The MoonBots Competition is back and it's better than ever this year. The contest challenges teams of kids from around the world to think about the moon and answer questions about space exploration. A second phase of the competition challenges the teams to create a robot using Lego Mindstorms to ...

That was this week's theme as I rush around trying to start a business from scratch. And the marketers have told me to not forget the kids. Kids may not have most of the money in our economy, but pretty much all of what they have is disposable. And a ...

The St. Louis Rams play football in a dome located just off the banks of the Mississippi River. On Sunday afternoons every autumn, the facility is packed with screaming fans watching one of our most physical sports; armored athletes pushing, hitting, and tackling with every fast twitch muscle fiber in ...

My son had been saving up for Lego Batman 2, the latest in the Lego videogame series, and was working out whether he'd have enough money when the game lunches in June. A few calculations later and he looked downcast -- it was going to take a lot longer to ...

This past weekend, a new Legoland Discovery Center opened in Kansas City. The indoor attraction, which features rides, activities, party rooms, and lots of Lego bricks is just the fourth in US and the seventh in the world.

LEGO building with the Honea boys!

There are those within our ranks that are what you might term Lego purists, and that's okay. Just as there are Sony fanboys and Mac devotees, there are some builders that shudder at the thought of handling off-brand bricks. But for the rest of us The TARDIS Mini Set is ...

By now most of our readers have come across the Lego Cuuso site, a place where builders can submit models and people can vote on them. If the model gets 10,000 votes Lego will look into the possibility of making it into an official playset. I came across this idea ...

You won't see these baddies anywhere else, pretty much in the universe! That's right, in the next few weeks, GeekDad will be featuring exclusive villain pics from the upcoming blockbuster, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.

At last, the galaxy far, far away has come to Legoland Windsor. Just over a year after the Star Wars Miniland opened in Legoland California (read Dave Banks' excellent write up of that one here) the Lego master builders have recreated all the same models again and brought them to ...