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Hey everybody!

 

This thread is simple! Rather than having a million little threads about everything that goes on at Legoland California, this thread is designed to consolidate it all into one user-friendly thread. Feel free to use it to post updates, trip reports, questions, comments, and of course, general discussion. For pictures and videos of the park as well as past updates, see TPR's Park Index Legoland California Page.

 

Legoland California’s Official Website

 

Below are some links to past updates from the park, you may be interested in. Enjoy!

 

--Robb

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2005

January 27th, 2005 - Knight's Tournament (KUKA Arm RoboCoaster) announces for Memorial Day opening - SEE BELOW!

 

2007

November 27th, 2007 - 2008 additions announced including Sea Life Aquarium and Lost Kingdom Adventure shooting dark ride

 

2008

November 17th, 2008 - new Bob the Builder 4D movie for 2009

 

2010

January 10th, 2010 - water park announced

February 4th, 2010 - concept art for water park

June 16th, 2010 - Legoland Hotel announced for 2013

 

2011

January 6th, 2011 - Park improvements for 2011 announced

 

2012

January 19th, 2012 - Pirate Reef shoot-the-chutes announced!

January 30th, 2012 - Pirate Reef & other additions confirmed!

December 18th, 2012 - Legoland California Hotel to open on April 5th, 2013!

 

2013

January 25th, 2013 - LEGO Chima 4D movie experience announced!

 

2014

November 7th, 2014 - 2015 Park 'Star Wars' & 'LEGO Friends' Additions Announced!

 

2016

September 26th, 2016 - Star Wars Miniland & Water Park additions announced!

 

2017

August 25th, 2017 - Deep Sea Adventure announced for 2018, a submarine ride with live aquatic animals and lego creations, new hotel also announced

 

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A few announcments from Legoland CA including expansion plans!

 

 

LEGOLAND California announces 2005 capital expansion plans

Family theme park reaches record-breaking results for 2004

 

CARLSBAD, Calif. (Jan. 27, 2005) – LEGOLAND® California announced the Park’s best business results to date at a news conference held at the Carlsbad theme park Jan. 27, 2005. 2004 revenue results are the highest in the Park’s six-year history. The park expects further growth in 2005 due to increased capital expenditure plans.

 

Attendance was up nearly ten percent over the prior year at LEGOLAND California. The Park ended 2004 at 1.42 million guests. This dramatic attendance growth shatters the 2004 industry average of 4 percent in North American parks, as reported by Amusement Business. Meanwhile, Park revenue grew by more than eleven percent from 2003 to 2004, establishing 2004 the best year on record for the family theme park in terms of revenue.

 

“These results are phenomenal. We are thrilled with LEGOLAND California’s performance in terms of attendance, revenue and guest satisfaction,” said John Jakobsen, President and General Manager of LEGOLAND California. "2004 was a landmark year for the Park as we opened five new attractions to celebrate our fifth birthday. In 2005 we will invest even more money in the Park to take the guest experience to the next level.”

 

LEGOLAND California invested $5 million in capital improvements to the park during 2004 in the form of five new attractions. In 2005, the total capital investment is projected to be $6 million. The park is building on its strengths with Knights’ Tournament, a unique signature attraction, a large-scale renovation of the popular Miniland New York area including the Freedom Tower and a LEGOLAND® mini-golf experience.

 

“We are performing above industry expectations by delivering superior guest experiences to our target guests – families with children,” Jakobsen continued. “We have proven that our business plan is successful and we expect further growth in 2005 as we create even more reasons for new guests to visit LEGOLAND California while increasing our return visitation.”

 

 

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LEGOLAND® California announces Knights’ Tournament to debut Memorial Day 2005

Cutting-edge robotic technology meets medieval LEGO adventure

 

CARLSBAD, Calif. (January 27, 2005) – On Memorial Day 2005, LEGOLAND® California introduces Knights’ Tournament, a daring new attraction that combines cutting-edge robotic technology with the LEGO® spirit of imagination. LEGOLAND California is the only theme park in North America to offer this unique robotic attraction.

 

This new ride will deliver a new kind of adventure that features twists, turns and fun for the entire family. LEGOLAND guests become knights-in-training as they cross a medieval moat, select the intensity of their ride experience and embark on a one-of-a-kind adventure aboard one of six passenger-carrying robotic arms. Each arm is made of cast aluminum and steel measuring 15 feet and weighing in at more than 2 ½ tons. The ride mechanics include an electromechanical motor, which provides a smooth yet thrilling experience unlike any other.

