LEGO^® Discovery Center Boston revealed an all-new 20-foot giraffe as part of the attraction’s refurbishment. The giant creation took an entire day to assemble and features 22,000 LEGO® DUPLO^® bricks. The LEGO® Discovery Center, opening later this spring, unveiled the new colorful giraffe as part of the $12-million-dollar renovation.

The new giraffe will still be named Gio, after a local young boy who passed away six years ago after battling congenital heart disease. Gio’s family and friends were in attendance for the unveiling of the new giraffe. Speaking to what Gio the Giraffe means to the family, Gio’s mom, Maya Maggiore, said “He just loved giraffes. He was a big fan of colors. His favorite colors were primary colors. He just loved rainbows and everything beautiful about the world.”

Boston’s tallest giraffe will welcome guests to LEGO Discovery Center Boston once the attraction opens later this spring. The attraction will be a place where children’s imaginations and creativity know no bounds. An amazing indoor adventure of more than 43,000 square feet where adults and children create and play together as they make their way through twelve zones including building adventures, an interactive ride and much more. The LEGO Discovery Center is home to every LEGO® adventurer.

Gio the Giraffe Timelapse – LEGO Discovery Center Boston.mp4 – Google Drive

New Featured Zones at LEGO Discovery Center Boston:

Spaceship Build & Scan

Reach for the stars in an extraordinary building experience and build a LEGO spaceship, take charge, and launch it into the digital universe. 5-4-3-2-1…lift off! Zoom through the galaxies on your own space adventure, and to make it even more fun, friends and family can follow along watching the launch take place on a big screen.

Build Adventures

Jump over a crocodile in the jungle, loop over lava and drive through the desert! Everything is possible with LEGO bricks. An entire area dedicated to playing and creating with LEGO bricks, this is where imaginations run wild and creative skills are put to the test!

DUPLO^® Park
Have fun in the DUPLO^® Park! Meet a roaring dinosaur, spin the wheel in the big construction challenge and have fun in the brick pits. Here, the littlest builders and their families can learn and play together, solve puzzles, build with LEGO^® DUPLO^® building bricks and catch the ducks in the DUPLO® duck pond!

Minifigure Creator
Here, guests can design and build their own LEGO Minifigure. Choose from a billion LEGO heads, bodies, legs, and more to build your own Minifigure. Make the craziest, the coolest or the hairiest of them all. Imaginations will run wild in this experience!

Hero Adventures
LEGO^® CITY meets LEGO^® NINJAGO^® in the fast-paced hero adventures. Become the star in your own story. Run through the LEGO laser maze, conquer a climbing wall and see how fast you go in a crazy action game. There are also building activities to get involved in and a soft play area for kids to let off steam.

Creative Club
Create with LEGO bricks in the Creative Club. Our amazing Master Model Builders lend a hand to guests, sparking their imaginations to create custom creations. Daily building activities from mosaic making to portrait painting with LEGO bricks will inspire you on your creative journey.

LEGO® Tree of Togetherness  
If you can dream it, you can build it at the LEGO Tree of Togetherness. Plant your own LEGO ideas on the trunk or in the branches and get inspired by the Master Model Builder and his team. They challenge you every hour with fun building activities. Our Playmakers will help you work your creative muscles in this awesome build zone before you take a picture and head off to your next adventure.

MINIWORLD
Explore and play in an updated fantastical world of awesome LEGO builds! Made with over 1.5 million LEGO bricks, planes fly over the tallest towers, day turns to night and some local landmarks creep into the skyline too. Can you recognize them?

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