Legoland Florida confirmed
Parents who brushed off requests for Legoland visits because it was like, in Europe or something are going to have one less excuse when Legoland Florida opens sometime next year.
The site of aging Cypress Gardens near Winter Haven, Florida has been confirmed as the fifth Legoland location- there are Legolands in England, Germany, Denmark and Carlsbad, California. The site has been Cypress Gardens since 1936, but the park has fallen on hard times in recent years and closed indefinitely in 2009.
The first 100,000 of an estimated 40 million Lego bricks arrived on site today. The CEO of Merlin Entertainments, the company that bought the site for an undisclosed sum thought to be around $22m, expressed excitement about the new Legoland:
“When I first set foot in Cypress Gardens, for the first time, I could not begin to tell you the hairs on the back of my neck stood up,” said Nick Varney, CEO Merlin Entertainments.
Everyone present at today’s ceremony received a Lego orange, which will later break into pieces only to appear underfoot in the dark at 3am. Admission prices are expected to be in line with those of Disneyworld and Sea World, and the new park will create around 1,000 jobs in the area.
