LegoDad42 Posted July 12, 2010 Posted July 12, 2010 (edited) Another fun-filled LEGO Grand Opening Celebration at the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst, New York! I've posted over 65 pics from this past weekend's event. Check them out here... LEGO GRAND OPENING QUEENS CENTER NYC! The LEGO employees and volunteers really put on a great weekend for the kids, fans, AFoL's and TFoLs...and just about any and all who stopped by the build area. Master Builder Dan, while working on the 8-foot R2D2, was charming and funny with all the children. Made them laugh every time and was a great MC and entertainer for the give-a-way trivia contests. They gave away about 11 kits this weekend, one of note that a lucky youngster got was a Republic Dropship with AT-OT Walker! The store had a Duplo Star Wars R2D2 (silver graphics) Master Builder Event brick given with any purchase big or small all weekend. On Saturday if you spent $35.00us you got an Exclusive Commemorative mini-model New York train...and on Sunday (again with $35.00us purchase)you get a LEGO Queens Center Grand Opening T-shirt (train conductor mini-fig and the NYC Commemorative train graphic, large on back of T-shirt). Also at the store was a life-size, beautiful Captain Rex statue. If you guess correctly on the amount of bricks it took to build him, you'd win a $50.00us LEGO Gift Certificate. The highlight of the weekend of course was seeing the 8ft. R2 fully built. A great and awesome looking work! If you're in the NYC area, I believe they'll have the statue in the store for about another week on display. Check it out man! Needless to say...I had a total blast this weekend with my son(picked up one of my Holy Grail pieces...the Death Star )and even the wife came down and built some blocks for Master Builder Dan (and got her Certificate of Achievement to boot too!). A great fun, family weekend with LEGO!!! Edited July 12, 2010 by LegoDad42 Quote
Huxlay Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 Another fun-filled LEGO Grand Opening Celebration at the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst, New York! I've posted over 65 pics from this past weekend's event. Check them out here... LEGO GRAND OPENING QUEENS CENTER NYC! The LEGO employees and volunteers really put on a great weekend for the kids, fans, AFoL's and TFoLs...and just about any and all who stopped by the build area. Master Builder Dan, while working on the 8-foot R2D2, was charming and funny with all the children. Made them laugh every time and was a great MC and entertainer for the give-a-way trivia contests. They gave away about 11 kits this weekend, one of note that a lucky youngster got was a Republic Dropship with AT-OT Walker! The store had a Duplo Star Wars R2D2 (silver graphics) Master Builder Event brick given with any purchase big or small all weekend. On Saturday if you spent $35.00us you got an Exclusive Commemorative mini-model New York train...and on Sunday (again with $35.00us purchase)you get a LEGO Queens Center Grand Opening T-shirt (train conductor mini-fig and the NYC Commemorative train graphic, large on back of T-shirt). Also at the store was a life-size, beautiful Captain Rex statue. If you guess correctly on the amount of bricks it took to build him, you'd win a $50.00us LEGO Gift Certificate. The highlight of the weekend of course was seeing the 8ft. R2 fully built. A great and awesome looking work! If you're in the NYC area, I believe they'll have the statue in the store for about another week on display. Check it out man! Needless to say...I had a total blast this weekend with my son(picked up one of my Holy Grail pieces...the Death Star )and even the wife came down and built some blocks for Master Builder Dan (and got her Certificate of Achievement to boot too!). A great fun, family weekend with LEGO!!! Thanks for you information i newly join and your post help me. Quote
LegoDad42 Posted August 5, 2010 Author Posted August 5, 2010 Great pics. Thanks for sharing. My pleasure Superkalle and Huxlay. This past Tues. they had their mini-monthly build (A Seagull) and I believe next week will be a 'free' special Duplo brick with $35.00 purchase and there might be another kid's build (a spaceship) and you can get a free poster and tickets to an IMAX movie. I'll find out this weekend if/what/and when about the above. Plus I'll post pics soon of the Seagull mini-model. Quote
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