Sidra Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 (edited) Had some friends visiting from Arizona that wanted us to meet for the day at Legoland. I haven't been in a few years and a lot has changed in the park since my last visit in 2006. Plus my kiddo had two coasters there she hadn't been on yet (Coastersaurus & Lego Technic Coaster). I dont have the best digital camera and its old, so the pictures may not be the best. First off there's some great deals going on in the San Diego area. Burger King is giving out a buy an adult ticket and get a kids entrance free when you buy a value meal. But I randomly stopped at Subway and saw a better deal. Buy a 32oz drink and it has a park hopper coupon on it. Buy an adult ticket and get a kids free with choice of adding either the Water park or Sea Life Aquarium. They also had 25% admission ticket coupons on a cardboard stand-up. Subway Promo Cup We only live about ten miles from the park and got there about a half hour before opening. It was pretty crowded for a Thursday and by the time we got through the parking gate and up to the front gate the park had opened up. Crowded Park Entrance Price List Park Hopper, 2 Day Tickets Decided to upgrade to a yearly Membership that you pay monthly. Park Map showing the water park just off of Fun Town We got in and took a left towards Dino Island and as expected it was already packed and the line for Coastersaurus was over an hour long. So we decided to go head towards the back of the park where crowds would be sparse. The water park looked cool for younger kids, so its kind of unique for that. Legoland is good for the younger crowd who isn't ready for the big adult sized stuff. Water park entrance, not yet open for the day Our first real stop was Pirate Shores, this area wasn't around when we were last at the park. One thing I can say about Pirate Shores, prepare to get wet... (cont. on next post) Edited August 10, 2010 by Sidra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidra Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 (edited) First View of Pirate Shore is Captain Cranky's Challenge Captain Cranky himself Ride Entrance Me and my daughter on the ride. Not very much air time compared to others. Still fun. Very small log flume ride. Treasure Falls. Treasure Falls Entrance, the line was deceptively short. There are four boats and they run really slow. Took about 40 mins to get to the front. My Monkey in the front Treasure Falls Monkeys The enormous lift hill /sarcasm Water park peeking through the trees Might come back later and take his napping spot Want to get extremely wet? The Soak N Sail wasn't too busy yet as it was still a cool morning. Swabbies Deck, another get very wet area aimed at toddlers. Splash Battle Sign Nice Theming in ride for Splash Battle One of the three information signs that they had in the queue. A lot of rides had these and kept my 8 year old busy for a few minutes. Splash Battle boats. Ended up getting very wet on Splash Battle, not from the ride spraying me, or other boats, but from the people at the side of the ride, their cannons had much more pressure than anything else. Next up is Castle Hill, my personal favorite area of the park. Edited August 6, 2010 by Sidra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidra Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 (edited) First stop is my favorite theme park snack, Granny's Apple Fries. Mmmm tasty. Caught the Grand Tournament of Champions Show More Grand Tournament of Champions. Red team won! Dragon Goodiness! These poor Knights and Nobles were slayed Dragon is too fast for me... to get a good shot. Locked up for being stinky Batman? Is that you? Dragon in front of Knights Tournament. Its pretty big, my daughter is just a hair under 4 feet. If only they would stay there all day... Later in the day we headed back up the hill to eat at The Knight's Table BBQ. Legoland is doing free kids meals after 5pm until the end of August. I was starving and ate the chicken before I took a picture, but it was good. Kiddo had spare ribs and liked them. I never buy drinks at Legoland, they will of course give you free water after reminding you that they have bottled, but everything there was less than . Land of Adventure was insanely crowded so we decided to turn back around and head to Fun Town instead. Edited August 10, 2010 by Sidra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidra Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 Its Shark Week! Too hot for Legoland Caught the Big Test Show at Fun Town Stage Very athletic stuntman. Volvo Driving Shcool. Last time she was here, she had to do the Jr. section. Some trimming needed View of the track Ready to get started I swear she was speeding The last one I'm buying, this makes three. So lets head to Dino Island for Coaster Credit number 11 for the little one. Coastersaurus view from the outside Hrm, I wonder if the gardeners all took vacation at the same time... Lifthill of Coastersaurus from the exit. Very blurry shot of the train from the exit Coaster credit number 12! Lego Technic Coaster Line reading. Picture of some of the track from the line queue Technic Track lift hill Someone is a little apprehensive about that big first drop. But once she got it over with, she loved the ride. Daylight is fading... lets get over to Land of Adventure and then cruise through