Legoland Discovery Center Westchester

We’ve gone here several times now so I think I can write a fair review. How much you enjoy this place will definitely be affected by the time/​day you go. We’ve gone when we were pretty much the only ones there and it was awesome. We recently went on a school break and it was horrendous.
It is very small overall but it works. It is broken down into several small areas. In the center is a huge play area. The great thing about the play area is it is completely enclosed with one entrance/​exit with an attendant. The attendant doesn’t let the kids out until someone is present to get them. There are two small rides, one when you enter (which you can skip if it’s crowded) and one towards the back right corner. I’d say the rides are geared towards the 10 and under set. The other areas are different themed building areas. There is a café but the food choices are very limited (mostly snack items). You’re better off with one of the restaurants in the area.
Make sure you buy tickets online or you may get sold out. I like what they’ve done with the pricing. You can choose add ons if you like but they’re not really worth it. The cheapest ticket was perfect for us. If you sign up for the Lego magazine (free) there is always a discount coupon. And now they added a promo code box online so you can enter the discount code online. We had a buy one adult get one child free deal.
Overall my 5, 7 and 10 year olds love this place. We are about an hour away but it’s worth the drive for us. Just try and time your visit during off peak times. It’s so small that when it’s crowded it’s not enjoyable. When we’re in the area we love to go to Stew Leonard’s afterwards.

Not much to do for a 1 year old. :-(Very small location. The shopping section for Legos was filled with varieties. When you enter they have mini NY city it was great.

Great For Kids who love legos; 2 rides, lunch is not great (cold sandwiches (turkey and cheese), juices, pudding, Capri suns).
Multiple rooms where the kids can build and play with Legos, a 3D movie theatre (a new movie plays every 15 minutes). Very Nice Experience.

Fun place for kids no older than 6. A little smaller than expected but overall my 4 year old had a great time. The food selection is pretty terrible but there’s many restaurants in the area.

Overpriced and the food is terrible. The attractions are lame. It basically has 2 carnival rides and a playground. Go if it’s your first time and you need to kill some time with the kids. You probably won’t go back again.

We’ve been wanting to take my son and my niece here for some time now. We finally made it this past Friday. I’ll start off by saying I think the place is a little pricey for what’s available to the kids.
When you first walk in, there is a «holding» area where you have to wait for about three minutes. Once the doors open, a tour guide explains how legos are made. Kids get to interact with the explanation of the process. After the tour, there’s an interactive ride that entails saving a princess. You ride in an automobile that looks like a Lego chariot. The chariot can fit five reasonably sized passengers. My wife and I sat in the front and the kids sat in the back. You get to shoot at dragons, orgres and other Lego bad guys. Once the ride is over, the kids get to explore the rest of the Discovery Center.
There are pretty cool displays of Lego cities, like Times Square, a rock concert and a Giants v. Jets display in MetLife Stadium just to name a few.
Once you make it through the display area, the kids are free to play with legos and build whatever their hearts desire. One of the first things we did was make cars to go down a ramp. Yes, I said we. I’m a big kid. I actually enjoyed making a car to race a couple of kids.
After building a few imaginative blocks, we watch a Legends of Chima movie in 3D. It was cool, but my niece, who is five years old, was a little jumpy at times. There is a Merlin ride that is basically carousel like. The ride is fairly quick. Once the ride was done, there was nothing much else to do. Of course, the last stop in the Discovery Center is the store. My son picked up one of the more expensive sets. That got shot down with a lot of effort.
Overall, the Discovery Center is a cool place with limitations. I wouldn’t recommend it for kids over the age of 12, depending on the kid. Many of the activities are for kids four and up. If you’re able to purchase tickets at a discounted price, try to do so. Also, parking is $ 3 in the area for the entire day, which is very reasonable. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory afterwards.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVEEEEEEE THIS PLACE. I felt like a kid again. Who knew there was so much fun playing with legos. There are rides, a 4D show, build your own car and race it. The mini New York lego city was awesome. There are alot of well known landmarks. There is also a jungle gym type place where kids can play and parents can sit and watch them. There is kareoke, lego school and a quick tour to show how legos are made. The food is good. Buy your tix online to save money, pay $ 5 more and get an activity pack for a cool price at the end of your visit. Be sure to stop in the gift shop for lego games and souvenirs. I love that it is located inside a mall complex so after playing with legos you can shop. The train ride to and from Grand Central was about 40 mins. If you don’t want to wait on the connecting buses to the mall, pay $ 15 tops for a cab ride straight there. I can’t wait to go again.

