If I had my own amusement park, it would be look a lot like LEGOLAND. Pristine, primary colored, and with block men & women at every turn. LEGOLAND has everything I need. Soy milk, fruit loops, building blocks, coffee and rides that are not death defying.
See, I don’t like roller coasters. I’m a big roller coaster wimp, which is so strange because I absolutely loved them as a child. You’d think that my love for roller coasters would have aged with me, but not so much. My last coaster was in Santa Cruz at the Boardwalk. I walked away from that coaster and said “never again”. That was 10 years ago.
Yesterday I went on my first coaster in 10 years. It was 6 feet off the ground and went incredibly slow. To call it a coaster would be incorrect actually. That’s kind of a lie. It was more of a self propelled Lego car that made you pretend you could cycle to make it go forward. So, really, not a coaster at all. But, hey, it makes me feel better. I was 6 feet off the ground! Actually, there’s this one part that might be like 15 feet off the ground. Whoa!
LEGOLAND is for geeks and makers. It is a place where we can get lost and revert into children. I did this yesterday and it was really a lot of fun. I highly recommend it to anyone. Hell, I’m now a card carrying member.
So yeah, I bought like 100 Lego men. Not sure what I’m going to do with them yet, but stay tuned. For 30.00, you can get a box of 50 various lego men with their safety gear. It comes with some motorcycles and various other vehicles. Ideas anyone? I was thinking of getting one of those Lego studios and trying my hand at an animated lego movie. Those are so cool.
Here’s a competitor to our Nrrrd Grrrl video that was quite good:
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Years ago I was driving from LA to San Diego to get to an event. I was in the left lane. I saw the sign for LegoLand and am happy to report that I didn’t get into an accident as I jumped across all the lanes to take the exit. I drove up to the booth and interrupted the woman’s recital of parking prices with a rather high velocity: “This is LegoLand? I thought it was only in Denmark! Oh my god! I’m on the way to a party so I don’t have much time but I was driving and I saw the sign and I pulled over and oh my god oh my god oh my god….”
The parking attendant started laughing. She laid out a plan for me: “They have this shopping pass. You don’t have to pay the entrance fee, but you can only be in there for 30 minutes. You like miniatures, right? Head right as soon as you go in and go to Miniland. Remember: you only have 30 minutes!”
I was on an adventure. A high. I ran in, followed directions (with a pause for the giant head of Albert Einstein), and was rewarded with delight. And so went my first visit to LegoLand. I love Legos. And MiniLand was everything I could have hoped for.
I am not at all surprised that you loved it there too!
(today’s captcha: “system romantic”. Why yes, I am!)
I want to go to legoland.