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The Advertiser
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
China's first Legoland opens to visitors in Shanghai
A 26-metre-high Lego figure named Dada has welcomed visitors to a new Legoland resort in Shanghai. The resort, which opened on Saturday, is the first in China. It is one of 11 parks across the world and was built with 85 million Lego bricks. Entry tickets to the new resort, aimed mainly at families with children between the ages of two and twelve, quickly sold out as thousands queued to try out more than 75 rides, performances and attractions spanning more than 300,000 square metres. Among the main attractions is Miniland, which replicates well-known sights from across the world using Lego bricks. It features landmarks across China like Beijing's Temple of Heaven and Shanghai's Bund waterfront. There is also a boat tour through a historical Chinese water town built with Lego bricks. "My first impression is it is a good recreation, like a real fairyland of Lego," said Ji Yujia, a Lego fan who was there on opening day. Legoland Shanghai is operated by a joint venture between Merlin Entertainments, which runs Legoland parks around the world, and the Shanghai Jinshan District local government. Visitors were greeted by performances featuring Lego characters. Tickets range from 319 yuan-599 yuan ($A67-$A128). with Reuters A 26-metre-high Lego figure named Dada has welcomed visitors to a new Legoland resort in Shanghai. The resort, which opened on Saturday, is the first in China. It is one of 11 parks across the world and was built with 85 million Lego bricks. Entry tickets to the new resort, aimed mainly at families with children between the ages of two and twelve, quickly sold out as thousands queued to try out more than 75 rides, performances and attractions spanning more than 300,000 square metres. Among the main attractions is Miniland, which replicates well-known sights from across the world using Lego bricks. It features landmarks across China like Beijing's Temple of Heaven and Shanghai's Bund waterfront. There is also a boat tour through a historical Chinese water town built with Lego bricks. "My first impression is it is a good recreation, like a real fairyland of Lego," said Ji Yujia, a Lego fan who was there on opening day. Legoland Shanghai is operated by a joint venture between Merlin Entertainments, which runs Legoland parks around the world, and the Shanghai Jinshan District local government. Visitors were greeted by performances featuring Lego characters. Tickets range from 319 yuan-599 yuan ($A67-$A128). with Reuters A 26-metre-high Lego figure named Dada has welcomed visitors to a new Legoland resort in Shanghai. The resort, which opened on Saturday, is the first in China. It is one of 11 parks across the world and was built with 85 million Lego bricks. Entry tickets to the new resort, aimed mainly at families with children between the ages of two and twelve, quickly sold out as thousands queued to try out more than 75 rides, performances and attractions spanning more than 300,000 square metres. Among the main attractions is Miniland, which replicates well-known sights from across the world using Lego bricks. It features landmarks across China like Beijing's Temple of Heaven and Shanghai's Bund waterfront. There is also a boat tour through a historical Chinese water town built with Lego bricks. "My first impression is it is a good recreation, like a real fairyland of Lego," said Ji Yujia, a Lego fan who was there on opening day. Legoland Shanghai is operated by a joint venture between Merlin Entertainments, which runs Legoland parks around the world, and the Shanghai Jinshan District local government. Visitors were greeted by performances featuring Lego characters. Tickets range from 319 yuan-599 yuan ($A67-$A128). with Reuters A 26-metre-high Lego figure named Dada has welcomed visitors to a new Legoland resort in Shanghai. The resort, which opened on Saturday, is the first in China. It is one of 11 parks across the world and was built with 85 million Lego bricks. Entry tickets to the new resort, aimed mainly at families with children between the ages of two and twelve, quickly sold out as thousands queued to try out more than 75 rides, performances and attractions spanning more than 300,000 square metres. Among the main attractions is Miniland, which replicates well-known sights from across the world using Lego bricks. It features landmarks across China like Beijing's Temple of Heaven and Shanghai's Bund waterfront. There is also a boat tour through a historical Chinese water town built with Lego bricks. "My first impression is it is a good recreation, like a real fairyland of Lego," said Ji Yujia, a Lego fan who was there on opening day. Legoland Shanghai is operated by a joint venture between Merlin Entertainments, which runs Legoland parks around the world, and the Shanghai Jinshan District local government. Visitors were greeted by performances featuring Lego characters. Tickets range from 319 yuan-599 yuan ($A67-$A128). with Reuters
Perth Now
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
China's first Legoland opens to visitors in Shanghai
