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Speaker 2: Fantastic?
Speaker 1: How are you fantastic as well? And very excited to
share a conversation with you because as an adult, I
never dreamed of having my own Lego Land. In other words,
it's like, wow, oh my god, I've been there since
the very first Lego was probably invented, and now we've
got Lego Land.
Speaker 2: I think that you've never been to a Lego Land park.
Speaker 1: I have never, but yeah, it's it's really excited my
imagination for so many different reasons, not only for myself,
but for my grandchildren and everybody after. Because this is
an opportunity to really expand your imagination and basically your adventure.
Speaker 2: It is, and you know, we have three Lego landparks
here in North America, one in New York, one in
Florida and California, and of course Florida and California. We
are in cellar mode right now because we've just launched
Lego Galaxy. So we opened it at February twenty seventh
at Lego Land, Florida. We opened it here March sixth
at Legoland California, where Tom and I are currently standing
in the center of this massive two point four acre
land and Legoland California. Loon has more than sixty fide
shows attractions here towards two to twelve year olds, and
there are more than thirty thousand Lego models create it.
I have more than fifty million Lego bricks inside the
park alone. So if you're excited about Lego in general,
this is a place to be.
Speaker 1: Well, you're giving a sad opportunity to reach out there
with space because when I was a kid, we had apollo'ut.
You're allowing us and our children to go, hey, look
there is hope out there. We can reach out there
I'm going to go to Lego Galaxy and we're going
to make this thing happen as a family.
Speaker 3: And what's really.
Speaker 4: Cool about Lego Galaxy is with the co creation of
with Lego, we've leaned into the historic Lego space set.
So the spacebook eighty eighty five and eighty eighty six
are named after the historic Lego sets from the late seventies,
and when you come and visit the site to actually
get to see some of the sets from over six
decades of Legos from the seventies, eighties, nineties all the
way through now and hopefully inspired to build some of
the new space Lego sets.
Speaker 3: Of the future.
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things where it's like
every adult and every child has something to talk about
when you break out the Legos or you go to
Lego Galaxy. It really is a family connection here. And
I just commend you guys so highly on this.
Speaker 2: Ah, thank you. I think that's one of the things
that I LoVa that fuck too. I mean, I grew
up playing with Lego, My boys play with Lego. I
have a grandson as well now who's going to be
playing with Lego. And it spans generations and so the space.
That's why it's such a natural fit because it's something
that all generations can relate to, can explore, and can
learn about together.
Speaker 1: So, like, is it safe to say because we've all
had a Lego moment where we step on one unexpectedly,
at least when they step onto Lego Galaxy, they're going
into an area that's going to be fun, fun, fun,
fun fun, and not like stepping on a Lego.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's way more fun than stepping on a lego
in the middle of the nights.
Speaker 3: They're getting up to do something, and.
Speaker 4: We've designed this family roller coaster.
Speaker 3: It's our first roller coaster.
Speaker 4: In California in twenty five years and our first in
Florida in twenty and it's a family friendly roller coaster.
So everybody from the little guys and girls to mom
and dad are going to get on and have an
amazing experience.
Speaker 1: How were you guys able to even design this because
I mean, this is exactly what we would love to
have with a roller coaster. You take our imagination and
everything that makes a roller coaster fun into one location,
and now all of a sudden, it's like, WHOA got
to do it again?
Speaker 4: Do it?
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: Well, that's always the go And one of the cool things.
Speaker 4: Is we've been seeing people get off of the ride
and everybody's reaction is, oh my god, I want to
do it again. So there's no better feeling than that.
Speaker 3: As far as the design.
Speaker 4: We worked really hard so that we could tell a story.
So there's a mission and you're going to get to
see a twenty five time scale Lego minifigure come to life,
and it's our first animatronic minifigure ever. So fIF Dipper,
our chief engineer, gives us our mission.
Speaker 3: We get to.
