“The excellent, wonderful nonsense a person could build with Legos remains a shared memory for many childhoods.” -Old Sean
Building Up to It
After a very brief morning in Kolding, Denmark, my next goal involved visiting Billund.
Billund is famous for inventing and manufacturing the most effective civilian booby-traps in modern history.
The Lego Brick.
Many a-foot have been injured upon these increasingly complex plastic building devices. And Billund makes monuments out of Legos. the entire town exists at a championship-crafting level.
Billund is less of an actual town and more of an extended Lego-amusement-park and children’s vacation resort.
Billund Arrival
A huge airport dominates the northern part of Billund. The actual walking area to the south is defined by permanent Lego décor.
I marched through all of the major features at speed, taking photos as I went. There are Lego Hotels, Lego Wolves, Lego Sculptures, a Lego Amusement Park, Lego Campsites, shops and another entertainment center known as LaLandia.
Everywhere, enormous plastic brick monuments stood as pillars of human creativity.
Playgrounds scattered themselves through the town in force and as the day gradually picked up, children began making themselves known in the small paradise.
I walked alongside tilting Lego pirate ships, perched Lego eagles, past docile plastic deer, around Lego ninja figures, under colored dinosaurs and through waist-high Lego cities.
Interviewing in Billund
As mentioned in a previous post, my time in Denmark is painfully limited due to my company’s travel budget. I’m only spending a few hours in several locations, where I do my usual work: Take photos, conduct interviews and write stories about local features.
I met with three people for short interviews in the morning at Brickaccino, a Lego-themed café. The entire interview process was pretty straightforward, since Billund advertises itself very well and Lego bricks are almost universally recognized.
Almost immediately after the interview, I was hopping on yet another bus. This time, I was expected in Odense on the island of Funen.
So until then,
Best regards and excellent trails,
Old Sean
Written June 6th 2018
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