Wednesday, April 1, 2009

LegoLand

Eric is big-time into all things Lego. Since it's spring break, we decided to go visit LegoLand yesterday with the kids. Having a couple freebie kid passes made the trip less traumatic for me. I can't say I'd ever go back there (unless someone else was paying, lol), even though the Lego creations were really cool. For the $40 it cost for all of us to get in there, our kids each got one free white Lego brick with the entrance fee. What a deal! Well OK, we got to go on a dragon ride and see a short 4-D movie....plus go to the over-run play area.

I'm hard to please with my high standards. I think for $19 per adult, we should get something more than a walk-through of some Lego creations. I had hoped we could attend one of the workshops with a Lego master builder, but that was at 10:50 a.m. and that appeared to be it. Guess I dropped the ball by not asking when we got there, seeing as there were no signs anywhere about it and the cashier didn't even hand us so much as a site map (maybe he dislikes coupon users who bring their own cameras.) If I weren't trying to stop acronym cyber swearing, I'd be typing WTyouknowwhat, ya know?! In this case, entrance fees do not in any way equate to the value of the venue.

On the plus side, Eric has switched career paths. Gone are the dreams to be a carpenter. He plans to be a master builder of Legos. Sounds like a fun job, actually!


Hippo in the "jungle land" area


The kids with Batman



Indiana Jones



Eric was randomly chosen to push a button in the pretend Lego "factory"



Hagrid



Anakin Skywalker gone bad



Young Jedi Warrior



One guess who feels at home in front of the camera

2 comments:

Amy Frank said...

I think we are going to take the kids. A friend of mine just sent me coupons for $7 admission for weeknights, 3-7pm only. From what I've heard that should give us plenty of time to see everything. Your post also seems to confirm this! I can justify spending the $28, but probably not more than that for my kids right now! The Lego creations look so amazing! Justin is just starting to get into Legos.

Cheryl said...

2-3 hours is ample time, and that was on a reasonably crowded day. I would think going on a weeknight would be uncrowded, so zero lines (not that they were bad when we were there!)