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Category: LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Chicago

  • 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…

  • What is Legoland Discovery Center Chicago?

    What is Legoland Discovery Center Chicago?

    In addition to operating a chain of full-blown LEGOLAND® theme parks around the world, the British company Merlin Entertainments owns and operates twenty-seven LEGOLAND® Discovery Centers, each one a sort of indoor theme park.  [Due to the fact that Merlin is a British company, outside the U.S.A. both The LEGO® Group and Merlin Entertainments use…

  • Where Did the Brickmania Chicago Store Move?

    Where Did the Brickmania Chicago Store Move?

    Not so long ago, Schaumburg, Illinois was a sort of mecca for Lego® fans because they could visit the LEGO® Store, a Brickmania® Chicago store, and the museum Blocks to Bricks in Woodfield Mall, and the LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Chicago across the street at the Streets of Woodfield mall.  Also, Brickworld® holds the annual Brickworld…