{"id":196733,"date":"2025-12-17T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196733\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:59:15","slug":"inside-legoland-at-christmas-review-it-turns-out-playing-with-lego-is-not-always-fun-like-this-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196733\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Inside Legoland at Christmas\u2019 review: It turns out playing with Lego is not always fun \u2013 like this documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThis harmless hour of seasonal filler goes behind the scenes at Legoland theme park\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A somewhat larger than usual Lego Santa and friends look like they\u2019re about to have a fight in the seasonal special \u2018Inside Legoland at Christmas.\u2019 Photo: Channel 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iflegoland.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A somewhat larger than usual Lego Santa and friends look like they\u2019re about to have a fight in the seasonal special \u2018Inside Legoland at Christmas.\u2019 Photo: Channel 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lego is, without question, the single greatest toy ever created. The small interlocking bricks, wooden at first, plastic from 1947, invented by a Danish carpenter called Ole Kirk Christiansen in his workshop, have brightened the lives of countless generations of children the world over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The best Christmas present I ever received as a child was a Lego set. Compared to the elaborate kits of today, it was simple: just multicoloured bricks of different shapes with a few little windows and wheels that came with tiny rubber tyres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This harmless hour of seasonal filler goes behind the scenes at Legoland theme park A somewhat larger than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9617],"class_list":["post-196733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}