{"id":48450,"date":"2012-11-06T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=48450"},"modified":"2020-06-20T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T00:57:04","slug":"miniland-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=48450","title":{"rendered":"Miniland USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Miniland USA is the heart of LEGOLAND\u00ae California Resort. A dedication to the ultimate expression of the LEGO\u00ae art form, Miniland USA includes reproductions of seven areas of the United States, all constructed with 20 million LEGO bricks in 1:20 scale, that can be seen from many places in the Park. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legoland.com\/california\/\">Legoland site<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I planned to incorporate photos from Miniland USA into the Legoland post, however, it is so large, detailed and impressive that I thought it deserved a post of its own.<\/p>\n<p>The views change periodically and objects in the design move around. It&#8217;s a fascinating place to explore.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if anyone can identify some of the seven regions that are pictured below; there was one area that stumped me&#8230; but it&#8217;s also one of the only destination cities in the US that I&#8217;ve never been to.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-48450 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=48462'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sm-IMG_9809-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sm-IMG_9809-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sm-IMG_9809-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure 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srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/med-IMG_9807-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/med-IMG_9807-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=71161'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/med-IMG_9822-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/med-IMG_9822-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/med-IMG_9822-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=71162'><img loading=\"lazy\" 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A dedication to&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=48450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Miniland USA&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,409,34],"tags":[534],"class_list":["post-48450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california","category-san-diego","category-us","tag-waterpark","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48450"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93126,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450\/revisions\/93126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}