Slideshow: awesome Toronto landmarks made of Lego at the Legoland Discovery Centre
Slideshow: awesome Toronto landmarks made of Lego at the Legoland Discovery Centre
By Frances McInnis | February 26, 2013
By Frances McInnis | 02/26/2013
The Legoland Discovery Centre inside Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre opens Friday, providing a condensed, indoor version of a Legoland theme park. The 34,000-square-foot space contains several giant Lego people, rides for the under-10 demographic, a 4D movie theatre (the extra “dimension” is wind and rain) and many opportunities to create your own Lego masterpiece. The coolest feature by far is the Lego Miniland, a moving, blinking miniature landscape made of 1.5 million Lego bricks, recreating landmarks like City Hall, the Air Canada Centre, Yonge-Dundas Square and even Niagara Falls—water included.
See Toronto’s Lego Miniland »
192751 The Parliament of Canada Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-07-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-07.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-07.jpg 416 624 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-07/ lego-land-toronto-07 0 0
192750 Landmarks elsewhere in Ontario are also represented. Here, the Maid of the Mist approaches Niagara Falls Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-06-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-06.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-06.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-06/ lego-land-toronto-06 0 0
192755 Pearson Airport Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-11-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-11.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-11.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-11/ lego-land-toronto-11 0 0
192754 A Lego plane on the runway at Pearson Airport Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-10-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-10.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-10.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-10/ lego-land-toronto-10 0 0
192745 The Rogers Centre, the base of the CN Tower, and the waterfront Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-01-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-01.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-01.jpg 416 624 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-01/ lego-land-toronto-01 0 0
192753 On the left, the Air Canada Centre, where a hockey game is underway Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-09-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-09.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-09.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-09/ lego-land-toronto-09 0 0
192752 Yonge-Dundas Square, where Lego people are sitting, strolling and chatting Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-08-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-08.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-08.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-08/ lego-land-toronto-08 0 0
192749 The CN Tower and several of downtown’s most recognizable skyscrapers Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-05-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-05.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-05.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-05/ lego-land-toronto-05 0 0
192748 City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square, where Lego people are skating Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-04-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-04.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-04.jpg 416 624 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-04/ lego-land-toronto-04 0 0
192747 Thanks to the quirks of Lego geography, the airport, with its Lego plane, is right across the street from the ROM Crystal Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-03-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-03.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-03.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-03/ lego-land-toronto-03 0 0
192746 The streets and waterways are bustling with moving cars, buses and boats Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-02-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-02.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-02.jpg 624 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-02/ lego-land-toronto-02 0 0
192756 The Lego Miniland took 5,000 hours and 1.5 million Lego bricks to create Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre Vaughan Mills Legoland Discovery Centre https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-intro-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-intro.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lego-land-toronto-intro.jpg 656 416 [] https://torontolife.com/city/legoland-vaughan-mills-miniland/slide/lego-land-toronto-intro/ lego-land-toronto-intro 0 0
Tickets from $14.50 to $22. Legoland Discovery Centre, 1 Bass Pro Mills Drive, Vaughan, 1-855-356-2150, legolanddiscoverycentre.ca/toronto/
Toronto Lego Miniland is a waste of money (very expensive) for what they offer, if your children are older than 9 years, they will be completely bored. They are charging the parents too much money $22 + Taxes for babysitting their own children, imagine that.
Even worse, they assume adults unaccompanied by children are sexual predators and ban them (save for once a month “adult” nights). You can walk in husband and pregnant wife or father and adult daughter, and they view you as a potential threat to the children. You need to dig into their web site to see the one small note about this ban. Nothing about it on their brochures or publicity material. I don’t know how many adult fans of Lego have been turned away by this policy, having made a completely wasted trip. Shocking, too, it’s in Vaughan Mills mall. You’d think they would have a tenant policy requiring open, discrimination free admission.