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and good morning you guys. How are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Fantastic?

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Speaker 1: How are you fantastic as well? And very excited to

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share a conversation with you because as an adult, I

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never dreamed of having my own Lego Land. In other words,

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it's like, wow, oh my god, I've been there since

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the very first Lego was probably invented, and now we've

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got Lego Land.

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Speaker 2: I think that you've never been to a Lego Land park.

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Speaker 1: I have never, but yeah, it's it's really excited my

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imagination for so many different reasons, not only for myself,

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but for my grandchildren and everybody after. Because this is

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an opportunity to really expand your imagination and basically your adventure.

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Speaker 2: It is, and you know, we have three Lego landparks

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here in North America, one in New York, one in

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Florida and California, and of course Florida and California. We

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are in cellar mode right now because we've just launched

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Lego Galaxy. So we opened it at February twenty seventh

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at Lego Land, Florida. We opened it here March sixth

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at Legoland California, where Tom and I are currently standing

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in the center of this massive two point four acre

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land and Legoland California. Loon has more than sixty fide

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shows attractions here towards two to twelve year olds, and

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there are more than thirty thousand Lego models create it.

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I have more than fifty million Lego bricks inside the

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park alone. So if you're excited about Lego in general,

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this is a place to be.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're giving a sad opportunity to reach out there

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with space because when I was a kid, we had apollo'ut.

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You're allowing us and our children to go, hey, look

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there is hope out there. We can reach out there

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I'm going to go to Lego Galaxy and we're going

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to make this thing happen as a family.

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Speaker 3: And what's really.

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Speaker 4: Cool about Lego Galaxy is with the co creation of

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with Lego, we've leaned into the historic Lego space set.

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So the spacebook eighty eighty five and eighty eighty six

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are named after the historic Lego sets from the late seventies,

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and when you come and visit the site to actually

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get to see some of the sets from over six

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decades of Legos from the seventies, eighties, nineties all the

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way through now and hopefully inspired to build some of

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the new space Lego sets.

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Speaker 3: Of the future.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things where it's like

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every adult and every child has something to talk about

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when you break out the Legos or you go to

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Lego Galaxy. It really is a family connection here. And

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I just commend you guys so highly on this.

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that I LoVa that fuck too. I mean, I grew

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have a grandson as well now who's going to be

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playing with Lego. And it spans generations and so the space.

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that all generations can relate to, can explore, and can

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learn about together.

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Speaker 1: So, like, is it safe to say because we've all

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had a Lego moment where we step on one unexpectedly,

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at least when they step onto Lego Galaxy, they're going

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into an area that's going to be fun, fun, fun,

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fun fun, and not like stepping on a Lego.

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in the middle of the nights.

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Speaker 4: We've designed this family roller coaster.

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Speaker 3: It's our first roller coaster.

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Speaker 4: In California in twenty five years and our first in

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Florida in twenty and it's a family friendly roller coaster.

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So everybody from the little guys and girls to mom

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and dad are going to get on and have an

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everything that makes a roller coaster fun into one location,

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and now all of a sudden, it's like, WHOA got

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Speaker 4: Do it?

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and everybody's reaction is, oh my god, I want to

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do it again. So there's no better feeling than that.

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Speaker 3: As far as the design.

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Speaker 4: We worked really hard so that we could tell a story.

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see a twenty five time scale Lego minifigure come to life,

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and it's our first animatronic minifigure ever. So fIF Dipper,

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our chief engineer, gives us our mission.

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Speaker 3: We get to.

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Speaker 4: Customize our spacecraft, so we get to select our nose,

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the wings, the tail, and even some special features that

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you'll get to see throughout the ride, which a really

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Julia Strata and

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Tom Storer, Lego Land and the all new Lego Galaxy.

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We are back with Julia Strata and Tom Storer. What

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I want to do is I want to talk directly

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with the young adults that are listening right now. See,

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this is what happens when you take a passion for

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Legos and you can bring it to life for other

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people who will stop in a visit in other words,

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don't just invest in the fund, but invest in the

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creativity that's required to make this happen. That's what I've

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always loved about Lego is that you're all about building

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together so that other people can join together in family fun.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. And you know what, and here in Lego Galaxy,

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there's several different ways to do that. So, like Tom

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was talking about Black Closter, you're designing your own space praps.

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You're doing it on digital screens, so we're vixing technology

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with storytelling. You can go in the rocket assembly bay

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and you can build with Lego. You're stewing space trap,

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and then you can stand it digitally and launch it

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off into cyber space. And then there's a junior Astronaut

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training zone where you can go and play with the

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the size, literally double the size of a Lego brick

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for the smaller hand. So my toddler, you know, grandson,

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will be playing with those, but the older kids will

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be playing the standard bricks. But it's just a great

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way to blend the families together. The constantly buildings, they're

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constantly learning and stretching their creativity beyond demensipation.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, you don't make it sound like

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it's learning. You make it sound like that it's fun.

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something up along the way that I'm going to build

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with myself. That's what I love about this is that

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you understand how to get to that little area of

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our heart. Be creative, trust, creativity, have fun with your family.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I'd love that you pick up on that era.

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experience into Legal End Hotel Legal and Coasla Hotel, So

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they're going into there and the extend of the play

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and the time we have a pleasure hunts in each room.

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seeming throughout. And then you go into a lettle Land

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raft river where you're taking some bricks and you're putting

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it on your own raft is just float through a

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lazy river. So it's just a constant seeming, constant storytelling,

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constant building, but it's your point streetivity and it's fun

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Speaker 1: One of the superstars of Lego Galaxy as well as

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Lego Land is the fact that you choose the right colors,

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colorizing everything the way that you do, making them vibrant.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's.

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Speaker 4: A great example Lego Galaxy. The colors are extremely vibrant.

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we picked up on some of all the different color

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palets from across the years and it's all come together

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beautifully here in southern California and Central flo It looks

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Speaker 1: I would love to know how many little ones are

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sitting there going well. I want to be Biff Dipper.

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I want to be able to be the one that

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helps people go into their own imagination and fly through

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this galaxy. I want to be Biff Dipper.

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Speaker 2: I think they all do right.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, come through here, either Bis Sippers or Benny

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or one of the other hundreds of minifigures that we

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Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about

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everything that you're doing, Because we're about ready to jump

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into the summer traveling months and we need that destination.

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Speaker 2: There's a perfect time to come. And it's beautiful here

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in California. It's beautiful for it right now. It's go

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to legoland dot com. You can see those parts there

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and it's specials going on right away. You need to

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get forty percent. You have to step the dollars off

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hotel and you get a special packages at the post

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of the hotels actually, and there's three of them to

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choose from in Florida. So it's a great time. Come

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Speaker 1: Wow, you guys have got to come back and and

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share some more in the future. And I would love

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to hear the two of you on your own Lego

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Land podcast with Julie and Tom. That just that just

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sounds like the perfect podcast.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good to me. Guy and I here a game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're down.

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Speaker 1: Will you guys be brilliant today?

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, take care