After a year-plus delay due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Legoland Discovery Center Bay Area on Monday finally celebrated its grand opening on Monday, and to quote a certain movie theme song, “everything is awesome.”

Ground was broken on the 31,000 square foot indoor playground at Great Mall in Milpitas back in September 2019, with a planned April 2020 opening. But the pandemic intervened, forcing the attraction to remain sadly dormant until this past weekend. On Monday, there were plenty of wide smiles mixed with a palpable sense of relief.

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Photos by Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group

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Milpitas Mayor Rich Tran, center right, and Vice Mayor, Carmen Montano, participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony during the grand opening of the Legoland Discovery Center on Monday, June 14. 
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Thatcher Armstrong, 7, left, and his sister, London, look at brochures. 
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Nicasio McNeil, 4, looks at Oracle Park made of Lego pieces. 
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San Jose Museum of Art 
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Levi’s Stadium 
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Apple Park 
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San Francisco Ferry Building 
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Visitors enter the movie theater at the Legoland Discovery Center. 
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Children play inside the Legoland Discovery Center. 

Sam Suksiri, a master model builder at Legoland Discovery Center, picks up a cable car made of Lego pieces.

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Oakland landmarks 
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A Ninjago character made of Lego pieces 
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San Francisco landmarks