How to Visit LEGOLAND California

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If you love playing with legos and are planning to visit San Diego, CA, take a day trip to the LEGOLAND Theme park. This article will explain how you can visit it. Follow along from Step 1 below to learn these details.

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Preparation

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Purchase your "LEGOLAND California" tickets. You can do so online or over the phone before visiting the park, particularly if you are visiting from outside the US. This will save you time when you arrive at the park - you won't have to wait in any queues at the ticket offices!
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Preview the attractions in the park before your visit. Try previewing each attraction or show on YouTube, or take a peek at the ride-through photos from others. Learn from what others see. This can help decide which rides and attractions will take priority during your visit.
- Recognize that there are few other real theme park options in Carlsbad, CA (near San Diego, CA) except SeaWorld of San Diego. If you are willing to drive for about an hour or so, a wealth of other choices exist in the nearby Los Angeles and Anaheim, CA area.
- Recognize the sections of the park that exist here. When you first walk through the gates, you'll enter into several different areas called "The Beginning" and "Explorer Island , DUPLO Village , Fun Town , Pirate Shores , Castle Hill , Land of Adventure , Imagination Zone , and all area a land called Miniland USA .
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The address to this park is located at 1 LEGOLAND Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008. ^{[1]
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The Beginning

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Get to know this area. This area is the primary shopping and guest services area for the park.
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Become friends with the unnamed Legoland monster. This fire engine red and nine-foot-tall dinosaur is completely made of Lego blocks at the front of the park. If you can make up his name for your own records as you get there.

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Explorer Island

Coastersaurus is a roller-coaster, but it is short. The ride operators will send their guests around this out-and-back coaster track twice before returning to the station.
Much like a few digging areas of some of the Disney parks, this digging pit will allow your child to dig for dinosaur bones in the sandpit.

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DUPLO Village

Much like what DUPLO is meant to be for, this DUPLO-based area is designed to work in the age factors younger than age four.
At this attraction, you'll see many fairy tales you might have told your kids on this whimsical ride. This whimsical ride is fairly slow and is easy to explain to your kids as they ride around in this slow-moving boat.
This super-slow moving train will bring your children on a ride that will make them think they've taken a real train ride through the countryside - only to find out that the residents of this countryside are DUPLO block residents who don't particularly move a lot.
This Jeep safari will have your kids laughing at the cute bricked animals made completely of Lego/DUPLO blocks.
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Experience the real movie set at The Lego Movie Experience. Look at the fine craftsmanship of the area to see just what detail goes into making the famed Lego Movie on such a small size. With the magnifying glasses, you can see anything too small to see all of the finer points.
With all the water games happening here, it'll be hard to steer your children away from all this fun.

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Fun Town

"Find" the keys to the secrets to the ancient lands of Egypt and the Arctic, but you'll need to do so to complete this attraction
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Earn a Legoland Driver's license at the Driving School. Much like that of the Autopia at Disneyland nearby or Tomorrowland Speedway at Walt Disney World, this will have you and your kids driving these LEGOLAND cars around like a pro.
- If your kids aren't up to driving cars yet, walk up to the Junior Driving School instead. There, they don't even have to worry about driving and can be left up to sit in the car and watch it move around a circular track by themselves, looking at all the other LEGO stuff nearby.
Being similar to the Dumbo ride at Disneyland but styled to portray an airplane, this will have you and your kids exploring the rest of the park's outside attractions enjoyably for a few minutes.
Although a minimum height is set, this fun attraction can be ridden by many and can be fun to teach your children what happens during a freefall event. These colorful ride towers are attractive to many kids and can easily make most children's eyes spot them quickly.
Nearby, stock up on some missing LEGO parts arranged by color and type.
Help pump levers to help put out fake fires and help stop bad guys with water guns that can shoot far distances.
See what your children can spot in these interesting LEGO creations. However, arrive early (at rope drop time) to this attraction, or come later when lines have significantly cooled down.
View it from above on a whimsical metal-railed LEGO creative transport vehicle, This motorized vehicle is much similar to PeopleMover in Walt Disney World. However, due to this vehicle's transportation being by foot power (and by the same method as a bicycle), guests should be in shape enough and have some knowledge of bicycle riding to ride this attraction.
To get an idea of what it takes for this ride, watch it once or twice. As the helicopter spins around in a circle, you can change its direction via the steering wheel in front of you. However, these helicopters move around super-slowly that this really isn't a great place to go if you are psyched for faster-action items to try.

