Legoland Discovery Centre

Awful, poor attraction for kids and adults alike. Far too many people allowed in and very little to do for the kids. There seems to be no airconditioning which helps to increase the levels of «not worth bothering with». Had high hopes after visiting legoland Windsor and seeing the info on the website. Sadly l, didn’t live up to expectations.

This was very disappointing. We cued up to buy our tickets and then we had to go away and come back half hour later to cue up again for entrance.
Inside they only have 3 rides, a karaōke area, a play centre and a 4D movie.
It is just a expensive play centre.

If I’m lucky enough to live to be 90 and still have great manual dexterity, I will play with Lego. After spending over three happy hours in that multi-​coloured mecca of construction toys, I’ll be getting my own boxes of it out of the loft.
I’d advise to book your tickets online as it’s cheaper than walk-​ins (you save up to 40% this way).
After paying at the entrance you first take your turn posing in front of a green screen — for the ubiquitous horrendously expensive photo to ‘commemorate’ your day. If you’re sane, just enjoy seeing the mock ups and then walk on by. Or pay close to a tenner for it, your call.
You catch a lift up to the upper floor, where you wait for ‘Professor Brick’ to arrive and take you on a brief, though amusing, tour of his Lego factory. Once that’s finished you can jump on the Kingdom Quest Laser Ride and shoot at some baddies, scoring points along the way.
Miniland is a superb showcase of local buildings and tourist attractions — from Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, all built out of Lego — that was a highlight for me.
The main play hall is packed full of activities for young and ‘young at heart’, with a 4D cinema showing a film every 10 minutes, Lego City: Forest Pursuit and Merlin’s Apprentice rides and a Build & Test centre for you to make and race your own vehicles.
On the far end of the room are the Earthquake Tables where you can test your architectural skills, building towers and then pushing a button to see if they can withstand some serious shaking.
There’s a café and lots of seating here, for weary parents and guardians to order a well earned drink (non-​alcoholic only, unfortunately) and snacks for their pestering broods.
If you can drag your kids away from this area, there’s just the Ninjago Laser Training Camp to get past before you descend in the lift… to ‘the Shop’.
Firstly it’s not a shop. It’s a floor-​to-​ceiling holy temple of plastic amazingness. If only I could afford the £275 Lego Star Wars Death Star…
Consider this a warning, you will be hounded to insanity by your young’uns in here — I don’t think I saw one adult make it out without a detour to the tills.
Expense aside, I thought this place was amazing. The possibilities for creativity are endless, so bring your kids here and you’ll likely have as much fun as they do.

Brilliant day out! Children and teenager enjoyed visit and stayed there for six hours. Lots to do inside, café had good food and drinks, would definitely recommend to families with children under 14. All the other people that left reviews must have not gone recently as it was nothing like what they said. Queue was same for booked online and regular entry.

My 9 year old son loves Lego so this was a trip to heaven for him!
But theres enough to keep non Lego fans happy too. But funnily enough the kid comes out in all of us and you just join in the play.
Kareoke was good, the 4D cinema too. Not quite Windsor but it sure did the trick.
Buy online in advance for 4pm tickets is half price!!!

Wow, how to start a review for a place so bad.
To start I love Lego, and have done since I was a kid. I’ve always wanted that to build that £999 Death Star (it’s on my bucket list).
My little 2 year old isn’t into as Lego as much but she does build stuff with those Jumbo Bricks.
I don’t think neither of us were impressed.
The website & paper map given to you makes this place out to be huge… it’s not. You start the trip with a visit from the professor, who’s machine is not working.
The kids are then asked to help by pressing buttons turning knobs and jumping up and down & shouting. Afterwards when the machine is up and running all the kids get a «personalised» Lego Brick (basically a Lego brick with LegoLand Discovery Centre printed on it).
Then your taken to ride where you move on rails and have to shoot stuff.
Your then in the factory.
On paper this may sound good… but it’s not.
The factory is made up of Lego stations, each with a specific theme. X2 rides which last all of 1min and a play centre.
There is also a café.
The Café is expensive and has little choice.
It’s tried way to much to be healthy.
I would eat out before coming here.
I was going to give it 1star but our last journey was to the 4D cinema were we watched a 10 min film which was not only was 3D but also had effects like snow, wind, rain giving the 4D’ness of it which has inclined me to give it an extra star.
I don’t think I would go here again as my child will be 3 next month and will have to pay to get in.
And the adults have to pay as well.
£10 if booked online £12 if not !!!

avoid this place at all costs and boy does it cost. my kids were 9 and 10 when we visited a few months ago. they were bored within ½ hour and the wee ones seriously into lego.
the place was full with others who had been hit in the wallet so trying to get your hands on anything was impossible.
this place trades on the name of the large lego lands around the country but the place is probably the size of a large gym hall. avoid at all costs

I don’t understand the point of this place. Tiny, seriously TINY and over-​priced to the point of insanity.

