On 5 April the Legoland Hotel opens in San Diego inside the Legoland California Resort.
Merlin Entertainments, the Poole, England company running the Legoland, hopes to escape the economic damage.
He said he got the idea to recreate the Prospects Stadium after going to Legoland in Windsor.
The first Legoland Hotel in the Americas opened this weekend in Carlsbad, Calif.
It will be 100 yards away from another Legoland Discovery Center.
There has been a Legoland in Billund, Denmark since the 1960s, but for the first time Lego seems to be taking the amusement park business seriously.
Legoland Windsor opened in the United Kingdom in 1996, Legoland California will open this spring and yet another park, possibly in Japan, will open in 2002.
You've heard of Disneyland, Legoland and Alton towers but now a new theme park has opened which the owners say is perfect for beating the credit crunch.
One recent weekday morning at the Legoland Discovery Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, dozens of excited 7- and 8-year-olds were posing for pictures with a life-size ticket taker built of Lego bricks.
Bear in mind that many of these offbeat attractions, run by passionate people who are enthused about their bizarre corner of the world, are not as fine tuned as the more famous Disney, Legoland or Universal Studios theme parks.
Last time I visited Legoland at Billund, which is a couple of hours travel from Copenhagen, the train left Copenhagen at a sensible time in the morning, arrived at the station where you have to change to a bus on time.
Other kid-friendly touches: trundle beds that pull out for those little dears who refuse to sleep on the top bunk, junior-eye level peepholes in the guest room doors, and a built-in potty seat that cleverly folds over the regular seat if needed (the Legoland park is targeted at the 2 to 12 set).
In addition to the world's biggest airport, largest man-made islands, longest indoor ski slope and some of the biggest shopping malls and hotels anywhere, it is also building a mega theme park, Dubailand, which consists of some 45 separate projects, including such brand-name attractions as Legoland, a Tiger Woods golf course, a Six Flags fun fair, a Formula One park, and themed attractions from DreamWorks (a Hollywood film studio) and Marvel Comics.
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