WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – Legoland Florida is launching rocket-fueled fun with a new indoor family coaster that lets guests customize and pilot their own LEGO spacecraft.
Opening Friday, Galacticoaster brings a space-themed LEGO Galaxy to more than 30,000 square feet.
The indoor coaster is described as the resort’s most ambitious and technically advanced build to date, with roughly 1,400–1,500 feet of track that launches cadets into darkness in rotating vehicles reaching speeds up to 40 miles per hour.
Galacticoaster marks the first indoor coaster built at Legoland Florida since opening in 2011.
“What makes Legoland and LEGO so unique is that playful learning and learning through playing,” said Fiona Eastwood, CEO of Merlin Entertainments. “And so every family can design their own rollercoaster before they ride it. They then can see it when they ride and then they’re launched into space, and then they see it again at the end.”
Guests begin in a mission briefing theater featuring a show-controlled animatronic character “Biff Dipper” and a brick-built globe in the queue, then board upscale ride vehicles developed with Merlin Magic Making and the Lego Group.
The experience blends nostalgia and new immersive storytelling, showcasing classic 1970s spaceman minifigures alongside modern space sets.
The event included a nationwide search that selected children to be among the first riders. Merlin said the Junior Galaxy Explorers winners were chosen in both Florida and California as part of the promotion tied to the attraction’s debut.
Not only is Galacticoaster the only roller coaster set to launch in Florida this year, but Eastwood noted it also connects to Florida’s Space Coast and NASA’s initiative to return humans to the moon.
“Because of Artemis, it makes it a real cultural moment that we connect to, which is incredibly exciting. So just as the families are looking at that from this market, we’re then able to allow them to experience going into Lego Galaxy.”
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