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Lego Kids Fest

LEGO KidsFest is coming to the Indianapolis Convention Center, November 7-9, 2014! LEGO KidsFest brings all of the creative hands-on, minds-on fun of LEGO building and experiences together in one activity- and entertainment-packed family event for children of all ages and builders of all skills and interests.

LEGO KidsFest Indianapolis, IN
Nov. 7 - 9, 2014

GENERAL INFORMATION
The LEGO KidsFest is a giant traveling LEGO expo coming to the Indianapolis Convention Center from Nov. 7 - 9, 2014. This hands-on, educational, all-ages LEGO extravaganza features millions of LEGO bricks, not to mention lots of construction zones, dozens of life-sized LEGO models and displays, LEGO Friends, LEGO Chima, LEGO Star Wars, live LEGO Master Builders, and so much more covering three acres of space. 

Five identical sessions are available. Tickets are $20 for kids and $22 for adults.

For more information and to purchase tickets, log on to http://www.legokidsfest.com/tickets.html

We love legos and even my toddler loves to play and build with them as well.

We enjoy having family time while we are building a house with our legos.


SOME ACTIVITIES / LIVE LINER COPY POINTS (some activities are subject to change)
* LEGO Model Gallery: dozens of life-sized models made entirely from LEGO bricks 
* LEGO Master Builders: live demonstrations and activities from the crew who get paid to play 
* Race Ramps: build a custom car, then race it down the ramp against friends and family 
* LEGO Chima: choose a tribe and test battling skills with the whole family 
* LEGO Star Wars: build and display a Star Wars model
* Creation Nation: build your own creation to add to a custom map of the U.S. 
* LEGO DUPLO: younger visitors can explore imagination through building
* LEGO Retail: purchase LEGO merchandise and official KidsFest tour goods
* Brick Pile: a gigantic pile full of LEGO bricks for creative play and enjoyment
* Monochromatic Builds: bricks of a single color to foster group creativity
* LEGO Friends: build for the five empowered friends from Heartlake City 
* LEGO Mindstorms: build and program robots and snakes 
* LEGO Ninjago: spin the way to being a Spinjitzu member 
* LEGO City: using the imagination to create buildings and vehicles to the urban diorama

FUN FACTS
More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.

The LEGO minifigure represents the world's largest population of people! More than four billion minifigures have been produced in the last 30 years. This is almost 12 times the population of the United States!

LEGO minifigures are out of this world, literally. The two Mars Rovers have an image of the LEGO minifigure etched into their front grill.

Approximately seven LEGO sets are sold each second.

There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world's six billion inhabitants.

Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would reach more than five times around the world.

There are 915 million ways to combine six eight-stud LEGO bricks.

Children around the world spend five billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.

With a production of about 306 million tires produced a year, the LEGO group is the largest producer of tires in the world.

LEGO is the contraction of two Danish words, "leg godt" which means "play well".

There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world's six billion inhabitants.

19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year. 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.


BLOGGERS - LEGO NOMENCLATURE & OTHER STUFF

LEGO is the brand name. One plays with LEGO bricks (not LEGOs or Legos). 

LEGO Systems, Inc. is the North American division of The LEGO Group, a privately-held, family-owned company based in Billund, Denmark, one of the world's leading manufacturers of creatively educational play materials for children. The company is committed to the development of children's creative and imaginative abilities, and its employees are guided by the motto adopted in the 1930s by founder Ole Kirk Christiansen: "Only the best is good enough." Visit the virtual LEGO world at www.LEGO.com. LEGO, the LEGO logo, and DUPLO, are trademarks of the LEGO Group. 
2014 The LEGO Group.

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