{"id":6207,"date":"2009-09-07T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2009-09-07T16:18:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T23:18:02","slug":"now-legoland-wants-a-water-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6207","title":{"rendered":"Now Legoland Wants A Water Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/49081797.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/49081797.jpg','popup','width=500,height=280,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/49081797-tm.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"49081797\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before it was built <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legoland.com\/california\" target=\"_blank\">Legoland <\/a><\/strong>was positioned as a tiny little theme park &#8220;just for small kids&#8221; that would be happy staying small. Each year, however, seems to bring new expansion plans from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlinentertainments.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merlin Entertainments Group<\/a><\/strong> owned theme park.<\/p>\n<p>First it was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1348\" target=\"_blank\">an aquarium<\/a><\/strong>, then the company got the city to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4347\" target=\"_blank\">change their parking requirements<\/a><\/strong> so they could build a hotel and restaurants, now according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-legoland5-2009sep05,0,2706489.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Legoland is asking the City of Carlsbad to allow them to put in a 5.5 acre waterpark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Diego County theme park Legoland has submitted its plan to the city of Carlsbad to build a 5.5-acre water attraction in the park&#8217;s northern section, officials said Friday. . . .The water park&#8217;s cost and design have yet to be determined, but Legoland spokeswoman Julie Estrada said it would be open by next summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The water park, like the aquarium, would have it&#8217;s own entry fee meaning there would actually be three amusement parks where previously only one stood. As one <em>Carlsbadistan.com<\/em> news tipper asks, &#8220;I wonder how this will affect the water park at Alga Norte.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-legoland5-2009sep05,0,2706489.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before it was built Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Legoland was positioned as a tiny little theme park &#8220;just for small kids&#8221; that would be happy staying small. Each year, however, seems to bring new expansion plans from the Merlin Entertainments Group owned theme park. First it was an aquarium, then the company got the city to change their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6211,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}