MarketFriday by @dswigle - @c0ff33a goes to LegoLand ๐Ÿง๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

It has been a while since I have done a #MarketFriday post by @dswigle, technically it is Saturday and LegoLand is not a market - although it has enough shops in it selling boxes of overpriced nobbly bricks to be one big Market!

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As you start to enter the LegoLand park HulkBuster is one of the first sights to greet you, this sets the scene for the day as you might expect the park is filled with lego structures of all sizes - it's hard to imagine how long it took people to painstaking brick build all these -including the correct colours to add patterns.

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You walk down to to the lego cities displays, everywhere you look are lego based structures.

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This little display is animated with the characters moving around in it.

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Yes, those heads are made of lego mimicking the 4 presidents on Mount Rushmore

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At the bottom of the hill you find the city displays

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Built to scale with cars and working trains even.

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And they include famous London landmarks

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My youngest is overwhelmed with excitement, his brother is enjoying it though. We stayed out overnight close to the park, so we could arrive at 9.30am when the gates opened. Youngest is not a morning person.

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The buildings are amazing, literally all made of Lego!

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These cities cover a large area on their own, but this is a tiny portion compared to the total theme park.

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You see lots of small displays like this all over, it seems no flowerbed or unused area is left without Lego display.

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They have plenty of Halloween themes around too including pumpkins, real and lego

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Finally the rides at the theme park opened, main gates 9.30am but the rides do not open until 10am, everyone rushes to the rides because the queues quickly build up. We went to lego driving school first, the electric cars are great fun to drive around - they have a mini city with streets and crossing. And they all have to drive on the left, they are not supposed to bump each other but inevitably they do. One little girl took a short cut along a pedestrian crossing between roads and popped out across a little boy driving along minding his own business - perfect T Bone manoveur! And the cars got jammed on curbs easily, on one bend the lead car tried to take it too tight, got jammed and one by one 8 cars ran into each other behind it.

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Train ride in the sun, we were lucky with the weather, sunny - but quite cool when the sun went in. I lasted the day in a t-shirt, I was the only one though - thick jumpers and jackets all around, in the South of the UK they feel the cold more then us Northerners.

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Play parks are always a favourite, although I'm not sure my eldest fits into this car!

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The Lego Ninjago world featured these big brick built characters, really impressive. And of course a shop, every single ride has a shop full of lego sets for the ride theme - no opportunity missed to sell sell sell!

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This climbing wall was no problem for the expert.

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This spooky lego spider above the ride even had moving legs and mouth parts and glowing eyes!

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Even the ride control hut has a Spider on it!

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I know what you are thinking, that fence is not made of Lego - they cheated!

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And we reach the Lego Star Wars building, this fortunately is not a ride - just interactive displays you walk round.

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The sets are displays of models from all the Stars Wars films, they follow chronological order rather then film order.

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Of course the Lego Star Wars display is my favourite, the detail in these models is incredibly close to the films. As we walked up the corridor slope to the exit, there were displays of big brick built characters behind glass - but more amazing was the entire length of the corridor roof was filled with star ships from the films - X-Wing, Y-Wing Tie Fighters and all manor of others.

I'm going to call this part one, and the save the other 50 photographs I have for a post tomorrow morning! I hope you enjoyed my trip to LegoLand Windsor posted for #MarketFriday by @dswigle

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