Legoland Discovery Center

Last weekend on a whim, we decided to take the kids to Legoland Discovery Center in Westchester.  My kids love legos and recently just watched the movie.  Despite having read negative reviews about the place, we decided to go anyways and just lowered our expectations.  The kids absolutely loved it and we all had a great time there. 

posing with Lego

There was plenty to do for a half day trip.  We hit every attraction.  First we did a walk through of Miniland.

lego replica of NYC skyline & landmarks

The kids' both loved Merlin's Apprentice Ride but were afraid to get on Kingdom Quest, probably because it looked dark and they aren't such big fans of skeletons and trolls. 

Big L's favorite attraction was the Lego Racers where he built racers and tested them out on different ramps.  If we didn't pull him away to catch the 4D show, I'm sure he would have stayed there much longer.

where's hubby?

The kids took a class in the Master Builder Academy where they built a space shuttle.  They don't tell you until the end of the class that you have to pay $5 to keep what you built, otherwise you have to return it.  

Lil P's favorite attraction was the Lego Friends, where her favorite colors line everything from the walls to the legos themselves.  There's even a karaoke station that she was eager to try.  The song, "Let it Go" from the movie Frozen was not one of the songs on karaoke but I swear I kept hearing other kids belt out that song over and over again.

Baby T spent most of his time in Duplo Village which had large, soft building bricks and a slide.  Throughout Legoland there were these big padded bins full of legos where baby T also liked to sit.  I just had to keep an eye on him to make sure the legos didn't end up in his mouth!

The kids also got out a lot of energy in the Lego Fire Academy, a jungle gym play structure. 

One negative thing is that you cannot bring in your own food.  And even though there are a bunch of restaurants nearby, once you leave Legoland you cannot come back in which limits you to eat at their cafe if you want to stay a long time.  The other negative thing is that you have to walk through their gift shop to exit.  So suffice it to say, we left with 2 more lego sets that day. 

All in all, it was a great day trip though not one that we would do again in the immediate future.