It’s interesting to see how each team approaches the game differently. Above you see the current multi-parter take with a semi-serious tone. Various writers and artists came together, each with their own explanation as to how things work in the Dig Dug universe. There is no set continuity and no one art team. He and his cousins have their own personalities and it’s interesting watching them work.īased on the classic game, ShiftyLook did something different with his series. ![]() Still, the Prince is a friend to everybody and uses his Katamari to help solve problems. (And yes, the King does make appearances.) The comic follow the Prince helping people, which is considering how many have been rolled into a huge ball, launched into space, and set on fire. I’ve never played the game, but the comic adventures of the Prince Of All Cosmos and his cousins are a lot of fun. Katamari Alex Culang and Raynato Castro (both writing and art) I also recommend the short-episode anime. While not as wacky as Bravoman it’s still a fun superhero action show that has as much Japanese flavor as a bunch of non-Japanese people can put into it. The comic gives a good cast for Momiko, from her rival who is a huge fan of the original Momo and uses her old enemy’s armor and identity (but is one of the good guys, promise) and Momiko’s possible boyfriend, Natsuhiko. Sadly, we never got to learn if we can in fact play this. The original game was never released stateside but thanks to this comic I suggested the game to the late JewWario for You Can Play This out of curiosity for the game. ![]() Again, it’s based on this comic which follows the adventures of Momiko, daughter of the original Wonder Momo, who is forced to take up her mother’s mantle to protect the world from evil. You’ve probably seen this on YouTube as well, or Crunchyroll. Wonder Momo Erik Ko & Jim Zub (writers) and Omar Dogan (artist) This is my favorite strip and I’m going to miss it most of all. Some of you may also remember Moylan for his Transformers turned nostalgia gag strip Li’l Formers or his work with Udon Studios, who is releasing print versions of the comic. If you’ve seen the show on YouTube or posted here to the Spotlight, this comic was the basis for that cartoon. Bomb, a man who could give speech lessons to Mojo Jojo. ![]() In this version, we follow the wacky adventures of salaryman turned superhero Bravoman, his questionable mentor, Alpha, the ninja assassin Waya Hime, who wants to both kill and marry “stretchy cuteness”, the mirror opposite Anti-Bravoman, and Bravo’s arch nemesis, Dr. ![]() Like most of the games on this list, I had never heard of Bravoman prior to this comic. So I thought I’d go over some of my favorite comics from the site as a memorial to the lost and soon to be.īravoman Matt Moylan (writer) and Dax “D-Gee” Gordine (artist) Word came this week that this will soon end as ShiftyLook will be closing down by the end of Spring. For the uninformed, this is a website created by Namco Bandai to show off some of their properties by creating webcomics of the more unknown or forgotten games in their library. I’ve mentioned ShiftyLook when talking about the Bravoman cartoon. Bravoman (left) fighting against Black Bravo (right) in the arcade version.
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The player who has the white pieces always starts a game of chess. ![]() Start the game with the player who has the white pieces. After reviewing the basics of how to play and some overall strategy, Martin launches into the meat of the book, which is strategies for opening, middle and end game.The Internet's Chess Teacher *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers."Chess Strategy for Beginners" is absolutely the best book for beginning chess players I have ever seen, and as chess coach to a K-5 chess club, I’ve looked at a lot of books. MoveChess Strategy For Beginners: 2 Books In 1 The Ultimate Guide On How To Learn Chess Fundamentals With Tactics, Openings, Checkmates, Know The Rules And Start Winning on. The book is loaded with great chess instruction.Beginners often afraid to castle (worried their moves will be wrong, King will be trapped) Pawns promoting (normally to Queens) then disappearing Good example of why you'd (under) promote to a Knight: c8=N+ is a Knight Fork of the King and Queen Defending an Attacked Piece- 5 choices 1. In fact, it is an introductory course in chess tactics (primarily) and strategies appropriate for EVERY beginner-novice (and many intermediate players). It must be said up front that, although it is marketed as such, this book is not just for kids. Double-check your moves – it’s easy to miss a potential counterattack or a better move if you don’t take the time to double-check your work. Don’t waste time memorizing openings – focus on understanding the principles of opening play, so you can make better decisions in any position. Check out this chess site for chess boards1. Develop and threaten - good chess strategy! If a beginner at chess will stay with these basic principles of chess strategy, success on the board is not far behind! See here for more ideas in the chess opening. If you liked this post, you may also be interested in other checkmate patterns like Anastasia’s mate and the back rank mate.This is