The world’s largest Legoland
If my 9-year-old and his pals were slightly younger, I’d say they just enjoyed an awesome play date, said Paul Abercrombie in The Washington Post. Though the kids had recently stopped building with Legos, they were “in Lego heaven” the moment we entered the new Legoland Florida—the second Legoland in the U.S. and the largest anywhere. My son deemed the first ride we took, the Dragon roller coaster, “kind of tame.” But the Boating School ride proved to be fun once we realized that we could “treat the boats like aquatic bumper cars,” and the Coastersaurus, a wooden coaster, earned “universal approval.” The 150-acre park also features a real rarity: “sculptures kids willingly pose with for photos,” including a 20-foot-tall, all-Lego head of Albert Einstein. My gang’s consensus was that the park is “probably better for kids 8 and younger.” Yet at closing time, those same voters “only reluctantly” agreed to leave.
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