Legoland Billund
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Legoland Billund, the original Legoland
Legoland
Legoland is a chain of Lego-themed theme parks. They are not fully owned by Lego Group itself; rather they are owned and operated by the British theme park company Merlin Entertainment.The chain currently consists of:* Legoland Billund...

 park, opened in 1968 in Billund
Billund, Denmark
Billund is the second largest town in Billund Municipality, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark with a population of 6,139 .-Overview:...

, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. The Park is located next to the original Lego
Lego
Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

 factory and Denmark's second busiest airport Billund Airport
Billund Airport
In addition to the scheduled airlines above, several charter airlines serve Billund airport: BH Air, Bulgarian Air Charter, Corendon Airlines, Jettime, Nesma Airlines, Onur Air, Sky Airlines and SunExpress.-Cargo airlines:...

. 1.6 million guests visited the park in 2007 and over the years more than 40 million guests have been through the park. This makes it the largest tourist attraction in Denmark outside of Copenhagen. The Legoland parks that have since been built are modelled upon Legoland Billund, most noticeably the Miniland area, which serves as the heart of the park.

Duplo Land

Duplo land contains rides and attractions for young children, with the Lego Duplo brand theme. The Duplo Playhouse is a play area for children ages 2–6, which is themed like a city that children can play in. They can build using Lego, or play on the fake planes and fake cars. There are also slides, stairs, interactive elements and a role-play area. There is also a Duplo train, which is a kiddie train ride which looks like a train made of Duplo Bricks. You can ride the track, which is a straight piece with 9 turns, making a ride of 2 minutes. Duplo Planes, a plane ride similar to Disney's Dumbo ride, is themed to planes made of Duplo Bricks that you can ride in. The Planes are attached to arms that connect into the hydraulic lift mechanism, so you can control the planes by using a joystick to go up and down. Duplo driving school is a car ride for children ages 2–6, who are not yet ready for the Traffic school ride. It is a safe driving environment for younger kids, supervised by Legoland Employees.

Imagination Zone

The Imagination zone contains the Lego Studio, a purpose built 600 seat 4-D Theater, complete with special effects and a giant screen. There are 4 movies that play daily, these are Lego Racers, Spell breakers, Bob the builder and clutch powers. Lego Atlantis by Sea Life was added in 2007. The attraction starts off with an animated movie, featuring Lego figures and a submarine, traveling down to the submerged city of Atlantis. Following the movie, there is an aquarium and other hands on activities with more than 800 sea creatures. Numerous Lego figures and models are in and around the aquarium.

Legoredo Town

LEGOREDO is a Western-themed land which contains the rides Lego Canoe, LEGOLDMINE, Westernride, Timber Ride, LEGOLDMINE Train. There is also an Indian camp led by the popular Chief Long Ears (referring to the long rabbit ears on his headgear). LEGOREDO also has its own band called "The Rattlesnakes" and they play country music all day long.

Adventure Land

Adventure land contains X-Treme racers, a Mack rides wild mouse coaster with a twist: the ride starts out when a vehicle turns out of station and the vehicle goes up an 80 feet (24.4 m) lift hill then makes a wide turn at the top the coaster; after that the vehicles goes down an 80 feet (24.4 m) near vertical plunge and then goes into tracks with a series of turns and drops and then hit the brake run to return back into the station after your photo is taken on the ride. Adventure zone a dueling water carousel in a lagoon with splash effects and jet ski cars with that spin circles at fast speeds. In the 2010 season The Templet a dark ride that is indoors where riders board Explorer jeeps with capacity of three passengers in 1 row on a continuously moving track with laser guns and a scoreboard that will help you shoot the targets inside the ride and to see your score throughout the ride your vehicle enters the ride scenes through an automatic door and then your vehicles moves throughout all 10 show scenes inside the ride and then your vehicle exits the scenes through an automatic exit doorway and to the unload station then you exit vehicles into the gift shop to shop and view your on-ride photo. The Temple games a midway games area themed to the pharaohs with ring-toss, water shooting game, balloon popping game and a mummy games. Two gift shops Temple gifts and adventure shop. Two restaurants
  • Miniland
  • Pirate Land

Lego City

Lego City contains Bioncioule builders an Indoor robo-coaster in the dark where you can build you own roller coaster and thrill level for it all 10 robomatic arms hold 2 riders each and the attraction is themed to Bionicle
Bionicle
Bionicle is a line of toys by the LEGO Group marketed primarily for 5- to 16-year-olds. The line was launched on December 30, 2000 in Europe and June/July 2001 in Canada and the United States. "Bionicle" is a portmanteau constructed from the words "biological" and "chronicle"...

 Also in Lego city is the Flunck Fire bardage a ride where you take vehicles to a building that needs to be put out with water and fast team will win the challenge. Lego City has 2 restaurants with American food and The Lego clubhouse shop for your shopping pleasure.

Knights' Kingdom

Knight's Kingdom contains The Dragon coaster a coaster that starts inside in the castle building with slow moving dark ride scenes with Lego figures themed medieval times this includes a dragon figure to and then your Dragon train with lap bars goes up a lift hill and then drops down a drop into turns, helixes and drops after that you hit the brake run and return to the station your photo is taken on board the ride in the final drop area. Viking's river splash a river rapids ride themed to Vikings that was added in 2006 the ride begins with a circular moving load platform after you board your Viking themed raft it moves around turns, whirlpools and waterfalls and it spins around gets you wet with Lego Viking figures throughout the ride course after that part of the ride your raft goes on a Elevator lift system track that takes you to the top of the lift system and drops you down a 40 feet (12.2 m) drop while spinning down the drop into a lagoon with Lego sea monster figures after you splash down it your raft goes back to the station your photo on on board the ride into the drop portion. Knight's photos/shop and Viking gifts and photo shop. Knight's Kingdom also has granny's apple farms restaurant, Knight's barbecue grill and Castle burgers.

Gift shop

Contains the main shop called the Big shop that sells Lego sets, figures and Legoland merchandise for shopping needs and end of the day purchases in one big location.
  • Lego Hollywood

Polar Land (New for 2012)

This new area of the park will bring the North Pole
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface...

 and South Pole
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...

 together, with Polar X-plorer
Polar X-plorer
Polar X-plorer is a steel roller coaster currently under construction at Legoland Billund on the Billund, Denmark. It is due to open May 2012.-History:...

a new coaster and Penguin
Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...

Bay
, that will feature live penguins and a new restaurant called Polar Pizza and Pasta.

Accidents

On April 29, 2007, a 21-year old female employee was killed by a roller coaster when she climbed over a security fence to retrieve a guest's wallet.

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