Thanks to Damien Hirst’s venture Other Criteria for putting our Okido video on their blog (pictured above). We like sharing!

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This Bubble game has distracted us in the office when we are supposed to be finishing editing our Okido Magazine video! Click the Help button to get the rules.

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KidSoup paid a visit to Legoland, Windsor in the UK. It’s a great day out for Kids under 12. We chose to blog the pix we liked but of course there are lots of rides to queue for as well as the Lego.

Our favourite ride (great for younger Kids if they don’t get too scared of Trolls) is ‘Fairy Tale Brook’ where you can see all your favourite Fairy Story characters. If you want to know any specific recommendations or tips please drop an email to: HQ@kidsoup.tv

We didn’t test it but you can hire a Q-bot device which means you can input the ride code into the unit (pictured), no need to join the queue, you can do other things and then return at a specified time without ever missing your place.

More info about Legoland here.

Book online and get a discount.

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KidSoup had a fantastic time today at the ‘Caravan of Fairytales’. It’s a good spirited festival on until 25th May in front of the Tate Modern Gallery, London.

The free event is a celebration of creativity and non-commercialism with loads of storytelling, drawing, arts, craft and theatre for Kids and Kidults. No Mickey Mouse outfits allowed.

More details about the concept here. If you can’t get there in person we filmed a special report so watch this space.

Kids make your own Robot

Detail of sculpture

Story Machine

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Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany is becoming a top tourist destination in Europe. It’s the biggest Model railway in the world with 11,000 metres of track. The exhibit includes 900 trains made up of 12,000 carriages; 300,000 lights, 200,000 trees and 200,000 human figures.

Miniatur Wunderland is divided into 5 sections Southern Germany, Hamburg and the Coast, America, Scandinavia, and Switzerland and takes up 1,500 meters squared of floorspace. By 2014 it will expand to 10 sections.

No we haven’t moved to a larger HQ. KidSoup left behind our PC’s, Ipods and Nintendo’s and headed to the country this weekend to check out Blenheim Palace. Blenheim represents a big slice of British nostalgia and we reckon all our US twitter followers would love this crib! 

Owned by the Duke of Marlborough the extensive property was built in the 1760’s to celebrate victory over the French during the Wars of the Spanish Succession. But it’s really famous for being the birth place of the grandson of the 7th Duke – none other than Sir Winston Churchill.

Baby Winston was born and lived here, you can even see the bed he was delivered in. Inside the house is an amazing tribute to what life was like for those who lived there, with one drawing room being about the entire floor space of the average British semi-detached house. (No photography allowed). Churchill was fond of Blenheim’s vast collection of miniature soldiers which are guaranteed to interest the Kids.

The grounds are stunning, we passed on picnicking with the £60 (US$91 Eur67) hamper for two but couldn’t resist Blenheim Ice Cream and homemade cakes outside on the Terrace. Kids will love the huge open lawns.

There’s also a mini-train to a Kids Adventure playground and Butterfly House (complete with Maze and giant outdoor chess + draughts). It’s fun but not as amazing as the House and grounds. Buy a ticket for a day visit and you can get a pass for free that will last a whole year. Overall this is a wicked place to go with the Kids.

PS. For Film buffs: Whilst were there we noticed dozens of film trucks, upcoming family Movie ‘Gulliver’s Travels‘ (due 2010) is being shot at the Palace.

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