Congratulations to our winner, Janice! Thanks to all who entered!
Between August 4-5, from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM, the annual BrickFair LEGO Fan Festival will be held at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA. It will be a dream world for LEGO-lovers, as they explore over 100,000 square feet of LEGO models, displays and winding trains. While I’ve never been much of a LEGO connoisseur, our four-year old daughter received a quadruple dose of LEGO-obsessed genes! She and my husband spend hours constructing three-story car garages, intricate circular homes, and other fun architecture that I trip over in the middle of the night. 
So, you can guess where our family will be during the first weekend in August!
Despite my occasional diatribe when I impale my foot on a LEGO piece, I do think LEGOs are an excellent way of introducing children to basic engineering and math concepts. And, it’s wonderful that BrickFair brings together adult fans of LEGOs from across the USA (and Canada and a few other countries!) to show off their projects, great and small, and to share their passion for LEGOs with DC-area families!
Functioning Merry-Go-Round - Incredible, isn't it?!
Not only will you be inspired as you “ooh” and “ahh” over all the LEGO creations, those of you with LEGO-loving children will love BrickFair’s “Stay & Play” area. It is a room full of LEGO bricks where kids and parents can exert their creative energies and build their own masterpieces. BrickFair understands the difficulty in enjoying all the LEGO models without touching, so they created the Stay & Play room, so you can dig in! {The bricks do stay with them, so they can be enjoyed at the next BrickFair.}
BrickFair will also have many LEGO vendors, so you can find all things LEGO, including shirts, hats, minifigures, custom-molded weapons, unique models, keychains and… really… everything you never imagined.
Entrance fees into BrickFair are a flat: $10 per person. Children ages 3 and under are FREE. Aside from that, there are no other discounts available. You can purchase tickets at the door – there are no advanced purchase options.
{Giveaway Details}
Washington Family Magazine, one of the sponsors for this amazing event, is offering one of my readers a pack of FOUR tickets to attend (plus, you will receive a special voucher for a Free Lego Build-Mat)! To enter, just let me know who loves LEGOs in your family. This contest is open to the US and will close at 11:59 PM on July 20, 2012. I will draw the winner by Random.org, and they will have 48 hours to respond to the email notification that they won.
For extra entries:
1) “Like” Washington Family Magazine on Facebook. (Leave your Facebook ID.)
2) Follow Washington Family Magazine on Twitter. (Leave your Twitter ID.)
3) “Like” Capitally Frugal on Facebook. (Leave your Facebook ID.)
4) Follow Capitally Frugal on Twitter. (Leave your Twitter ID.)
5) Tweet this giveaway, please include @capitallyfrugal and @familymagdc in your tweet. (Leave a link to your tweet, please!)
{Disclosure: Our family received tickets to attend BrickFair, courtesy of Washington Family Magazine.}
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Wow, my daughter and 2 sons would love this. They are Lego fans!
My 10 year old son is crazy about Legos. We can’t wait to see Brick Fair for the first time next month!
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My 11 year old son is the Lego fanitic in our house!
My daughter is a “new” lego lover and this sounds SO cool!!!! Thanks!
My hubby and son loves it. we always go to the free lego build event every other weekned in our local mall.
I am the lego lover! My kids not so much
Both of my boys love Legos and would love to win these!
We all love LEGOs over here. I used to love following the directions exactly and made sure that everything was just as it was supposed to look. My husband has a huge tub from his childhood but he’s creative and invents his creations. My 6 year old just learned how to follow the “directions” to use the kits but she likes creating with her dad also. The twins (age 4) try to get in the action with the small LEGOs but do a lot better with the duplos. And the baby (9 months) just tries to eat all the LEGOs that are dropped on the floor!
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We all love Legos…but probably my four year old loves them the most!
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Thanks for the great giveaway!
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Our family loves Legos!!! All of us!!!
My husband and 5 year old daughter build the girly ones and even my 3 year old son loves the star wars ones!!!!
My 11 year old son and 5 year old daughter both love Legos. My daughter has just graduated from Duplo to Lego Friends. My vacuum has eaten many Legos over the years.
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My 9 yr old daughter LOVES Legos in our family. As a matter of fact, when she woke up this morning, the first thing she asked for was her box of Legos! Thanks for the opportunity!
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Our family of six, including our 8 year old, 6 year, and 3 year old twins all love Legos. I especially love it when my kids create their own unique designs.
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All the boys in the house are Lego Fans!
My daughter is the LEGO lover in our house, although her younger brother is getting interested too. I think they’d both love to go to this!
