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Toronto's legoland is not worth it

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

We went to Legoland today. In short, we didn't find that it approached the $76 we paid for admission for two adults and one five year old. The "4-D" movie was cute, but like the two rides we went on and the "Lego City" of scenes from Toronto and surrounds, just too short. It's actually a fairly small location, and the scale of the whole thing is considerably less ambitious than we'd understood from the website. Building practice racing cars was fun, but there simply weren't enough critical pieces like wheels, and it took three visits to that work area before we could assemble a car. And your child can't keep the car at the end.

We spent most of the time sitting on the floor playing with Lego, and a very very basic set of bricks at that - I could buy quite a few bricks in bulk for $76. But not at the store attached to the Legoland site - they don't support the cup-of-bricks strategy promoted at the other stores. "We're not an actual Lego store," the young woman told me rather lamely.

And then there's the food. As one would expect, it's overpriced. But there was nothing to be had short of potato chips that I could eat. I know that a gluten intolerance isn't an every day thing these days, but when I mentioned it to one of the cashiers she told me that she'd heard from other visitors unable to buy Halal or Kosher foods. All of this is pure economics, but Legoland allows neither "outside food" nor re-entry once you've left.

Given its distant location and its many let-downs, I don't think we'll be back.