Comments are left by users of this website. They are not checked for accuracy.A day ahead of its official opening, LEGOLAND Florida Resort offered media an exclusive preview of its newest land, LEGO Friends Heartlake City. The theme park’s newest expansion is based on the popular LEGO Friends product line and is closely modeled after the five LEGO Friends characters: Olivia, Stephanie, Emma, Mia and Andrea. Heartlake City features several signature elements, including: Mia’s Riding Adventure is a brand new ride themed around Mia’s love of horses. This adventurous ride seats up to 40 passengers on a circular platform with outward-facing horse shaped seats. The disk spins in circles while traveling forward and backward on a wide U-shaped track. Friends to the Rescue is a new interactive musical show starring the LEGO Friends as they work together at Heartlake Hall to ensure the concert goes off without a hitch. Stephanie’s Newsroom is a photo opportunity that gives guests the chance to show off their camera-ready skills, as theytake over for Stephanie at the Heartlake News Desk.
Heartlake Stepping Tones Fountain is a heart-shaped fountain filled with LEGO brick instruments that play real music triggered by interactive icons. Heartlake Mall features several retail areas offering a variety of LEGO products including the LEGO Friends toy line. “Heartlake City offers an interactive LEGO Friends experience for guests of all ages. Mia’s Riding Adventure is a daring new attraction, that we feel is the perfect addition to expand our park offering,” said Adrian Jones, General Manager, LEGOLAND Florida Resort. “Heartlake City, when combined with a stay in a LEGO Friends themed room or suite, will allow guests to further immerse themselves in the world of LEGO Friends.” LEGOLAND Florida Resort offers the only LEGO Friends themed guest rooms in the U.S., and the only LEGO Friends themed suite in the world. LEGOLAND Florida Resort will also host Friends Weekend from June 26-28. This is a park-wide event where guests can walk down the purple carpet, participate in a themed build, and show off their moves at a dance party.
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But the division of toys by gender hasn’t gone away. recently as April, Boots pharmacies in the UK came under fire for stocking science-based toys in the “boys’” section, leaving little girls to choose between tea sets and princess dolls. Last year, The Lego Group introduced Lego Friends, a new line aimed at girls. Unlike traditional Lego figurines, the “Friends” come with names and storylines: Lego Andrea likes to play computer games, Mia loves playing outside and Olivia’s hobby is “inventing things.” Friends have proved a massive success, helping the company triple its sales to girls in a single year, but some worry that Lego’s targeted marketing will perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes. David Pickett, who blogs at Thinking Brickly, criticizes the design of the Lego Friends characters: “They can’t rotate their hands… or move their legs independently (which prevents them from being posed in active positions like running).”
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood singled out Lego Friends’ Butterfly Beauty Shop as 2012’s "Worst Toy of the Year.” Over the weekend, NPR weighed in, asking, "Why do girls need special Legos?" But this seems the wrong question when, before Lego Friends came on the scene, 90 percent of all Legos were sold to boys. no point in trying to deny that girls and boys play differently; scientists have shown again and again that, whether we attribute the differences to culture or biology, it’s not just a stereotype that girls play with dolls and boys play with cars. Will this always be the case? We can (and should) try to get girls interested in different toys, but there’s evidence that gendered differences in toy choice are more deep-rooted than we might like to think. In one study, psychologists presented children and monkeys with a variety of toys and found that gender was more important than species in determining toy preference: Both boys and