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Alex's Trip to LEGO KidsFest

By Jess
Lego KidsFest, Cincinnati, OH, March 24, 2012

Mom: What did you do at the Lego party?
Alex: Build lots of things.

Mom: What kinds of places were there to build things?
Alex: First, there was a big pile of bricks on the floor. There were
probably 200 legos! I built a Droid battleship. A lot of people were
sitting in this giant puddle of legos. PILE, not puddle. What if it
was a puddle? Who would make a Lego puddle? It would be hard to make a
lego puddle. Who would have thought of that? I don't know.

I built things out of only green blocks that were very thick and there
was only one kind of them. There were only thick four pieces, so there
were two dots on one side and four on the other. Eight dots. That was
the only kind of block they had in that area. I don't remember what I
made. Dad made a Lego toilet.

We saw lots of Lego sculptures. There were a lot of Star Wars
sculptures. They were made of all Legos and they were like two feet
tall or something.
Mom: Were they bigger or smaller than you are?
Alex: Bigger.
Mom: Were they bigger or smaller than Mom?
Alex: Probably about the same height.
Mom: They were all just about life-size sculptures.
Alex: And they were all made of Legos. There was a Batman standing up
on a tower and he had a cape. The cape was not Legos. There was a
battle droid, Boba Fett., a triceratops that moved, and there was an
Indiana Jones sculpture. There was a big triceratops and a little
triceratops.

There were lots of cages with Lego scenes. They used clear sticks to
make some people look like they were flying. There were little frog
legos. They like very small ramped legos in the back, so they looked
like little ramps, but they were actually green frogs. They were in
one of the scences. One scene was kind of silly. C-3PO was carrying a
lightsabre. There was a Star Wars scene of things. And there was some
pirate ships in another box. There was a knocked down building and a
lot of robots. One of the things in the scenes was an AT-AT Walker.
Dad took a picture of the AT-AT walker. It had a bunch of
stormtroopers running from it.

And there were things that we got to touch that were alive. And they
were animals. One was a lizard and one was a snake. [The zoo and
aquarium both had booths at the event. The Aquarium brought an albino
milk snake, and the Zoo had a North African lizard called Uromastyx.]

[There was a booth where kids could build a flower, as a fundraiser
for Cincinnati Children's Hospital or some such.] I got a green
platform to start. I built a house to go with all the flowers that
could be growing with the house.

I built a theatre for the giant map. There was a fan and a little
spinner thing in the middle that they would use during things. Just
during little meetings or something to plan out what they would do.

We played a game and got a free kit. It was a Boba Fett ship kit. The
name of the ship is Slave I. We had to build things in the game. We
had to build things in two minutes for the game. We built rockets.

Mom: Did you have a good time?
Alex: Yes. Yes I did. My favorite thing was probably the Darth Vader sculpture.

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