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Pirate Shores

Most of these attractions in this area/land are only open during a certain season since most of this area is devoted to water attractions that squirt water and sometimes soak the visitor.
This attraction swings in circles and back and forth at a medium cyclic speed. This attraction is open all year long.
Treasure Falls is a dull log flume ride. Not only is the attraction outside the entire time but the drops aren't that high or powerful. This attraction is the only other ride in this Pirate Shores open year-round.
All of these attractions feature water-attractions. And if that's not enough, they even have a piece that can come pouring down on you at all times of the year. The bad thing is: it's a seasonal attraction.
Pirate Reef is a seasonal attraction. This ride has larger drops and even has a bridge near the drop-zone when people pass under it. This ride is more popular than Treasure Falls in terms of intensity, but even those LEGO enthusiasts will love it's LEGO creations near the track's border.
Shoot water from the cannons at the innocent bystanders or the other ride boats who decide to shoot water back at you at the slow water ride. Take a look at some of the LEGO creations near this attraction. This attraction is a seasonal attraction.
This is a seasonal attraction.

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Castle Hill

The Lego Garden hosts what LEGO creations have been made.
With all the catwalks and rope ladders, play areas, and what, there's no telling when the kids will want to stop. This attraction has one area where there are many larger-than-life LEGO blocks that your kids can play with. However, with all the energy-busting of this attraction, keep an eye on your kids when they tend to lose strength and break free from becoming cranky for the remainder of the day. Don't over psych your kids on this attraction. Otherwise, you may lag behind the rest of the day.
This robotic arm will spin you around, upside down, and close to inside out (with safety barriers in place). And with a selection of intensities to choose from, there's no telling how wild your particular ride can be until you choose one of the predetermined levels.
This attraction can be amusing to the parents but is especially meant for the children.
This part roller coaster, part LEGO looking attraction will leave you baffled before you even realize it's over. Although this ride features several corkscrew-turns at a moderate intensity level, it doesn't get much beyond that. However, out of the starting gate, this attraction doesn't accelerate much to show you all the LEGO items constructed to show you.

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Land of Adventure

Though not wild in the least, this attraction will leave your kids jumpy for a few minutes and want to make them become more like the beetle that all kids think they are. This ride raises them about 15 feet in the air, then bounces them back to earth rather gently.
This classic, whip-style amusement park attraction rides on a suspended fixed track so that you and your kids can soar round and round for a few minutes and make your children think they've taken flight in the airplane-themed ride vehicle, which will raise them no higher than 6 feet above the ground.
Although featured to be a LEGO-styled wave slide, it is just that: a slide. It might have a few pairs of double-helix corkscrews, but it won't rock your roller-coaster mind when you get up to the top and later end up at the bottom there for many enthusiasts.
This Lego-themed medieval Egyptian castle is not fast and most people find it rather interesting to see all the LEGO creations here. Each room tells its own story, so explore each room as the ride unfurls.
Styled much like Hideaways (as you learned about earlier), this area will keep your kids thrilled that they've enticed some Pharaohs. The only LEGO creations you'll see are in the queue for the attraction on the outside.

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Imagination Zone

Ride a power ski around a small moat as you dodge water blasts from water blasters positioned on the outside of the moat looking in. Be careful, though, as you'll be standing on the wave runner the entire time.
Shaped like BIONICLE creations, these ride vehicles will keep your mind spinning for several minutes after the ride actually stops.
Careful though, as this attraction isn't open long to suit school hours nearby. It is open from 10 am till 2 pm Pacific Time.
Here you'll find many DUPLO blocks where your young kids can play.
For many, you'll need to make special reservations at the building inside the Imagination Zone area. Again, this attraction also tries to suit school hours nearby (10 am till 2 pm Pacific Time).
The Lego Technic Coaster is a full-blown roller coaster themed as being in the LEGO Technic building style, though this attraction is full metal-on-metal!
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Play in the Xbox WB Games Family GameSpace center with the family.

