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Award-Winning LEGO KidsFest Returns to Cleveland

<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usfamilyguide&period;com&sol;blogpromos&sol;1225&sol;legokidsfestlogo&period;png"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usfamilyguide&period;com&sol;blogpromos&sol;1225&sol;legokidsfestlogo&period;png" alt&equals;"legokidsfestlogo" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"616" class&equals;"aligncenter" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Our family are original superfans of everything LEGO®&excl; As a child&comma; my parents bought me all kinds of LEGO sets during the 1980&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; and one of my greatest memories was when I went away to camp&comma; and returned to see my family had built me an entire LEGO supercity&period; To this day I still own all of my original LEGO packed nicely in their original boxes&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fast forward decades later&comma; and our three sons are also addicted to LEGO&comma; thanks to a grandpa that also is a LEGO Master builder&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We are also original connoisseurs of the LEGO Kidsfest events and attended the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;2011&sol;11&sol;09&sol;lego-kidsfest-traveling-show-cleveland-review&sol;">Cleveland Kidsfest<&sol;a> session back in 2011&period; So we are ecstatic to see it returning to Cleveland the weekend of November 4-6&comma; 2016&period; Plus our family has come a long way&comma; now having three sons versus the two from our previous visit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The award-winning LEGO KidsFest Ohio returns to Cleveland&&num;8217&semi;s I-X Center from Nov&period; 4 &&num;8211&semi; 6&comma; 2016&period; The LEGO KidsFest is a traveling LEGO extravaganza featuring millions of LEGO bricks and dozens of hands-on&comma; educational&comma; and fun building activities for all ages&period; It features dozens of life-sized LEGO models and displays&comma; LEGO building areas&comma; the Big Brick Pile&comma; race ramps and more&comma; all covering more than three acres of space&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usfamilyguide&period;com&sol;blogpromos&sol;1225&sol;spidermaninthesuperheroesactivityarea&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usfamilyguide&period;com&sol;blogpromos&sol;1225&sol;spidermaninthesuperheroesactivityarea&period;jpg" alt&equals;"legokidsfestsuperheroscene" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"616" class&equals;"aligncenter" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those who attended the previous show can once again can expect hands-on building&comma; creative experiences and one-of-a-kind activities&period; Children of all ages and builders of all skills and levels are welcome&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>LEGO KidsFest features dozens of new activities and popular favorites on the three-acre show floor&period; New activities for this year&&num;8217&semi;s visit include LEGO Mindstorms&comma; LEGO Movie&comma; LEGO Disney Princess&comma; the Mixels&comma; a LEGO Superheroes area and more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once again&comma; show-goers can enjoy the LEGO Model Museum&comma; Race Ramps&comma; Creation Nation&comma; Construction Zone&comma; LEGO DUPLO&comma; LEGO Retail store and LEGO KidsFest Marketplace&comma; the Big Brick Pile&comma; LEGO Ninjago and more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re thrilled to be returning to the Cleveland area&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Vince Rubino&comma; Events Manager for LEGO Systems&comma; Inc&period; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve got a host of new activities as well as some areas we know are very popular with our fans&period; Not only will families create some new memories at the show&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;ll get another chance to flex and showcase their building skills&period; This event is a must for the true LEGO fan&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Five sessions &&num;8211&semi; all identical and 4 1&sol;2 half hours in length &&num;8211&semi; are held at each tour stop&period; LEGO KidsFest tickets can be purchased at www&period;LEGOkidsfest&period;com&period; Tickets are &dollar;19 for the Friday and Sunday afternoon sessions&comma; and &dollar;22 for both sessions on Saturday and the Sunday morning session&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On tour since 2009&comma; previous LEGO KidsFest tour stops have included major cities such as Chicago&comma; Boston&comma; Dallas&comma; Atlanta&comma; San Jose&comma; Cleveland&comma; Richmond&comma; Phoenix&comma; Portland and more&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usfamilyguide&period;com&sol;blogpromos&sol;1225&sol;lego2&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usfamilyguide&period;com&sol;blogpromos&sol;1225&sol;lego2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"legokidsfestscooby" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"616" class&equals;"aligncenter" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>FUN FACTS<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The LEGO minifigure represents the world&&num;8217&semi;s largest population of people&excl; More than four billion minifigures have been produced in the last 30 years&period; This is almost 12 times the population of the United States&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;LEGO minifigures are out of this world&comma; literally&period; The two Mars Rovers have an image of the LEGO minifigure etched into their front grill&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Approximately seven LEGO sets are sold each second&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world&&num;8217&semi;s six billion inhabitants&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Laid end to end&comma; the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would reach more than five times