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Category: LEGO® Discovery Centres

  • The History of LEGOLAND® Discovery Centres

    The History of LEGOLAND® Discovery Centres

    A LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre is an indoor attraction, a sort of miniature theme park that is organized vertically with various rides, activities, a 4D cinema, and a café spread out over several floors and a large gift shop in the lobby.  Merlin Entertainments owns and/or manages all of the LEGOLAND® theme parks and LEGOLAND® Discovery…

  • Plans Announced for LEGO® Discovery Center Washington, D.C.

    Plans Announced for LEGO® Discovery Center Washington, D.C.

    In February of 2022, Merlin Entertainments and Philadelphia-based PREIT, a real estate development trust, announced that LEGO® Discovery Center Washington, D.C. would open in 2023 inside the shopping mall Springfield Town Center in Springfield, Virginia.[1]  [Springfield is in Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the most affluent counties in America.]  You read that correctly, this will…

  • LEGO® Discovery Centre Brussels, the First of Its Name

    LEGO® Discovery Centre Brussels, the First of Its Name

    On February 4, A.D. 2021, Merlin Entertainments announced that the twenty-eighth LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre would open in the Belgian capital city of Brussels in the summer of 2022.  [Merlin is the company that owns and/or manages all of the LEGOLAND® theme parks and LEGOLAND® Discovery Centers around the world on behalf of the Kristiansen family…