LEGOLAND Florida &
Peppa Pig Theme Park
Winter Haven, Florida
Merlin Entertainment / Blackstone
---- THE LATEST BUZZ ----
(3/29/2025) Legoland Florida Confirms New Indoor Coaster Coming in 2026
(3/6/2025) 2026 Attraction Construction Update
(2/20/2025) Legoland Florida Sets Opening Date For new SEA LIFE Aquarium
(1/26/2025) Legoland Florida To Lay Off 234 Employees This Spring
(1/10/2025) Legoland Florida To Host LEGO Ninjago Weekends
(12/17/2024) Is A Lego Galaxy Themed Attraction In The Works?
 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.
(1/10/2025) Legoland Florida will be hosting the park’s annual LEGO Ninjago Weekends event soon, full of fun and training sessions about how to unlock your inner Ninja. Look for it to take place this week on select dates between January 25th and Feb. 17th, 2025.
Visit the official site for all the latest information.
(12/13/2024) Long before it was known as Legoland Florida, the theme park site in Winter Haven first opened as a very different pack way back in 1936. Back then there were no rides based on plastic toys, but instead it was a park based on the theme of natural botanica, known as Cypress Gardens.
Instead of rides, the big thrill draw for the park was a large scale Water Ski show that became so popular the park also became known as the “Water Ski Capital of World” for a time. Over the years the park passed through the hands of a few different owners who had some different visions and plans for the property, and even shut down a few times towards the end, once due to hurricane damage and a few mini-closures in late 2008 and late 2009 due to financial issues.
However, In January 2010, Merlin Entertainment bought Cypress Gardens with the vision of transforming the property and reopening it as Legoland Florida in October 2011. Legoland Florida would offer something no other Legoland park had, a Water Ski show. Unfortunately, all good things must eventually come to an end, and the local news has reported that Legoland Florida will be closing down the famous water ski show for good at the end of the year. Your last day to see the current show, “Brickbeard’s Watersports Stunt Show” will be on December 30, 2024.
2025 - SEA LIFE Aquarium - Under Construction - (2/20/2025) Legoland Florida has announced that their new SEA LIFE Florida aquarium location will open to the public on May 23, 2025. And yes… that actually is the very next day after Universal opens their new Epic Universe theme park.
Construction on the new aquarium attraction is well under way, but it looks like a late start will push the opening back from late 2024 to perhaps early to mid 2025.
(11/10/2023) According to a post on our social media, the new Sea Life Aquarium coming to Legoland Florida will be located just inside the main park, “right after the turnstiles and before the coffee shop”. Construction walls are already in place.
(11/9/2023) Legoland Florida announced some new surprises are on the way for the 2024 season. This will include the introduction of a new SEA LIFE branded aquarium that will open in Fall 2024 at the Legoland Florida Resort.
2026 - New Galaxy / Lego Space Coaster? -
(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.
Another wall has a more waterpark theme to it, but that is apparently the side of the construction fence viewed from the waterpark.
(12/17/2024) Is a new Lego Space themed indoor coaster in the works for Legoland Florida? According to a post from Zooder Loopers, the steel structure for a large new building is currently rising at the park, which can be seen poking up from behind the Driving School attraction, on the site of the former Flying School coaster that closed for good in 2023.
This would make sense, as a Lego Galaxy themed area, complete with several new rides and a coaster, is supposed to be coming to Legoland California in 2025.
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