LEGOLAND California Resort
San Diego, California
Merlin Entertainment / Blackstone
Park News - (12/13/2025) LEGO NINJAGO Weekends return to Legoland California from Jan. 17 through to Feb. 16, 2026. This year the event will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of LEGO NINJAGO. “This winter, families are invited to step inside the world of LEGO NINJAGO and enjoy hands-on LEGO building activities, immersive shows, and interactive experiences that bring the action of NINJAGO to life. This year’s event feels extra special, as we’re embracing classic LEGO NINJAGO storytelling while launching some new and exciting offerings for the ultimate weekend of NINJAGO fandom.”
 2026 - Galacticoaster and Other Attractions - (12/4/2025) Legoland California has announced that the new Lego Galacticoaster will be ready to open on March 6, 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 California 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 a thrilling journey through the galaxy, blasting off from Spaceport 886, named after one of the original Lego Space sets. In addition to the new family coaster, the Space themed land will also feature two more ‘cosmic rides’ as well as a Junior Astronaut Training Zone for the little ones not yet ready for the coaster. The area will also feature the Galactic Grub and Gear stop to refuel your crew with “out-of-this-world food and beverages”.
Legoland has confirmed to Screamscape that ART Engineering of Germany will be behind both the California and Florida coaster projects.
(5/14/2025) The local news dropped by the check out the new driving school attractions at Legoland California, but also shared a look at the new for 2026 indoor roller coaster now under construction at the park, so check it here.
(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.
(9/24/2024) Amusement Today reports that Legoland California will be shutting down the park’s Driving School attraction after this Sunday (Sept. 29th) as they make plans to rebuild it elsewhere in the park in time to reopen sometime in 2025.
Previous plans once in the works for the park during the pandemic had similarly planned the removal of the driving school attraction to make way for what was rumored to be a Vekoma Madhouse attraction that may have featured a LEGO Haunted House / Monster Party theme. Those plans were put on the backburner and eventually replaced with a new plan to use the site to create some kind of new “Lego Galaxy” themed land, that would include a large outdoor flat ride as well as an indoor space themed family coaster roller coaster. Previously those plans were thought to be for the 2025 season, but with a late start, Lego Galaxy could be for late 2025 or even 2026, assuming that is still the plan they are going with.
(1/20/2024) You may recall that back in 2022 some early plans were leaked from Legoland California that seems to indicate that a copy of the Haunted House Monster Party attraction from Legoland Windsor was being planned to move into the LEGO City section of the park, taking up some of the current Driving School attraction space.
Those plans were put on hold and the park went with alternate concepts for 2024 instead, but it seems that the Lego City area is once again the target of an entirely new planned concept that could come as early as 2025. According to local news reports the time has finally come for one of the Legoland theme parks to add an attraction space themed to the popular Lego Space series of toys.
According to the update, the new land to replace both the Driving School and Junior Driving School attractions will be called Lego Galaxy. The new land will feature a large 24-passenger flat ride with three spinning arms, a space-ship themed play structure with interactive play elements and two slides, and a large building that will feature a fully enclosed space-themed family roller coaster. As for the size of the coaster… it was noted that the park has asked for permission to increase the maximum building height from 35 ft to 45 ft for this addition. So far I haven’t heard any rumors about which manufacturer might be behind the roller coaster hardware.
For fans of the Driving school attractions… don’t fret, as the park has also submitted planning applications to relocate the driving schools over to where the Funtown Fire Academy attraction is currently located, which will be demolished.
(10/10/2023) According to a new post at ThemeParkInsider, the City of Carlsbad has been sent a planning application by Legoland California. The project title is “Project 2025”, so now we know that this will have a longer time-frame than anticipated, and will include three attractions:
An attraction inside a 32,200 sqft building that stands 43 feet tall , a 33 foot tall = Dark Ride most likely.
An outdoor ride that will take up a 4,120 sqft site and stand 33 feet tall = Likely a medium to large sized outdoor family ride.
A new outdoor play area featuring a 30-foot tall structure.
Screamscape’s quick take in this… I’d be looking to the new Legoland New York for some inspiration here, and when it comes to Dark Rides, Legoland California has almost every Lego branded dark ride created, with one exception, the new LEGO Factory Adventure dark ride, which features trackless vehicles. At the New York park, this dark ride exists in a land called Bricktopia, which is also home to a few outdoor attractions, like a tea-cup style flat ride and a train ride. A 4,120 sqft site really isn’t large enough for anything more than the smallest of coasters, but 33 feet tall is just too high for a train ride obviously. Something that has a little bit of height and may need a little space to move-about, kind of like a Zamperla Disk’O (or one of the many variants) may fit the bill here, but that’s just a bit of speculation.
One other line of thought may be the previous rumor from 2022 that claimed the park was planning to add what looked like a copyof the Haunted House Monster Party ride (Vekoma Madhouse) concept that was added to another Legoland theme park. (See the entry below for details on those delayed plans).
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