Well, we're back from out trip and I thought I would update. We went to Legoland on Wednesday June 19th, I was able to use my phone to get in because I had never bothered to go to a business center to print the tickets. I did use the kids go free code that ClapYourHands posted, which was great. Also, I stopped in the lego store in DS later in the trip and they didn't have coupons or magazines out anywhere. I didn't think to ask if they had the coupons, I should have.
We had a very fun morning and early afternoon at Legoland. We had been there once before, but the new Lego Movie land was open so there were 3 new rides. The only long wait we had was for the VR coaster, which was posted at 10 min but took like 30. It was very cool though. We were able to walk onto most rides, and even some that had lines in the morning were walk on in early afternoon. Unfortunately it started to rain (POUR!) at about 2:30. We knew it was coming, so we ran and just made it to the pizza place to get lunch. The rain never did stop it just lessened periodically. We ate, then shopped, and gave up at about 4:30. However, they enacted their rain policy which is if attractions are closed for more than 90 min you get a free return ticket. On our way out we just had to wait at guest services, and we got 4 tickets good for a year that are water park combo ones. I don't know if we will actually get to use them or not, but it's nice they do it! Even with only being there able to ride from 10:45-2:30, we did everything we had wanted to except the driving and flying school, lego ninjago, coasterasaurus, the game where you time how long you can hang (my kids wanted to try again since they saw it last year and realized how hard it is!), and walking through Cypress Gardens. It would have been nice to have more time to just see the lego made scenes, etc, but at least we did go last year. We should have waited on the one 4D show we watched and did the outside rides, and saw it after the rain started. Oh well, I was expecting the usual hour rain then clearing, not the 3 days in a row of pouring rain from early afternoon through evening. Glad we had a long trip and those days weren't the only ones we had!
While I like Disney more, this is a great day trip if you have young kids and worth it for longer trips. It's much more low key, laid back, and relaxing and at least on weekdays not nearly as crazy and crowded. My kids think it's worth it even for shorter trips, they are begging to stay at the Lego Hotel next time, but I would have trouble giving up a day when we are only there for 7. This trip we did 2 weeks. I don't know how people have time to do the waterpark and park in the same day when it is only open 10-6, we would have been hard pressed to see everything we wanted to see (skipping the small rides and hitting the big ones and 1 or 2 of the shows, plus walking around the grounds to see the lego vignettes and Cypress Gardens) in that time.