The LEGOLAND Hotel Drops an Awesome Bomb on Central Florida
Last month, LEGOLAND Florida officially became the LEGOLAND Florida Resort when they unveiled the LEGOLAND Hotel, which is basically every LEGO fan’s dream come true.
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LEGO Architecture Goes Flat for the Flatiron Building
The newest addition to the Architecture line is New York City’s Flatiron Building. Rising up from a triangular wedge of land between Broadway, Fifth Avenue and East 22nd Street, the Flatiron Building became one of the city’s tallest buildings at 20 stories when it was completed in 1902. The building has since been recognized as a National Historic Landmark and is one of the most recognizable buildings in the city.
‘LEGO Elves’ Portal Suggests Toys to Life Ambitions
Does LEGO Elves’ portal mean it is coming to LEGO Dimensions?
LEGO Fusion Is Augmented Reality for Tweens
Augmented Reality (AR) is not just the stuff of wearable displays (like Google Glass and Microsoft’s HoloLens), ghostly virtual assistants, and floating keyboards any more. In a perfectly appropriate blend of real and virtual innovation, LEGO has found a way to use AR that embellishes the building blocks and increases creativity and real-world play (rather than take away from it) with the LEGO Fusion group of sets.
Close-Up Video for Every Toy Fair LEGO Set
We have a bunch of posts on the LEGO booth at Toy Fair. To kick things off here’s a quick video run-down on what was on display. Check back for more detailed analysis of the kits.
GeekMom’s 2014 Lego Bricks Gift Guide
GeekMom recommends Lego sets and accessories for your consideration this holiday season.
Enhance Your EV3 Robot Experience With The Lego Mindstorms EV3 Discovery Book
The Lego Mindstorms EV3 Discovery Book: A Programmer’s Guide to Building and Programming Robots will help you get the most out of your robot.
Make Your Way to Atlanta’s LEGO KidsFest June 27-29
If you’re going to be in the Atlanta, Georgia area the weekend of June 27-29 and your children are fans of LEGO, then you absolutely must plan to attend LEGO KidsFest.
What to Expect at the New LegoLand Discovery Center Boston
LegoLand Discovery Center opens a new location in Boston today. Take a sneak peek with GeekMom Sarah and her family.
Legoland Discovery Center Boston
Words can barely grasp the magnificence that is the Legoland Discovery Center that will be opening in Boston next month.
Great Guide to LEGO Minifigs Is Packed With Information, Images, and More
LEGO minifigs will soon outnumber humans. Get to know them a little better with this fascintating collection that catalogs the minifigs’ rise.
Build Ten Amazing Vehicles With The Lego Build-It Book
Fresh from the No Starch Press comes The Lego Build-It Book, Volume 1: Amazing Vehicles, a useful new book for Lego fans of all ages, featuring instructions for building ten vehicles including a Jeep, a Fire truck, a Muscle Car, a Digger, a Go-Kart and even a baby stroller!
Lego to Build the Ultimate Lego House
The Lego Group have unveiled plans for a new visitor centre and museum to be built in their hometown of Billund in Denmark, and I bet you can guess what it might look like!
Warren Elsmore’s Brick City – Lego for Grown Ups
Brick City, by AFOL Warren Elsmore, is a new book which takes you on a round-the-world tour featuring gorgeous photos of some his (and his friends) best models and even includes parts lists and instructions to build over 50 landmarks from around the world.
A Place to Show Off Your Awesome Lego Builds
It’s no secret that we love Lego here at GeekDad, so when one of our beloved readers left a comment on a post about starting up a gallery for all of our builds, we thought it was a fabulous idea!
A Life Size Lego Hobbit Environment!
In another celebration of the Hobbit movie, Lego has built a life size Bag End environment, out of Lego bricks, of course. GeekMom has an exclusive sneak peak.
Lego Batman 2 — Bring It On
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is the latest addition to the Lego DC Universe. I loved the first Lego Batman game so I was super excited to see that Lego was once again on good terms with the Bat and his friends.
The Father-Son Team of Lego Master Builders
Meet the father and son who hold two of the seven Lego Master Builder spots in the United States. The Lego apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Adafruit Industries’ Ladyada’s Workshop Lego – A Lego Cuusoo Project
Recently, Lego has been specifically targeting young girls in a variety of marketing campaigns, and with the addition of a Lego Friends line. This has resulted in a lot of heated debate. Enter Limor Fried — founder of Adafruit and featured on the magazine cover of Wired in April 2011 – and the Ladyada’s Workshop Lego set.
Lego for Girls, Done Right
A lot of people were up in arms about Lego Friends — unfairly, for the most part. A Lego set is only what you make of it. Still, a lot of people bemoaned how the geekiest set, Olivia’s Inventor’s Workshop, …
Lego Kidsfest: Definitely Worth the Price of Admission
You might be inclined to believe Lego KidsFests is just going to be another marketing ploy by this company that seems to keep finding ways to suck those dollar bills out of your wallet, but let me tell you why you, and your building child, will experience so much more than a cruise through the company store.
Kids Prefer Original Lego Batman Because of Multiplayer
My son had been saving up for Lego Batman 2, the latest in the Lego videogame series, and was working out whether he’d have enough money when the game lunches in June. A few calculations later and he looked downcast …
New Legoland Discovery Center Opens in Midwest
This past weekend, a new Legoland Discovery Center opened in Kansas City. The indoor attraction, which features rides, activities, party rooms, and lots of Lego bricks is just the fourth in US and the seventh in the world.
DIY Lego Lunchbox
Tom Heck published a detailed how-to for turning an old Lego storage container into a lunchbox for his son. Tom’s son took it to school for the first time on Monday and his friends (all of them Lego fanatics) loved …
Lego Launches Social Media Platform, ReBrick (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Proud to share your Lego building skills, but your Facebook “friends” can’t seem to press Like or tweet about it? Well, you might simply be addressing the wrong crowd! Luckily for you, Lego has just initiated ReBrick, its own social …
The Hardest Part of Moving – Organizing the Lego Collection
Although our family is not a military family, we move around the country as much as some of our military friends. When your main bread winner is employed by the Federal Government, any state is a potential place to move some day. Right now we are transitioning from spending five years in New York, to […]
BrickFair Proves the Love of Lego Is Everywhere
On Saturday, January 14, 2012, I packed the family in the car and drove the two hours from Huntsville to Birmingham, solely to attend AL BrickFair 2012 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center. While not affiliated with Lego, the fair celebrates …
Time-Lapse Video: Building the Lego VW Camper Van
As soon as I saw Jenny’s post about the Lego VW Camper Van back in October I knew I had to have it, just as she did when she first saw it. I was a good boy all year, so …
Take a Glimpse into the Anthropology of Lego
The other morning, while getting my sons ready for school, I heard an interview on NPR between Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep and Business Week’s Brad Weiner. The two journalists were discussing a new line of Lego brick sets hitting the market right after Christmas in the U.K. and U.S. The line is called “Lego […]
A New Lego Holiday Website – It’s Worth Checking Out!
It’s finally live! The new Lego website I hinted about in last week’s post is up and running. You can find it at LegoSantaYoda.com. It’s packed with holiday fun and focuses on the joy of giving, during this holiday season. There are e-greeting cards you can send your friends, and for each card sent, Lego […]