I'm not in the target demographic for this park, but I have enjoyed it on the two times I've been in the last 20 years. Can I share a story about Legoland?
Years ago in the 2000's I had family in town and my youngest nephew, who is now a Senior at Stanford, was big into a Lego phase at the time so we all went down to Carlsbad for the day to take him to Legoland. We were sitting on a big restaurant patio having lunch, and the patio overlooked their
Volvo Driving School attraction where darling little children drive battery powered Lego cars around a fake cityscape while their parents look on with pride.
A surfer kid from Encinitas Junior College was running the attraction, and he was positioned in a lifeguard type chair overlooking the entire cityscape road course as he bellowed instructions and encouragement into a bullhorn PA system at the kids driving their little cars. A few minutes into this mock "Driving School" experience, a toe-headed moppet about 6 years old driving a Lego version of a Volvo convertible blew right through a Lego stop sign and continued on through a fake Lego intersection, causing other junior drivers to swerve their Lego cars up onto the curb to avoid a horrific Lego accident. The surfer kid running the ride got on his bullhorn and said, out loud in a crowded theme park,
"Hey, you in the blue convertible! You ran that stop sign without even slowing down! What are you, DRUNK?!?"
Everyone froze, and you could have heard a pin drop. And then we all bellowed over in laughter. But I'm pretty sure that's not what the Legoland management or the corporate sponsors at Volvo had in mind for this attraction.
