(Yicai) May 27 -- Yicai reporters have been on an exclusive tour of Legoland Shanghai Resort, the world’s biggest theme park dedicated to the famous plastic toy bricks produced by Denmark’s The Lego Group.

Yicai visited after the project handover ceremony yesterday, which marked the transition from the construction to the operational phase. Legoland Shanghai will begin trial operations on May 31 and officially open to the public on July 5.

It includes a theme park and a 250-room Lego-themed hotel for children between the ages of two and 12. It also offers 75 interactive attractions, performances, and play areas across eight zones, alongside thousands of Lego models built with more than 85 million bricks.

In the central part of Legoland Shanghai, visitors can find Miniland, which features Lego recreations of globally renowned architectural landmarks.

It took 168,000 working hours and 20 million bricks to recreate China’s representative cities and iconic structures, Yang Yang, the theme park’s senior Lego model engineering manager, told Yicai.

At the entrance to Shanghai Legoland Resort, the first sight is the building block-style gate built with Lego minifigures and intellectual property-themed bricks.

Shanghai’s famous West Bund riverfront area is recreated using lego bricks in the Miniland area.

Minifigures and brick-built characters feature in a play adapted from Chinese mythological tales.

A view looking down on a section of Legoland Shanghai’s playground area.

Editor: Futura Costaglione