A 26-metre-high Lego figure named Dada has welcomed visitors to a new Legoland resort in Shanghai. The resort, which opened on Saturday, is the first in China. It is one of 11 parks across the world and was built with 85 million Lego bricks. Entry tickets to the new resort, aimed mainly at families with children between the ages of two and twelve, quickly sold out as thousands queued to try out more than 75 rides, performances and attractions spanning more than 300,000 square metres. Among the main attractions is Miniland, which replicates well-known sights from across the world using Lego bricks. It features landmarks across China like Beijing's Temple of Heaven and Shanghai's Bund waterfront. There is also a boat tour through a historical Chinese water town built with Lego bricks. "My first impression is it is a good recreation, like a real fairyland of Lego," said Ji Yujia, a Lego fan who was there on opening day. Legoland Shanghai is operated by a joint venture between Merlin Entertainments, which runs Legoland parks around the world, and the Shanghai Jinshan District local government. Visitors were greeted by performances featuring Lego characters. Tickets range from 319 yuan-599 yuan ($A67-$A128). with Reuters
West Australian
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
China's first Legoland opens to visitors in Shanghai
A 26-metre-high Lego figure named Dada has welcomed visitors to a new Legoland resort in Shanghai. The resort, which opened on Saturday, is the first in China. It is one of 11 parks across the world and was built with 85 million Lego bricks. Entry tickets to the new resort, aimed mainly at families with children between the ages of two and twelve, quickly sold out as thousands queued to try out more than 75 rides, performances and attractions spanning more than 300,000 square metres. Among the main attractions is Miniland, which replicates well-known sights from across the world using Lego bricks. It features landmarks across China like Beijing's Temple of Heaven and Shanghai's Bund waterfront. There is also a boat tour through a historical Chinese water town built with Lego bricks. "My first impression is it is a good recreation, like a real fairyland of Lego," said Ji Yujia, a Lego fan who was there on opening day. Legoland Shanghai is operated by a joint venture between Merlin Entertainments, which runs Legoland parks around the world, and the Shanghai Jinshan District local government. Visitors were greeted by performances featuring Lego characters. Tickets range from 319 yuan-599 yuan ($A67-$A128). with Reuters
Toronto Star
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
China's first Legoland opens to visitors in Shanghai
Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng, center, Fiona Eastwood, CEO of Merlin Entertainment, center right, and Niels B. Christiansen, President and CEO of Lego Group, center left, open Legoland Shanghai, China's first and world's largest Legoland resort in Shanghai, Saturday, July 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) NHG flag wire: true flag sponsored: false article_type: : sWebsitePrimaryPublication : publications/toronto_star bHasMigratedAvatar : false :
Observer
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Observer
World's largest Legoland set to open in Shanghai
One of the star attractions at Legoland Shanghai, which officially opens on July 5, is likely to be a mini replica of the Shanghai waterfront and skyscrapers of the Lujiazui financial district, all built in the colourful plastic bricks. The Shanghai resort, which will be the world's biggest Legoland so far and the first in China, features eight themed sections that will feel familiar to fans of Lego. They include Ninjago, Lego Friends and Monkie Kid lands, in which classic Lego pieces are brought to life and supersized - though not big enough to meet everyone's expectations. World's largest Legoland set to open in Shanghai "I thought it would be huge, but it turned out to be half of the scale I dreamed ... But the attractions are beyond my expectation," said Lyu Xiaole, a very grown-up seven-year-old whose family were among those able to get limited tickets for a pre-opening visit on Friday. China's economy has been hit by weak consumer spending in recent years amid a prolonged property slump and high youth unemployment, but Legoland Shanghai will be counting on resilient domestic travel and "experience" spending which have remained strong. World's largest Legoland set to open in Shanghai Legoland Shanghai is operated by a joint venture between Merlin Entertainments, which runs Legoland parks around the world, and the Shanghai Jinshan District local government. The replica of downtown Shanghai and the city's waterfront is housed in the "Miniland" building at the site, where skyscrapers face the colonial era splendour of buildings along Shanghai's famed Bund promenade. World's largest Legoland set to open in Shanghai The Miniland creations took 168,000 hours to complete, using more than 20 million bricks. "I think it's best to play Lego in Legoland because I have much less Lego at my place," said seven-year-old Shen Jieqi. Lego, the Danish family-owned toymaker that produces the bricks, is a familiar name in China where it has more than 400 stores. In Shanghai, Legoland will offer another leisure space in the city for those who can afford it. Tickets will start from 319 yuan ($44.46) in low season and up to 599 yuan on peak days. World's largest Legoland set to open in Shanghai "We came very early in the morning. The atmosphere in the park is very joyful. The staff are full of passion," said Huang Xuanhua, 44, who lives close by the resort in Shanghai's Jinshan district and visited on Friday. "It has been a joyful day." —Reuters
