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		<title>Legoland Discovery Centre Manchester</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having opened at the end of March 2010 we decided to visit the Legoland Discovery Center in Manchester with friends a week after opening. Legoland discovery center is located in the Barton Square quarter of the Trafford center and has ample parking space at Barton square. If you park at the Trafford center its a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having opened at the end of March 2010 we decided to visit the Legoland Discovery Center in Manchester with friends a week after opening. Legoland discovery center is located in the Barton Square quarter of the Trafford center and has ample parking space at Barton square. If you park at the Trafford center its a 5-10 minute walk through to Barton Square.</p>
<p>As you would expect from Legoland the attraction boasts a huge amount of things to do for kids of all ages and adults with a 4d cinema showing a couple of films (I personally recommend Bob the Builder) an interactive dark ride, factory tour showing the lego making process which the kids help along with and numerous models on display and areas to build and test your own creations. The attraction also has cafe serving hot and cold drinks and snacks and for the little ones a soft play area. Model making classes/tutorials are held during the day with kids been taught by the professionals how to build a variety of models.</p>
<p>The exterior of Legoland discovery Centre.</p>
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<p>The lego Factory Tour.</p>
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<p>The host professor brick also gets the kids to help out with the lego making process.</p>
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<p>At the end of the process lego blocks are produced and everyone given one to take home.</p>
<p>Legoland discovery Centre is full of models of which some of them took months to build.</p>
<p>Blackpool Tower, Winter Gardens and pleasure beach.</p>
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<p>Oblivion at Alton Towers.</p>
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<p>And the towers themselves.</p>
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<p>They are quite dark but the scenes go from day to night every few minutes.</p>
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<p>Various other models.</p>
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<p>There&#8217;s allot more models at Legoland Discovery Centre than I haven&#8217;t shown here as well as the build areas and testing areas for kids. I would advice booking in advance unless you have an annual pass as the centre does get very busy.</p>
<p>Legoland Discovery Centre also has an on site lego shop selling the full range of models from duplo to technix.</p>
<p>If you would like to use any pictures from this post please get in touch paul@ridemad.com. Please don&#8217;t just steal them.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hearing lots of stories coming out of pleasure beach for the last couple of weeks about the new dancing fountains it was a pleasure to finally witness them for myself on this years open day February 14th 2009. The fountains cost an estimated 80 thousand pounds and from what ive seen they are worth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="flickr-image" title="Picture 018" rel="flickr-mgr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11285811@N08/3279447540/" target="_blank"><img class="flickr-medium alignleft" style="margin: 5px;" longdesc="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/3279447540_edafd95a3e_o.jpg" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/3279447540_c1cba2bea2_m.jpg" alt="Picture 018" width="240" height="160" /></a>After hearing lots of stories coming out of pleasure beach for the last couple of weeks about the new dancing fountains it was a pleasure to finally witness them for myself on this years open day February 14th 2009.</p>
<p>The fountains cost an estimated 80 thousand pounds and from what ive seen they are worth every penny and make what was a empty space a great meeting place for people and are an ideal play area for children as they run and duck under the fountains much to the annoyance of parents watching.</p>
<p>From what I could gather the fountains operate about every fifteen minutes to various pieces of music, each show lasts for about six and half minutes. It will be nice in the summer to sit down and have a drink and watch these. Well done Pleasure Beach.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of photograph&#8217;s and a video of the display taken below.</p>
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