the "initiative", a chess strategy meant to dictate the game's course. I hope this guide on the Scholar’s mate helped you. If they move their Queen to Qh4 or or their Bishop to Bc5, that’s a massive red flag for you and you should defend against this mate before doing anything else. So what do you do if your opponent tries this on you? The good thing is you immediately know if your opponent is going for this pattern. It attacks the Queen but so what? Black then delivers mate with Qf2#. White playing Nf3 doesn’t defend anything. It would have still been bad for White, but this mate wouldn’t of occurred. This is an example of Scholar’s mate given by Black. Checkmate is inevitable and even if it wasn’t half your pieces get gobbled up by the Queen. The Queen then just takes the e4 pawn putting the King in check, then taking the Rook in the corner. A common mistake that’s made in response to Qh5 is pushing the pawn to g6. White simply dominates Black for a couple additional moves before giving mate. However the same principle applies with the mate given with the Queen and Bishop. This mate happens with higher rated players as well, although rare. White, played by Michael, successfully performs Scholar’s Mate. ![]() This is a game that took place in 1952 between Michael Meyer and Douglas Newcomb. ![]() Learning how to punish your opponent for bringing out their Queen early attempting early Queen attacks, even the Wayward Queen Attack, is important to learn so you can move past that phase, but that’s a different subject. ![]() William Steele said when he started playing, over 90% of his opponents tried this mate, if it failed they would just continue trying to attack with the Queen. Both are incredibly quick checkmates and if you’re new, you simply haven’t learned what to do to prevent this mate. Most players below 700 or so play either the Fool’s Mate or the Scholar’s Mate. This mate has most likely happened to you as a lower rated player, especially if you play on. This was the first chess term and checkmate pattern seen in the Netflix series, The Queen Gambit. If you’re a beginner chess player, you’ve likely been a victim of the dreaded four-move checkmate pattern known as the Scholar’s mate. It’s one of the fastest checkmate patterns in the game of Chess. The Scholar’s mate is given with a Queen and a Bishop. ![]() © Designs and logos exclusive and copyright protected by Atlantek Computer Systems LLC. THANK YOU for supporting a small business here on Etsy! Cases are shipped in minimal, plastic free packaging. Our partner aims for all materials used in the production of our cases to be nontoxic and recyclable. ![]() We are lucky to have a global printing partner that is committed to the environment, sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint. USA: Standard shipping is USPS First Class, Expedited is USPS Priority Mail Current estimated processing and delivery time is shown on the listing and at checkout I believe this is one of the beautiful things about owning a handmade item! 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Our cases are a great combination of sleek, lightweight design and added protection for your phone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Comedian Aamer Rahman called it "embarrassing and insulting, bordering on parody." It was quote-tweeted over 300 times, with a number of people taking issue with the tone and the aesthetics. The video was then re-posted to Twitter by Dave Jorgenson, a producer at The Washington Post who features in the outlet's own TikTok videos. The two-minute video was viewed 4.6 million times on the platform, where many of the comments were critical of its framing, suggesting it didn't emphasize America's participation enough. The Guardian's TikTok video about the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has divided opinion.Įarlier this week, The Guardian Australia's TikTok account posted a video that purported to be a "crash course with all the basics that you need to know" about Afghanistan falling to the Taliban. Insider spoke to Routledge about his experience, you can read the full interview here. Many people in Kabul who want to leave in the face of Taliban rule remain stuck in the nation.įollowing the widespread backlash, Routledge appeared to delete the footage and photos from his social media accounts. On Twitter, several people accused Routledge of acting out of privilege and taking an escape opportunity that could have gone to an Afghan citizen. Routledge appeared to document his trip extensively online, posting to 4Chan, Twitch, and Facebook about his whereabouts, eventually saying he had been evacuated to Dubai by the British Army. "I was under the impression that the country wouldn't fall for another month, so I thought it was going to be fine," he told The Spectator of his decision to visit Afghanistan last week. On Monday, it was reported that Miles Routledge, a 21-year old Loughborough University physics student, was stuck in Afghanistan in the midst of the Taliban's takeover. Routledge appeared to document his "holiday" to Afghanistan on 4chan and Facebook. You can read more about Klein and Keem's latest dispute here, and the comments from Klein, his mom, and Paytas' response here and here.