 

“Knights’ Tournament is a one-of-a-kind experience for our guests,” says President and General Manager John Jakobsen. “This new attraction builds on our strategy to continually offer new and exciting opportunities for our guests to interact with the LEGO values of imagination, creativity and fun.“

 

Key features of the attraction include the opportunity for passengers to choose their own ride experience and interact with medieval-themed LEGO model scenes. An 18-foot tall red LEGO dragon with a wingspan of 13 feet guards the entrance to the attraction. The multi-dimensional thrill ride allows guests to take charge and choose their own experience and intensity to match their individual ride taste. The ride has no track, giving the ride a sense of unpredictability and leaving the rider unaware of what comes next. The robotic arms move in multiple planes and directions, creating an additional unknown dimension to the adventure. What makes this attraction more unique is that guests can choose a different ride every time.

 

The attraction is themed with the LEGO Knights’ Kingdom play materials storyline. The interactive model scenes featured within the attraction bring the knights from the popular play materials to life. The model scenes give guests the opportunity to engage in swordplay, compete in a test of strength, or receive their reward at a knighting ceremony. This thrill ride is also enjoyable for spectators as they can observe friends and family being transported back to days of yore aboard their robotic steed.

 

Knights’ Tournament represents another year of growth for LEGOLAND California. The ride is one of three new additions in the Park’s 2005 capital expansion plan. Other new additions include a large-scale renovation of Miniland New York and a new mini-golf experience.

 

Log on to http://www.LEGOLAND.com for more information about Knights’ Tournament and the other new attractions and improvements for 2005.

 

The robotic arms are manufactured by the ROBOCOASTER™ division of KUKA Roboter GmbH, a German company that specializes in providing industrial robots to a number of industries including automotive manufacturing. While their industrial robots perform a variety of tasks such as welding or moving car frames in a factory environment, the themed-entertainment division of the company applies this technology to passenger robotics. Knights’ Tournament is destined to thrill and delight guests at LEGOLAND California.

 

 

 

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LEGOLAND® California to break Guinness World Record™ for

Tallest LEGO® Tower

Theme park guests participate in record-setting event Presidents Day 2005

 

January 20, 2005 (Carlsbad, Calif.) – Thousands of children along with their families will click together more than half-a-million LEGO® bricks at LEGOLAND® California February 17-21, 2005, to break the Guinness World Record for the tallest LEGO tower ever built!

 

The tower will soar over the theme park’s main entrance and will be built entirely of LEGO bricks. Park guests will be able to participate in this record-breaking event by constructing their own piece of the tower beginning Thursday, February 17 when the Park opens at 10 a.m.

 

Park officials estimate the tower will take four days, 40 hours, nearly 50,000 guests and more than 500,000 LEGO bricks to complete! The construction of the tower begins everyday during Presidents Day weekend when the Park opens at 10 a.m. and ends when the Park closes at 5 p.m. Witness the closing ceremony on Presidents Day, February 21 at 10:30 a.m. when the final bricks are positioned and the tower is measured and certified by an official from Guinness World Records.

 

The current Guinness World Record is held by AS Rekato Ltd., the company who organized the building of a LEGO tower built in Tallinn, Estonia in August 1998. The tower took four days to build reaching a height of 82 feet and was made of 391, 478 LEGO bricks. LEGOLAND California will have to create a tower at least 83 feet in height to break the current record.

 

About Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 20 languages and is one of the highest-selling books under copyright of all time. In 2004 Guinness World Records will celebrate its 50th anniversary (1955-2005) and the 2004 Edition marked the sale of its 100 millionth copy. Guinness World Records is published by Hit Entertainment PLC, a fully integrated global studio with divisions in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan, including broadcast production and distribution, video and audio sales, consumer products licensing and marketing.

 

 

 

 

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DANIEL RODRIGUEZ,

“AMERICA’S BELOVED TENOR”

JOINS LEGOLAND® CALIFORNIA

IN A SALUTE TO HEROES

Freedom Tower seen for the

first time amid the New York skyline

 

 

CARLSBAD, Calif. (Jan. 27, 2005) – The city that never sleeps will come to life at the opening ceremony of renovated Miniland New York at LEGOLAND California on March 11, 2005, featuring Daniel Rodriguez. Not only will Park guests be the first to catch a glimpse of the Freedom Tower years before the actual one is completed, but they will be immersed in a New York “state of mind” the entire weekend at the family theme park in Carlsbad.

