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The Creation Centre at Legoland Windsor opened at the end of 2000. The new complex had a bold glass fronted rotunda over...
18/06/2026

The Creation Centre at Legoland Windsor opened at the end of 2000. The new complex had a bold glass fronted rotunda overlooking the beautiful hillside across the park down to Windsor on the horizon and was originally home to a new Lego model workshop, Lego Racers, a small exhibition on the history of Lego and a shop.

It was initially sponsored by Virgin Airlines and so a lot of features in the main atrium featured Virgin branded aeroplane models, including a giant walk-in cockpit model. The Lego history exhibition was contained in a small room on the ground floor, though it was very soon moved to the top floor and the room used for the Crown Jewels exhibition.

On the upper floor guests could watch the park's own model team building in the workshop through a gallery window!

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Pictured here is the original scale model for the large atrium of Lego Racers at Legoland Windsor. Guests would enter fr...
13/06/2026

Pictured here is the original scale model for the large atrium of Lego Racers at Legoland Windsor. Guests would enter from the workshop entrance lobby into this impressive large space, splitting to two queues that circled around the atrium (one down to the lower floor, one rising to the upper floor).

These pictures show two iterations of the design. The first shows a fantasy planetary mural across the walls, similar to the decor of the finished Race Rooms. This was then updated to the final design with the colourful industrial theme, shown in the later photos.

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These are some of the original elevation designs for Lego Racers at Legoland Windsor, showing the interior themed queue ...
12/06/2026

These are some of the original elevation designs for Lego Racers at Legoland Windsor, showing the interior themed queue / lobby room.

Lego Racers was a huge attraction that took up most of the complex on two floors and was designed primarily by Eye Design International, an attractions studio that had worked for leading parks including Universal’s Islands of Adventure.

Also shown is the final floorplan for the Creation Centre, having been altered just before construction.

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Check out this promo for Legoland Windsor's Creation Centre and Lego Racers in a 2000 issue of Lego Adventures magazine,...
12/06/2026

Check out this promo for Legoland Windsor's Creation Centre and Lego Racers in a 2000 issue of Lego Adventures magazine, showing the planned exterior design in colour and Lego Racers being built.

It also advertises the intended opening in October 2000 by Richard Branson with Virgin sponsorship, though this was later delayed to winter season and the Virgin connection was put on hold. You can also see a model airport surveillance radar being built most likely for the cancelled Virgin Lego Airport cluster in Miniland. Lego Racers is also noted as now opening in 2001.

Lots more to come on the history of the Creation Centre very soon!

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Here's the updated 2000 map from Legoland Windsor, issued later in the season.You can spot a few changes including the n...
11/06/2026

Here's the updated 2000 map from Legoland Windsor, issued later in the season.

You can spot a few changes including the new Miniland cluster 'Lego Airport' now noted as opening 2001 instead (though it never did open) and the Creation Centre now noted as opening in October. The centre opened in the winter Christmas event in the end.

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Here's the early 2000 season park map from Legoland Windsor, the opening season of Wave Surfer. Also noted is the planne...
11/06/2026

Here's the early 2000 season park map from Legoland Windsor, the opening season of Wave Surfer. Also noted is the planned opening of the Creation Centre and Lego Racers that season, though this was eventually delayed to the winter.

Also advertised is 'Lego Airport', which was to be a new Miniland cluster sponsored by Virgin Airlines to open that year, but it was delayed to 2001 and then never did get built due to Virgin pulling out.

Thanks to Harry Johnson for sending this scan in!

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In November 1999, Legoland Windsor submitted a revised scheme for the Creation Centre, now with different architectural ...
08/06/2026

In November 1999, Legoland Windsor submitted a revised scheme for the Creation Centre, now with different architectural style.

This also proposed that the complex would now be built in two phases, with the large wing and lookout over the hillside to come later. Going by the original scheme, phase two would have contained the full size Lego model workshop, so a smaller workshop was provided on the upper floor in the first phase.

The initially planned second floor with the conference rooms and terrace had also earlier been cut from the original design. The final building differed slightly from these plans but followed the same layout.

This original concept by Entertainment Design Studios gives an overall look for this revised design for the Creation Centre had the second phase been built, including the lookout platform, waterfalls, a themed crane and Lego scenery. In the end, just the first phase was built with the smaller model workshop and Lego Racers attraction.

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Star Wars Miniland at Legoland Windsor, opened in the former Rocket Racers areas in the Creation Centre! This was an ani...
07/06/2026

Star Wars Miniland at Legoland Windsor, opened in the former Rocket Racers areas in the Creation Centre! This was an animated walkthrough exhibition on the ground floor. It has since been closed and turned into park maintenance workshops.

More to come on Lego Racers and the Creation Centre’s opening soon!

We’re currently selling 3 Windsor Safari Park guidebooks / maps, including this one from about 1988!https://ebay.io/m/dx...
06/06/2026

We’re currently selling 3 Windsor Safari Park guidebooks / maps, including this one from about 1988!

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Plans for the Legoland Windsor’s Creation Centre (the round complex at the top of the hill by The Beginning) were first ...
21/05/2026

Plans for the Legoland Windsor’s Creation Centre (the round complex at the top of the hill by The Beginning) were first submitted in April 1999. The initial proposals show an earlier design that would have been nearly double the size, with a larger on-site model workshop in a separate wing to the Lego Racers attraction.

What appears to be an AV presentation named the ‘Lego Story’ is also shown, plus Lego exhibits on the first floor. Lego Racers also has a far larger atrium of winding ramps leading up and down to the car build rooms in this version.

Also proposed was a viewing platform extending from the first floor, overlooking where Viking River Splash was eventually built. There would have also been a third level comprising two conference rooms and a terrace.

Check out our custom simplified graphics to explore this early version here!

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