Visiting the Lego House in Denmark

My brother's and my favorite part of break

Nov 10, 2022

Before you read more, I just have to tell you that you should book your tickets for a plane to Billund Denmark and for a few days at the Lego House. It will be the most fun experience of your life and you will not regret it. Okay, now that you know that and have booked your tickets you may read on. (P.S. I am thinking of finding a cheap ticket to fly back to Denmark just for the Lego House, don’t tell anyone, shhh).

Let's start with the first day, right after we arrived. It was around 5 pm and my family was hungry, so we decided to walk into town. We walked for around a mile and finally arrived in town. It was so fun to be in Denmark. While my parents were looking for dinner my brother and I saw the Lego House, an amazing building like stacked Lego bricks. (You could use Lego’s instead of Lego bricks, but you are not fully supposed to, anyway, back to the subject). It was amazing. My brother and I decided to go check it out, we ran over and peeked inside. We saw a few life-sized people built out of Lego bricks, an enormous picture built out of Lego which we later found out looked very different from the other side. And tilting our heads a little to the right we saw the base of the biggest Lego creation on earth.

(Can you guess what the Lego creation is?)

(Hint, it has more than 6.3 million pieces)

(I will tell you at the end of this if you can’t figure it out before)

The Lego house was amazing! We quickly ran over to peek in the other side (where the proper entrance is) but on our way something caught our eye, looking through one of the windows we could see a meeting taking place. It looked important because on the screen it said 2023 Big Plans. I really wanted to meet someone who worked for Lego so I decided that I would stay there until they finished. When I grow up I really want to be an astronaut and work for Lego so I wanted to talk to someone who did work for Lego and ask him how he liked his job.

My brother wanting to stay with me agreed to wait, but the one kink in our plan was if our parents would let us. We quickly ran back and asked our parents if we could, they agreed under one condition. We would come check on them in around one hour. We all liked the plan and quickly we ran back to the Lego house. It would be no problem waiting. The Lego house was amazing, with so much to see. I could just sit outside the Lego house for a whole day without getting bored!

After around an hour of waiting, we had to go back to get some food so we quickly ran back as fast as our legs could carry us, ate a few bites of food and ran back. When we got back, we saw people leaving the building. And we realized that we had gotten our bite to eat at the wrong time. But we still ran around to where they were exiting and when we got over there, we saw someone. The first thing I asked was “Do you work for Lego?” and the conversation went on like that. At the end of it, he gave us his business card, or should I say Lego Minifigure. It was a Lego minifigure with his name, phone number, and email. It was amazing to see that he had a business card made out of Lego.

Now back at my house, I am going to try to build a frame out of Lego for it and put it up on my wall. I will take a picture of it and post it on my youtube channel (link at the bottom) when I finish if you subscribe to my channel.

Anyway, we were super excited and ran back to tell our parents that we had met someone who worked for Lego and received a Lego minifigure with his information on it.

That night we went to bed quickly with the thought that tomorrow would be the best day of our life (which it was).

The next morning, I quickly jumped out of bed, threw my clothing on and woke everybody else. I was super excited. The Lego House opened at 10 so we still had some time to spare but I wanted to go right away (a few hours early). Unfortunately, my dad had said that I had to shower before we went, get breakfast and do a three-mile run so I started with the first thing. Running.

This blog is going to be long enough already so I will not describe the morning activities from 7 till 9:30. But at 9:30 I patiently waited for everybody to get ready. It was 9:50 when we finally left the hotel room one mile away from the Lego House. I really wanted to get there early, so I encouraged everybody to run. My dad, brother and I ran as fast as we could, even though it was only a mile we had to run across a construction site, though a few trees and along a path that goes by the Billund school. When we were insite of the building, we had two minutes left so we sprinted the last part, arriving there 30 seconds early. We had made it! We calmly opened the door and walked inside and what we saw amazed us more than we had ever thought.

Looking around was astonishing. When looking through the night before we could not see everything clearly, but now everything was just perfect. On every table there were vases of Lego flowers, on the walls there were picture done out of Lego, in the middle of the big room was a Lego model bigger than me, they had life sized humans out of Lego too! My favorite was a dog peeing on a sign that told you where everything was. The Lego House was amazing!

I quickly ran over to grab our tickets and called my dad and brother over to grab theirs and then we ran over to the scanner, scanned our tickets and we were in. We later realized that downstairs was just the beginning. There were many other floors to this building, containing pools of Lego bricks, huge life size dinosaurs, piles of random bricks you can build with yourself, a Lego shop and much more. But before we explored that the first thing that caught our eye was the Lego factory. The Lego factory was a factory where you could see them make the Lego bricks from tiny plastic balls to the regular Lego pieces. And each day you could grab one bag freshly minted from the Lego factory and then, ask a machine for instructions with your name on them to build one of the 915 million ways to put the 6 2x4 bricks together. It was an amazing experience.

