{"id":115378,"date":"2026-01-12T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:15:22","slug":"legoland-resorts-seeks-junior-galaxy-explorer-in-fort-lauderdale-to-be-first-to-ride-new-galacticoaster-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115378\/","title":{"rendered":"Legoland Resorts seeks \u2018junior galaxy explorer\u2019 in Fort Lauderdale to be first to ride new Galacticoaster &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Legoland Resorts is looking for a \u201cjunior galaxy explorer\u201d to test a new roller coaster, with a contest taking place in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale hosted a competition Saturday for young builders to design a Lego spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be going to several different museums throughout Florida and California looking for a junior galaxy explorer,\u201d  said Julie Estrada, Director of Communications for Merlin Entertainments in North America. \u201cThe winner of this competition will be the first to ride \u2018Galacticoaster\u2019 when it opens at Legoland Florida Resort on February 27th or at Legoland California on March 6th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the competition are expected to be announced next month.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Legoland Resorts is looking for a \u201cjunior galaxy explorer\u201d to test a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-115378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}