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Miniland USA

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Find Miniland USA. It is located around the lake near the front of the park. If you were looking at your map, it would be on your right-hand side, near the bridge that crosses from Fun Town/DUPLO Village.
- Recognize that this section is the one section that makes LEGOLAND parks so famous to anyone and everyone who visits. It is this famous, thanks to the creations that are created here...they are so notable and all.
- Look at all the minute details of each LEGO block item that has been constructed. Each item has so much detail - and it was all made to be so...realistic.
This section houses not only George Washington but other famous people as well.
This section is near the lake section of the park.
Here you'll experience some Lego-inspired New England harbors and lighthouses.
In this area, you'll see the famous New Orleans Riverboat and French-reconstruction-styled New Orleans house in the New Orleans section of Miniland.
Here you'll find lego creations of the Empire State Building, Freedom Tower, or many of the other skyrises of New York City, the New York section should have it all.
You'll get to see the Golden Gate Bridge in LEGOs, along with other things that make San Francisco stand out from all the other cities in the country.
Southern California's finest pieces in the Southern California section of Miniland. Whether it's the Griffith Park Observatory or Graumann's Chinese Theater, the intricate details are intense and make this section stand out.
The designers even tried to portray the election outcomes of each of the last few presidents we've had since the park opened in 1999. The Washington DC section houses such sights as the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol, and Washington Monument.
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Water, Water everywhere - Water Parks

Sometimes classics are great, and this classic is no different than the mainstream phrase.
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Look for LEGOLAND's newest waterpark in LEGOLAND California: LEGOLAND CHIMA Water Park. Having opened in July 2014 ^{[2]
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LEGOLAND first opened on March 20, 1999. ^{[3]
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When 4 to 8-year-old kids get antsy in the Magic Kingdom and it seems like your day is lagging behind, give these kids some options. Let your kids explore and run out all their excitement in the kid-friendly sections of this park. This may sometimes not be enough. If you haul around a double-seat stroller and warnings don't work, give them time in the stroller. They will thank you for helping them "take a load off their feet." These youngsters tend to draw energy out more quickly and become cranky quicker.

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Food and beverage options are available throughout the park. Between some food stands at certain areas of the park to the standalone ice-cream stands throughout the park, you'll never run out of food options.

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Everybody's tastes are different. Some rides you can skip if you don't have time or if the kids act up. In contrast, some are too churlish for some even to try to ride. Skip those rides that aren't suited to your or your kids' tastes.

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Be prepared if a sudden rainstorm impacts the area. Rain is common, and your best bet is to run/walk into the nearest attraction and seek shelter. The rain should end shortly thereafter (in most cases).

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On those attractions that have rides, don't worry if your ride vehicle stalls with you on it. If the time is worse than a few minutes, someone will be around to collect you and your belongings.

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Always ride the ride with safety in mind. Use all safety devices the ride operator instills on you and your family.

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Rides occasionally close and change at Legoland. Don't fear if your favorite ride has changed or has become defunct. Something will be there to replace it over time. Their replacements might be just as good as the ride you once loved.

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Take extreme caution if and when you start to hear any rumbles of thunder.

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Unlike the Disney Parks, LEGOLAND doesn't house any parades or firework spectacular shows - unless you are coming during the Christmas/holiday season. However, they do house other holiday events such as Halloween extravaganzas that kids would enjoy, but few activities that parents could enjoy by themselves.

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How to Visit LEGOLAND California

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Preparation

The Beginning

Explorer Island

DUPLO Village

Fun Town

Pirate Shores

Castle Hill

Land of Adventure

Imagination Zone

Miniland USA

Water, Water everywhere - Water Parks

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