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I would like to enter my 10 year old son into the contest – he is a Lego fanatic!
We all love Legos in our family. The older boy likes to follow the instructions and the younger boy likes to create his own inverntions. We are now in the Ninjago and Star Wars phase with a bit of Harry Potter thrown in for good measure. I am hoping they don’t get interested in the new Lord of the Rings sets. We haven’t been to a brickfair so this would be way cooll!
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My 2 daughters are LEGO fans. I already like u & Capitally frugal on FB. Thx for the giveaway!
Our 3 boys love Legos!
My daughter is a huge LEGO fan and would be thrilled to attend the program.
My son loves LEGOs!
My husbands love for legos has been passed on to my son Sam, who is 11 years old. He has the most amazing imagination and has been dreaming of going to Lego Land, this would be the next best thing!
I know my kids would go crazy seeing a huge convention hall full of Legos!
My husband, son and daughter all love legos!
My husband, my daughter, and I are all huge fans of legos. We just got my daughter her first set of real legos (not duplos) for home, though she’s had them at her day care for a while. I grew up playing with legos and still love them.
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We all love legos here, adults and kid alike!
My middle son Jack LOVES his legos.
My husband and three kids would love to go! He still has his from when he was a kid and my two boys currently have taken over our family room table, building bases for their Star Wars Lego guys. My daughter loves her Duplos!
My 2 year old is the Lego-lover in our family, but both my husband and I enjoy helping him build with the Lego Duplos.
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I just “Liked” Capitally Frugal on Facebook as well! (Facebook name is Kristen Dalton Swift). Thanks again for hosting this great giveaway!
Believe it or not my 1 year old loves legos….we received some toys from a dear friend whose son no longer played with them and forget playing with the ones age appropriate, she’s a huge fan of the regular legos and putting them together and pulling them apart…for us we love it because it’s a non-technology toy that makes her think! Way to go LEGO!
We’re a family of Lego lovers. Thx.
My 4.5 yr old is currently obsessed with Legos!
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My husband and son love Legos!
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Our entire family loves Lego! My husband has special ordered bricks for his creations while my 12 yo daughter and 9yo son build the kits. I like both Washington family and capitlly frugal on Fb davidoreen@aol.com
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My 5 yr old son & 3 yr old daughter LOVE playing w/ legos. We were planning on attending the Lego Fair so it would be awesome to win tickets!!
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My 6 year old son lives, breathes, and dreams Legos.
My two sons, Robbie and Andrew, are fanatics when it comes to Legos. At first they build what the instructions tell them. Then they take it apart and build something their imaginations take them.
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my nephew loves LEGO and this would be a great birthday present for him.
Hi, my 4-yr-old son is really starting to get into Legos. I have fond memories playing with Legos while growing up, and now I get to experience it all over again through my son’s eyes. Such nostalgia! My Facebook ID is reneelygon. Thanks for the giveaway, this is awesome!
Both of my sons love Legos!!!
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Who likes legos. I have three boys ages, 2, 6, and 10. They all love legos!!! I even find them in MY bed.
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My 7 year old son Cameron loves Lego so much that I find them under his pillow when he is supposed to be sleeping. He has 3 containers that are 18x12x6 that are filled to the brim. I am amazed at some of the creations he invents out of Lego.
Three boys ages 12,9 and 7 – Sooo many Legos, my house is exploding. They love them all, play with them every day. Best toy ever!
my son LOVES legos! we would love to go check this out!
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I have 5 kids, three of which are boys. My one son who is now 14 has been playing with Legos for years and has passed so many down to my youngest who’s 6. My one son was such a wizard at putting them together, friends would ask him over to help their younger ones. Sometimes he would put sets together in a day that had hundreds of pieces without looking at the directions. Wish I had a separate room in the hose for all the displays!!
I am so glad I stumbled upon your site. I never even knew about Brickland at the convention center. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Our daughter Andria who is 5 loves building Legos with her father. He spends a lot of time at work in DC – so this is one of their ways to have daddy daughter time and connect.
My 7 y.o. just LOVE Lego!
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Amazing giveaway! My son will love to visit Lego Fair!
My son is very creative and loves legos. He’s never been to the Lego expo and I think he’s going to be amazed. Thank you for sending the information about Brickland. What a great toy, not like most today that don’t allow you to let your children stretch thier brains. We would love to win tickets to go.
How cool! Will go there with my young brother!!!
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Legos build character! I remember building cool things when I was a little girl
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My son and daughter are both big fans of Legos!
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EVERYBODY in my family LOVES Legos!!! Mom, Dad and all 4 kids!!!
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