COLUMBUS – Legos are in the news in central Ohio for a couple of different reasons.
The toy company is planning to open Legoland Discovery Center, a 36,000 square-foot indoor play area in the fall of 2018, according to a report in Columbus Business First.
The store will include Lego-theme play areas, rides and party rooms, according to the newspaper.
Meanwhile, an Ohio State University professor has built a replica of Ohio Stadium out of the tiny plastic blocks in hopes of using the display in the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital lobby to raise money for heart research.
Paul Janssen, a professor of physiology and cell biology, has spent 3,000 hours crafting a highly-detailed miniature replica of the famed “Horseshoe” from nearly 1 million of the little building blocks, hospital officials said.
The miniature stadium has a capacity to hold up to 12,000 toy people in the stands and on the field, so Janssen is selling seats for a donation of $20 or more to his heart research, which has contributed to breakthroughs in the areas of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, arrhythmia, cardiovascular disease and heart failure.