PROS: It’s lego, so built-​in fun. Reasonably close. In a big mall-​like area, so there’s something else to do.
Merlin ride is cool. Racing little cars you build yourself is cool. Building parts of a city is cool. I 1heard the movies were good.
CONS: There are quite a few, let me break them down:
1. Food — First off, the food was atrocious. The little cafeteria should be shut down. I went on a Saturday morning, and by lunch time — that area was a disorganized mess. Legoland’s idea of lunch is cheap thin sandwiches, «paninis» that bare no resemblance to the real thing, and an «iceberg» lettuce salad. Total garbage.
When my son and I ordered our paninis, we asked to get them heated up. It took a full 20 minutes after I paid to get them, and the people in charge of juggling the panini orders messed up and stuck my sandwiches behind the microwave, so they basically never got cooked. The «Tuna Panini» is a joke — I slight smear of tuna and some old american cheese. The «Pizza Panini» was a teaspoon full of marinara, a couple slices of cheese and some oregano sprinkled on top. Two sandwiches, two drinks, two chips — $ 22. TOTAL RIP OFF.
If anybody from Legoland is reading this — either fix your cafeteria, or stop serving food. I would never, ever eat there again. Please, please, please — FIX THE CAFETERIA.
2. Cleanliness — I’m not sure when this park opened, but my guess would be 20 years ago. In the main Lego city attraction, seen when you first get through the waiting areas, the bricks are covered with dust. The little boats in the water have mold and the bricks are discolored from spending all that time in water. The bottom of the little pools of water were slimy. Another display near the exit was also completely caked in dust. Disgusting.
3. The waiting rooms/​pig pens — When you first arrive, your ushered into a waiting area where they try to sell you pictures. Thanks. After a 10 – 15 minute wait, your let into YET ANOTHER waiting room. This one wouldn’t be so bad … but half the interactive displays your left to entertain your kids with are broken.
Really Legoland? Your only job is to make sure these attractions work. Half of them don’t. Really disappointing. My son and I just spent time admiring the dusty Lego people in the room before they opened the doors for the next line.
Oh by the way, if you go here … when they open that second door, make a bee-​line for the left. The big mass of people to the right are waiting for a 2 minute ride that you’ll be happy you missed. You sit in little cars and move around what’s basically a shooting gallery, with toy guns that register barely half your shots. And if you’re with a child of 5 or younger, they won’t be able to reach high enough to play — so you’ll end up sitting there as an adult feeling like an idiot. Another disappointment, and we haven’t even gotten to the main attraction yet!
4. The Main Area — More dusty lego displays! More «out of order» signs! Cool!
I’m convinced nobody bothers to clean this place — certainly not while visitors are there. When we finally got our overpriced, crappy food — we sat at a table that had about 100 bits of dropped food and used napkins underneath. And this was the cleanest table we found. The rest had tops covered in pizza sauce and smeared tuna.
Here’s the sad truth — Lego is fun. The attractions that can survive the daily beatings from children are cool.
But the employees don’t seem to care. And whoever manages the place doesn’t seem to, either — because the place is filthy and poorly maintained. Considering Lego’s image, and the cost of their products, as well as how they run their retail stores, I expected much better from Lego’s official little theme park.
It will take me a lot to return. Maybe if they open a new one someplace we’ll check it out. But this place is short on value, and heavy on neglect.

Do not have high expectations for this place, it’s pretty small.
The most entertaining part for the kids (especially the males) was probably the build and test your race car station (even I made my own race car. It gets addicting). After you build your race car, you can race against the other kids’ lego race cars (I won first place heehee).
The cinema they have shows only four 15 minute long clips. It’s 4D so while you watch these mini movies, they blow wind in your faces, shower you with little bubbles and water here and there. Pretty cute.
They only have two kiddie rides and a jungle gym for kids. There’s a height requirement for the jungle gym which I believe is 4’3″. Then the other stations was more building Legos and all that. Oh, and one room had a karaōke for your little singing divas.
Overall I would say this place would be fun if your child was below the age of 10.