įor more on the backstory of "Frenemies," you can read a timeline of Paytas' turbulent history Klein, from body-shaming to Paytas quitting 'Frenemies' here, and a complete run-down of how the podcast crashed and burned in less than a week here. This worsened tension between Klein and Paytas, with Klein's mother even tweeting that Paytas was a "weasel." Keem and Klein have had a separate long-running feud that came to a head just last week. The dispute between the two has been bubbling on in the YouTube community ever since, but this week it was reignited when a photo emerged showing that Paytas would be appearing on Mom's Basement, another YouTube commentary podcast hosted by Daniel Keem, aka Keemstar. The aftermath of the fight played out online on nearly every popular social media platform, from TikTok to Twitter. Trisha Paytas and Ethan Klein co-hosted the hugely successful YouTube podcast "Frenemies."īack in June, Ethan Klein and Trisha Paytas, popular YouTubers who co-hosted "Frenemies," one of the most successful podcasts on YouTube, had a cataclysmic on-air argument about finances that appeared to lead to the end of their partnership and friendship. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() Condé Nast Traveler crowned it one of the best new restaurants in the world last May, and the New York Times named it one of the 50 most exciting new restaurants in America at the end of 2021. It doesn’t hurt, either, that Laser Wolf has already built up a massive fanbase that extends far outside of Philadelphia. It’s nice to be able to work with people that do that job.” From L to R: Laser Wolf chef de cuisine Michael Mayo, executive chef Andrew Henshaw, and sous chef Shaul Armony. “In our experience, there are people that are very, very good at it. “It’s very difficult, taking your product and your brand and your culture on the road,” Solomonov says. They’ve partnered with one of Chicago’s top restaurant players Boka Group - which runs multiple restaurants inside Hoxton hotels in Chicago and, soon, Los Angeles - for the first time, to help them launch Laser Wolf in Williamsburg. It’s a different playing field though, he says. The Hoxton deal is the first time that Solomonov will be stepping outside of Philly again since the NYC and Miami deals ended. In the meantime, Solomonov and Cook have kept building their Philly empire, which now includes 19 restaurants across the city. Other expansions of Dizengoff and doughnut shop Federal Doughnuts to Miami ran up against construction delays and didn’t pan out, either. Rent payments were steep - the cost of the stall “might have been more than Zahav,” Solomonov says with a laugh - and the shop, which mainly only sold hummus, wasn’t a hit with Chelsea Market’s touristy customer base, Solomonov says. It held on for two years before shutting down at the end of August 2018. In 2016, the chef, along with business partner Steve Cook, opened an outpost of hummus shop Dizengoff in Chelsea Market, at the time a highly anticipated opening in the city. The grill house, which is overseen by Laser Wolf’s executive chef Andrew Henshaw and led day-by-day in Brooklyn by chef de cuisine Michael Mayo, is a stark departure from the last time Solomonov brought one of his Philadelphia favorites to NYC. The views from Laser Wolf’s rooftop dining area. Then comes the centerpiece: Skewers - including kebabs, made with ground beef and lamb, and shishlik, with larger cubes of chicken, mushrooms, and sirloin - are dangled a half inch above blazing charcoal coals, seared and blistered in 600- to 800- degree heat, and then tossed onto platters. Each meal starts with a dozen or so cups of seasonal salatim - salads, dips, and spreads - and puffy rounds of pita. Dinner is designed to be frenzied and loud, revolving around the mangals, or steel charcoal grills, lined up behind the bar. Modeled after a shipudiya, or Israeli skewer shop, Laser Wolf is a more casual counterpart to Solomonov’s upscale Israeli spot Zahav, the award-winning crown jewel of his Philly empire. The restaurant has been transplanted to the rooftop of the hip Hoxton hotel in Williamsburg, at 97 Wythe Avenue, between North Ninth and 10th streets, and is set to open on May 1. Solomonov is expanding his breakout hit Laser Wolf, a fiery Israeli grill house that has been topping national best-of lists since it first opened in Philly two years ago. Famed Philadelphia chef and restaurateur Michael Solomonov is mounting a comeback in New York City - and this time, he’s going all in on a full-blown restaurant. ![]() According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the genre was first named in 1942 when The Musical Quarterly called Dmitri Shostakovich's 1927 Symphony No. Industrial music drew from a broad range of predecessors. The two other most notable hybrid genres are industrial rock and industrial metal, which include bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Rammstein, and Fear Factory, the first three of which released a platinum-selling album each in the 1990s. Electro-industrial music is a primary subgenre that developed in the 1980s, with the most notable bands in the genre being Front Line Assembly and Skinny Puppy. Over time, the genre's influence spread into and blended with styles including ambient, synth music and rock