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Park News - (3/13/10) It’s Census time in America… but for our friends overseas, this means it’s time to stand up and be counted by the government to determine true population numbers that will decide where public funding projects will go. Inspired by this, the Master Model Builders at Legoland California began their own Census survey of the residents of Miniland USA to determine age, gender, occupation status and more. When the park first opened back in 1999, the unofficial population count was around 5,000. Since then Miniland has grown… and now six official Lego versions of the Census takers are also walking the streets of Miniland, and will remain there through July.
    (2/16/10) Sea Life Aquarium will become the only aquarium in SoCal to feature Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks as two new shark pups are slated to move-in for “The Daily Dive”. This is one segment of a new three-part presentation that will also feature “The Shark & Ray Show” and well as “Shark Talk”, a funny puppet show.
    (12/31/09) Legoland California has announced that they will release a news update on January 8th regarding the results of the 2009 season as well as releasing new details about the 2010 expansion project, the world’s first Lego themed waterpark.
    (12/30/09) While Legoland California wouldn’t give any exact figures, they did confirm that the 2008 season was a record breaking year for the park and that they were already well above those figures as we come close to the end of 2009.
    (10/7/09) Legoland California will kick off their Holly Jolly Holidays event with a tree lighting ceremony on November 30th with the help of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. This will feature the world’s largest Lego Christmas tree, made from nearly a quarter million Duplo bricks, standing 30 feet tall.
    (5/3/09) Take a virtual ride along on last year’s new Lost Kingdom Adventure dark ride with the video embedded below, which was posted by Sally Corp, the build of the ride for Legoland California.

 

2010 - New Waterpark and Clutch Powers - (6/2/10) The LA Times has confirmed that Legoland California has opened their new waterpark, though did mention that some sections are still incomplete and under construction.
    (5/25/10) According to a Screamscape reader, the new waterpark at Legoland California may soft-open to guests from May 28th through May 31st, but is expected to close again on June 1st and 2nd for VIP Tours and Photo Shoots. The official grand openieng of the waterpark is said to be on June 4th with the press, though it may soft-open to guests on June 3rd once again.
    (5/13/10) Legoland California called in the local fire department to deposit the first gallons of water into the new Legoland waterpark.
    (4/29/10) Legoland California sent out several new construction shots of their new 5.5 acre waterpark and one of the giant lego figures that will be installed within.
    (2/12/10) A reader has sent in a new piece of artwork showing off the entire layout of the new waterpark project. Enjoy!
    (2/11/10) One of our readers reports that construction work on the new Legoland waterpark is well under way, but they’ve got a long ways to go to get it open by June.
    (1/14/10) According to insiders, Spellbreaker 4D will also vanish in March along with Lego Racers 4D to make way for the new Clutch Powers film.
    (1/11/10) Legoland California made their big announcement on Friday afternoon about their 2010 expansion plans. For the main park, a new 4D Theater film called Clutch Powers in 4-D, will be added on March 19th to the Lego Show Place theater. Lego Racers 4-D will be closed to make way for Clutch Powers, but the theater will still also show the Bob The Builder and Spellbreaker 4D films as well throughout the day.
    The big news of the day however was the first peek at the world’s first Lego themed waterpark which will be built on a 5.5 acre site. The new waterpark will be ready to open in June, but the bad news is that it will be an upcharge area… guests will have to pay an extra $10 to enter the park, located between the Factory Tour and the Adventure’s Club attractions. The waterpark will feature a family raft slide, three single rider slides, a lazy river and various water play areas, including a large Lego water fortress. The waterpark will also feature unique soft giant lego bricks that not only float, but can be used to attach to custom inner tubes in the park. While this all sounds great, I got to admit I’m still very disappointed that they are going to charge extra for this very small waterpark experience when so many other parks across the country include their much larger waterpark areas for free with admission.
    According to the LA Times report on the expansion, Merlin Entertainment will build their new Lego themed waterpark as part of the new Legoland Malaysia park scheduled to open in 2012. If the waterparks prove to be a bit hit they hope to build more at the other parks in the UK, Denmark and Germany. If that wasn’t enough, Merlin may actually expand their Lego presence to include Lego themed waterparks at at other parks in the chain like Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington, Heide Park and Gardaland.
    (9/8/09) Legoland California has submitted plans to add a 5.5 acre water park area to the park’s northern most section according to the LA Times. While details were not available, the intention was to open it in time for Summer 2010, where it would likely charge a separate admission fee. Ummm… 5.5 acres seems a bit small to add a water park, let alone one worthy of charging a separate admission fee, especially in a market as well covered as Southern California is by other bigger water parks.
    (2/9/09) According to this article about the new head of Legoland California, they mention that while only a small new attraction will open in 2009, a much larger $10 million project is on the way for 2010 which will likely involve creating another new themed area.

2011/2012/2013 - Legoland Hotel - (10/29/09) The local news reports that Legoland California has won the support needed to build a 254 room Legoland Hotel. No date was set since they want to see signs that the economy is going to fully recover before they start to build it, and then the project will take about 18 months to complete. To be built in two phases, it will be located in the current RV parking lot near the ticket booths.
    (1/19/09) Legoland California is asking for permission to build a 250-room Lego themed hotel on the site of their RV Parking Lot. If all goes as planned, construction could take two to three years before the hotel would open and would be built in two phases, starting with only 175 rooms. The hotel will be entirely themed to Lego blocks, complete with Lego themed rooms and other features to extend the theme park experience beyond the gates.