Miniland USA

Our Miniland version of New Orleans was built in Billund, Denmark. During Halloween, the famous New Orleans cemetery "comes alive" with dozens of zombies and skeletons crawling out of the graves!

Solar panels on top of the Mississippi River boats give power to the lights that illuminate them at night.

What to look for: In Lafayette park, there is a baseball game in progress, and the coach of the winning team is about to get soaked with a cooler full of Gatorade!

This Miniland version of New York City was just refurbished and our Central Park is filled with as much diverse activity as the real park! You can find people ice skating, roller skating, practicing Tai-Chi, going for carriage rides, listening to concerts, sunbathing, sailing model boats, or just out for a stroll.

Originally named the MekLife skyscraper, representatives from MetLife saw our LEGO version and were so impressed by it, they let us use their name royalty free.

Years before the real Freedom Tower rises at the site of the World Trade Center, we have constructed the monumental skyscraper completely out of LEGO^® bricks. Unlike the Freedom Tower in New York City which will take four years to build, LEGOLAND California's structure took four months to create.

Sprouting 28 feet into the sky, the 1/70 scale model includes a "wind farm" in the top portion of the tower, which in the actual structure will use wind-harvesting turbines to generate 20 percent of the building's electricity.

More than two million LEGO bricks are used in the reconstruction of the city that never sleeps. During the renovation, Master Model Builders completely rebuilt and replaced five buildings including the Citicorp and UN Buildings. All buildings inside the Big Apple were blasted by environmentally-friendly powdered walnut shells, checked for repairs by Master Model Builders, recoated with a UV lacquer then reinstalled in Miniland New York.

Most buildings in Miniland are built to a 1:20 or 1:40 scale, but the model of the Empire State Building is built using 4 different scales! The ground floors are built at 1:20, to match the size of the people on the street, and then the main body of the building is built at 1:40 scale. Closer to the top, it changes to 1:60 and the very top tower is built at 1:80 scale! This tricks the eye by giving the building the look of being much taller than it is. If you were to build the Empire State Building completely in 1:20 scale it would be over 62 feet tall vs. our version, which stands at 20 feet tall!

What to look for: Inside the model of Grand Central Station stands a mini version of the famous rock and roll legend, Elvis Presley!

The Miniland version of the San Francisco was constructed in Billund, Denmark.

Our Miniland Pier 39 has a working carousel and sea lions basking in the sun. The sounds you hear coming from the pier were actually recorded live at Pier 39, in fact many of the sound effects you hear throughout Miniland were recorded live in the places they represent.

Constructed in Windsor, England the White House was the first LEGO model brought to and put in place at
LEGOLAND California.

Every 4 years, the 2 LEGO mini-figures appearing in the presidential motorcade are changed depending on the outcome of the election. So far Bill and Hillary Clinton, and George and Laura Bush have been built and displayed.

What to look for: In the streets of downtown Washington, there is a man popping out of a manhole cover. When a Miniland vehicle approaches, he ducks out of the way just in time!