Monday, April 16, 2007

BKASC: Billund

Scandinavian Cities... they all have their charms. In today's installment of the 436 part series, "Better Know a Scandinavian City," Billund.

Billund is home of The Lego Group, where 90% of the world's Legos are produced. Billund is also home to Legoland, consisting of Duplo Land, ImaginationZone, LEGOREDO Town, Adventure Land, Miniland, Pirate Land, Lego City, Knights Kingdom and Viking land.



The park opened in 1968 and sees 1.6 million visitors annually. The original part of the park is home to acres and acres of Lego creations, from a scale model of the Statue of Liberty to a life-sized elephant.





Take a stroll down Lego Lane and you'll see replicas of cities such as Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, New York, and Tokyo.



Don't forget the "It's a Small World" lazy boat tour through the Lego world.



The modernized portion of the park has rides such as the Lego Teacups and the LegoBuilder. The LegoBuilder is essentially a GM car building robot arm with a harness attached to the end.



No trip to Legoland would be complete without a snapshot with one of the seemingly hundreds of Lego Princesses present in the park (the more Lego bricks used to make the Lego Crown, the more beautiful the princess)



I handed in my application as a Lego architect, and am anxiously waiting to hear back. I think being a Lego Prince in Legoland has moved up to number 1 on my list of things to do when I grow up (which obviously isn't going to happen for a while!)

All of Legoland can be enjoyed here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Was disappointed to visit the Legoland website and find that PiratLand appears to be very limited.