Longview World of Wonders — Attraction in Longview

This place has a lot of potential, and the atmosphere is definitely for learning and enjoying time with your family. I was upset that a few of the activities were out of order, and others there wasn't any real instructions on how the space could be used. I love that we are trying to help children use their imagination here, but there should also be general visions for inspiration available to help spark their interests.

The light wall was the coolest space, and the giant chess set. We loved changing the color on the lights and mixing matching them. It was awesome.

Alot of the areas really just need some volunteers, or employees to walk around and help children find areas that are probably left unexplored. The supply chest with all the creative tools was locked, so exploring this entire creative area was not really available. At the car jump, the cars wouldn't drive straight, so jumps weren't really possible. The Lego pits were fun, it's nice to create whatever you want. The house and store were fun, but nothing had a price so when they say an onion is 100 dollars.....lol you have to follow up with a normal price.

They should have had more physical activity areas, maybe another slide, or some fort building materials to help create crawl spaces or play houses.

Overall we had a good time, the place was good. But could be better. The gift shop is in the entrance, not the exit, would sell alot more if we were funneled out of the area...

I brought my kids to this place today! I heard about it from a female friend! I'll say this its a good place to bring kids. But they should offer bottles of water and some type of snacks. There are Pros and Cons to this establishment.. The pros are it's kid friendly. Lots of different things to do in there to keep kids entertained for hours. So that's a plus all that being said. I'm hoping my kids don't get sick everyone fingers everything. I found spit on toys which is disgusting!!! I found chewed up gum on some toys and on the floor. I know it was on the floor cause I stepped in it. Worst con is parents bring there kids here to sit and play on there phones or talk. In other words they don't pay attention to their kids. Which means if your in line to do something there is basically no line cause kids just cut your children off. The staff stays up front on their phones an don't really regulate any rules. Especially for the parents!!! It's an ok place ill be happy to barely give 3 stars if they mind some improvements it would be a much...

There is a lot of potential here in downtown Longview. My son loved it.

Unfortunately there are a lot of exhibits that are not in a working state or have missing parts that render the exhibit in a degraded experience.

For example, one wheel was broken off the car on the race ramp making it unusable.

There was a nice set of various ramps on the wall in the glass room as well but the pieces used to drop down the ramp were missing.

Another example is the train: my son loved it. But it was frustrating because the button on the train inside the cab didn’t work. Also the activity on the train to insert the black rags simulating coal that blows up with the air wasn’t usable because there weren’t any of the pieces of black rags.

Further, the simulator for the Komatsu loader was in a stuck state. The controls didn’t work unfortunately but I thought it was a neat exhibit.

I really want this to be a great place for kids but it needs work with maintaining the exhibits...