Denmark 5: The Lego House

 

As seen in the entrance to the basement museum.

The building on our rainy day.  They actually have a whole bunch of outdoor play areas, which obviously no one used today.

  After Ribe, we drove one hour north to Billund, the home of Lego.  Unfortunately, Legoland is closed for another month, but The Lego House is open.  In the basement, it houses a museum and timeline of Legos.  In the top floor, there are experiences and building blocks for kids(and some adults) to play with.  I do not like Legos.  I do not like building things.  I showed Miles the website and asked if he had interest.  He said yes.

  We arrived at the hotel around 11:10.  Our ticket for the House was scheduled for 11:30.  Fortunately, our room was ready, so we unloaded all of our gear into the hotel room and headed out.

Miles had more interest in viewing all of the displays than playing with anything.  There were two more engaging areas.  One of them had you command a console and give a series of orders, that your personal robot would carry out.  It was simplistic, but cute.  The other area had you in charge of a stop motion film.  You had 3 cameras, each of which would light up and film a certain corner of a stage.  You would set up figures and vehicles, take two pictures, move them forward in animation, take two more pictures, and repeat.  It allowed you to delete ones you didn't like, add a few simple effects like lightning strikes or an explosion, and then press the play button to see it in action.

The mission was to dig the ground, plant seeds, and water it so that bees could use the flowers.

Three cameras, facing left, right, and middle

    The basement actually was of the most interest to me.  THAT was the only time Miles played with legos, since he was bored.  I actually read a good bit of the history.  Apparently, toward the beginning, there were complaints about stability, so around 1958, they finally decided to implement the locking connectivity that turned Legos into what they are today.  Slowly came wheels, minifigures, and licensing properties.  Recently they started catering to girls through the use of lego tv shows.  

Here are the pictures I took.

Upon tree leaves, from a tree that began on the bottom floor and went to the roof.

See the random person on the bottom left to judge scale.

The top of the tree.

An amazing waterfall.

It was hard to capture, but the ground in this city had digitally moving people.  It was part of a much larger display.

In the corner it says from Chinatown.  They should have modelled after japan.

Original non connecting legos.

Right after they became connected.