Legoland

Not really worth it. If you have a young child, perhaps 8 years or younger, it might be worth visiting, but it’s expensive for what you get. My 10 year old was only mildly interested, since he is still into Bionicles, but my 12 year old was bored silly, and frankly, so was I. The rides are unoriginal, slow, and dull. Not much entertainment, either. The cities made out of Legos were somewhat interesting, if you’re in the right mood.

One tip, though – older kids (maybe 9-15) will love the Lego Mindstorm classes, where they teach you how to program the Mindstorm robots to do specific tasks. Sign up for a class right away when you get there, in case the classes fill up.

I’ve fallen behind in 43places: we went to Legoland in February of this year (2007) and I forgot to mark it as “visited.”

We had a great time: parents and children. As a parent the food services impressed me the most. The food quality was significantly higher & healthier than Disneyland and there were many more tables for eating at. There were many more rides appropriate for my easily-spooked 6-year old twins, and I was pleasantly surprised by how attracted they were to Miniland. We spent a lot of time in Miniland as colossal tourists! ;-)

Pirate Shores has two new rides (ok, Captain Cranky’s is new, Treasure Falls has been there for a while, but is now finally working!). They’re both great fun for the kids and worth checking out!

Pirate Shores is a WETZONE – lots of fun (and hard to resist) water-based activities and rides – make sure to bring along a bathing suit and towel so that the kids can really enjoy.

Really, Legoland was amazing, even though my brother and I are well into our teens. We went to the one in Denmark one summer when we were visiting our grandparents in Sweden, and, really, it’s truly incredible. I love how the girl Lego people actually have breasts… and the guys have five o’clock shadow!

man. i really want to go here.