You couldn’t pay me enough to just even tolerate the stuff.
Little plastic pieces akin to shrapnel are constantly strewn all over the floor.
Of course I’m left alone to clean it up, fighting the temptation to grab a broom, sweep it all up into a dustpan and chuck it all.
My lounge room may as well be a landmine. Stepping on one of those lethal fragments is as inevitable as my explosion of colourful expletives.
I can’t hold back how much I detest lego.
A couple of weekends ago, we had a rare schedule free Saturday.
Knowing the twinions would still be itching to get out of the house, we discovered a few kid friendly exhibitions on in town, including the Towers of Tomorrow Lego Exhibition at the Museum of Sydney.
I don’t know what possessed me to agree to go along but Lego’s one of those things you can’t avoid when you’re a mum. (Can I get a “Hells, yeah”?)
I really, really don’t want to admit this but the entire exhibition was actually impressive.
There were amazing replicas of skyscrapers all around Australia and the Asia Pacific.
For all the Queenslanders, there was Gold Coast’s iconic Q1 skyscraper:
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s Petrona Twin Towers was definitely my favourite:
Interactive tables were filled with hundreds of thousands of lego pieces for all kids – big and small – to express their creative, engineering talents.
K-Bear asked me to make him a Transformer, Bumblebee to be specific.
Even for an anti-Lego mum like me, how could I refuse my son’s request?
Not bad, huh?
I’m too stubborn to say I’m a converted Lego-ist.
Just keep it off my lounge room floor and maybe, just maybe I can begin to appreciate it.
Maybe.
Are you a Lego fan? Or does everyone else find it awesome except you?
Just incase you’re interested in going, the exhibition has been extended until 12th of July, due to popular demand.
But be warned: you might get hooked!
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Are you crazy? I LOVE lego. I kept all mine from when I was a kid – back in the day when a ‘set’ was rare and you just built whatever came into your head…
Lydia C. Lee recently posted..Ships in the night
I just need it AWAY from my lounge room floor and then I think I can like it. I did enjoy the bonding time I had with my boy as we were building Bumblebee 🙂
Lego is the one thing that has remained in the house now the girls are older. When no one is looking they are all still rather into the stuff. Mind you it’s a lot easier to clean up than the beads for the jewellery making that they’ve actually moved onto in a big way.
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We’re not up to Lego yet, we’re still on the easier-to-avoid-stepping-on Duplo. I remember the agony of stepping on a piece of Lego as a kid, so I’ll be doing my darndest to have a designated Lego area when the time comes!!
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I love Lego and so do my kids. We have a box full that is kept out of the loungeroom and it’s kept in certain spaces so the chances of stepping it on it is reduced. It’s a great activity to keep the kids busy for a while. The only problem I have now is the kids won’t let me help build stuff!!!
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I love lego and the creative play that it affords but I hate cleaning it up!
Lego is amazing for kids- really allows them to be creative while thinking laterally. It’s amazing. Except when it’s under your bare foot!
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Lego has been a part of our life for over 20 years!!! And yeah standing on one of those suckers hurt, what is a pain in the asre is vacuuming one up and then having to find it in the vacuum bag!!!!
Our five boys have all loved it over the years, and its a great tool for homeschooling lessons.
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Don’t hate me but I ADORE that my kids love Lego, it keeps their minds busy. Yes it’s a menace but also so good for their brains! xx
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OMG lego is the BEST THING EVER. It is the only thing that has ever occupied my five year old for any length of time! I will not hear a single negative word spoken about it. LOL. MORE LEGO!!
I do love lego but I’m lucky that it’s not out all the time!
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How much does Lego hurt when you stand on it!!!!! That expo looks pretty awesome… I have 2 nephews who would LOVE it!!
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Wow! That exhibition looks awesome. It is amazing what some people can do with lego. Sadly I am not one of those people. Even sadder is we don’t even have any lego any more. Poor deprived children I am raising 😉
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I love it! Nothing like a rainy day, lying on the floor with the kids and building houses and villages. It’s awesome fun 🙂
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I have to admit I am a bit of a lego fan!
My mum used to take my brother and I to lego exhibitions when we were younger and we had so much lego.
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Impressive!
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Wow! It looks amazing. I wonder if they glue those displays together incase little hands come along to try to push it over. I remember seeing a lego display when I was a kid. It’s amazing stuff.
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My hubs and kids LOVE Lego and I’ve come to love it too. I love the creativity and watching their imaginations.
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