My son, Jonathan is 18 years old. He's not your typical high school senior in that he's been homeschooled since the first grade. He's got a ton of friends and pretty much does your typical teen guy stuff.
It was my delight to take Jon with me when I was invited to Legoland® for the day to preview The LEGO® Movie Experience. I was doing the Media Thing. How accidentally cool is this?
What this meant was that Jon and I got to spend a day together at Legoland®. This is something we haven't done since he was pretty young. But, as you know, we are all Unabashed Lovers of All Things Lego. See here, here, here, and here.
The new Legoland attraction, the LEGO Movie Experience was a visit to the set of Finn's Basement. The place where the live action portion of The LEGO Movie was filmed.
Picture a city and attending sets built with over 3 million LEGO bricks. I know. Mind blown.
If you look hard enough, you can actually find Emmet and his friends in vignettes from the movie. We may or may not have spent hours doing exactly this.
Also, it became a personal scavenger hunt to find Batman. Of course, there was only one Batman, because, well, there's really only one Batman. (Duh.)
Everywhere we turned there were more scenes from the movie. If you're a BrickLover (and we totally are), you would seriously appreciate.
We so loved the movie and we so love the bricks and now here's yet another reason to love them both.
Both my husband and son have always loved building with LEGO bricks. I'm pretty sure Legoland was designed for the 12-and-under crowd and I absolutely remember the appeal for that age group, but there's something so iconic and delightful about LEGOS.
Maybe it's just nostalgia, or maybe it's something more. Could it be that the Love of All Things LEGO is transcendent?
Or maybe we're just the type of über-geeks who are imaginative enough to picture ourselves in the beautiful world of bricks where Everything is Awesome.
Let's play find the Cuban Lego Mama…
I wrote some more about this fabulous day over at The OC Latina Moms Blog.
Oh I am sooooooo jealous! And so with you about Lego and Legoland (we live about an hour from Legoland Windsor (UK), so yes, we have annual passes. We just spent a night at the Legoland Hotel, spending more money on that than I even want to think about. So the next time I’m in SoCal, will you give me the personal Cubanita (Lego-ita?) tour of Finn’s basement? I gotta find Batman!
We loved the Lego Movie Cannot wait to own it so we can watch it over and over again with the kids.