I grew up playing with LEGO and had never dreamt that some day I would land here at it’s place of origin which is also it’s global headquarters of LEGO, Billund, Denmark. I had an opportunity to visit LEGO at Billund recently, allowing me to get the glimpse of what happens at LEGO House, Billund.

A quick flash back of LEGO

Have you ever noticed how creative a child can be when given a handful of LEGO bricks?

Many children love LEGO bricks. When kids play and learn they will learn the basic skills like creativity, reasoning, collaboration and problem solving abilities.

While creating things out of these bricks, your child is often challenged by questions like: How to create a slope? Where do I put this brick? Will this brick fit in here? How does a brick make a ceiling? By asking themselves these questions, they are driven to answer them as well, all through experimentation. LEGO offers numerous such possibilities and opportunities for kids to find solutions to problems.

Kids get to learn the mathematical concepts of symmetry, shape and geometry. As they let their creativity take shape, they try building new things and sometimes the towers may fall off, and the kid tries again. These bricks never leaves a room for the fear of failures but teaches that if something doesn’t work as planned it can be always started again with a new plan and with a new hope. That’s why these toys are not just for playing but they also make the kid to imagine and create in its own way.

Did you know?

From a birds eye the entire LEGO house at Billund appears as a toy building with huge 21 bricks of white, yellow, red and green LEGO stacked on each other. This is the world’s largest play house with 12000 mt sq large and filled with 25 million LEGO bricks. LEGO house is an interactive place with a museum, a play area, a store and a display area for visitors to show off their own imagination. Here you can play, build and have fun all day.

Something special about the Tickets

You can buy tickets and can scan them and wear as a wristband that gives you access into the experience zone. This band can be scanned throughout the ”experience zone” to allow your creation and experience at LEGO house captured and is made accessible via LEGO House App.

As you enter the LEGO house a sea of colorful LEGO bricks greets you and there are different color theme zones each with respective themes. Red for creative skill, blue for cognitive skill, green for social skill.

Red Zone is about creativity and motion. Here a teacher will help you to build your LEGO creation of your dreams.

In the Red Zone you can see a 5.66 meters tall colorful water fall made with 1,968,753 bricks in 11,408 man hours and pool of parts with unlimited supply of LEGO bricks. This would take one person five years to build it alone.

Here you can have all the bricks and parts you could ever imagine at your finger tips. There is no limit to what you can imagine and try to build.

Yellow Zone is set up for kids to understand, express and regulate emotions.

Blue Zone is a logic zone. This zone focuses on showing kids how to solve complex problems, find solutions and learn new things out of it.

Green Zone teaches kids to become good communicator and it also helps to learn social awareness.

There are plenty of bricks to make your own fish which can then be scanned using your wrist band code and then your block will be transformed to a digital fish and you can let them swim virtually.

The first thing that comes to anyone’s notice as you enter will be a largest tree of LEGO. It is a jaw dropping colorful piece which is 50 ft tall and has taken 6,316,611 LEGO bricks and 24,350 man hours to assemble it.

Did you know that you get a unique 6 brick DNA combination at LEGO House?

Every wrist band can be scanned to supply a card with your name printed on it along with the visit date. By this you can access all your saved builds and experience on the LEGO house app and you can build your unique 2:4 LEGO brick combinations.

Here again by using your personal wrist band’s code you can create your own LEGO combination. A molding machine will make six identical 2:4 red bricks in real time and you can watch as the bricks are born, collected and popped into a bag. This will be your unique combination of blocks which you can take home as a memory.

Using this six identical 2:4 bricks you can build 915,103,765 different combinations!!!

Soon to come environment friendly LEGO.

In 2015 the LEGO group announced it’s plan to move to sustainable materials, products and packaging by 2030 and will be launching first of their sustainable LEGO bricks. The new LEGO will be made from sugarcane, these botanicals will be the first elements to hit the shelves. It is been tested to ensure the plant- based material meets the high standards for quality and with this LEGO aims to raise the awareness about sustainability and renewable energy.

What more can you have when you can access 25 million LEGO bricks. All kind of fairy tales can be brought to life. This is a simple yet magical toy, with just one you cannot do many things but put two together or more and you can start building. Add another and another, the number of creative things you can build will keep growing exponentially. Here one can play, celebrate creativity and the strength of learning through play.

To know more about LEGO House visit: https://legohouse.com/en-gb/