Cypress Gardens
Garden in Winter Haven, FloridaWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
LennyHOST
Hmm.
LennyHOST
I don't think it's Cypress gardens.
LennyHOST
It could be one of the ones around Disney, but I don't know.
TroyHOST
Cypress Gardens is now Legoland.
TroyHOST
Yeah, it's not that big.
TroyHOST
It is Noah's Ark Waterpark.
Mark VanselowGUEST
And that's turned into, you know, this grandiose thing with huge families and, and, and water ski tricks and all that stuff.
Mark VanselowGUEST
And back in the day, there used to be water ski shows, like Cypress Gardens and, and things around, so.
Adam CarollaHOST
Yeah, who were we just talking to who, uh, came in here from Fox? I'm just got a...
Adam CarollaHOST
Who just did all... [laughs] He was, did the water skiing show.
Joseph MilliganGUEST
So it's been great, you know, old friends, cool hangs, and, you know.
Chris DeMakesHOST
Well, you guys are from, uh, Winter Haven, Florida, home of Cypress Gardens, may I add.
Joseph MilliganGUEST
Yes, yes.
Chris DeMakesHOST
[laughs] Is, uh, is the theme park still there? I, I read that, uh, uh, part of it became a Lego, uh, amusement park.
Chris DeMakesHOST
Ah, it is.
Joseph MilliganGUEST
Um, yeah.
Joseph MilliganGUEST
There was somebody that came in from Georgia and bought it, uh, whenever Cypress Gardens was kinda going under, and, uh, turned it into Cypress Gardens Adventure Park, and it had, like, uh, roller coasters and stuff like that, and then that flopped, and then now it's LEGOLAND.
Joseph MilliganGUEST
Seems to be doing well.
Jose BolanosPANELIST
Yay!
JakeCORRESPONDENT
It opened in Winter Haven on the site of the former Cypress Gardens, turning 150 acres into a giant Lego-themed park.
JakeCORRESPONDENT
Oh my gosh.
JakeCORRESPONDENT
The California Legoland, only 128 acres.
AlexHOST
And it's funny because they had a Boardwalk and Baseball themed area at SeaWorld Texas, now SeaWorld San Antonio, um, which was one of, like, several neighborhoods inside SeaWorld of Texas that helped make it the largest, uh, marine life park in the world when it opened in 1988.
AlexHOST
Um, it also had a Cypress Gardens area, which is now the waterpark, and that was the other other park that the original SeaWorld owners owned at the time.
AlexHOST
It was the four SeaWorld parks, uh, Cypress Gardens, and Boardwalk and Baseball.
AlexHOST
Um, however, in 1989, Anheuser-Busch purchased these, these parks, and Boardwalk and Baseball was closed at the end of 1989.
AlexHOST
I don't know if it was related to its proximity to Busch Gardens Tampa or what, but they decided to close the park, and they sent the log flume to SeaWorld of Texas.
Elizabeth ThurgalandGUEST
My dad was running around with his video camera interviewing people.
Elizabeth ThurgalandGUEST
My mom worked at Cypress Gardens and was one of the people that he interviewed.
Elizabeth ThurgalandGUEST
So I...
Elizabeth ThurgalandGUEST
You know, without them doing what they were called to do and loved in life, I would not be here.
Mike CaltaHOST
Go ahead.
speaker_7AUDIENCE
I, uh, I, I worked at, uh, the, the brick place up in Winter Haven doing the water ski shows, and then also one of those Cypress Gardens and SeaWorld.
speaker_7AUDIENCE
With these amusement parks, they're actually supposed to be getting red-tagged and green-tagged every morning.
speaker_7AUDIENCE
So what that is, it's a safety check, and somebody that's qualified and has passed the exams goes through and checks everything.
Barry SwitzerGUEST
was.
Barry SwitzerGUEST
And he was a barefoot water skier in Cypress Gardens with his dad when he was 8th and 9th and 10th grade.
Barry SwitzerGUEST
So he was a
Corby DavidsonHOST
hell of an athlete.
Kristen StudardHOST
Well-
Holly George-WarrenGUEST
Well, if you wanna hear something really crazy, y'all might be too young and you're West Coast, so you might not know about it, but when I was growing up, there was a big tourist attraction in Winter Haven, Florida, called Cypress Gardens.
Kristen StudardHOST
Oh, I've heard of that.
Holly George-WarrenGUEST
And it was ...