We are excited that the award-winning LEGO KidsFest is coming to Dallas at the Dallas Convention Center on August 29 - 31, 2014! LEGO KidsFest is a lot of fun because it is open to children of all ages and builders of all skills and levels. They have many impressive display and opportunities for interactive fun. There are so many things to do that they have a three-acre show floor! Let me warn you that LEGO KidsFest often sells out, so you may want to buy tickets well in advance.
In this post, we'll share information about LEGO KidsFest, share our personal agenda that we plan to follow when we visit, share some fun facts to share with your kids as you get excited for the event, and then offer a giveaway for tickets!
LEGO KidsFest
Some of the trendy new activities for this year's visit to Dallas include
LEGO Chima,
LEGO Friends Photo Booth,
LEGO Star Wars,
LEGO Disney Princess,
LEGO Super Heroes, and
LEGO Mindstorms.
You may also enjoy these great attractions:
LEGO Model Museum,
LEGO Master Builder Academy,
Race Ramps,
Creation Nation,
Construction Zone,
LEGO DUPLO,
LEGO Retail store and LEGO KidsFest Marketplace,
Big Brick Pile,
LEGO Ninjago.
"Any family who likes to be inspired, get hands-on and have fun together won't want to miss LEGO KidsFest," said Vince Rubino, LEGO events manager. "We're bringing so many activities for Dallas-area families to showcase their creativity and building skills in what is sure to be a family event to remember."
Five sessions - all identical - are available for the August 29-31 tour stop. LEGO KidsFest tickets are $22 for adults and $20 for children and can be purchased online at http://www.legokidsfest.com.
The LEGO KidsFest 2014 tour stops: Raleigh, NC (Feb. 28 - March 2), Novi/Detroit, MI (April 25 - 27), Calgary, AB, Canada (May 16 - 18), Atlanta, GA (June 27 - 29), Dallas, TX (Aug. 29 - 31), Richmond, VA (Oct. 3 - 5) and Indianapolis, IN (Nov. 7 - 9).
On tour since 2009, previous LEGO KidsFest tour stops have included major cities such as Chicago, Boston, San Jose, Cleveland, Richmond, Houston, Phoenix and more. Tickets generally sell out and attendance averages 27,000 visitors at each venue. To date, more than 600,000 have enjoyed more than 23 LEGO KidsFest shows.
Last year, Event Marketer Magazine awarded the Best Proprietary Event to LIFE Marketing & Events, the company that runs the LEGO KidsFest tour. Event Marketer is the organization of record for the event marketing industry.
Be sure to also check out LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas, which offers an indoor day-long experience, with 15 attractions, 4D cinema, the Kingdom Quest laser ride, Merlin's Apprenctice Ride, earthquake tables and more.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The LEGO KidsFest is a giant traveling LEGO expo coming to the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, TX from Aug. 29 - 31, 2014. This is our third event in Texas, with sell-out shows in Austin and Houston preceding this trip.
LEGO KidsFest is a 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
Trendy Mom's Family Agenda for LEGO KidsFest in Dallas
There are so many fun things to do at this event! So what is on your LEGO KidsFest Agenda?
Here are some things that we personally want to add to our agenda:
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 Ninjago: spin the way to being a Spinjitzu member
LEGO Mindstorms: build and program robots and snakes
LEGO City: using the imagination to create buildings and vehicles to the urban diorama
Fun Facts to share with your family
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.
Win it!
One Trendy Mom Follower will win (2) tickets to for the opening night session on Friday, August 29, 2014 (4-8:30pm). USFG is administering the giveaway. ENTER THE GIVEAWAY HERE. You can enter daily!!
We encourage you to LIKE and Follow LEGOKidsFest on Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram. Must be 18 to enter and you may enter once per day. U.S. Family Guide (USFG) will randomly draw a winner. Enter by August 1, 2014. The winner will be announced on August 5, 2014. The winner will receive their tickets via email on approximately August 19, 2014. Good luck!
Thanks to USFG and LEGO KidsFest for providing us and the winner with tickets!