Legoland - Carlsbad, CA

Legoland opened 20 years ago and I’ve never been.  Among our guests this year is son Michael and family.  Including grandson Jm who is a Lego-holic! for Christmas this year he wanted to visit Legoland.  So the three of us guys were off on a Lego adventure.

Michael was on the hook for $25 parking and the entrance tickets, and he also paid for my entrance.  THANK-YOU!  It’s not cheap, Disneyland actually costs less.

There are some fun and even amazing sections to the park.  Scattered along the paved pathways are fun Lego creatures.

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Lego is known for rides but they are geared toward the younger kids, and those under 42” often need to be accompanied by an 18+ adult that is over 48”.  Pretty funny restriction.

We didn’t do much with the rides.  After waiting for the Coastersaurus, a little roller coaster, the set of coaster cars a couple ahead of our turn to load stalled!

There can be a long wait for the rides, to catch as many as possible a ‘VIP Pass’ would be required, which has its own line.  The ‘Reserve-N-Ride’ app also helps, by virtually reserving a spot in the long line using a smart phone app and receiving a message when it’s time to board the ride.

The ‘Star Wars’ area was amazing.  Each of Episodes I – VI had their own display.  To top it off Jm knew many of the characters, locations, starships and story lines.  Worth the price of admission.

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Miniland includes many US cities, and a display depicting the ‘SoCal’ life.  

Wine country

San Francisco

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SoCal camping

New Orleans

Washing DC

This was my favorite section of the park.  Everything is made out of Legos with informative signs of the time taken and Legos used.  Las Vegas, New York and the mansions of Ferndale are also represented in Legos.

While here we took the Coast Cruise ride to see the displays from the seaside.

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Jm and dad looking over the map to be sure nothing is skipped.

Personally I felt the park was a bit below Jm’s attention span, although he could have spent all day at the Star Wars exhibit.

We took the Coast Highway back home, where we discovered Encinitas has a Handel’s Ice Cream.  Best ever! and made fresh at each of their locations.  Voted 'Best Ice Cream' 6 years in a row.