At the heart of the new LEGO House Billund, Denmark, the birthplace of the infamous construction toy, stands a 15 metre tall tree made of over six million LEGO bricks.
This ‘Tree of Creativity’ which took over 24 thousand hours to assemble, sets the tone for this utterly immersive experience for young and old. The attitude here seems to be ‘anything is possible if you put your LEGO mind to it’ and when you see a LEGO brick fish which you’ve made, being digitised and miraculously brought to life in a tank of other LEGO fish which have been made by other visitors you’ll start to believe it too.
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The LEGO House Billund opened its doors in late 2017. And while it’s just a short walk away from the original LEGOLAND in Billund, this activity and education centre has something completely different to offer.
Styling itself as the Home of the Brick, the LEGO House is split into four key zones. All of these are about getting your creative and imaginative skills into action.
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LEGO dinosaurs
As you climb to the top of the building spiraling around the Tree of Creativity and discovering more as you get higher, you find yourself face to face with huge LEGO dinosaurs in the Masterpiece Gallery.Â
They’re set out as if you’re in an art exhibition. And they are selected by the centre’s curators to celebrate the creativity of LEGO builders around the world.
Red zone – LEGO House Billund
The first of the four main zones is the Red Zone. Perhaps the most conventional, but filled with lots of fun.
Here you’re encouraged to grab some bricks and get creating whatever comes to mind. There’s plenty of space and seemingly endless LEGO to explore here in the Creative Lab.
The LEGO brick builder areas based around a giant waterfall.
If you’re a fan of simply enjoying the origins of this toy and getting hands on with LEGO this zone will suit you down to the ground.
There’s also a huge space dedicated to younger visitors with a colourful river-full of toddler friendly Duplo to spend time exploring.
Yellow zone
The Yellow Zone mixes some of the latest tech with brick building. It’s perfect for young minds.
Here you’ll find the gigantic digital fish tank where you can set your creation free. My son was amazed seeing something he had just made, come to ‘life’ among all the other sea creatures.
We loved the Critter Creator area too where you can create your own creation and see it interact with other critters, as they hop, jump and dance around.
My youngest two thought it was so much fun making their creatures and then seeing them in action.
Green zone – LEGO House Billund
The Green Zone was most popular with my eldest.
Here you get to deal with minifigures in each of the activities. These include the World Explorer exhibit where you’ll see thousands of characters in different scenes including a city, countryside and tropical paradise.
He really enjoyed taking a seat in the Story Lab where you have 15 minutes to make your own animated film using minifigures, fixed cameras and effects. It’s brilliantly done and you can save a copy of your finished masterpiece to watch again at home.
Blue zone
The most advanced section for older children and teens is the blue zone. Here there’s a robotic arctic explorer to navigate through a frozen scene and rescue minifigures and mammoths.
The food – Mini Chef restaurant
The LEGO experience continues with lunch too.
Taking a break from all the action, we headed for the MINI CHEF family restaurant on the ground floor.
Here you make your lunch selections by using pieces of LEGO which are then digitised and on a small screen at your table. You can watch two animated mini-figures ‘preparing’ your food.
It arrives in an over-sized LEGO brick courtesy of two robot LEGO characters at the end of a long conveyor belt.
My kids absolutely loved this unique lunchtime experience and were wowed by how the characters on the screen were making their exact meal choices.
I really liked how good the food selection was and there was plenty on offer to give us all a bit of energy to head back into the house zones.
City Architect – LEGO House Billund
I really loved the City Architect space where your small buildings when laid out on the city map in the middle of the room comes incredibly to life. This uses a digital simulator adding activity, roads and characters all moving around your creations.
It was really impressive.
Duplo
In each of the zones little ones aren’t forgotten though with an interactive Duplo space for them too. Such as the Duplo train builder and the test driver where you can put your creative vehicles to the test.
History area
There’s time for a little nostalgia too with a brilliant immersive History Collection area too. Here you can learn about and see how an idea took off and became loved around the world.
You might even spot the first LEGO set you owned.
As you leave you can collect a small bag of six LEGO pieces to keep your own creativity going as you head home.
The LEGO House is a very different experience to Legoland Billund and is well worth giving some of your time to.
It’s a rewarding and at times breath-taking experience for everyone in the family. You can find out more about the LEGO House Billund at their website. Check out more of our adventures in this area on our trip to Billund and Jutland here.
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