Calling All Parents—Here’s How to Score Free Tickets to the L.A. Zoo This Weekend

Another weekend, another two days trying to figure out what the hell to do to keep your kids entertained until Monday. Fortunately, we have just the thing to keep 'em busy. If you've got a LEGO® lover on your hands (and who doesn't?), the toy makers are putting on an extravaganza from August 15 to 18 at the L.A. Zoo that will have little ones going wild (pun intended).

To celebrate their new DREAMZzz sets hitting stores this month, LEGO is launching their LEGO DREAMZzz: A Wild Adventure at the L.A. Zoo event, where they've built larger-than-life LEGO creatures around the Griffith Park space. And the best part? During this time, the zoo will be free for the first 100 visitors each day! (Ticket prices typically range from $17 to $22 per person.)

“We’re bringing four of the beloved LEGO DREAMZzz sets creatures to life including sidekicks and dream animals like Bunchu the Bunny, Zian the giant Cat-Owl gryphon and Izzie’s Narwhal hot air balloon and red panda– all are created entirely from LEGO bricks,” LEGO Master Builder Chris Steininger tells us.

If that sounds like a lot of LEGO, you're not wrong—it took the team nearly 70,000 bricks (!) to complete the figures, plus more than 500 hours of building alone and 140 hours of design. “I’ll even be finishing up the eight-foot-tall Narwhal build live during LEGO DREAMZzz: A Wild Adventure,” says Steininger, adding that kids will be invited to participate by helping to stack bricks to complete the creation.

Free entry to the zoo plus a brain-busting activity to keep small hands occupied? Sounds like a great weekend plan to us.

(Psst: If you're not in the L.A. area, you can still take part in special LEGO DREAMZzz experiences at LEGOLAND resorts in California, Florida and New York, plus LEGOLAND Discovery Centers across the country.)