Today's Scandinavia may be the Realm of the Cell Phone, but back before bits were the universal building blocks, Denmark was the Kingdom of the Lego. Now - 31 years after the original Legoland opened in Billund - the US has one of its own in Carlsbad, California. The $130 million, 30 million-brick theme park includes rides and replications of famous national sites.
Two model builders in Europe spent four and a half months snapping together the 380,000 bricks of the Capitol Building before shipping it stateside. (Although there'll be no brainless senators on site, there is a plastic marching band.)
Legoland also boasts a center devoted to Lego's programmable Mindstorms robots, watched over by a 15½-foot-tall, 1.1 million-block face of Albert Einstein - a theory of relativity in 20:1 scale.
ELECTRIC WORD
Micro Processor
Block Party
Ace in the Hole
Star Power
Super Models
