LEGOLAND Florida &
Peppa Pig Theme Park
Winter Haven, Florida
Merlin Entertainment / Blackstone
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(12//7/2025) Legoland Florida Sets Opening Day for Galacticoaster
(11/29/2025) New Details about the Galacticoaster
(9/21/2025) New 2026 Roller Coaster Named At Last
(7/16/2025) Legoland Florida Confirms New Space Coaster Coming in 2026
(3/29/2025) Legoland Florida Confirms New Indoor Coaster Coming in 2026
(3/6/2025) 2026 Attraction Construction Update
Park News - (1/26/2025) Some big internal restructuring is going on at Legoland Florida it seems. According to local news reports 234 staff members are to be laid off, with 75% of the positions said to be from the park’s entertainment department. Advanced notice was given to the park staff, stating that the layoffs would take place between March 25 and April 7.
Obviously, part of the internal restructuring is going to focus on how the park handled their entertainment offerings going into the future. Technically the losses here are a bit larger than what is being shown, as the park already retired their Water Ski show at the end of December as well.
According to posts on social media from insiders, it looks like Merlin is choosing to outsource most of their entertainment needs to a third party company as needed, rather than keep entertainment performers and techs on staff directly.
 2026 - Galacticoaster - (12/7/2025) Legoland Florida has confirmed that the new Galacticoaster will open to guests starting on February 27, 2026.
(11/29/2025) We’ve got a few more details about the upcoming Galacticoaster opening at Legoland California and Florida in 2026. A teaser video posted by Legoland on YouTube reveals some of the storyline details about your mission into space to stop an incoming asteroid. While in the queue guests will stop by a design station where you can build custom body panels around your central pod of seats, creating your own custom spaceship design. Upon boarding the coaster, you’ll pass by the screens where a video clip of you on-board the ride will then be animated to show your designed ship pieces being attached, completing your ship just before you turn to launch into space.
On the hardware side, the coaster hardware is coming from ART Engineering, with the cars looking to be “similar” in design to custom trains ART created for Primordial at Lagoon (minus the blasters and onboard hardware pod in the middle), which are actually able to perform controlled rotations, which also appears to be the case for Galacticoaster based on the teaser video showing the cars spinning to face the display screens upon dispatch.
ART Engineering’s launch system on working coasters so far are all tire-launched drive systems and not magnetic, such as the Snoopy’s Racing Railway coaster that opened at Carowinds this summer. Unlike their previous launched coaster that all featured 2-wide car designs, this appears to be the first of a new line of 4-across seating family launched coasters we haven’t seen from ART Engineering before, though they’ve made some custom 4-across coasters for Lagoon so far, like the aforementioned Primeordial and before that Cannibal.
(9/21/2025) At long last LEGOLAND has released the name for their new 2026 indoor family space themed rollercoaster as the “Galacticoaster”. Look for the new attraction to launch in early 2026 in Florida, though I’m not sure of the timeline for the California version.
(7/16/2025) LEGOLAND Florida has confirmed that the park will add a new Space themed experience in 2026, along with the park’s first indoor roller coaster. While they aren’t ready to go into details or names yet, they say that the attraction will take guests on an immersive mission and through a story-driven queue, as well as a themed shop at the end. Look for a Duplo themed play-zone for younger guests not yet ready to take on the coaster.
I did ask Legoland for more details about the coaster itself and was told that it is being created by ART Engineering of Germany, who has been behind a number of new family coasters over the past couple of years: 2 Snoopy’s Racing Railway coasters for Cedar Fair, DUPLO Dino Coaster at Legoland Windsor, plus Primordial at Lagoon, and before that Cannibal and Bombora as well.
(3/30/2025) Legoland Florida sent out a video showing footage of the huge concrete pour they had done at the park for the new 2026 indoor roller coaster project.
Check it out below and enjoy!
(3/29/2025) It has been confirmed that Legoland Florida and Legoland California will both open “groundbreaking” new indoor roller coaster attractions in 2026. According to the latest update Merlin Entertainment will be spending about $90 million to create both attractions. While Merlin officials had little to say about the theme of the project when it was announced in Florida this past week, previous leaks about the California version from last year indicated that the attraction there would feature a “Lego Galaxy” theme, which seems to be a tie in to the old retired LEGO Space line of brick sets. Since then various “Space” style model sets have been launched in the company’s Icons, City and Technic lines. A quick online search shows that there was a “Galaxy Squad” offshoot of Space style sets created between 2013 and 2015 and a quasi-revival of the Space theme with the release of a Galaxy Explorer set in 2022 in celebration of LEGO’s 90th Anniversary.
So far the old ‘Lego Space’ theme has been mostly ignored inside the Legoland Theme Parks, with the exception of the Benny’s Playship structures inside the California and Florida parks that arrived with the Bricksburg themed landscape and attractions that tied into The LEGO Movie theme, anchored by The LEGO Movie: Masters of Flight flying theater attractions. So with the rumored launch of “Lego Galaxy” themed indoor coasters, it remains to be seen if new space themed brick sets will also be coming to store shelves over the next year.
(3/6/2025) Remember that large building frame that was spotted going up at Legoland Florida in December? A reader sent in three new photos of the site, where the building now appears to be in the process of being enclosed. At the time, one rumor suggested it would be a new LEGO Space themed attraction, and the theme on the signs showing off a Rocket themed LEGO MiniFig, along with the promise that “Even More OUT OF THIS WORLD fun is COMING SOON” seems to confirm that rumored theme for now.
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