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01/13/09
01/13/09
Their theme park was so NASTY and run down it was disgusting.
01/13/09
SoCal was really a bad place to put a LEGOLAND theme park. At least one that's not indoors. The first park was built in Billund, Denmark (~56°N), then they built one in Windsor, England (~51°N). And then they built one in Carlsbad, California (~33°N). That's within spitting distance of the tropics, and the only color of ABS that is 100% UV-resistant is black, because it's colored with pure carbon. Every other color fades in sunlight, and even though they coat all of the models in UV-resistant sealer, it's not enough to counteract the solar pounding those bricks take. Also, it _really_ doesn't help that it's close enough to a bunch of high-end parks that most tourists will pick Disney/Sea World/Knott's Berry Farm/Universal Studios/etc. over LEGOLAND, but it's far enough from every other park that it's not a convenient second-stop park. You really have to make a point of going there. They've just opened an indoor mini-park-thing in Chicago, where the (indoor) displays will keep their colors a lot longer, it's a much more convenient destination for tourists, and it doesn't have the nations largest selection of theme-park competition sitting a few hours away.
And as long as you don't leave your LEGO bricks outside, they'll stay nice and shiny like the ones in Chicago.
01/13/09
01/14/09
Well, I've only been there during the winter, and at that time the traffic is pretty light all day long. And during the summer, it has to be a pretty brutal place to hang out in general, regardless of how busy it is.
01/13/09
01/13/09
01/13/09
Wasn't she just featured here yesterday?
01/13/09
Melt them down and try again.
01/13/09
01/13/09
01/13/09
The plural of "Lego" is actually "LEGO bricks" or some other comparable usage that does not involve treating the word "LEGO" like a noun. Or not writing it in all-caps. And if you _really_ want to get into it, first use on the page should be written as "LEGO(R) bricks".
01/13/09
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