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Win free tickets to the Chicago Legoland Discovery Center!

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) on Sep 1st 2008 at 8:00AM

Several days ago, I posted my review of the recently opened Legoland Discovery Center in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg. If you read my review and would like to spend a day surrounded by Lego with your family, then keep reading, as we have some free tickets to give away!

The Legoland Discovery Center is located about 20 miles from downtown Chicago. Parking is free, and in this indoor venue, you'll find Lego themed attractions for the entire family.

Three lucky winners will receive 4 tickets each for free admission. All you have to do is leave a comment describing your favorite childhood memory involving Lego. This could be the time you managed to build a Lego tower that reached the ceiling, or simply the fond memories of opening your first Lego set purchased with your allowance.

To enter, simply leave a comment below telling us about your favorite childhood Lego experience
The comment must be left before Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 5PM Eastern Time.
You may enter only once.
Three winners will be selected in a random drawing.
Three Grand Prize Winners will be randomly selected to receive 4 free tickets to the Chicago Legoland Discovery Center (travel to/from Legoland is not included).
Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
The total value of each set of tickets is $76 (4 tickets at $19 each)
Click here for the complete official rules of this giveaway

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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)

Justin Sep 4th 2008 9:59AM

I spend everyday building and making up my own designs of star wars ships. My favorite day is one where I don't have to go to school and I can build with Lego all day. My mom posted this for me.

Mike Hamilton Sep 4th 2008 11:05AM

When I was a kid, LEGO came to the stores. It was a fantastic alternative to "Lincoln Logs" and "Tinker Toy". It allowed more creative flexibility to engage the brain when boredom set in. The LEGO collection has grown through the years with my son and daughter and now grandsons. During a recent visit with my grandsons, they pulled out the LEGO tub and asked their grandpa to join them for a building challenge. Now, new LEGO collections come for birthdays and special rewards. The collection grows.

anna Sep 5th 2008 8:31AM

my neighbor always had the best legos - i always loved the parrot that came with the pirate set

Robbie Sep 4th 2008 2:59PM

My favorite LEGO memory is the first time I ever saw LEGO blocks. With only 3 girls in our family, we always got girl toys. It was when we were visiting boy cousins that I first got to see the LEGOS and play with them. I had so much fun building things with them. Of course, our parents never bought them for us, so I could only play with them when visiting the cousins. When I grew up, married, and had a child, I made sure she got LEGOs to play with.

Jennifer Sep 5th 2008 5:26PM

I had two younger brothers growing up and the one thing we actually ever played together was Legos. Being a girly girl---I was not overly fond of spiders...well brother number one made some out of Legos...then hid them under my blanket...So when I went to climb in bed that night I was given quite the scare! Now the funny part of that now is that the spiders did not resemble spiders all that closely...so to this day...some 25 years later I am still the butt of all of the Lego spider jokes! Lucky me! My son has actually become quite the Lego fan and let me tell you the spiders he has made are much scarier then the one my brother made years ago...go figure!

Dan L Sep 5th 2008 12:00PM

New Years Eve was always spent with family friends coming over. Our parents would play cards and us kids just played. One year, my mom got sick and we had to cancel the annual tradition. My brother and I were really bummed. Then we got out a lego set that we had. It was one of the big sets that you could make an airport and jumbo jet out of. Anyway, my brother, our dad, and I spent the whole evening putting that thing together. we would look carefully at the picture on the box and then figure out which piece had to go where. Eventually, our mom was feeling better to where she came out and watched us for a while. It took all night, but we finally had our airport and plane built. Now, I have two kids. A son with autism who really isn't into legos and a daughter who loves them. She went to a week long camp this summer as an into to Robotics. and guess what they used! The Lego Mindstorms with the programmable computer chip. And that's what she's putting on her Christmas list this year.

SANDY Sep 5th 2008 3:25PM

oh love building with legos- even today because it takes your hands and your mind- be creative

I guess just building things with my brothers and sisters is a big memory

Carolyn Sep 5th 2008 2:01PM

They didn't have legos when I was a child but I remember being awed at the amazing lego display when we went to Disney world and let's face it everyone is a child when you go there.

Susanne Troop Sep 5th 2008 2:10PM

I didn't grow up with Legos but my husband did. Now we have two children (son-9 and daughter-7) whom he shares his Legos with and we have added many more sets. They spend hours in front of the tv with Kenny Loggins DVD in and building all kinds of wonderful creations with their Legos. It would be a great surprise if I won the tickets and took them down to Chicago by train and visited the museum. Great giveaway!

linda Sep 5th 2008 2:38PM

I used my legos to build birdhouses... and then I'd hang them outside, and for some reason birds never quite took them. Nonetheless they were the start of my career as an architect!

Anthony Weidler Sep 5th 2008 3:22PM

I came from a family of six. There were five boys and one girl. I was the youngest and always had to settle for the "Hand-D-Down" toys my brothers had grown tired of or had something broken on it.

The one toy that stood the test of time for all of us was our Legos? (OK! My brothers and I have had many arguments about this, is it, "I was playing with my LEGO or LEGO's") Sorry, for getting off track. We would play for hours with these building anything from forts to race cars.

Today, I enjoy playing with the LEGOs with my two children. I can't wait to bring them to the Chicago LEGOLAND!

Norma Deere Sep 5th 2008 4:59PM

I remember playing with the lego trying to build houses for my barbies and my brothers little men. now my son loves to do the same for his miniture men.