LEGOLAND Discovery Center
Westchester at Ridge Hill in Yonkers
is NOW OPEN
Sometimes it’s great to have three children and sometimes they get sick and make you miss an incredible Opening Day ceremony! That’s what happened when I was invited to the Opening Day celebration of LEGOLAND Discovery Center Westchester at Ridge Hill in Yonkers NY! This celebration rocked like no other in the neighborhood. I can hardly wait to visit the new Legoland Discovery Center, now open! I know my kids will love it, and I am positive I will, too! We have been LEGO fans and builders in this house forever! I think we must have a zillion Legos and I personally am an expert builder at this point! I think the Star Wars sets helped me out with that one, or maybe the Pirates of the Carribean sets!
In celebration of the grand opening of LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Westchester at Ridge Hill in Yonkers, on March 27th, Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) Chairman/CEO Bruce Ratner, Merlin Entertainments executive James Burleigh and other officials were joined by 13 metro-area schoolchildren wearing yellow hardhats as the attraction’s life-size, lovable mascot “Bertie,” smashed through a 7’ x 10’ wall constructed of colorful LEGO® bricks, revealing the entrance to a line of anxious guests waiting to enter.
The ceremony celebrated the opening of LEGOLAND Discovery Center Westchester, beginning with brief remarks from Mayor Spano, County Executive Rob Astorino, Merlin Entertainments, James Burleigh and Bruce Ratner, who leads FCRC — developer of the Ridge Hill complex.
Following the colorful wall break, Mayor Spano, County Executive Astorino and other event participants were each joined by a member of the attraction’s Junior Construction Panel to enjoy a Grand Opening inaugural ride on “Merlin’s Apprentice”— a flying wizard ride where guests pedal faster to make their seats rise into the air.
Just the fifth such location in the nation – the first in the Northeast – LEGOLAND Discovery Center Westchester is a $12 million, 32,300 square-foot, indoor attraction geared towards children ages 3-10 and their families. Its range of educational and interactive experiences includes hands-on play areas, a 4D cinema, master classes led by Master Model Builders, two LEGO amusement rides and MINILAND — the venue’s signature re-creation of landmark locations and buildings throughout Westchester County and New York City, made entirely out of more than 1 million LEGO bricks.
“From a very young age children have always had the desire to build—but LEGO bricks and LEGOLAND Discovery Centers have taken things to an entirely new level—and the options are as endless as their imaginations,” said Bruce Ratner, Chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies. “With the opening of Merlin’s wonderful and educational LEGOLAND Discovery Center, Ridge Hill enhances its status as a premier regional location for shopping and dining and family entertainment in the great city of Yonkers, in the great county of Westchester, in the great state of New York!”
The attraction is a fun and educational destination that is also ideal for groups and school trips, providing teachers with a wide range of hands-on learning experiences, bringing the worlds of math, science and technology to life outside the classroom.
To purchase tickets and annual passes, or for more information, visit http://www.LEGOLANDDiscoveryCenter.com/Westchester/. For group sales call866-243-0770. Follow us at www.facebook.com/LDCWestchester and www.twitter.com/LDCWestchester. LEGOLAND Discovery Center is part of the Merlin Entertainments Group.
Disclosure:All opinions are those of Diane Sullivan. Invitation was given, but we could not attend, sadly!
We hope to attend with the family as soon as possible. Email me at ELGeorgia@aol.com