Overpriced, £40+ for family of four, had advance booked tickets, still had to queue for 20 mins

visited with our lego mad 6 year old, if you have a lego mad child like us then this is the bees knees, thoroughly enjoyed it and just would have liked more ! We also visited the trafford centre which it is in too which is very impressive.

£27.00 a ticket :0 that’s all I have to say!

Great for kids but it should be better, there is not much to do, and it is very small for the size of what Lego represents in the world. To begin with, some of the staff looked a bit disorganized and not very friendly and it seems that the people with a «year pass» can skip the queues and be treated firstly while the others were there waiting even before they opened the doors. So why not have a separate entry for that kind of people and not let see the others that they have been skipped and create a bad atmosphere before you even get into the place.
The place is very small, it doesn’t have many things to do for the price you get charged. Lego is a multinational business and this place makes them look very bad.
For the kids is an insult to try to fool them with big buckets of scrambled pieces of Lego, a 10 minutes 4d cinema, a small train which takes rides every 3 minutes, few displays of Lego pieces and a small cage with few ladders and one slide. So up you go kids… enjoy yourselves!!!
For us the parents, the only satisfaction is to see the kids happy not to try to struggle with what they get there because is just the name Lego who attracts them, it will be probably better if they just make it bigger and better, I’m not trying just to say bad things about the place, Lego will be Lego, I feel part of that team so I want that team to be better. How many times do you buy their products a year? Maybe you love Lego but does Lego love you?

Visited hear with my 4 year old son and parents. Decided not to book in advance as we had some «buy one get one free» vouchers from Tesco Clubcard. This certainly saved money but meant we had to queue longer than those people who had pre-​paid (and only received a 15% discount on the advertised price). Certainly the cheaper option but there is a risk you won’t get in if the place fulls up as you are not the priority so be warned.
I have mixed feelings about this attraction. First the positives:
My son loved playing with the Lego which is everywhere — especially enjoyed the tower/​earthquake testing and car building/​racing. The Kingdom Quest shoot em up/​chariot ride was good (for us older kids) as was the 4-​D movie. We did not get to take part in the Master Builder session but it looked good. The huge «pools» of Lego to play with were a hit but a bit too full on in my opinion.
Now for the negatives:
Considering it only opened in March 2010 it looks very dated and there are lots of bits missing from the displays. The car building was chaos as was the general feeling about the whole place. I think they let too many people in and it simply reminded me of a kids soft play area with Lego thrown in — same level of noise too. I expected more especially for the price paid and the Lego brand. The Café did not have enough seating and was overpriced (£2.50 for a white bread cheese sandwich — c’mon) — nothing really aimed at kids which was a real surprise given this is a kids attraction. I thought there were not enough staff on hand who could have helped with other ideas for building things from Lego. The Fire Academy was a small soft play gym was unsupervised meaning there were far too many bigs kids knocking over the younger ones (lots of tears).
Overall, I expected more from this place and felt they could have used their many models sold in the obligatory shop to provide large displays of what Lego has to offer. Would not return in a hurry.

Even when I was a child I never quite «got» Lego. Maybe it was a girl thing, we had Barbie and Tiny Tears, boys had Scalextric and Lego. Why oh why then twenty something years later was I excited to be in the Legoland Discovery Centre? This is the latest addition in the «home bit» of the gargantuan Trafford Centre and I dropped into this make believe world of tiny coloured bricks to check out their party packages. Kids can be so competitive, parties at home with pass the parcel don’t quite cut it any more.
This new arrival opened in March 2010 and was inspired by its originator, the theme park, Legoland Windsor. Claire the assistant reliably informed me that there are over 2 million Lego bricks (who counted?) in the interactive centre. It is divided into different sections: Miniland which is a miniature recreation of famous landmarks in Northern cities, The Princess Palace of pink turrets, the Model Builder’s Workshop in which children are given lessons in Lego techniques by a «master” — very Obi Wan Kenobi. There is also a 4D cinema, a soft play area and a Duplo village for the toddlers. Maybe times have changed as this artificial world was over-​run with girls and everyone seemed to be having fun. Still not quite my scene but I guess they did not have me in mind when they made it. Nice café though so perhaps they did.