{"id":636840,"date":"2010-01-21T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1050553"},"modified":"2010-01-21T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:03:43","slug":"cypress-gardens-to-become-legoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/636840","title":{"rendered":"Cypress Gardens to become Legoland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>The British Merlin Entertainments Group plans to convert recently acquired Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven into Legoland Florida, says the Lakeland Ledger, quoting a briefing e-mail relayed from a Polk County tourist promotion official to a county commissioner. Merlin isn&#8217;t talking until a news conference Thursday about plans for the shuttered theme park it acquired last week for $22.3 million. It would be the fifth Legoland park and second in the United States. It has been widely reported since fall that Merlin has been scouting Central Florida for a Legoland, which is a mixture of rides, shows and familiar objects, people and places built from plastic Lego blocks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/business\/retail\/article1066890.ece\" >http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/busines&#8230;cle1066890.ece<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer The British Merlin Entertainments Group plans to convert recently acquired Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven into Legoland Florida, says the Lakeland Ledger, quoting a briefing e-mail relayed from a Polk County tourist promotion official to a county commissioner. Merlin isn&#8217;t talking until a news conference Thursday about plans for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FFC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}