Yesterday, I went to Legoland on a DIS trip! It was a three and a half hour bus ride to Billund, where Lego was founded and now set up. One of the girls I live with was also on the trip, so we basically just spend the day running around the park in delight, where the visitors were Danish children under 6 in rain-suits and their parents, despite the cold and rain. As always, I took too many pictures!
But really, there were so many Danish families with their little children, all bundled up in rain gear (I noticed it pretty early in the day and wondered if the Danes knew something I didn't, and when it started pouring, we realized they did!)
It's Hans Christian Anderson! Reading! Very Danish of you, Legoland. (Also, I definitely thought this was Abe Lincoln until I realized this was Denmark and that was an absurd first guess haha)
The whole park had 6.5 million Lego bricks throughout. Most of these pictures are from MiniWorld, where they just recreated different scenes from all over the world.
This is Frederiksburg's castle. I visited it at the very beginning of the semester, just it was covered in snow then. It is a Baroque castle and has one of the most beautiful gardens, which were frozen when we went, so I'd like to go back and see it when everything is in bloom.
Nyhavn, the typical Copenhagen postcard shot. I was amazed at the detail in each of these little scenes. There are little people walking around with indivitual characteristics, some of the cars move, there was a farm scene where cows and pigs sang and bopped their head around. It was too adorable.
Amsterdam! Look at that Dutch Renaissance architecture.
And a green house (with the flowers carefully arranged in rows as if they were crops besides it, so clever. I loved how they used the plants to be other things!).
Just an older couple, Sitting outside their house. By their Greenhouse and windmill.
A couple getting married!
The also had a very large section devoted to energy extraction. This is part of an oil rig here, but they also had natural gas mining, several refineries, and windmills (of course). There is a large energy company here called Dong Energy, and they must have donated quite a bit of money to Lego to get this much space (and to have their logo on several places). They do invest in renewables, like wind (quite a lot, actually) and wave, but primarily focus on natural gas and oil in the North Sea. So I thought it was interesting that they were featured so predominately and that the focus was on oil... I wasn't particularly pleased there, but it's okay haha....
They had a Hollywood scene, where Bionics were featured. I loved it so much. So clever Lego!
Amalienburg!
With a mini M for Queen Margrethe just outside.
Amalie gardens (which I haven't visted yet, but obviously must, because this is beautiful)
This is Christian X, who was king of Denmark during WWII. He is famous for continuing to ride through the streets during the war, despite the Nazi control, in order to keep public moral up. The big statue is on my route to the Little Mermaid, so it was cool to see something I see regularly here.
And here is the actually oil rig...
Houston we have a problem!
Ah, the stars and stripes.
This is a Lego mural of a herd of buffalo, right out side of...
Basically the Wild West. In Denmark.
I'd like to point out that I've never actually seen Mount Rushmore, but this is close enough, right/
That is a full size naked Lego land. The Danish humor.
Pirate Land! We went on a few rides throughout the day, and, even though they were clearly geared for children, we had a blast. There was one that went through the castle that we picked to get out of the rain. We just hopped on (since there were basically no lines, since it was raining), and at first thought it was very like It's a Small World at Disneyland (and now the song is stuck in your head, right? I mean, it is in mine!). There were all these scenes of royals eating, a wizard, monks, a dragon, everything you'd expect from a castle in the middle ages. Btu then it shoots us outside, and it turns out it was a roller coaster! We were just surprised and giggly and it was only 30 seconds long, but probably my favorite part of the day.
Oh, and another naked Lego man.
They also had a little aquarium, with sharks and different fish, but also little lego scenes. The skeleton above? His head rotated and would lift the log every once in awhile.
Then we found the Star Wars section. I definitely took too many pictures, but definitely enjoyed it. There was a separate little area from each movie (including Clone Wars, which seemed silly to me, but whatever), but, again, had an incredible amount of detail.
Obi Wan is down! Oh no!
Ewoks!
And then we went on a little boat tour of famous buildings around the world, including the statue of Liberty!
And the Capitol. Which was labeled "The Capitol." No country name, or qualifications, just, the Capitol.
We found a Lego figure that was Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. And it actually looked like him! Again, very impressed. We only have a few more weeks here left! It's strange to even think about leaving, but I still have so many more things to do! I made a "Bucket List" of things I need to see before I leave. But, the last week before I come home is "finals week," but the only real test that I have is on Friday, so I think we're just going to be incredibly touristy and do everything we haven't done yet.
Hope finals and such are going well for everyone back home and hopefully I will see you soon!
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