LEGOLAND® Florida Resort

This guide to LEGOLAND Florida Resort in Winter Haven starts in 1943, when eight hundred soldiers showed up at this lake expecting a water ski show that Julie Pope had never actually scheduled. It follows how she and her children improvised one on the spot, and how her husband Dick Pope, already known for landing the first successful water ski jump, spent the following decades turning the swampy grounds into a global show business stage. You'll hear how the press came to call him Mr. Florida, and about the barefoot skiers and human pyramids that followed.