonder how much it would cost to buy that whole display?
This was where you made vehicles and raced them.
We spent a lot of time there.
We built buildings to add to a giant map of the United States.
Lovebug made the Empire State Building.
More time at the giant Lego pile. See the cool city Lovebug is adding to? Well, the only negative part of the trip happened here. A boy around 7 or so had made a giant Lego gun, and then decided to destroy the city. He knocked down every building, yanked a house out of a toddler's hands and destroyed it and just acted like a little jerk. No parent stopped him or said anything (except me and Hot Guy, not that he listened) and no one from Lego stepped in.
Next we went over to the family build competition. We had to make things from Star Wars, to the joy of the boys in the family.
We played Ninjago, which is actually way more fun than I thought.
The boys did Mindstorms while Ironflower and I went to the Lego Friends area. We would like you to know that while we are technically against the idea of "girl" and "boy" Legos, we had a lot of fun building with the Lego Friends sets. We don't know why, but they seem to be addicting.
There was an area with Lego Castle stuff.
There was Batman.
The whole thing was four and half hours long and we were there for every minute. We actually could have used another half hour or so - we didn't get to the Lego art area or take a picture with Lego Santa.
Way better (and cheaper) than our trip to Legoland a few years ago. I mean, Legoland is really just an amusement park with some Lego details - there's no Master Builder Academy and only a teeny building area. Lego Kids Fest is a much better option for kids who love Legos. And Disney World is a much better option for kids who love amusement parks.
3 comments:
Strangely, neither of my kids has been much into Legos, but that looks like a lot of fun.
@Steph, well, if you want to get them into Legos I know where you should take them. :)
This looks so cool! Looks like a great time was had by all.
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