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California: Carlsbad, Family Fun - Holiday Snow Days at LEGOLAND.LEGOLAND California Christmas Tree & Soldier. This holiday season the popular family theme park is gearing up for biggest, brightest and perhaps coolest holiday celebration ever including real snow.

Here’s the scoop. The Holiday Snow Days celebration begins with the first-ever snow fall in Fun Town – a rare sight in southern California – and continues with the lighting of the world’s largest LEGO® Christmas tree, concluding with Kids’ New Year’s Eve.

Touch, feel, and enjoy real snow. During Holiday Snow Days, Fun Town will be transformed into a magical, winter wonderland snow – yes, real snow – every day.  Guests can build snowmen using LEGO carrots and other fun LEGO elements, throw snowballs at LEGO themed targets and play with large, soft LEGO bricks in the snow.

See the world’s largest LEGO Christmas tree. The centerpiece of the holiday season at LEGOLAND, the giant LEGO Christmas tree in Holiday Fun Town stands more than 30 feet tall, is made of more than 245,000 forest green DUPLO® bricks and is surrounded by packages and LEGO friends. Wait for it! The annual tree-lighting ceremony is on Nov. 28 with a surprise celebrity guest lighting the tree. Nightly tree lighting ceremonies Dec. 1 through Dec. 24 involve a lucky child randomly selected from the audience to help pull the switch that light up the LEGO Christmas tree.LEGOLAND California Santa

Say hello to Santa. The Park’s new life-sized LEGO mini-figure Santa strolls throughout Holiday Fun Town with his helpers. Checkout a life-sized LEGO Santa with sleigh and two reindeer made entirely out of LEGO bricks. The festive display stands 7 feet tall and is made of more than 51,100 bricks and makes for the perfect photo opportunity for the family Christmas card or Facebook album.

Let it snow. let it snow in Playtown. The holiday atmosphere throughout the park is comfy and merry. Visitors will find thousands of including twinkling lights, festive décor, lively music, food, plus the entertaining Brickettes, Jingle Jammers, and a costume character party. Bonus points: For little ones the best event is “Let it Snow”, a mini-musical created to share in the spirit of the season. The show features the signature song, “Season of Imagination.” 

See LEGO underwater Christmas tree. SEA LIFE™ Carlsbad Aquarium joins in the holiday festivities with a not-to-be-missed underwater LEGO Christmas tree ‘planted’ at the bottom of the Lost City of Atlantis 200,000 gallon ocean display. While guests and fish alike watch, divers will deck the boughs of the 6-foot-tall LEGO Christmas tree made of nearly 4,000 DUPLO bricks. Bonus points: Other SEA LIFE holiday happenings include a holiday-themed Daily Dive Show and a ‘green’ crafting event. (www.sealifeus.com or call (760) 918-5346)LEGOLAND California Snowman

Watch Miniland night sky dazzle. A stunning display of fireworks light up the sky over LEGOLAND at 7 p.m. nightly Dec. 26 through 30. The dazzling fireworks feature a vibrant soundtrack of traditional and contemporary holiday music. The best viewing spot for the fireworks display is Miniland U.S.A. which also is decked out for the season with miniature Santas and reindeer delivering toys throughout Miniland U.S.A.

Celebrate Kids’ New Year’s Eve. The grand finale of Holiday Snow Days is the annual Kids’ New Year’s Eve party. This lively party begins with a special mini-concert in Holiday Fun Town earlier in the day and evolves with party favors and a kids’ concert featuring special musical performances from 2:30 to 6 p.m. in Miniland U.S.A. Like the famous Times Square party, Kids’ New Year’s Eve features a countdown followed by a huge LEGO brick dropping 22 feet into 2012 and spectacular fireworks at 6 p.m. to end the night.

Get hands-on park information. To help plan your visit to Holiday Snow Days, LEGOLAND California is proud to announce the launch of their new iPhone® app. Developed specifically for the iPhone® or iPod Touch®, the app offers park guests access to hands-on, minds-on information. To download the application, visit www.LEGOLAND.com/app.

Planning details. All Holiday Snow Days activities are included in the price of LEGOLAND California admission ($69 for adults, $59 for kids) or the SEA LIFE Hopper ticket ($81 for adults; $71 for kids).

Here’s the deal. At LEGOLAND California from Nov. 19 through Dec. 31, 2011 buy a one day admission to LEGOLAND California and return a second day for free before March 31, 2012.

Make it happen. For more Holiday Snow Days information, visit www.LEGOLAND.com or call (760) 918-LEGO.

Content and images provided by LEGOLAND California. Copyright 2011.

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