Not a bad place to bring your child on a rainy day. The snack bar has a great selection of healthy food and their staff is out of this world friendly! Other than that, it is just a fancy store to solicit their Lego. As you exit the playing area, there is every Lego from wall to wall, huge temptation for children. Suggest buying the tickets online before going their, the online reservation ticket is the cheapest, cheaper than military or door entry.

This is a small place to take your kid so that they don’t get bored at home. Wifi is free as your carrier network won’t work. Walk in costs 23 $ which is expensive for a limited place. I suggest you bring your mobile phone to get yourself entertained while the kid plays

While the visit was fun, it just doesn’t give you your money’s worth. It’s a pricey place and not enough to account for that IMO. Kiddo loved the legos.
Chris-​I just said there wasn’t enough to do for the money, why in the world would I buy an annual pass?!

A local blogger raved about Legoland, so my wife wanted to take my daughter.
The Legoland website recommends buying tickets in advance to secure a spot. They have you choose a 15 minute slot. We chose 2:30 — 2:45. 2 adults and 1 child $ 68. That’s pricey. And of course the tickets are non-​refundable. I just love consumer friendly policies don’t you? (That’s sarcasm).
We arrive at 2:45 just in time to make our slot and there’s a long line out the door. I’m thinking these fools did not buy a ticket and reserve their spot… suckers! We head inside and proudly proclaim we have a 2:45 slot, only to be told we have to wait in the 45 minute line. WHAT?
What’s the point of reserving slots, if they’re just going to line everybody up anyway? That irked me and at this point I was not happy. I don’t like being fibbed to. And I felt the time slot thing was bogus and misleading. They need to explain better on the website exactly what that means. I spent $ 68 and I’m standing in the cold.
We get to the counter and the lady is trying to sell us some thing you hang around your neck for $ 5. Sorry lady, my wallet is already $ 68 lighter. We decline the up sell and head in, only to be asked to take pictures for what I’m sure will be a tidy sum to purchase if we decide we want them. Nice. We’ve waited in line for 45 minutes and we’ve already been up sold twice before we even get in the place.
Now my wife is mad at me because I have a bad attitude and I’m calling Legoland names under my breath, but still loud enough that other patrons can hear me. «I’m embarrassing her». This is not starting well.
As you’ve probably guessed, the place was absolutely mobbed. We survived the two attempts to extract further cash from our pockets, get inside and THERE’S ANOTHER LINE. Oh joy! We spend 15 minutes playing with mildly entertaining displays while waiting in the line. We then overhear someone say the line is for one of the rides and you can just push your way past everyone to get in. Geez, that would’ve been nice to know ahead of time.
We FINALLY get in and see the mini-​legoland display. It’s cool, but nowhere near $ 68 cool. We spend 5 minutes looking at it and go to the main area.
Now my wife and daughter are both hungry. I guess spending an hour in lines will do that to you. They have a café there, and the first thought that runs through my mind is «This is going to cost me a lot of money!» They have us now. We’re hungry, we can’t leave and they have food. At this point I’m pretty sure there’s a big SUCKER sign on my forehead. These guys are good!
After overpaying for a couple of snacks, we wander around the main area and none of it appeals to my daughter. Now I’m really getting pissed. I’ve spent a lot time and money and she’s bored.
There’s a 4D movie and the line is not too long, so we deicide to see the movie. It’s a 3D movie. They use light, fans, and mist in the theatre to enhance the experience, hence «4D». The movie is short, maybe 15 minutes. My daughter is lit up with excitement! She LOVED it. And now she’s begging us to see it again. My wife and I are joking with each other calling it the «68 dollar movie». We get in line again for the movie, this time it’s a different movie than the one we just saw. Nice. I liked that. Daughter loves it again and begs us to see it one more time. We oblige and it’s yet a different movie, so at least we’re not watching the same one over and over.
The movie saved the day. And in my opinion it’s the only thing there that’s worth seeing. It is neat.
We will not return. It’s just too expensive for what it is and other than the movie, it’s not that exciting.

