Legoland s Bay Area center to open, with mini Golden Gate, Winchester Mystery House
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Legoland Discovery Center Bay Area will open to the public on May 25.Courtesy of Merlin Entertainments
Legoland Discovery Center Bay Area will officially open to the public in May after a year-long delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Families and children can visit the indoor playground at the Great Mall in Milpitas starting May 25, operator Merlin Entertainments announced Wednesday.
The 31,000-square-foot playground will have educational and interactive activities, like an earthquake table, master classes and an Imagination Express train ride. Guests will see some of the Bay Area’s iconic landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Winchester Mystery House made with more than 1.5 million Lego bricks.
San Francisco s Painted Ladies have an unlikely neighbor in Legoland
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A shot of Legoland in Southern California.Steve Haggerty/TNS
When recreating a country with 20,000,000 LEGO bricks, there s bound to be a few mistakes. The master builders at Legoland in Carlsbad, Calif., created Miniland as an ode to America, including buildings from Washington D.C., New Orleans, and, of course, San Francisco.
However one intrepid Reddit commenter noticed that the LEGO interpretation of San Francisco, while very cool, mashes up both the best and one of the worst features of San Francisco architecture.
The Painted Ladies alongside Alamo Square Park are perhaps the perfect buildings to be LEGO-ized: iconic, colorful and childlike. However in Miniland, they share a backyard with a building that could only be a further polar opposite if it were topped with the eye of Sauron. It s not the Salesforce Tower (thankfully), but the Painted Ladies neighbor is nearly as egregious:
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FREMONT, CA Outback Steakhouse has permanently closed its restaurant in Fremont.
The steakhouse, at 5525 Stevenson Blvd., was open through the end of January.
For Outback fans, the closest steakhouses are at the Great Mall in Milpitas and in Dublin, according to the company s website. You may place an online order for delivery. Outdoor dining is also an option.
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By early December, more than 110,000 restaurants across the nation had closed permanently because of coronavirus, according to the National Restaurant Association. The trend continues in 2021.