This is the birthplace, in 1932, of the toy company that eventually became LEGO and is still the current home of The LEGO Group’s global headquarters. For 10 years these bricks have been a happy presence in our kids lives. We have thousands of bricks from dozens of sets in our house right now and new LEGO sets still appear regularly. So when Denmark made our traveling itinerary, it made sense to go to the center of the Lego universe in Billund.
While the original Legoland amusement park is here, we chose some other options instead. Today was all about the Lego House, a unique collection of creative experience zones. Not found anywhere else in the world, the House is said to be LEGO’s love letter to Billund.
We got there shortly after opening and had to be kicked out at closing 6 hours later.
As you enter the zones, the first thing you see is a three story Tree of Creativity made of over 6 million LEGO bricks. Each branch is covered with intricate scenes, most based on actual sets. Needless to say, the stairway gets backed up with admirers, including Mom and CreeperKitty.
Lego holds a contest and winners get their builds displayed for a year. in the Masterpiece Gallery at the top of the stairs. They hardly seem like Lego.
The center of the display are three impressive statues our dinosaur loving guy had to check out up close.
From there you can head into the Experience Zones – all designed with opportunities for creativity. We all took advantage of them, some more than once. Here’s some of our favorites.
Free build – make whatever you want in the shadow of a giant rainbow waterfall.
Racing zone. Build a fast car and try it on the track or build yourself a trophy. Mom and Dad may or may not have spent an hour working on ours.
Remote control honey bee robot expedition. You control a LEGO Technic robot from a screen and guide it to digitally dig holes and plant and water flowers for honeybees to be able to make more honey.
There is also a massive Lego city display and place to create a fish and see it swim. In another you can build a character and see it animated on screen. You can create a mosaic of yourself and a magazine cover featuring your custom made mini figure.
It’s a really unbelievable collection of activities. Everywhere there are kiosks where you can scan your wristband and take a picture you can download later.
Brian and Tiffany’s – Love in a Land of Lava
Perhaps our favorite zone was the ‘story lab’. Here you could make your own short, LEGO stop-motion animation. You are assigned a small booth with a pre-set scene and multiple Minifigures and accessories to create the shots you want.
Here a short video showing Toaster_ham creating one.
We may have made several movies over the course of the day – all saved via our wristband and easy to download later.
The kids’ – Combat Granny 2
Our day flew by and we all enjoyed our time at the Lego House. Tomorrow we will have a another Lego-themed Adventure prior to heading off to our final European destination.
5 Adventures Together 