Miniland USA before heading out the gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidra Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 I was really looking forward to Lost Kingdom of Adventure... it didn't live up to even the Buzz Lightyear lazer ride at Disneyland. But the theming was really nice. Entrance, never noticed a line sign... will have to look on Sunday. Hieroglyphics everywhere. More Inside the ride itself. Some lego mummies. Was on a second time because our friends missed out on the first run and noticed this. Nice themed ride rules sign. Dune Raiders Sign Just your average fair slide Beatle Bounce sign Her friend wasn't as happy to be on the ride as she was. She loves the King The Governator! Visiting the White House Downtown NY Vegas Baby! Coast Cruise going past Mount Rushmore And we end where we began. It was a great day, but I can't wait to be back on Sunday for Star Wars Day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samisthabomb Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Great TR! I really need to go there someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidra Posted August 9, 2010 Author Share Posted August 9, 2010 Preview of part 2 of our trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidra Posted August 9, 2010 Author Share Posted August 9, 2010 Star Wars Days at Legoland California this weekend. The 501st Legion was there and dressed up. Kids and their geek parents (myself included of course) were all excited and there were at times some decent lines to get a picture snapped, but especially for Vader. My daughter and I had a great time and will be happy to do it again next summer. Recommend it for any Star Wars fan near Legoland. Aayla Secura the Twi'lek. Nice costume. Boba Fett. The 501st really puts a lot of detail in their getups. He even had locks of Jedi Hair hanging off his gear. Proof of his kills. Some of the many Storm Troopers Who's better than Vader? Some Jawas, I'm sure some of the adult 501st' spawn Badge for the Droid Hunt. Wear the badge, get caught wearing it by a storm trooper they ask you, "Where did you get these droids?" and give you a raffle ticket for a drawing later in the day. Free brick they gave away for the day. Free mini poster with the star wars mini figures Really neat looking sign, all legos of course. Storm trooper that 'caught' us and gave us raffle tickets Now we have red 'caught' badges and raffle tickets. Prize package for both the raffle and the costume contest. They had 2 per and some smaller prizes they gave away as well. The package had 4 tickets to the park, a lego SW hat, several Lego SW sets, and some SW fridge magnets. The 9-15 year old contest winner. It was a nice getup and he wore it around the park all day. The Infant to 8 winner. He was really into his act and you could tell his geek parents didn't just dress him up, he really wanted to be there. They also did a contest for a prize to be announced later (by phone or email). They hid a bunch of Boba Fett Minifigures in Miniland holding letters that you have to unscramble to spell out the answer. It was easy to figure out without finding them all, but we had a lot of fun finding all the minifigures and it wasn't easy. A little zoomed out to show how small they are. If you've been to miniland you know how little the place is. Boba is sitting on a 6x1 size brick. I thought this was pretty cool. A fan made Jabba the Hut Fan made At-At's that were attacking... the Ice Fortress. cont. next post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidra Posted August 9, 2010 Author Share Posted August 9, 2010 We were only doing a short day since we had been there last on Thursday and the night before was almost no sleep. So we went on a few rides and visited Sealife Aquarium on the way out. Spin me around and get my feet wet on the Aquazone And watch out for the water bombs by the bystanders outside the ride. Bioncle Blasters, typical spin around tea cup style flat ride Oh yeah, I get nauseous on these rides and my daughter thinks its *SO* funny. Rode on Lego Technic Coaster again and got in the front this time. I spy a Dragon in the trees Ice cream is always good. Of course there is a donkey! We also did Fun Town Fire Academy. I suggest at least 2 adults or at least one kid over 10 with you. Impossible to keep up without it. You pump to get the truck moving, once you get to the fire hydrant you jump out, hose down the fire and jump back into the truck to pump it back to the s tarting position. We headed to the aquarium on the way out of the park. My camera didn't take good pictures as I expected. The Map of the place A few of these around, it lets the kids get 'into' the action and get a great view of the sealife. Oh look, a pretty Starfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midgetman82 Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 Cool photos. Looks like it's really hard to find those letters, I'm not so good at word puzzles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmaster562 Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 I prefer BlockoLand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darienlakerules Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I prefer BlockoLand. I made a nice healthy apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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