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LLCA: Fifth Year With Five New Rides and Attractions
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Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:07:06 GMT
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From the LLCA website:
We're Celebrating Our Fifth Year With Five New Rides and Attractions
Beginning February 14th, 2004
In the classic LEGOLAND style of blending education and entertainment, the new
attractions will combine history, classic art, archeology and geography with
interactive fun geared towards youngsters ages two through 12.
Van Gogh’s Sun Flowers, NASCAR, George Washington, dinosaurs and the Kennedy
Space Center will be just some of the new things on the block next year at
LEGOLAND. We strive to continuously raise the bar for family entertainment by
offering more attractions, more interactivity and all at an incredible value to
our guests.
The first phase of the expansion will be unveiled during President’s Day Weekend
February 14-16th, 2004. Starting at the bottom of the hill by the Model Shop in
the Miniland area, the Block of Fame will transform a winding, tree-lined walk
way into a fun and educational 3-dimensional gallery. A collection of busts on
pedestals will flank the path leading up to a scenic lookout point, with George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Shakespeare, Beethoven and Marilyn Monroe, along
with many other luminaries through the centuries, depicted in LEGO bricks. The
new attraction will put you literally face-to-face with historical and popular
personalities who figure prominently in American culture.
At the lookout point, The Art of LEGO attraction will be a whimsical and
fascinating LEGO version of world-renown art. Rodan’s The Thinker sculpture, Van
Gogh’s Sun Flowers and Grant Wood’s American Gothic are among the classic
selections which will be recreated in regulation LEGO bricks.
To mark the opening of the attraction, over President’s Day Weekend you will be
able to help build the world’s largest LEGO brick tower for entry in the
Guinness Book of World Records. The existing record of 89.3 feet, with 500,000
LEGO bricks, was established this past June at LEGOLAND Billund in Denmark.
Just in time for Spring Break, Dino Island thunders into existence at LEGOLAND
April 1st with a brand new junior coaster, interactive photo opportunities and a
chance to dig for buried “fossils.” Under construction in the Village Green area
of the park across the walkway from Safari Trek, Dino Island has as its
centerpiece the “Coastersaurus” roller coaster. Nestled in a naturalistic
setting of prehistoric-looking ferns and bamboo, the coaster will reach speeds
of 18 m.p.h. as it climbs, curves and dips in and around a Jurassic jumble of
animated and life-sized LEGO brick dinosaurs.
A brachiosaurus peers at guests from its vantage point in a “bog,” while a
parasolophus and triceratops guard their young and forage for food in the lush
landscape. A winding path will take brave explorers from one hands-on adventure
to the next.
Besides encountering the “living” life-sized and scale model dinosaurs, young
guests will get to test their archeological skills at the Dino Island Dig Those
Dinos. Claws, teeth and bones – the “skeletal remains” of two dinosaurs, are
buried in a sandy dig site, waiting to be unearthed by the junior excavators.
Guests will turn in their finds to receive a prize.
Memorial Day sparks new family fun with The Fun Town Fire Academy. Families
compete by piling into a “fire truck” and powering it, by pumping levers, across
a paved straightaway. When they reach their destination, they leap out of the
truck, pick up a fire hose, and pump another lever to send water surging through
the hose and towards the target – a “burning” building. When the stream of water
hits the mark, the family piles into the truck and powers it across the
straightaway again, back to the starting point. Each race will be timed, and up
to five fire trucks can compete in any single contest. The elaborate “action
stage” has two separate sets, allowing a total of 10 trucks to be engaged at a
time. The hilarious workout will test a family’s fitness, fastness and funny
bone. The attraction will expand on the fire-safety awareness generated by the
popular “The Big Test” interactive song and dance show, which has been performed
in the open-air arena in Fun Town since the park opened.
To mark Father’s Day, Dads will get to drive in a Daytona Beach NASCAR race –
LEGOLAND style. Miniland Florida, complete with the famous racetrack, debuts
June 18th in the Miniland section of the park. Miniland depicts geographical
regions of the country created with 20 million LEGO bricks in astonishingly
accurate detail. The new section is being created adjacent to the New England
region, which is also being renovated. When it’s complete, the new attraction
will include a diminutive Cape Canaveral and Miami Beach along with the Daytona
Beach racetrack, where guests will actually be able to remotely race LEGO brick
cars.
For the second year in a row, LEGOLAND was named one of the best theme parks in
the world by Forbes.com. LEGOLAND was honored for innovative and interactive
rides and its wide range of shows and attractions for the whole family, making
it a new family tradition kids of all ages want to experience again and again.
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