GOSHEN—Town of Goshen Planning Board members listened to key consultants on June 16 describe in detail LEGOLAND New York’s proposed attractions, land use, and traffic improvements.
The park’s senior designer, surveyors, and traffic consultant presented details at the C.J. Hooker Middle School on planned attractions, topographic layout, and roadway improvements to accommodate what is planned as the world’s largest LEGOLAND theme park to date.
John Ussher, senior divisional director for LEGOLAND Development, gave an abbreviated presentation of plans for the theme park.
Chief designer of LEGOLAND parks, Ian Sargeant, told the Board some of the major attractions planned for the park. Sargeant has designed every LEGOLAND park except the first one.
Attractions and Land Use
Sargeant said the park will feature more than 50 rides, shows, and attractions. “It’s a mix of indoor and outdoor,” he said.
The heart of all LEGOLAND parks is miniland, specially themed areas built out of LEGO blocks. LEGOLAND New York’s miniland will showcase the Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers and iconic structures in Goshen.
As in other LEGOLAND parks, at the entrance is the LEGO factory “where all of the mini figures come to work,” Sargeant said. When they first come in, visitors take a tour and each receives a souvenir LEGO brick made on site.
With a target age group of children under 12, Sargeant said the Knights Kingdom roller coaster—the park’s only one—requires that riders are below a certain height, “again, focusing on the younger children.”
John O‘Rourke of Lanc & Tully Engineering and Surveying, P.C., said two surveyors are already at the site preparing survey reports. O’Rourke said designers are working on the eight themed areas planned for the park, each which will include five to ten acres of green space.
