My oldest daughter starts preschool in less than a week! I wanted to take the girls on one last summer fun trip before the school season begins, so I was thrilled to get tickets for my family to try out the LEGOLAND® Discovery Center in Atlanta.
The LEGOLAND® Discovery Center is in Phipps Plaza on the third floor of the mall across from AMC Theatre.
After you’ve gotten your tickets, you take a group tour through each stage of the creation process and learn how bricks are made in the LEGO® Factory.
Then you climb aboard your chariot and battle the trolls on the Kingdom Quest. It’s a short ride and a bit spooky for little ones but both of my girls thought it was fun. Each rider has their own laser gun and it keeps score with how many targets you hit. This was probably my favorite attraction. Of course, Daddy had the highest score!
After you exit the Kingdom Quest laser ride, you enter MINILAND®. Made from nearly 1.5 million LEGO® bricks, it’s a mini version of the Atlanta area buildings and parks.
Some of the mini buildings move or play music when you tap the buttons.
Every so often the lights change from daytime to nighttime and everything lights up.
Next you enter the main part of LEGOLAND with the rest of the attractions including:
- LEGO® 4D Cinema
- LEGO® Racers: Build & Test
- Merlin’s Apprentice Ride
- LEGO® Fire Academy
- LEGO® Construction Site
- LEGO® Master Builder Academy
- The LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Shop
- DUPLO® Village
- Earthquake Tables
- LEGO® Friends Olivia’s House
We spent a lot of time in DUPLO Village which is designed for kids under 5 years.
It has a small slide and DUPLO bricks which are soft and twice the size of standard LEGO bricks.
The girls helped daddy build a huge DUPLO brick house.
Then Natalie spotted Merlin’s Apprentice Ride…
You pedal to lift up off the ground and look out over the rest of LEGOLAND Discovery Center. Definitely a family favorite. We rode it twice.
Natalie attempted to sing karaoke at LEGO Friends Olivia’s House and found herself a LEGO mini-me.
I think the LEGO Racers- Build & Test area was my hubby’s favorite.
Natalie was deep in concentration perfecting her race car.
And Haley had fun racing the cars down the ramp and watching them explode (because I’m clearly not a very good race car builder).
We saved the LEGO® Fire Academy and Construction Site for last. It’s a huge jungle gym with obstacles, a swing, and climbing wall. Children must wear socks and people over 4.5ft tall aren’t allowed, including parents.
My girls had a great time! Before we even left the building, they were asking to come back!
Tips:
- Bring Socks – Children MUST have socks to go into the soft play area. If you forget (which we did), they sell them for $1.
- Go early in the morning or later in the evening. It was packed around 2pm but started to clear out by 5pm.
- Everything is included besides food from the Cafe and gifts from the LEGOLAND Discovery Center Shop.
- Register for the Birthday Club and enjoy a FREE child admission (under the age of 12) during their birthday month.
Tickets:
Book online for guaranteed priority entry to LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Atlanta! Select an arrival time slot. Once inside, you may stay as long as you like.
- $13.50 per person + tax
- Children under 2 years old visit for FREE
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Disclosure: I was provided complimentary tickets for my family to visit the attraction. As always, the thoughts and opinions expressed here are my own.
Legoland looks like heaven for kids. I know my girls would have the best time ever there.
everything looks so cute. I’l love to take my kids to legoland
What a fun place. It would be the perfect day for kids as there is so much for them to see and do and lots of hands on fun!
It looks like the Legoland discovery Center in Atlanta was a great last summer trip! We just went to the Dallas location and my kids had a blast. Legoland knows how to please kids for sure.
We took our daughter to Legoland in KC a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. It is pretty amazing some of the things they make from legos.
My 8 year old started a bucket list because he wants to visit LEGOLAND. Looks like a lot fun so I can see why he wants to go!
We love our Lego’s and have been really wanting to go to a LegoLand but the closest one is in Chicago and thats about 5-6hrs from us.
Never a dull moment at Legoland! I love the giant soft legos. Wish I could get them for my toddler!
The discovery center looks super fun! I had never heard of it until now, it looks great! I’m sure your girls had a blast!
We live in Atlanta. I am so thrilled to know that we have a Lego Land!
I would hate to step on one of those big legos!! lol
That looks like such a fun place.
It looks like you had a great time. My grandkids would love it there.
Oh lego land! My boys long to go. Maybe later this summer we will give it a try. In Toronto that is;)
LegoLand looks like a lot of fun. I really want to take the kids.
We LOVE Legoland. The kids stay entertained for hours!
We have a LEGOLAND Discovery Center in the Chicago area too. I found my son, at 3, to be a bit young for it, but we had fun anyway.
Looks like such a fun place to visit! Thanks for sharing your review.
Oh I can’t wait to take the boys there! Hoping we get to move to GA next year. Great pictures! Your daughters are precious!
Fab shots! Looks like such a cool place to visit! 🙂