MarketFriday by @dswigle - @c0ff33a goes to LegoLand 🧝🏼♂️
It has been a while since I have done a #MarketFriday post by @dswigle, technically it is Saturday and LegoLand is not a market - although it has enough shops in it selling boxes of overpriced nobbly bricks to be one big Market!
As you start to enter the LegoLand park HulkBuster is one of the first sights to greet you, this sets the scene for the day as you might expect the park is filled with lego structures of all sizes - it's hard to imagine how long it took people to painstaking brick build all these -including the correct colours to add patterns.
You walk down to to the lego cities displays, everywhere you look are lego based structures.
This little display is animated with the characters moving around in it.
Yes, those heads are made of lego mimicking the 4 presidents on Mount Rushmore
At the bottom of the hill you find the city displays
Built to scale with cars and working trains even.
And they include famous London landmarks
My youngest is overwhelmed with excitement, his brother is enjoying it though. We stayed out overnight close to the park, so we could arrive at 9.30am when the gates opened. Youngest is not a morning person.
The buildings are amazing, literally all made of Lego!
These cities cover a large area on their own, but this is a tiny portion compared to the total theme park.
You see lots of small displays like this all over, it seems no flowerbed or unused area is left without Lego display.
They have plenty of Halloween themes around too including pumpkins, real and lego
Finally the rides at the theme park opened, main gates 9.30am but the rides do not open until 10am, everyone rushes to the rides because the queues quickly build up. We went to lego driving school first, the electric cars are great fun to drive around - they have a mini city with streets and crossing. And they all have to drive on the left, they are not supposed to bump each other but inevitably they do. One little girl took a short cut along a pedestrian crossing between roads and popped out across a little boy driving along minding his own business - perfect T Bone manoveur! And the cars got jammed on curbs easily, on one bend the lead car tried to take it too tight, got jammed and one by one 8 cars ran into each other behind it.
Train ride in the sun, we were lucky with the weather, sunny - but quite cool when the sun went in. I lasted the day in a t-shirt, I was the only one though - thick jumpers and jackets all around, in the South of the UK they feel the cold more then us Northerners.
Play parks are always a favourite, although I'm not sure my eldest fits into this car!
The Lego Ninjago world featured these big brick built characters, really impressive. And of course a shop, every single ride has a shop full of lego sets for the ride theme - no opportunity missed to sell sell sell!
This climbing wall was no problem for the expert.
This spooky lego spider above the ride even had moving legs and mouth parts and glowing eyes!
Even the ride control hut has a Spider on it!
I know what you are thinking, that fence is not made of Lego - they cheated!
And we reach the Lego Star Wars building, this fortunately is not a ride - just interactive displays you walk round.
The sets are displays of models from all the Stars Wars films, they follow chronological order rather then film order.
Of course the Lego Star Wars display is my favourite, the detail in these models is incredibly close to the films. As we walked up the corridor slope to the exit, there were displays of big brick built characters behind glass - but more amazing was the entire length of the corridor roof was filled with star ships from the films - X-Wing, Y-Wing Tie Fighters and all manor of others.
I'm going to call this part one, and the save the other 50 photographs I have for a post tomorrow morning! I hope you enjoyed my trip to LegoLand Windsor posted for #MarketFriday by @dswigle
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Those city displays are amazing, but like you, I would have spent a lot of time in the Star Wars area.
Looks like a really fun day.
Thank you very much, there is so much to see and do at the theme park it’s amazing really. The Star Wars section was super, I really liked the set up with interactive displays, it was dimly lit with plenty of leds used for effect.
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Looks like you had a blast my friend. But here are the LEGOs you should have.....
https://steemit.com/steemsilvergold/@silverd510/the-lego-master
Thank you very much, it was a fun day out the youngest enjoyed it too despite his neutral look! Loving the Silver minifig in that post it’s awesome!
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@c0ff33a, LegoLand is awesome and there is no question about it. And in my opinion this is an great idea to showcase the real beauty of some place. And most importantly these kind of places can become the best Tourists spots for sure. And another best aspect of this post is, Star Wars section. And in my opinion children will love the Star Wars stuff for sure.
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed. 🙂
Thank you very much, I’m pleased you enjoyed the photos of legoland
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Welcome and have a great time ahead. 🙂
This lego city is full of wonders wow such a great time kids had there for sure beautiful :D
Lovely post and beautiful pics.
I liked to read this: "I lasted the day in a t-shirt, I was the only one though - thick jumpers and jackets all around, in the South of the UK they feel the cold more then us Northerners".
Maybe if there were some Spanish or Italian tourists wearing heavy jackets, they looked at you and thought: "Wow, doesn't this guy feel cold? Where does he come from?"
I enjoyed reading your post.
Thank you very much, I know literally everyone at the park was fully wrapped up like it was really cold. I decided the blue skies would make it warm enough - which it was until the sun hid behind a cloud. To be fair I was starting to feel the chill after 4pm - but at least we left at 5.30pm before it got dark.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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You are very welcome.
Take care!
Thank you very much, it was indeed a day full of wonders - including my biggest Wonder at the end of the day when I looked into my very empty wallet!
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Oh, my!!! That was certainly an impressive #MarketFriday post!! Year and year and years ago, I went to Legoland in Denmark, but, it was not nearly this impressive! Of course, at the time, it was the one and only Legoland.
I was truly awed by the animated display of Mount Rushmore! That was cool and I went to Google to get a closer look! I just couldn't resist! For the life of me, I cannot imagine how long it took to dream up, plan and actually put those together. A lifetime of hours, for sure!
You say the cities were built to scale? See, I cannot even fathom that. I looked at the detail and wow, no kidding. I am pretty sure they must have had kids putting them together. No adult in the world has that much imagination. Just saying. Your sons had a blast I am sure. Heyyyy! It is hard to look excited when you are overwhelmed AND your dad got you up at the crack of dawn. I have seen that look before. I too stand in awe of the cities and towns and how not even the tiniest of details is missed. The scene with the bridge and ditto on the London eye was amazing.
Oh, my God. Did I use the word amazing again? Sorry. It is. There is no other way to describe it. Were you as taken by it as I am?
That Fiats were soooo adorable! I can just see them tottling around a mini-city! Oh, Lord! The cars are even made of giant Legos! Who doesn't want to go here? You lasted the day in a t-shirt, yes? A real Northerner would have had shorts on too! Haha!
The spiders were all super cool! Yes! The dragon too! The fence was totally cheating!
If you hadn't told me Star Wars was your favorite, I wouldn't ever have guessed! Ha! Those WERE pretty cool if I do say so myself. Are you sure you couldn't have put a few more pictures??? You know you wanted to!!!
Thank you, @c0ff33a a million times over for taking the time and effort to put this together. I totally appreciate it and loved it. You are always a welcome addition to the #MarketFriday challenge!
I hope you have a wonderful week!!
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