A bit worst then Lego land but got a little Lego piece which is to remember and can only be accessed from there.

Went to one of their fun adult nights. Two hours was just about right and I saw the European Cup replica. read more

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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. read more

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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 cafe though so perhaps they did. read more

Legoland Discovery Centre - Toy Stores Near Me - Trafford, XGM

Today we visited Legoland in Manchester. Not knowing there was a Legoland here I did some res ears the day before and it was clearly advertised with the sea life centre so we figured it was two smaller centres you do in one day and that was exactly the case. We purchased online and saved ££ in doing so which always makes mummy happy! We also went for the second time slot as the first is alway busy. We parked in the Barton square car park as the website suggested and as we were nice and early we go a park directly outside the entrance. We did not have to wait in a queue at all we walked straight up to the counter which is a bonus! Once we collected our tickets we had out photos taken (which I don't know about you but I always buy because I am a sucker!) and went up the lifts to the first area. Upstairs there was a short presentation on how Legos are made. For Boo's age the man was a little scary and loud but she did well. I liked that all the kids were involved and having fun. Once through there was a ride called Kingdom Quest, but we weren't sure if boo (1yr old) could go on it, so we skipped it at first and went through to the Lego display area. Boo loved pushing the buttons. Once in the main area we saw the 4d movie - which we enjoyed but was MUCH too loud for boo, and myself. I wish they had it down just a little. She loved the pits of Lego, the small play area, the big play area and the big formula one car. Unfortunately she was too small for the other two rides so I found a lady with a similar aged child and asked if they did the first ride. They had done and said it wasn't too scary so we went back to get on the Kingdom Quest ride. Boo was fine on the ride and I am so glad we went on it because I would have felt disappointed if we didn't get to do one ride. I think it was what we expected, a small scale version of Legoland and I think it is marketed that was with the combination tickets to sea world. Would go again Money spent - £23 each, plus photo pack (we got the £20 ultimate combo pack being extravagant and on holiday - 2 big photos, 1 magnet, 1 Keyring, 2 wallet photos and photo download code) Cons - $$ is steep if you have lots of children, playground has no age restriction so lots of big kids mixed with little ones, 4d cinema too loud and no one to ask if the little one can go on certain rides. read more

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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? read more

Legoland Discovery Centre - Toy Stores Near Me - Trafford, XGM

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! read more

Legoland Discovery Centre - Toy Stores Near Me - Trafford, XGM

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!!! read more

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 karaoke area, a play centre and a 4D movie. It is just a expensive play centre. read more

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 Cafe 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. read more

Legoland will only accept adults accompanied by children, so big kids are not allowed. I wanted to give zero stars, but it wouldn't let me. read more

Brilliant day out! Children and teenager enjoyed visit and stayed there for six hours. Lots to do inside, cafe 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. read more

This place is a real shame for Lego. I'm amazed they put their name to it. We pre booked tickets but still had to queue to get in. My kids were told to get down from the giant Lego bricks outside by a surly member of staff. Why put them there if you cant sit on them?? We were told off on the shooting ride as my two year old wasn't allowed to sit on my knee. There was that much Lego lying all over the floor the main hall was a death trap, I did slip once which was fairly painful. The 4D movie crashed in the middle and we were basically just told to get out. No apology, no nothing. The worst bit is, I complained about all of this and was given free tickets. Now, I have to go back... read more

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

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

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. read more

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. read more

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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 1/2 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 read more

We held our six year old son's birthday at Legoland Discovery Centre and it was a massive disappointment. At £18 per child, it was very poor in terms of organisation and the food offered. I had rung a week in advance to clarify what sandwiches would be served as I realised that when I booked I had not been told what food was provided. When I was told "cheese and ham", I asked if there could be an alternative to ham as we are a Muslim family and there would be 9 Muslim children amongst our party. So I was told cheese and tuna would be provided. On the day, the party leader came in with a tray of cheese and ham sandwiches all mixed up. To cut to the chase, the guests at my boy's party were given half a cheese bun (regardless of whether they liked cheese as there was no alternative), a few crisps and a drink with a packet of mini chocolate digestives - for £18 per head!!!!! We are a hospitable family and I felt so embarrassed that there were kids there (including the birthday boy's older brother) who basically just ate crisps and a couple of mini biscuits. The party leaders were very enthusiastic and tried to make it fun but there is no hiding a poor product. It was also a really busy Sunday afternoon so the play areas were overcrowded and frankly unpleasant. It's really hard to keep track of a bunch of 6 year olds when it's so overcrowded. All in all, having spent £200 on my boy's party, I feel cross and let down. read more

came to Lego discovery last sat with my family. I am sorry but the place is a rip off and a joke the door are supposed to open at 10.00 also this is stated on your web site we was there for 10.20 to find a cue and no going in only to find out we could not entre until 11.00 because of a birthday party? To find out this information we had to break up 5 members of your staff that was chit chatting and drinking bottles of pop we had children with us that wanted a drink but couldn't get in! when we finally got the attention of the staff the peoples person skills are appalling they stated sorry guys you cant get in yet I am no a guy I am a 54 year old grandma when we did get in one of the other staff stated this way mate that is a disgusting way to speak to any one. .Once we finely got in you don't know where to go no signage finely into Lego discovery to discover the large Lego blocks for the children to play with sticky and dirty and it cant be from children playing with them we was one of the first in there I had a 2 year old grandson with me not a lot for the child to do play gym I went in with him to help him up the steps because they was too high only to be asked to leave the area it was for children no supervision in there one child pushed the sliding punch ball that hard it hit another child winded him and caused distress to him so I went to ask a member of staff if they was any small rides for the younger children the reply was they don't pay in so we don't cater for them after paying so much money to get in £7.60 for 2 teas and a coffee 3.50 for 1 slush puppy its a rip off 1.90 for a bun the normal family who take children for a treat cant afford that so you get embraced parents and upset children I thought Lego was for children then to leave the place you had to go through the shop cheapest thing was a key ring at 3.50 then the Lego was £ 8.00 + so we said no to the children only to take them to asda afterwards and get the Lego and more paces of Lego for £ 6.00 and you want people to come there I don't think we will be going again I also want the e-mail and address of the head office please because this needs to be bought to there attention.-- Mrs Denise North. read more