Saturday: extra day - part 1

Ben and I had one more day in Denmark.  When planning the trip we had debated about this extra day, but we were really glad that we had it.  While Legoland ended up being fun but a normal theme park, we hadn't finished Lego House.

So after breakfast we...first had our picture taken with a MiniFig.

Then we wandered over to the Lego House.  We finally got our picture taken in front with the bricks.

We started out in the fish emotion area.  This was one of my favorite spots, although the scanner didn't work quite right and that was rather annoying.  (It would have been an easy fix for the scanner too!)  Anyway, I made two fish.  The first one had a longer tail than what was scanned.  (I also made a teeny, tiny fish and that wouldn't scan at all.)  Below is the scanner with my second fish/squid.  The large size of my squid made it work pretty well.

And Ben's:

Once they're scanned in they pop out of a pipe and start swimming happily...until something happens.

Next up were flowers.  I love seeing Lego flowers and have always thought I should make them.  The limited pieces gave me a nice starting point, and I was able to make my first one!  The only sad thing about this area was that the pieces were far away from the sitting area.

I was really happy with how my flower turned out.

The next section I had a bit of a harder time getting into.  You made jumpy creatures that then went down a vibrating hill or "danced" on a vibrating plate.  The dancing was interesting, but I felt like I didn't know what the goal was when making my creature...I didn't even realize it was supposed to be a creature and so I didn't love it properly.  This was probably more my problem than anything, but it was what it was.

The next part of this little area worked a bit better for me.  We made frogs on lily pads and then put them in a lake that was an air table and they floated around.

My frog ended up with a few too many pieces, but otherwise I liked how it turned out.

We found an outside spot!  There an an outside spot for every zone...we didn't find all of them, and some where better than others.  It's mainly a small play ground of sorts, although the ones we saw did seem to be quite different.  We didn't stay long...Legos work well with our adult minds but we didn't really need to play on the play equipment.

The last thing we needed to do was make a stop-motion movie.  (Really, we should have done this on Friday.  It was getting very, very busy in the house by this time.  This wait wasn't too bad, but by the time we left (you get 20 minutes) the line was quite long.)  Ben and I had plans for this poor guy to be thrown into the water by all sorts of things, but it turns out the moving in small increments you can't really do much in 20 minutes.


At this point we had done everything in Lego House.  (Although I heard there was a mosaic lab that we missed.)  We wanted to do the robot mammoth driving again, but the line was too long.  So we made some apartment buildings.  Below you can see that I put mine in a spot that made a lot of people happy...the red people were looking for a place to live.

 Ben's:

We tried making our way downstairs to eat, but kept getting distracted...

We finally made it down to the cafe, only to find that the wait was over an hour.  It's too bad, because they have some robots that help with your meal.  You order using different blocks and it comes out in a Lego brick container.

We had at least been able to see these guys at the first designer dinner.  A lady was explaining the food and the robots were just waving their arms behind her, almost like they were making fun of her.  Ben and I found it hilarious, no one else seemed to crack a smile.

Every day that you go to Lego house you get a unique 6-block combination.  There are around 915 million combos that you can make with six bricks 2x4 bricks.  (This got mentioned many times.  This is also why they can say "The possibilities are endless."  Imagine what you could do with five red blocks and a green block!)  Anyway, they print out a card with your combination and you can get a set of 6 red 2x4 blocks that are made right there.  I don't think I got a picture of the machine, but it was cool.

Ok, this post got long too so I'm going to split it up.