LEGOLAND Discovery Centre

Class 3

A LEGOLAND Discovery Centre (LEGOLAND Discovery Center in the United States and Asia) is a LEGOLAND park that are smaller than normal LEGOLAND resorts. Unlike their larger counterparts, which are mostly rides, LEGOLAND Discovery Centres focus more on building. However, they have a couple rides. All LEGOLAND Discovery Centres are operated by the British firm Merlin Entertainments, which also operates full LEGOLAND parks.

List of Attractions

• Café
• Shop (larger LEGO Store)
• LEGO Construction Site
• LEGO Master Builder Academy
• Kingdom Quest
• LEGO Fire Academy
• LEGO Factory
• MINILAND
• LEGO Racers: Build & Test
• DUPLO Village
• LEGO Friends
• LEGO 4D Cinema
• Merlin's Apprentice

List of Centres

North America

USA

• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Arizona, located in Tempe, Arizona at Arizona Mills.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Atlanta, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Phipps Plaza.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Boston, located in Somerville, Massachusetts at Assembly Row.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Chicago, located in Schaumberg, Illinois at The Streets of Woodfield.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus, located in Columbus, Ohio at Easton Town Center.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas Fort Worth, located in Grapevine, Texas at Grapevine Mills.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Kansas City, located in Kansas City, Missouri at Crown Center.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Michigan, located in Auburn Hills, Michigan at Great Lakes Crossing Outlets.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Philadelphia, located in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania at Plymouth Meeting Mall.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Westchester, located in Yonkers, New York at Westchester's Ridge Hill.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center San Antonio, located in San Antonio, Texas at Shops at Rivercenter.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center New Jersey, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey at American Dream Meadowlands.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Bay Area, located in Milpitas, California at the Great Mall of the Bay Area.

Canada

• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Toronto, located in Vaughan, Ontario at Vaughan Mills.

Europe

UK

• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Birmingham, located in Birmingham, West Midlands at Arena Birmingham.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Manchester, located in Greater Manchester, North West England at Trafford Centre.

Germany

• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Berlin, located in Berlin at the Sony Center.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Oberhausen, located in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia at the CentrO Shopping Mall.

Netherlands

• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Scheveningen, located in the Scheveningen district of The Hague, South Holland.

Turkey

• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Istanbul, located in Istanbul, Marmara at Forum Istanbul.

Asia

Japan

• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Osaka, located in Osaka, Kansai at Tempozan Market Place.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Tokyo, located in Tokyo, Kanto at the Decks Tokyo Beach Island Mall.

PR China

• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Shenyang, located in Shenyang, Liaoning at the K11 Art Mall.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Shanghai, located in Shanghai, Shanghai at Joy City Mall.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Beijing, located in Beijing, Beijing at the Longfor Shopping Center.
• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Hong Kong, located in Hong Kong, Hong Kong at K11 MUSEA.

Oceania

Australia

• LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Melbourne, located in Melbourne, Victoria at Chadstone - The Shopping Capital. This centre has a regional event at the Mt. Hotham Alpine Resort, making it the only LEGOLAND Discovery Centre to not be in a mall.

List of Upcoming Centres

• Merlin Entertainments is currently in consultations to construct an unknown amount of Discovery Centres in India.
• A Discovery Center is scheduled to open in 2026 in Miami, Florida, USA.
• A Discovery Center is scheduled to open in autumn of 2023 in Hamburg,Germany.
• A Discovery Center is scheduled to open in 2023 in Springfield, Virginia, USA, serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Notes

• The first LEGOLAND Discovery Center was opened in Berlin, Germany in 2007.
• Despite being marketed as being in large cities, many LEGOLAND Discovery Centers are actually located in smaller cities adjacent to those cities.
• There are no LEGOLAND Discovery Centers in the same city as LEGOLAND theme parks, although that is expected to change with the opening of LEGOLAND Shanghai.
• There are no standalone Discovery Centers, all are located within malls or other structures.
• The American-Canadian Great Lakes cultural region is by far the most well-covered region regarding LEGOLAND Discovery Centers, with Chicago, Toronto, and Detroit, the three largest population centers in this region, each having their own Discovery Center.

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