Speaker 4: Customize our spacecraft, so we get to select our nose,
the wings, the tail, and even some special features that
you'll get to see throughout the ride, which a really
really neat feature.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Julia Strata and
Tom Storer, Lego Land and the all new Lego Galaxy.
We are back with Julia Strata and Tom Storer. What
I want to do is I want to talk directly
with the young adults that are listening right now. See,
this is what happens when you take a passion for
Legos and you can bring it to life for other
people who will stop in a visit in other words,
don't just invest in the fund, but invest in the
creativity that's required to make this happen. That's what I've
always loved about Lego is that you're all about building
together so that other people can join together in family fun.
Speaker 2: Exactly. And you know what, and here in Lego Galaxy,
there's several different ways to do that. So, like Tom
was talking about Black Closter, you're designing your own space praps.
You're doing it on digital screens, so we're vixing technology
with storytelling. You can go in the rocket assembly bay
and you can build with Lego. You're stewing space trap,
and then you can stand it digitally and launch it
off into cyber space. And then there's a junior Astronaut
training zone where you can go and play with the
Deplo bricks, which is bigger. They're kind of like twice
the size, literally double the size of a Lego brick
for the smaller hand. So my toddler, you know, grandson,
will be playing with those, but the older kids will
be playing the standard bricks. But it's just a great
way to blend the families together. The constantly buildings, they're
constantly learning and stretching their creativity beyond demensipation.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you don't make it sound like
it's learning. You make it sound like that it's fun.
And oh, by the way, I just happen to pick
something up along the way that I'm going to build
with myself. That's what I love about this is that
you understand how to get to that little area of
our heart. Be creative, trust, creativity, have fun with your family.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I'd love that you pick up on that era.
You know, we do that throughout our entire resort. We
have we have two Legal End hotels, and we've learned
that a lot of times, you know, kids are don't
want to leave the theme parks, so we've extended that
experience into Legal End Hotel Legal and Coasla Hotel, So
they're going into there and the extend of the play
and the time we have a pleasure hunts in each room.
Each room has a sump bed, hungdle bed and amazing
seeming throughout. And then you go into a lettle Land
water park and you and you get to fill the
raft river where you're taking some bricks and you're putting
it on your own raft is just float through a
lazy river. So it's just a constant seeming, constant storytelling,
constant building, but it's your point streetivity and it's fun
for the whole family.
Speaker 1: One of the superstars of Lego Galaxy as well as
Lego Land is the fact that you choose the right colors,
colorizing everything the way that you do, making them vibrant.
This is a positive moment from step one all the
way through the experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's.
Speaker 4: A great example Lego Galaxy. The colors are extremely vibrant.
We have blues, we have oranges, there's florescient things and greens,
and it goes back to the historic Lego sets. So
we picked up on some of all the different color
palets from across the years and it's all come together
beautifully here in southern California and Central flo It looks
so cool.
Speaker 1: I would love to know how many little ones are
sitting there going well. I want to be Biff Dipper.
I want to be able to be the one that
helps people go into their own imagination and fly through
this galaxy. I want to be Biff Dipper.
Speaker 2: I think they all do right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, come through here, either Bis Sippers or Benny
or one of the other hundreds of minifigures that we
have throughout the fire.
Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about
everything that you're doing, Because we're about ready to jump
into the summer traveling months and we need that destination.
Speaker 2: There's a perfect time to come. And it's beautiful here
in California. It's beautiful for it right now. It's go
to legoland dot com. You can see those parts there
and it's specials going on right away. You need to
get forty percent. You have to step the dollars off
hotel and you get a special packages at the post
of the hotels actually, and there's three of them to
choose from in Florida. So it's a great time. Come
on out and visit us.
Speaker 1: Wow, you guys have got to come back and and
share some more in the future. And I would love
to hear the two of you on your own Lego
Land podcast with Julie and Tom. That just that just
sounds like the perfect podcast.
Speaker 3: Sounds good to me. Guy and I here a game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're down.
Speaker 1: Will you guys be brilliant today?
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, take care