Lego Friends

Robert_in_NY · Jan 8, 2012

Bird said:
I guess it was just this past year that the Grapevine Mills Outlet Mall added a Lego Land. I don't even know what that is, but from the number of people we've seen going in there, it must be popular.:laughing:

I think it was about the same that they added the Sea Life Aquarium, and we haven't seen nearly as many people going in there. Of course we've been to a number of aquariums around the country, so yesterday we thought we'd see what the Sea Life Aquarium was like. However, when we saw the $29 per person ticket price, we decided we didn't really need to see their aquarium.:laughing:

So did you go to Lego Land instead

Bird · Jan 9, 2012

Robert_in_NY said:
So did you go to Lego Land instead

Nope, I have no idea what goes on in Lego Land at the Mall, and until they put that in there, I'd forgotten what Legos were, or at least what Lego bricks were. I had no idea it had grown the way it has. I reckon they're a step up from the Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs I grew up with.:laughing:

dmccarty · Jan 9, 2012

I grew up playing with Legos and Lincoln Logs. Best toys ever. :thumbsup: Erector sets were not really around in the stores and were too expensive. :laughing:

The problem with today's Legos is that they are kits to build a single something. With the kits I had you could build all sorts of things. The new kits are very nice but they limit imagination.

My girls like Legos and we have quite a few of the Harry Potter kits. Many of the other kits just are not for them. These new kits for girls would work for one of the girls.

The two professors need to get a life based on reality not their fantasy. One of my kids would likely LOVE these new Lego kits because it is girly. Our other kid would not go near the kit with a 20 foot pole because it IS girly.

We finally were able to visit a Lego store in Downtown Disney last trip. WOW. I was J E A L O U S! :laughing: These kids are spoiled now a days. They had so many different kits but you could also buy pieces in bulk. They had different sized containers at various prices and bulk dispensers on the wall. You could pick as many pieces as you wanted as long as it fit into the container. :laughing:

JEALOUS I was.

If I was a kid, I would have spent quite a bit of time placing the pieces just so in the container to maximize my dollar.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

There is also some sort of point system where you earn so many points when you buy the kits and I guess you can spend those points to get "free" kits. There was a LONG line of kids and parents doing something with the points.

Later,
Dan

aczlan · Jan 9, 2012

Our 2 year old daughter likes to play with Legos (supervised of course). She drives the vehicles I make around and makes engine noises. She also puts her dolls/people from other sets in/on them and runs them around.
She will probably end up with one of those sets in the not too distant future.

Aaron Z

dmccarty · Jan 9, 2012

aczlan said:
Our 2 year old daughter likes to play with Legos (supervised of course). She drives the vehicles I make around and makes engine noises.

When I make a Lego car, plane, ship, etc that has an engine, I too drive it around and make engine noises. :thumbsup:

Later,
Dan

chucko · Jan 9, 2012

my little girl (18 years old) works at Leggoland

dmccarty · Jan 9, 2012

chucko said:
my little girl (18 years old) works at Leggoland

Is that the new Lego Land theme park in central Florida or a Lego store? I noticed when we were in the Lego store in Downtown Disney(DTD) that a lot of the employees were young.

At the DTD store they have a huge knight and dragon made out of Lego blocks. I should have taken a photo. The "statues" have to be a 10-15 feet tall.

Later,
Dan

chucko · Jan 9, 2012

dmccarty said:
Is that the new Lego Land theme park in central Florida or a Lego store? I noticed when we were in the Lego store in Downtown Disney(DTD) that a lot of the employees were young.

At the DTD store they have a huge knight and dragon made out of Lego blocks. I should have taken a photo. The "statues" have to be a 10-15 feet tall.

Later,
Dan

theme park

dmccarty · Jan 10, 2012

chucko said:
theme park

Cool. The park is supposed to be doing well from what I have heard and it filled up a time or two over the holidays. I think the kids are going to go next summer when they visit the grandparents.

Later,
Dan