After checking that out we quickly ran over to the biggest Lego creation ever. Do you know what it is yet? Search your brain for the answer. Before you read more.

The answer is the first letters of these words put together: Tennis, Running, Eating, Equal

If you are thinking T…R…E…E… Then you are correct. The Lego Tree is over 15 meters tall and consists of 6,316,611 pieces (6.3 million)! It took the builders over 24,350 hours to create. Witch makes it the biggest Lego creation on earth. It was amazing! They have put steps up around it so you can view it from all different angles. Then walking up all the steps to the top looking down we could see cities on a few of the tree’s branches and leaves. (I will also post a few more videos about this if you can subscribe to my Youtube channel)

At the top of the stairs, turning our heads around we could see the life size dinosaurs. There were 3 of them, one made from Duplo Lego bricks, one made from regular Lego bricks, and one made from Technic Lego bricks. It was mind-blowing how long it would have taken to build all of this.

Then walking down one set of stairs you could see 3 huge Lego Cities. One, half Duplo, half Lego of a volcano erupting, one of a huge city with skyscrapers, and one of a huge mountain with a ski resort on top, lower down a huge castle and then along the bottom a town with a school, a fishing pier and shops. Then moving around the build you could see caves, a mining operation, and farmland. (I created a video about this too, link at the bottom) The builds were packed with details, and the mountain and city had a few trains going around them and through Lego tunnels. Then walking past the huge lego builds you could see a few stop motion booths, places where you could build a Lego minifigure, a place to drive crazy big Lego remote control trucks, a place to build mini architecture, a place to build and then launch Lego cars off a huge jump a place to just build with thousands of Lego bricks, a place to build Lego flowers, a place to build figures that Lego would ether put into a digital aquarium or have it dance on a screen and many other activities.

Also in the basement there was an exhibit of the history of Lego. With the first Lego products (wooden toys) to the first real plastic Lego sets and to now with the detailed huge Lego creations.

At lunch we ate at a table where you ordered your lunch with Lego bricks. You put certain pieces together in a certain format for each meal. There were also Lego bricks all around you to play with as your lunch was prepared. When your lunch was ready (after around 10 minutes) you could see your lunch coming from a track out of the ceiling and slowly come down. Then a Lego robot would give it to you. It is quite an experience but a little expensive.

My brother and I explored and tried out almost half of the activities that day which was super fun. We were constantly walking into another fun Lego exhibit with thousands of pieces. My dad stayed for part of it and then went to work with my mom.

The next day, having gone to the Lego house yesterday, my family had planned something else to do but my brother and I pleaded with all our might. And it worked. We saw if the Lego house had any extra tickets and they did so we bought them and ran back over to the Lego house for our second day. That day was our last day there which made my brother and me sad but it was okay. We still had another awesome day ahead of us.

We started with going upstairs and taking a stop motion which we ended up doing for around 3 hours! Mine got so long that the Lego house computer I was using started glitching and my project almost got deleted. (The link to my Lego stop motion video is at the bottom of this page with many other links) After a fun time there we ran down stairs to check on our parents who we had lunch with and then my mom and my dad came up for a tour of my favorite parts. My mom had not been in the Lego house yet because she had some important work to do the day before but now she was able to see it in full. And she loved it (though not as much as jude and I). The last few hours before we had to go I explored the History room, (which was amazing) and took a few videos of the Lego house. That evening when the Lego house had closed we started to walk back but then we saw that the Lego store was open one more hour so we ran in and started exploring all the fun Lego sets in there.

I started with taking a video of the Lego shop, and then walking over to the back to pick out a few bricks I saw a product test going on. I ran over and asked if I could do it. They said they would love if I would so I sat down with my brother and we started. The test was about a little Lego duck and they were wondering how we liked it. We actually got to take one of the Lego ducks home and right now it is valued over 700 dollars!

After around ½ an hour of the test the Lego shop started to close. So we finished the test but then we realized that we had not picked out the Lego bricks and sets we wanted. So we quickly ran around picking out the sets/pieces we wanted. I wanted a few Lego pieces for my Lego city so I ran to the pick a brick and filled up 3 containers of Lego. Right as I finished I ran over to the desk and bought my order. They had held the shop open 10 extra minutes just for us which was super kind. Speaking of kindness, the whole Lego house employees were super kind. Right when I got there each day someone would come over and give me a high five and they always wanted to help. Which is another reason why I think you should go. Anyway, thank you for reading and have a great rest of your day. Also don’t forget to check out some of the fun facts and video links below. I have created a few videos about the Lego house which I would recommend watching and please don’t forget to subscribe to my youtube channel. See you soon, Samuel.

Links:

Link to my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCas4a-IYEz6EBlO4W4BQNHA

Link to a tour of the huge Lego mountain city: