LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Toronto — Attraction in Vaughan

My kids really enjoyed it! My tween enjoyed the rides, the CD movie, and the Lego fun house. My younger one that adores Lego loved building her Lego car and using the Lego station with a camera and a video to take pictures of her Lego creations. Both of my kids enjoyed the Duplo section that vibrates structures to test how strong they are. Creative idea!

Parents: Almost all parents seem unhappy here. It is a place for kids with very little seating for adults. You have to wait 15-30 minutes for Merlin's Apprentice ride and Legendary Quest ride. Each ride is 2 min in length. I would strongly suggest two parents come so one can stand in the line up's so kids can have time to play with the Lego with another parent to help them. I waited in a 24 minute lineup for the 3D movie to get a good seat. If you don't wait long enough, you won't get in until the next showing time. There is a slight bit of water sprayed on you during the movie.

Food: I just bought drinks and fruit this time from Legoland's café because I learned my lesson from the last time (2-3 years ago). Their food was awful then. I can't remember everything we purchased, but I remember the tasteless wraps with almost nothing in them - mostly just the wrap. I would give it back then only one star for quality and taste. It is still first come first serve; their food gets quickly depleted. One highlight is they had one exceptionally friendly employee named Simon working at their café (Jan. 4, 2020). I made sure to check his name tag to give him a shout out.

Rides: Each are 2 minutes in length for a 15-30 minute wait. Merlin's Apprentice is a peddling ride. You fly up as you peddle harder. Legendary Quest is a ride that you travel through various Lego movie scenes and shoot at the bad guys with a lazer gun to save the princess. You can pay extra for a photo of yourself after the ride.

Building Lego: You can build Lego and race on two very different tracks. You can compete with others if you wish.

Camera Lego Station: Great idea! My child loved sitting here and building her structure while taking pictures of it. I think they could improve this by having an employee stationed here to help show kids how this works and also to help them make their own stop motion Lego movie of their own creations. They need more cameras as well. Lots of potential in this station if it was done slightly better.

Creative Works craft room: They had an instructional room to build a planned Lego activity with an instructor, it looked like.

Lego Play Houses: Great idea and lots of fun for the kids to run through!

Scenes: They have an entire Lego City built to look at it. They also have life size Lego Friends characters, a Christmas tree, a Lego Friends car, etc.

Educational Room: They had a room that explains how the Lego company makes their bricks. It is interactive as well. They have no employees there explaining how it works though to make it more interesting for the kids.

Duplo Building Station: Excellent idea! Kids build a Duplo building, and then press buttons that vibrate their creation to see if it collapses. You can teach kids how to build stronger structures using this. 👍 Kids love it too!

3D movie: Plan on a 15-25 minute wait for the movie. During the movie, water is sprayed on you and fans blow. Great experience!

Store: I loved the build your own characters to purchase and take home. They had separate bins for heads, hair, torsos, legs, and accessories. Fabulous idea! My kids were thrilled! Unfortunately, staff don't maintain this station so all of the pieces are mixed together instead of properly sorted.

Time: We were there for 3 hours, and we didn't get to everything (that doesn't include time in their store). However, I was tired from all of the standing in lineups, so we left. Plan for 4 hours in Legoland plus 30 minutes to 1 hour in their store because your kids might want to build their own character.

Has birthday rooms.

Free mall parking.

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My husband, our little girl and I had a splendid time here. Sure, like most hands-on children's museums, a few displays were in want of a little maintenance, but the customer service and the quality of the experience made such a difference, this was a highlight of our vacation.

There is a splendid interactive darkride here, Knight's Quest, which we found to be in better shape and more fun than Boo Blasters on Boo Hill at either Canada's Wonderland or Carowinds, Kings Dominion or Kings Island in the United States. (Dark rides are a special interest for our nine-year-old. She has a rating system for them and Lego Discovery Center's has the best score of any interactive still in existence.) The little Wizard's Apprentice ride went down while we were there, but that was okay. There were lots of other playground-style sections, some lovely miniatures to examine, tables to sit and build, and even a little cafe with bar-style chairs facing the play area where parents could have a cuppa, watch their older kids and catch a breath. The 4-D movies were delightful and refreshing in several senses, too.

But the best part of the experience came at the end. It had been a long day, we'd gotten a little turned around with the maps, and our little girl had a loose tooth that stung badly enough for us to visit Shopper's (which we only knew was a drugstore because 'Come From Away' mentions it,) for some peppermints. The Lego Discovery Centre had been so wonderful, and the day was ending. As children do, she was doing that little panic that kids will sometimes have when a grand experience is ending, and her father and I were really hoping to get out before the place closed and not be Those Americans. A hero appeared, and the excellent Nicholas, according to his nametag, helped our little girl by explaining that while the exact type of Lego set she wanted wasn't in the store that day, there was a website where it could be ordered online. And in our local currency! (I had it and a few more ordered before he was even done helping us; it was so delightful to watch her and her father building and testing their Lego racers on the little ramps. I might do a little ramp at home.)