 

Daniel Rodriguez, a New York native and police officer in the Big Apple for seven years is now known as “America’s most beloved tenor.” Rodriguez will do the honors of singing the national anthem at LEGOLAND California as part of a salute to heroes at the unveiling of the LEGO Freedom Tower. In honor of those who helped rebuild America after September 11, all public safety officials including law enforcement, firefighters and the military will be given complimentary admission from March 11 through March 18, 2005 with valid identification.

 

Years before the real Freedom Tower is completed at the site of the devastated World Trade Center, LEGOLAND has begun construction of the monumental skyscraper completely out of LEGO bricks as part of a renovation of Miniland New York. Sprouting 25 feet into the sky, the monumental tower will be the largest building ever created in Miniland USA.

 

Using published photos of the winning design, LEGOLAND California’s Master Model Builder, William Webb Dodd, in collaboration with a fellow Master Model Builder from Denmark, is responsible for sketching the design, creating a 3D computer model and the final construction of the LEGO Freedom Tower. The 1/70 scale model includes a “wind farm” in the top portion of the tower which in the actual structure will use turbines to generate 25 percent of the electricity in the building.

 

More than two million LEGO bricks are being used in the reconstruction of Miniland New York. During the renovation, Master Model Builders will completely rebuild and replace five buildings including the Citicorp and UN Buildings. All buildings inside the Big Apple will be completely blasted by environmentally-friendly powdered walnut shells, checked for repairs by Master Model Builders, recoated with a UV lacquer then reinstalled in Miniland. The cleverness of LEGOLAND California’s Master Model Builders shines through in the renovation with new and innovative minifigure scenes alongside some old favorites.

 

In traditional LEGOLAND style, additional interactive areas are part of the renovation plans for New York City. Guests will be able to make music play as a LEGO minifigure breakdances and grooves on the streets of Lower Manhattan while other guests can prompt water to shoot from different fountains in front of Rockefeller Plaza.

 

In Central Park, look for a Shakespearean play at Belvedere Castle, a Mini-Renaissance Faire, more statues and a completely redesigned Central Park Zoo with never-before-seen LEGO animal models. The unique and lush landscaping of the real Central Park is not overlooked in this LEGOLAND replica. The Park’s landscaping team is planting 80 new trees, additional shrubs and ground covering, adding to the theme park’s popular landscaping.

 

New York City is one of six geographical locations in Miniland USA recreated entirely of LEGO bricks at LEGOLAND California. More than 24-million LEGO bricks create this attraction considered the heart of the Park.

 

Also - not included in this is a 700 room hotel they will be building, located directly behind the park with its own entrance to the park. This will open in 2006.

 

If you don't know what the new attraction is, look here: http://www.robocoaster.com

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And speaking in the LEGO way of posting...

 

Here's a link to an amazing layout of LEGO, a DarylF of Calgary, Alberta did recently (after 10 months work!) and displayed for a local fair....

 

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=169866

 

 

The Linkup was also courtesy of MiceAge.com with it's MiceChat.

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Wow - and it keeps on going and getting better....

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Some new attractions coming to legoland california.

 

www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20071107-9999-1b7lego.html

 

New themed area, separate aquarium on tap for Carlsbad park

By Penni Crabtree

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

 

November 7, 2007

 

Legoland yesterday unveiled plans for a $20 million expansion that includes a two-story aquarium and an Indiana Jones-like adventure in 1920s Egypt.

Ground has been broken on the nearly 36,000-square-foot aquarium, dubbed Sea Life Legoland, in an area near the Carlsbad amusement park's ticket booths. The complex will feature creatures found in California waters, from a freshwater stream in the Sierra Nevada to the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean.

 

The aquarium also will include tanks of sea horses and rays and a shoaling ring where children are surrounded 360 degrees by schools of fish. – The aquarium, scheduled to open in the summer, will be a separate attraction with its own admission price.

 

Nick Varney, CEO of Legoland parent Merlin Entertainments Group, said yesterday that the Sea Life center will be a place that allows children to “explore, touch and ultimately gain empathy” with the underwater world.

 

The aquarium will incorporate Legoland elements with the addition of a tank that features a sunken lost city that is explored by miniature submarines and scuba divers made of the signature plastic Lego building blocks.