such as Front 242, Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, and Sister Machine Gun, acts associated with the Chicago-based Wax Trax! Records imprint. While the term was self-applied by a small coterie of groups and individuals associated with Industrial Records in the late 1970s, it was broadened to include artists influenced by the original movement or using an "industrial" aesthetic. Ballard, and artists such as Brion Gysin, as influences. Musicians also cite writers such as William S. The precursors that influenced the development of the genre included 1940s musique concrète and varied world music sources in addition to rock-era acts such as Faust, Kraftwerk, the Velvet Underground, and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (1975). The industrial music scene also developed strongly in Chicago, with the city's Wax Trax! Records at one point leading the industrial music scene. On Throbbing Gristle's 1977 debut album The Second Annual Report, they coined the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". Prominent industrial musicians include Throbbing Gristle, Monte Cazazza, SPK, Boyd Rice, Cabaret Voltaire, and Z'EV. The first industrial artists experimented with noise and aesthetically controversial topics, musically and visually, such as fascism, sexual perversion, and the occult. While the genre name originated with Throbbing Gristle's emergence in the United Kingdom, artists and labels vital to the genre also emerged in the United States and other countries. 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It also would be a nightmare to clean, all the tubes and joints blocking the body… the whole thought of it makes me frustrated thinking about detailing my Jeep. I think it looks very silly and also adds a place for trees and bushes to get caught up in while I’m going down tight trails. I didn’t want anything jetting out around the Jeep like a cage. I wanted a low profile look, this was key. Why I decided to chose the Rhino Rack Backbone: ![]() Note that the camping couch is on the rack. So my $50.00 couch became an over a thousand dollar investment. After all, everyone knows a two door Jeep some serious space limitations after you put a fridge back there. I wouldn’t always need to have my couch but some space really was starting to become an issue. ![]() I decided to pull the trigger and look into a roof rack again. I do not like the fact that it took up a considerable amount of space in my Jeep. It was on sale for $50.00 and it was awesome, it would be the only thing I would consider as less of a necessity for camping but I’m still going to haul this around every chance I get. Last Christmas I decided to buy a camping couch. I never really stopped looking at roof racks but I never really saw the value in the ugly to storage ratio. I did not like the outside frame style racks because they frankly look ugly and It would be too much work if I wanted to drive around topless. I did not like the idea of making myself more top heavy, or changing the integrity of my hard top. I have been avoiding putting a roof rack on my Jeep for eight years. I own a 2010 Two Door Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, and every month or two I buy something for it to try and make my overlanding experiences a bit more enjoyable. ![]() There’s only one opinion in this write up, and that’s my own. I have been very diligent in my career to ensure I do no cross any ethical lines so I have paid for this product myself and also installed it myself. Please use drop down menu above.Let’s jump into this, my first review of an accessory that I’ve installed on my own Jeep. The Roof Rack Legs, Crossbars, and Pioneer Platform are all sold separately. Compatible with both Rhino Rack Vortex and Heavy Duty crossbars. NOTE: You can mount a 2-bar or 3-bar roof rack, OR a Pioneer Cargo Tray to the Backbone system. Frame brackets install around inside of the window frame and along the outside of window jam. The mounting platforms attach to outer brackets along roof line to provide a flat, stable mounting surface for crossbar legs. Mounting hardware and templates are included. This is a permanent installation with drilling required. Won't interfere with removal of Freedom panels or hardtop. The Backbone system strengthens the roof structure of your Jeep, allowing you to add a roof rack system (sold separately) on top of your factory hardtop. The Rhino Rack RTL600 Quick Release Towers/Legs easy to install/remove and are very strong and secure. The BackBone allows the weight of your gear to b evenly distributed through the body of your Jeep and enables you to carry up to 120kg on your Jeep's roof. The BackBone is designed to mount to the internal chassis of your Jeep Wrangler JK. The Rhino Rack Backbone Jeep Wrangler roof rack is a roof rack system that beefs up the frame of your vehicle, allowing you to install a roof rack and carry gear on the Jeep factory hardtop. ![]() ![]() They had to go really fast so the train could get going. Teachers can use prompts such as, “In this book, the workers had to hurry to get all of the boxes onto the train. Connecting words to the theme of the book helps to ground children’s understanding of words and to see how words are related. It is broad enough to