Just for fun! A Lego Weathervane - Weathervane Wednesday

 This weathervane was photographed at the Legoland amusement park in Goshen, New York.

Today's featured weathervane was spotted on a family vacation to Legoland New York.  We had fun with all the Lego workshops, Lego art installations, Lego rides, and Lego themed fun.  Inside "Mini-land" there were hundreds of historic sites from all over the USA built out of Lego bricks.  We saw national parks, Las Vegas, New York City, Washington DC, and then there was a miniature Lego Philadelphia.  Their replica of Independence Hall was beautiful, right down to all the colonial details including this Lego weathervane.

I have previously featured Independence Hall and its weathervane on this blog.  You can read all about it at this link:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/12/weathervane-wednesday-historic-site.html Independence Hall was the meeting place of the Founding Fathers and the place where the Declaration of Independence was signed.  The weathervane in Philadelphia was completely restored and regilded in 2010. 

The Mini-land inside Legoland is a fantastic art exhibition featuring historic sites, including humor and whimsy for all ages.  It's a great way to get generations of children interested in history, geography, and the science and engineering of building with Lego bricks.  I hope you can all visit Legoland, too.  

Legoland's Mini-land seen from a distance
This view shows the Lego version of
New York City

For the truly curious:

My 2013 Weathervane Wednesday blog post on Independence Hall:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/12/weathervane-wednesday-historic-site.html

Legoland New York:  https://www.legoland.com/new-york/  

The National Park Service Independence Hall website:   https://www.nps.gov/inde/planyourvisit/independencehall.htm 

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A Lego version of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including Independence Hall

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Just for fun!  A Lego Weathervane - Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 14, 2024, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/08/just-for-fun-lego-weathervane.html: accessed [access date]).