around the world&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;There are 915 million ways to combine six eight-stud LEGO bricks&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Children around the world spend five billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;With a production of about 306 million tires produced a year&comma; the LEGO group is the largest producer of tires in the world&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;LEGO is the contraction of two Danish words&comma; &&num;8220&semi;leg godt&&num;8221&semi; which means &&num;8220&semi;play well&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;More than 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year&period; More than 2&period;16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour&comma; or 36&comma;000 per minute&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It took 50 hours and 68&comma;000 LEGO bricks to make the storybook in the LEGO Disney Princess at the shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The largest LEGO Model ever built is the life sized X-Wing fighter&period; It took more than 17000 hours to build over 5m bricks and 46000 pounds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By 2020&comma; LEGO&&num;8217&semi;s aim is to make sure that 100&percnt; of its energy will be balanced by renewable energy sources&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ticket Giveaway<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of MY followers will win &lpar;2&rpar; tickets to for the opening night session on Friday&comma; Nov 4 2016 &lpar;4-8&colon;30pm&rpar;&period; I encourage you to LIKE and Follow LEGOKidsFest on Facebook&comma; Twitter and&sol;or Instagram for all the latest ticketing updates as this event has been selling out in prior cities&period; Must be 18 to enter&comma; 1 entry per day allowed&comma; random drawing by USFG&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Winner will be randomly chosen by USFG and announced on my Blog and notified via email&period; Contest ends Oct&period; 13&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ENTER HERE Contest now over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For those looking to attend&comma; you are encouraged to buy your tickets as soon as possible&comma; because the events can and do sell out in advance&period; See the www&period;LEGOkidsfest&period;com for available times and events&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Review Cleveland LEGO Kidsfest<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-1&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"161104-cleveland-lego-kidsfest-1" width&equals;"424" height&equals;"768" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14996" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you are looking for something fun to do with the whole family&comma; hopefully you purchased your tickets for the 2016 Cleveland LEGO® Kidsfest early&comma; because all sessions are completely sold out&comma; and for good reason&period; The <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;2011&sol;11&sol;09&sol;lego-kidsfest-traveling-show-cleveland-review&sol;">LEGO Kidsfest Cleveland<&sol;a> has not been back in town since 2011&period; Therefore&comma; we were due for a return of this family friendly event&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-2&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-2-1024x681&period;jpg" alt&equals;"161104-cleveland-lego-kidsfest-2" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"559" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14997" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The LEGO Kidsfest is specifically designed for kid level builders&period; Throughout the entire show floor are tons of areas for kids of all ages to build various builds&period; There are specific areas to just build Ninjago&comma; or LEGO Friends&comma; or build in only purple blocks&period; Kids also have the chance to make custom builds that get displayed on walls or there is a complete outline of the United States where builds are displayed from throughout the event&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-3&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-3-1024x681&period;jpg" alt&equals;"161104-cleveland-lego-kidsfest-3" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"559" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14998" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While we did not take part in them&comma; be sure to take part in some of the zones where there are specific challenges&comma; as kids get to take home LEGO sets for participating&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-4&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-4-1024x681&period;jpg" alt&equals;"161104-cleveland-lego-kidsfest-4" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"559" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14999" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of our favorite areas is looking at all the lifesize figures made entirely out of LEGO&period; The mastery is quite amazing&excl; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-5&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;161104-Cleveland-LEGO-Kidsfest-5-1024x768&period;jpg" alt&equals;"161104-cleveland-lego-kidsfest-5" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"630" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15000" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Cleveland LEGO Kidsfest takes place through Sunday&comma; November 6&comma; 2016&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For those looking to attend Kidsfest in your city&comma; you are encouraged to buy your tickets as soon as possible&comma; because the events can and do sell out in advance&period; See the www&period;LEGOkidsfest&period;com for available times and events&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Disclaimer&colon; Our family was provided with tickets in exchange for an honest review of the event&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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