 

The Sea Life center will be the first for Merlin Entertainments in North America. The United Kingdom-based company, which purchased Legoland in 2005, has 24 other Sea Life centers in nine European countries.

 

Varney said Legoland has forged a partnership with two nearby hotels, the Grand Pacific Palisades Resort and a Sheraton Hotel opening in January, to market Legoland and the aquarium as a “resort destination” worthy of a two-day or more visit.

 

Legoland also has plans to build its own hotel in coming years, he said.

 

Like other amusement parks, Legoland has to keep refreshing or creating new exhibits to lure visitors. And water, in one form or another, appears to be a favorite theme among amusement-minded corporations these days.

 

Cable TV network Nickelodeon and Marriott International announced plans last summer to build a 650-room resort hotel with a 100,000-square-foot water park at Liberty Station in Point Loma. The proposed 18-acre complex, which will incorporate popular cartoon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, is slated to break ground in January.

 

Disneyland also unveiled an ocean-themed attraction this summer, the “Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.”

 

In the past three years, Legoland has added 15 exhibits, including the June 2006 opening of its popular water-themed Pirates Shores. In January, Legoland officials said the new attraction increased attendance during the park's 2006 summer and fall season by 20 percent over the previous year.

 

Next year, in addition to the aquarium, Legoland will open Land of Adventure, the eighth major themed area in the 128-acre amusement park. The company said the projects represent the park's costliest expansion to date.

 

The 1-acre site, slated to open in March, will feature four attractions, including a ride called the Lost Kingdom Adventure. Guests, armed with laser guns, ride inside desert jeep-vehicles through ancient Lego-temple ruins and encounter targets such as a spider's lair, mummy relics and a skeleton band that requires riders to hit them correctly to make the bones come together to become musicians.

 

Another ride, Pharaoh's Revenge, allows children and parents to fire thousands of foam balls at targets and each other.

 

The largest Lego structure in the new Lost Kingdom will be a Lego Pharaoh standing more than 16 feet tall and made of an estimated 250,000 Lego blocks.

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Proof from Screamscape(No copyright intended)-

Merlin Entertainment has announced that they have signed an deal with HIT Entertainment to be the exclusive worldwide home to the first ever Bob The Builder 4D film which will be added to Legoland California and Legoland Windsor in March 2009, Legoland Germany and Legoland Billund in April 2009. The 4D film’s title will be “Bob The Builder and the Roller Coaster” where in appropriate fashion, they build a new roller coaster that everyone gets to take a ride on by the end of the movie. The exclusive deal with Hit Entertainment for the 10 minute film is for one year.

So what do you think?

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Oh god...and I thought a dora themed ferris wheel was bad.

 

Or

 

1) A Spongebob themed Eurofighter( Where they stoned?)

2) A Slime themed log flume

3) A Tak themed Iron Hammer.

 

More Info- The deal was struck with RealD to produce the film.

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Hey everyone!

Legoland California has just formally announced their most recent addition for 2010, the Legoland Waterpark! Their website describes it as:

The Water Park will feature:

 

The centerpiece of the Water Park is a 45-foot-tall tower designed to immerse children in the creative world of LEGO®

Several water slides including 6-person raft slide and 1-person tube slides as well as slides designed especially for toddlers

The Build-A-Raft river – a lazy river where guests float on their own custom-built LEGO raft

More than 20 LEGO models including giant LEGO friends who splash or spray water on guests

A splash tower that will countdown and pour hundreds of gallons of water over kids standing beneath

A zoo themed water play area for toddlers

Two sandy beach wading areas

Cabanas for families to rest and relax in

Retail shops and snack carts

 

The website is: legolandwaterpark.com/

 

Here is another article on the expansion:

www.gadling.com/2010/01/09/legoland-water-park-to-follow-6th-year-of-growth/

 

---Brent

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The Build-A-Raft river – a lazy river where guests float on their own custom-built LEGO raft

Now that's interesting! Although I think there can be a problem, because there's only a limited amount of pieces. Think about some greedy kids who want to make their raft the biggest one, and thus there are no blocks left anymore for the other kids...

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Are they building a tube out of big lego blocks?

 

Customize, not build. It will probably include choosing the color and minor lego attachment to the tube.

 

A tube made out of lego blocks would not float!

 

No it is possible to build a float out of Lego like pieces not actual blocks themselves but with the proper material it can be done.

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