Today was the second day of our Lego Adventure. We started by heading to the roof of the Lego House which we had understood to contain a surprise or 2 for those intrepid enough to climb the stairs.
On the roof, we found a submarine, a camel, an oversized brick, and swings.
All of that walking left us a bit famished so we went inside to see the Mini Chef.
Apparently, when the Mini Chef was hired, his Danish was so terrible that the people at Lego agreed to let him take food orders made from Legos. The menu was redesigned and everyone gets to build a four piece model for the Mini Chef to interpret.
You can probably figure out what each of us ordered. The yellow bricks were kids meal from a slightly different menu. We put these models into a scanner on the table. After a short wait, we were notified that the meals were ready.
A pair of friendly robots pushed out the completed trays for our pickup. The food itself was not as important as the experience which was marvelous!
On the main floor of Lego House there is a real factory machine that makes red 4×2 LEGO bricks. Around the world, over 100 million pieces are made every day on machines just like this one – so very cool.
You can see the LEGO bricks popping out of the brick moulds, transported down conveyor belts, weighed, and even packaged. At the end, out pops a package of six red 2×4 stud LEGO bricks as a gift for each guest.
With just these six LEGO bricks, 915,103,765 unique combinations can be made!!! Upon exiting The LEGO House, we used our wristband to get a card with our name and an image of our unique LEGO combination. No one else visiting The LEGO House has ever been given that specific combination and won’t until they reach the 915 millionth visitor and they have to start over.
Toaster_ham had the lowest number (#589,137) and CreeperKitty had the highest (#512,950,619). It’s factually true when the LEGO Group marketing says there’s nearly an endless set of options to build with their bricks.
Ever since our kids were old enough to get exposed to reality competition shows, we have watched the Lego Masters. They have (mostly) aged out of that being ‘must see TV’ but were enthusiastic about our afternoon Adventure which was a version of that program.
This is the 1st year that they have offered a Lego Masters Academy experience but it was well organized and operated. Our family was split into 2 build tables.
The first hour of the experience was academy time. We learned the difference between “stack” building and “S.N.O.T.” building. The former is obvious but the latter means “studs not on top”. This style allows builders to build sideways as well as up-and-down and allows for more organic shapes
In the following image, Suaram is holding an apple on the left that she built using the stacked method and on the right she is holding the S.N.O.T. version which clearly shows the apple in 3D.
Note that Dad is in the background trying to understand how he ended up building a lemon.
We had a lot of fun learning new techniques for different shapes. After the class section, we were put in a position just like the show. Build something creative using the bricks you have available with a giant countdown timer clicking down from 15 minutes above your head.
These are the 5 creations that we each built in the 15 minutes window. See if you can match the build (hot dog, carnivorous plant, snow man, robot, and pumpkin) with the Adventurer.
Our time in Billund came to a close and we boarded our KLM flight to our final destination of Amsterdam.
We landed at half time of the World Cup match between the Netherlands and Sweden. By then the Dutch had the game well in hand so we didn’t try to find somewhere to watch the remainder. We did see clusters of fans crowded into bars watching the last seconds until victory as we made our way to our hotel.
We love visiting here so we’re happy to be back and the kids are excited for tomorrow’s Adventures!
5 Adventures Together 