include instruction for students who are just beginning to build their English vocabularies, as well as for students whose English. Introducing words through children’s literature provides context for children to experience and understand the meaning of words. Building on Michael Graves's bestseller, The Vocabulary Book, this new resource offers a comprehensive plan for vocabulary instruction that K 12 teachers can use with English language learners. The Multidimensional Vocabulary Program included the following characteristics of instruction: Introduce words through engaging children’s literature The principles of the MVP curriculum hold promise for supporting the vocabulary development of all learners, especially English language learners. This program integrated multiple ways of teaching words to support children’s word learning. In developing a curriculum for both monolingual English speakers and English language learners, I applied these principles in what I termed the Multidimensional Vocabulary Program (MVP). Work by Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown, Andrew Biemiller and countless others has led to consensus on principles of effective vocabulary instruction. Knowing these words may help children understand texts in language arts, science, and social studies throughout their school years. For example, in the book Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Daniel Lewis (1999), children may be introduced to words such as hurry, load/unload, freight, empty, steep, deep, wide, swift, tunnel, and underground. Reading books to children is one way to introduce them to a wide range of vocabulary that they may not hear in their everyday conversations with adults and peers. Many children, especially English language learners, need support in acquiring the substantial vocabulary they need to become good readers. ![]() It provides the foundation for learning to decode and comprehend text. Vocabulary knowledge is a major building block in children’s early literacy development. There are 50 familiar voice sets for gamers to choose from and 20 new ones. Reloaded brings back the well known speech banks from the previous games in a higher quality and re-mastered form. The same thing can be said for the sound of the game too: it has never been better. Long story short, Worms has never looked better. This is a welcome addition to the series as it makes it a lot easier to scan the environment in order to plan your attacks. The game also includes widescreen support which is something that wasn’t present in the previous PC iterations. It doesn’t take much to run the game and it should look good on any computer it’s installed on. ![]() ![]() The characters are crisp and animated and the animations are smooth and detailed. While the game utilizes the classic graphical style that fans of the series have grown to know and love, it looks as good as ever. Worms has never looked better and brighter than it does in this version of the game. One of the first “new” features of the game involves the high definition graphical style. While the core of the game remains the same, it’s the new additions that make this package the best one compiled yet. Worms don’t like water and ending up in the drink will mean certain death. In addition to the destruction that the weapons themselves inflict on the worms, the environment often offers its own with landmines and explosive barrels often littered about, as well as the ever-pending, and deadly, water looming at the bottom of each stage. Players do nothing more than take turns taking shots at one another until one team is left standing with at least one member alive. The premise of the game is as simple as it has always been: players will control individual teams of multiple Worms and use various weapons and tools to eliminate their opponents which are spread across a destructible map. The charm of Worms Reloaded, and the series in general, lies in its simplicity. Reloaded includes all of the content included in the original Armageddon XBLA release with the additional content that was released on the Microsoft Marketplace as well as many completely new and original features that have never been seen before. The new game, available exclusively (currently) through Valve’s Steam service is a beefed up version of Worms 2: Armageddon for the Xbox Live Arcade. It seemed as if Team 17 had finally managed to rekindle the original magic of the Worms’ series and the popularity started to grow once more.