What’s it like to play with LEGO’s at the new Megabricks place in Monheim?
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One of our favorite past-times, the Megabricks playcenter in Monheim at the Rhine River, has moved to a new location. Now, it has an adjacent store where the kids and parents can buy lots of LEGO sets and admire collectibles on glass shelves, and there’s even a sales event some time in the summer of discounted items. We met there on a rainy day with Lyons Cub’s friend Giuliana, her sister, and mommy. We came home with three satisfied, tired children and some more LEGOs for a kitty and a dino fan 😉
A LEGO playcenter is a must for any LEGO addicted child who is also a lover of Legoland in Oberhausen. This playcenter is a tiny version of it, where at the most six kids can play. There was one boy with his daddy there when we arrived with three kids, but the boy left soon afterwards, and we had the whole place to ourselves. There were enough parking spaces in front of the colorful building along the street. One had to walk around the house to enter from the back side.
Strategically, it was done well with sales in mind: Upon entering, you had to walk with your kiddos along aisles of LEGO sets, and it is very hard not to buy anything before you even reach the playland. But with Easter nearing, we had in mind to purchase them a little gift, anyways.
A colorful, soft, giant couch was there for the parents, and the kids either sat on the yellow feet of the assembly tables or stood inside a square of LEGO tables, to which they crawled through openings on the sides. The walls were full of cubes with different LEGO parts, so one could let one’s imagination run free what to build. Some LEGO streets lined with houses and cars were already pre-assembled by older people to be altered, disassembled, and changed.
While the mommies were occupied with assembling the purchased LEGO sets ( a LEGO Gabby’s dollhouse garden party set with cats and a dinosaur set, LEGO Flight of the Velociraptor), the kids played in the toddler LEGO pit and at the tables for the bigger children. This time, they built towers and other constructs next to doing their usual role play with already assembled toys. The only negative comment would be that there were not enough people figurines, which the kids needed for the cars and buildings. But since we had bought them their own set, they simply took those figurines and integrated them into their play.
In order to eat, though, the kids had to go outside into a blue, open tent so as not to let crumbs fall or liquids pour over the LEGO toys. Since it was a bit cold, we didn’t stay there for too long and went to McDonald’s afterwards. In the same building, there is a pizza place for take-out, so next time, when the weather is nice, we will take some pizza out into the blue tent. The toilets were also outside in a container. We got to see a nice rainbow:
Lyons Cub loved his Velociraptor escape set. It came with a cage for the dino that breaks apart when he destroys it. It also has a sliding door that the kids can pull up to let out the animal. Then, there’s a basked one can pull up with a chain, and some meat to feed the dinosaur with. There’s an evil hunter with a gun and a blonde lady on a truck carrying a hotdog (don’t ask me why). A second small building can be set onto the cage as a top storey.
A cute detail was the green frog. Can you spot it?
What a cool place to go!