They immediately get 1 star just for NOT being the Children’s Museum in NYC that we’d ventured to recently that was completely bogus.
My kids are six and we took them there as a surprise and they had a lot of fun but for the price there wasn’t all that much to do and we were done in under three hours.
There’s a new Ninjago attraction that’s about to open which might be cool but for now it’s two okay rides (you can’t help but think of how much Disney’s versions of similar rides are, sorry) and a few other cool things (4D movies, a jungle gym, «Lego Miniland» which I think the parents appreciate more than the kids) make it worth checking out once — but the cashier trying to push a season/​annual pass? Nah… we don’t need to go again.
And I need to nix a star for the gift shop… we head to the counter with a sizable purchase and hand over 3 different coupons and are told, «This is not a Lego Store. We’re a GIFT SHOP.» Really?! We’re about to drop some decent coin and you gotta do us dirty like that? Everything is NOT awesome.

Incredible… Amazing…Fun
It was my princess dream to visit the legoland. It’s very nice and many activities for children to do. My princess is a Lego fan and she was amazed to see how Legos where made.

What a fun place to take your kids in a rainy Saturday! I had so much fun here as an adult! I thought the place was very entertaining. They have different stations where children can build their own race cars and race them, watch a 4D movie, and go on a ride. There’s also a big jungle gym in the middle where kids can play. You can also purchase food here.
Have your little one bring a mini figure that they would like to trade with any of the employees that work here. Make sure to buy passes online because this guarantees entrance and they are slightly cheaper than at the door.

Easy to find — legoland is in between cheap parking at the this huge mall complex. Recommend 10am tickets and buy night before.. and enter with kids.
I would describe the legoland discovery center as upgraded Monkey Bizness or like (kids play area place) with legos. It certainly is awesome when it is cold outside.. with plenty of stuff to do. If I lived in the area I would say we would get a membership…and the kids would interchange this with the local children’s museum.
My sons (both 2 and 5) loved the race the race cars section. The workers show off their experience by making elaborate cars and giving them to kids to race (and destroy).
There were two rides in the place.. and my little one was scared by one (the shooting ride).
The middle section was mostly for the older kid (5) and he played there for about 30 minutes.. imagine a big indoor multilevel playground.
The 4D movie (included with admission) the kids loved, we were less than thrilled. Yet they rotate those things.. and we are there for the kids.
There is even a karokae section.. .which was a blast. .for kids who can read (not my 5 year old)
Overall a good thing to visit in the area.. .My kids put in about 1hr30−1:45minutes your use may vary.

Its awesome… For like a whole 20 minute and then you realize what you see basically in one panoramic view is it. I mean for the admission price of $ 18 (online) $ 22(at the door) i personally expected more and felt not really worth it. Sure, the whole two rides that kids get to ride seems cool but it gets boring real quick real fast.
It is cleaner than I had anticipated and it is pretty well manageable but my children who are 3 and 1 wanted me to be by their side at every minute and not being able to go into the play area was a deal breaker for my 3 year old. I understand it can get overcrowded if they let all the parents in but i feel like they can make special accommodations for little ones just sayin.
Overall its pretty simple and not worth going twice. Just go to your local lego store and let the kids play with the lego bricks for 20 min and you’ll save time and money.

This is a fun place to go to if you are a young child. If you’re an adult, not so much because there is not much to do here.
They have only 2 rides here. The Kingdom Quest ride, where you shoot lasers at a target. The other ride is the Merlin’s Apprentice Ride, basically it goes around in circles. You pedal to make your seat go higher.
They a play areas for kids to go climb and play around in. Let the kids go play it while the adults sit somewhere bored.
They have a Build Your Own Racer. Basically build it and see if your racer can be the best.
They have Lego Building class… pretty much self explanatory.
The Lego 4D movie was pretty cool to watch. One of two highlights of my visit here.
The Ninja Laser Training Camp was so dull. Try dodging and maneuvering around lasers.
MiniLand was amazing to look at. New York City iconic landmarks and buildings built with Legos.
Adult like me… would not come back here. Build a Legoland and then we are in business.

We’ve been here several times over the years since my Little started to waddle around on her own. It’s not the biggest «amusement park» but for the smaller kids, they’ll easily spend a few buck worthy hours climbing, playing, building, «cooking» with Legos.
There are 3 small short rides meant for younger kids I would say ranging from 2 – 3 to maybe about 6. I don’t imagine kids any older than that really enjoying it or at least probably not for very long as it is quite small.
In the entrance area is all of mini-​Manhattan built with Legos which I am always appreciative of. It’s situated within Ridgehill Mall which is all outdoors and it’s been a great way to spend a day keeping Littles busy.