Īll of those events led us to 2010 and Worms Reloaded for the PC (and in development for MacOS). The XBLA release was quickly regarded as the best iteration of the series in years and heralded for its return to the 2D style of the origjnal. The series bounced around from publisher to publisher over the years, until finally landing back at home with Team 17 for the 2007 Xbox Live Arcade release of Worms 2: Armageddon. ![]() In an attempt to reinvigorate the series, the developers attempted to move the series into the third dimension with 2003’s Worms 3D needless to say the reception was nowhere near as great as the original. ![]() In short, many felt that the series was growing stale and that the game releases were simply minor updates to previous installments and not worthy of entirely new releases. Although the series was critically acclaimed early on during the mid- to late 1990’s, concerns regarding the lack of meaningful additions and changes to subsequent versions grew with every release. In recent years though, the popularity of the Worms’ games has dwindled, almost to the point of obscurity. The series has been around for 15 years now and has hit almost every console imaginable. When it comes to the Worms’ series, you either love them or you don’t rarely have I seen a middle ground when discussing the series with other gamers. The most jolting part of the experience were the things in the seats that poked you in the back to sort of startle a jump scare. ![]() I had turned the water effects off, but there was definite misting that we felt. The snow effects seemed to be taken right out of Disney’s playbook, but they were at the front of the theater and we were towards the back so I didn’t get to verify the “snow” was actually soap. Strobe lights flashed every time there was lightning on screen. These theaters have a height requirement! Since we didn’t buy our tickets in advance, we didn’t see all the warnings and conditions on the website. The attractions Cast Member in me was horrified and fascinated all at the same time. I kept looking for some sort of safety device or ride stop. For the life of me I can’t figure out how you would go to the bathroom during one of these movies. The movie started, and I swear the movement never stopped. My favorite thing I heard, “Holy s***! This gonna be dope!” Jay and I turned to look at each other, and we could hear the rest of the audience reacting as well. Clearly, we weren’t the only first timers. The seats stopped moving as the 4DX logo popped up on screen. It pitched both side to side and forwards and backwards. I mean the entire thing tilted Star Tours style. The little sections of four seats were essentially one big bench, and the entire bench moved. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that. The slew of trailers played like normal and then a 4DX sort of preview came on. I noticed a button on the armrest that gave you the choice of water being on or off, so I immediately turned both of ours off. I was super curious about what was about to happen. Each seat has a little foot rest in front of it, and the cup holders are super deep. Except for the back row, each row has four sections with four seats each. She picked our seats for us and off we went. I hate reserved seating so much, especially since I didn’t know what we were getting into with the 4DX. I stared at the screen blankly and asked for her suggestion. We went in to buy our tickets and the attendant asked where we wanted to sit. ![]() One night, Jay and I found ourselves at an event on International Drive that ended earlier than we expected, and we decided to catch the last 4DX showing of the evening. Fun fact: Regal Cinemas was actually founded in my hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee so I grew up going there. Regal Pointe Orlando is the only 4DX theater in town. (I honestly had no idea it was one of six in the country until I started writing this article.) Pointe Orlando is just not the most convenient theater to go to even though I’m a huge Regal fan. We kept saying we wanted to go see a movie in 4DX, but I usually do my movie watching in the little theater in Clermont or at Disney Springs. I honestly didn’t give 4DX much further thought after that. My immediate reaction was, “Huh?” 4DX is the next step in movie theaters, with practical effects mixed with seats that move. The whole thing actually sounds to me like what Walt Disney wanted to happen with the release of the original Fantasia movie. I first heard of 4DX last March when my friend told me she went to see Kong: Skull Island in 4DX. For more information, visit the park’s website by clicking here.Ĭopyright 2021 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.Orlando, Florida is not only the theme park capital of the world, but it is also home to one of six 4DX Movie Theaters in the United States. There is no specified end date for the AR experience. ![]() Visitors must have the Legoland Florida app in order to access the AR experience. “Explore all sections of MINILAND to discover seven hidden LEGOMYTHICA creatures and “capture” them as digital trading cards, revealing their organic forms within the world of MYTHICA,” the park said. Then, guests can experience “LEGO MYTHICA” creatures come to life before their eyes in an AR scavenger hunt in MINILAND. The movie takes viewers on an adventure following Bobs, a little Alicorn, on his way into MYTHICA, according to Legoland. A universe that, unbeknown to us, has been created by the power of kids’ imagination,” a news release read. “Full of adventures and mysterious creatures all waiting to be discovered, LEGO MYTHICA is an incredible parallel universe to ours. The park announced Wednesday the new film “LEGO MYTHICA - JOURNEY TO MYTHICA” will premiere May 27 inside the Legoland Fun Town Theater and will be showing daily. – Guests at Legoland Florida Resort will soon be able to catch an all-new 4D film and even explore a new world through a limited-time augmented reality experience. |
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