She asked if there were any Lego people she could get to be patients for her Lego hospital (yeah...dark rides, hospitals, her favorite stuffed toys are snakes and ravens...we're not Goth, but sometimes I guess kids are born that way,) and the brilliantly patient Nicholas helped her select the most perfect of bespoke minifigures, a three-pack, in fact. He answered her endless and slightly quirky questions with the dignity and consideration one would give a visiting ambassadrix, rather than the condescending, amusement so many people give precocious and mildly offputting small girls, and I got the general impression that working here must be a remarkably fun, if emotionally draining job. Like teaching. You get to help create important memories for families, encourage young people when they're at a critical formative stage and serving as emotional, creative and recreational support for adults doing the hard job of parenting.

If being a parent is like being Agent M to a wildly unpredictable James Bond, going to the Lego Discovery Centre is going to the coolest possible Q Branch imaginable. Working with Nicholas to choose her special minifigures was a core memory for my little Secret Agent Doctor Astronaut Engineer Teacher, just like building the Lego racecars and testing them with her dad and I, riding a darkride with blasters to save the Princess, patting her parents' arms as we tried not to tear up at the glorious sight of the beautiful Pride parade in the miniature city of Toronto, (mutual friends in the Gay-Straight Alliance introduced us in '05,) or playing with children of every color and creed. It was a day of perfect, pure fun.

I have rarely visited a place that satisfied positively every value I have, but I found it here. You won't be...

Wish I could leave - 5 stars

I paid $200 to visit this establishment Saturday August 24th and could not have been less impressed.

The online website advertises much more to do and experience than what truly was available. From beginning to end this was nothing short of a complete disappointment. We paid extra for the mini figure which when received everyone got the exact same one - no element of surprise or excitement there. It is clear they go through large batches and the 'trade in' at the end is a cop out for kids to feel they will get anything unique but even then only are left with approximately 4 crappy options. Upon entering the first room where you're meant to interact with the 'how Lego is made' stations we were met to see that almost EVERY station was broken and what wasn't barely worked. The "ride" to save the princess disappointed my children when they got to the end only to realize the laser on the guns didnt work and they didnt get to participate in the game, unacceptable. The "4-D" Movie you advertise as an attraction was not even 3-D and a complete waste of time, the only thing we got from that attraction was soaking wet and uncomfortable. The only thing that was any good was the room of Toronto scape Lego buildings - except the interactive buttons didn't work, so that was fun for about half a minute before even the adults got bored. The virtual reality was additional cost and we weren't able to use it as the level of cleanliness was DISGUSTING. To have headsets for people to wear on their face, around their eyes and not be cleaning/sanitizing them between guests is completely unacceptable. Upon requesting them to be cleaned the staff told me they didn't have anything for that and that must be a violation of safety. The lego compartments where the kids attempted to build things were filled with dirty, crusty legos. It is clear they are rarely (if ever) cleaned. They were detoured from wanting to touch them and were unable to enjoy their time in the play place. The play houses were dirty and over crowded not the mention so small. The "lego character meet and greets" did not happen and if the did then they weren't on time and due to the lack of cleanliness and things to do we must have missed them. It was very easy to be in and out of this place in 30 minutes - which is NOT what you expect for 40.00 per person. The rule of 'once you leave you can come back' would be acceptable for a place that offered quality food however, everything was either sold out, burnt or looked like it had been sitting out for days (Which says a lot since we were there at only 1PM). The food was inedible and even the overpriced coffee tasted burnt and disgusting. The lego store itself was even a disappointment as most sets, if not ALL lego sets were well marked up, and when we looked online they were cheaper - even on the OFFICIAL LEGO WEBSITE.

As far as Im concerned this place should be shut down. Its an embarrassment for the Lego brand and should not be allowed to steal peoples money anymore. When I brought my concerns to the staff they even agreed - she said yes many things arent working and seemed as though you get complaints like this often. I was offered complimentary visit passes - AS IF I WOULD EVER WASTE MORE OF MY OR ANYONE ELSES TIME COMING TO THIS DISAPPOINTMENT OF AN EXPERIENCE. I was given a card to email management - to which I dont even know if a real person will even get back to me or it was just a way to get me out of her face.

I have yet to hear back and I have emailed 3 time in a week and not a response.

It was a waste of time, it was unenjoyable, and a disappointment. We drove from 2 hours away to visit and we clearly should have saved our money. After the gas, and money spent on your disgusting "food" and coffee a refund is the least they...