On Your Trip To China Next Add The Largest Legoland On Your Bucket List

Somewhere deep in your adult brain, under the emails, bills, and broken Wi-Fi routers, is the memory of a small perfect world you built entirely out of a Lego set. It probably sat on the floor of your childhood bedroom and fell apart more than once and you cared a lot more than anyone knew.

Hell, you might even care the same way now; perhaps own the latest pieces like the really cool typewriter or the Lamborghini if you are a LEGO collector. So, the facts are easy to share with you.

There’s a skyscraper made entirely of Lego now—and no, this isn’t a postmodern fever dream or a metaverse stunt. It’s Shanghai. More specifically, it’s Legoland Shanghai, a sprawling new resort opening July 5 that quietly claims the title of the world’s largest Legoland, nestled in the city’s Jinshan district.

Not the first in the world, obviously. But first one in China with 8 themed features that include Ninjago Temples , Lego Friends, Monkie Kid lands and supersized lego-everything.

If this was a childhood dream (secretly all of us hoped we could live in those houses we built with no care in the world for physics and engineering), the next time you plan a cool trip to China, add this Lego-built replica of the city's financial skyline, where Lujiazui's glass towers stare down the Bund's colonial bravado.

Moreover, these strange, perfect and uncanny Shanghai replica colonies are all composed of 20 million plastic bricks all waiting for you to do fun tourist stuff like you'd at Disneyland; with or without kids. So, what can you expect at the largest LEGOLAND in the world? Definitely, a lot more than a photo op and unexpectedly moving builds.

The Largest LEGOLAND

Well, one of the reasons an entire city is build with LEGO - real life and large scale- in China has a little to do with economics. Currently, the Chinese are rethinking their consumption, where youth employment shadows nearly every glossy opening and the bet is on tourists to help resurrect the slow boom.

And right now, as China's domestic travel market recalibrates around experience over excess, this park is arriving right on time. It's playful, yes- but also weirdly peaceful. One of the attraction places inside in the centrepiece, Miniland, an indoor pavilion where Shanghai has been lovingly rebuilt as a miniature.

It has the tiny taxis frozen in rush-hour traffic, the glass and steel skyline and more of Shanghai. Also a fun-fact about the miniland is that it took more than 168,000 hours to complete. To really appreciate the marvel you need to go see it!

So, in a world of endless content and tired tourist traps, LEGOLAND Shanghai is one of the exciting upcoming theme parks that have a hyper-designed space for you to get lost.

There's no irony here to this. Just everything supersized.