The Lego House
This was what we came for! Our trip to Denmark was to see the original Lego House, and the town where it all began, and it did not disappoint. We went on a Saturday and I was honestly surprised by how quiet the town was. It’s a small village. No traffic. We only saw a few people sitting for morning coffee and a croissant at the small bakery we passed as we walked to the Lego House from the free car park. It felt a bit surreal. I remembered reading that their busiest days for the Legoland park and the Lego House, as well as the other “attractions” in Billund, are Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so Saturday felt like a ghost town.
We were so excited to explore the Lego House and once we stepped inside it was the perfect amount of people and this tangible energy that made us all so happy. I couldn’t stop smiling.
I had purchased our tickets in combination with our Legoland tickets from the Legoland website which gave us a really good discount. For both Legoland and the LegoHouse it was $441 for our family of six. I did have to select what day I would be visiting the Lego House and reserve a time to show up. We arrived at 10am so we could have the whole day.
Once you check in, you’re given a wrist band that works with several touchpoint throughout the House for a unique and personalized experience. The first thing you see is this amazing Lego tree made from over 6.3 million Lego, rising up three stories with scenes of different Lego themes staged on the platforms of ‘leaves’. This year Lego is celebrating it’s 90th birthday so there were fun displays in the lobby and throughout the House.
When we entered, rather than going right upstairs, we curled around the tree and to see an actual Lego manufacturing machine producing a set color of 2x4 pieces. Each day there is a new color. On the other side of the machine you can collect your own free bag of six pieces of these bricks that were freshly made and then scan your wristband to receive a personalized build using these six pieces on a card with your name on it. I loved it! All six of us received different configurations.
As we went up the stairs to the different experience zones, our eyes were all fixed on the Lego tree. Lego does such a fantastic job making things fun and slipping in extra details to make you laugh.
At the top of the stairs was the hall of the Dinosaurs, made of Lego of course. One was out of Duplo and the other all Technic pieces. In the glass cases surrounding the hall are builds made by different workers at Lego. The cards next to each build shared their picture, a little about them, their position and time working at Lego. It was fascinating and my kids were in heaven, dreaming about working at Lego someday. I loved that there were stashes of Lego next to the benches and you could just sit down and start creating and then leave your creation on the top of the display case.
Next up was the Lego waterfall room. People were gathered around large building areas just creating whatever they could dream up and it was truly impressive. My kids got right to work. Nola made herself holding her beloved white cat. Brian made snow-topped trees. Joel created a shield, and Matt made a rocket. The display cases had creations made from House guests, just like us, and it was really inspiring. There was a small library area just off this room that my one son loved. His favorite was looking through a catalog book of all the different Lego mini figures that had when they were made and a rating for how rare they are.
Just off the waterfall room was another experience room of building and racing Technic cars. On the other side of the Dinosaur Hall was my favorite area. I don’t even know how to explain it! It was just all Lego. So many scenes and Lego villages with hidden surprises and mini figures to try to find. I couldn’t stop smiling. Once we found a few fairytale and movie references we were all examining every detail so closely to find all the fun things. The main mountain village has trains with cameras mounted on them so you can follow their path through the tunnels on a screen. The scenes change as the lighting shifts from night to day at regular intervals. I just loved it!
The display cases around this room were filled with creations by people around the world who had submitted their own Lego builds in the annual Lego competition. My kids were totally inspired, and I was too.
The next experience room was creating a flat design that you could place into a screen and see your creation come to life. I didn’t think I would be into building Lego all day, but these were truly so fun. Around another corner you could design and build Lego flowers and butterflies, or fish and see them come to life. I’m telling you, it is the happiest place and I wish I lived next door so my kids could have access to all this creative space all the time.
Even the outside of the building has places to play. I loved how they thought of every detail and made it fun.
On the main floor there is a cafe, and cute eating space with a live band that was playing music for a while. There is also a finer dining restaurant and the MINI Chef which is where I made a reservation for us to eat. At MINI Chef, you order your food by building a combination of Lego pieces and slipping your build into a reader. You then get to watch the Lego chef mini figure on the screen at your table taking your order and all the ways they put it together back in the kitchen. There are, of course, Lego to play with at the table while you wait, and they brought us a bread basket with amazing bread (of course, because bread is amazing everywhere in Europe!) with the most delicious butter. Once your food is ready, you see it come out a Lego ramp up high and make its way down a spiral to two robots who “deliver” your box to you. The food was good! We all tried different things and really enjoyed the meal. It was such a fun experience. If you’re going to the Lego House with kids, I’d say to make sure you do this. It’s more expensive for a meal, for our family it came to $160, but it’s such a fun experience. If you were just coming to the Lego House as adults I would choose the other restaurant, or even the Cafe.
The last area of the Lego House was the history of Lego that was on the lower level. It was so well done and we all learned more about this amazing company. Something we kept talking about was how many set backs they had and how many times they could have, or even should have, just quit — but they kept on going. And we are so glad they did. It was really fun to see sets of Lego from years and decades before. I could show my kids the sets I remember growing up with in the 80s and 90s.
Every inch of this experience was amazing to me. My cheeks ached from smiling all day and I so loved seeing my kids inspired and feeling the same level of amazement. My oldest son was so happy to be there.
One thing we hadn’t planned for was that the Lego Store there is actually quite small with not very much selection. We wished we would have planned to shop more at the Legoland park because we missed out on getting some things we had really wanted. Joel was especially sad because the one set he really wanted from this whole experience that is only sold at the Lego House —the architecture set of the actual Lego House — was all out of stock on the day we went. I am going to have to find someone who is visiting there to pick it up for me!
We were all grateful for the day we spent there and went back to our farmhouse tired and happy. I give the Lego House 5 stars and would definitely go again and spend just as much time. We loved it!
