MINICACHERS O. L. A. AND C.’S
LEGO TOUR OF BILLUND
VIRTUAL REWARD 4.O
This Virtual Cache has been constructed to celebrate and reminisce on the 4 Minicachers O, L, A, and C’s big adventure to Billund and all the wonderful associated Lego landmarks they experienced in the vicinity. It was the trip of a lifetime for so many reasons and it has been a pleasure creating this walk down memory lane! Hopefully you will enjoy the experience and create as many treasured memories as we did.
A round trip beginning at the posted coordinates should take less than 1 hour to complete. However, if you spend as much time as we did enjoying each location and snapping photographs who knows how long it may take you! But you know what, just like a Lego set, life is about building memories, one brick at a time!
THE TASK
To claim a find on this cache you must do the following
At each waypoint take a photograph of either:
yourself
or
a personal identifying item (e.g. your geocaching name on some paper)
or
any geocaching item.
Post the photographs with your log. Your photographs must clearly show you were present at each location in question. Sample photographs for each waypoint are included below, but are not prescriptive.
If opting to include your name in the photos, it must be included at the time of taking them and not added afterwards digitally or otherwise.
All logs must include the photos in question. No need to email them to me.
Any logs without the appropriate photos will be deleted without warning. If you plan to post the photos at a later time, please post a "Write Note" rather than a "Found it" log. Group photos must be uploaded to the relevant logs of each finder. Please do not log the cache if you are unable to upload the correct photographs.
LEGO HEADQUARTERS
55°43'57.3"N 9°07'18.1"E
The posted coordinates will bring you to LEGO Headquarters, opened in 2022 and located in a large park that is open to the public and is workplace for approximately 2,000 people. While here see if you can spot any LEGO bricks on the exterior walls, gigantic yellow bricks on the roof, an entrance made of bricks or any of the outside furniture which was made from recycled waste LEGO bricks! You can’t miss the enormous “Minifigure” either!
HOTEL LEGOLAND
55°44'01.9"N 9°07'39.3"E
Stop 2 brings you to Hotel LEGOLAND, part of the Legoland Resort, which opened in 1968. Keep an eye out for some unique LEGO Sculptures! Even the hotel carpark has large-scale LEGO models and figures, some made from thousands of LEGO bricks. These models include life-sized LEGO characters, animals, and even dragons.
LEGOLAND CASTLE HOTEL
55°44'03.1"N 9°07'56.4"E
At stop 3 you will find yourself at another area of Hotel LEGOLAND, the Castle Hotel. Opened in 2019, this a magical, fairy tale-themed destination, designed to look like a grand medieval castle, complete with turrets, towers, and a drawbridge, giving the impression of being in a LEGO fantasy world. The hotel’s design is inspired by the classic fairy tales of knights, princesses, wizards, and dragons.
LEGOLAND PARK
55°44'07.5"N 9°07'53.1"E
Stop 4 will be instantly recognisable to visitors and locals alike! In the early 1960s, LEGO products were so successful that more than 20,000 guests annually visited the factory in Billund. The many guests at the factory laid the foundation stone for this, the first LEGOLAND Park, which opened next to the original Lego factory in Billund on 7th June 1968 with 625,000 guests the first year. Over 50 years later, there are eight LEGOLAND Parks around the world, which receive a total of more than 15 million guests each year.
LEGO HOUSE
55°43'52.0"N 9°06'51.8"E
Stop 5 brings you to “Home of the Brick”, Lego House, a 12,000-square metre building filled with 25 million Lego bricks. It has been recognised for its innovative design, which aimed to reflect the building blocks. The building incorporates 21 staggered blocks that resemble Lego bricks, with nine freely accessible roof terraces containing children's play areas. The house was designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group and was inaugurated on 28 September 2017. In addition to its concept as a visitor centre, Lego House was also created to offer a communal urban space to the local community, due to its central location in Billund, with many areas of the complex, such as the roof terraces, having been designed to be entirely free to enter. For this reason, all of the public facilities, such as the shop and restaurant, were planned to be accessible from a free public area on the ground floor of the building.
OLE KIRK’S HOUSE
55°43'54.3"N 9°06'49.9"E
The final stop brings you to the original family house of the inventor of LEGO, Ole Kirk Kristiansen. Built in 1924, it housed Ole Kirk's office and it was in that very room in 1932 that he coined the name LEGO, a blend of the Danish words "Leg Godt," which means "Play Well." This is where Ole Kirk Kristiansen first doodled his ideas for wooden toys that later turned into the world-famous LEGO bricks.
COMPLETION
Hopefully you enjoyed visiting the locations on the tour as much as we did. If you wish you may add the following souvenir banner to your Geocaching.com profile to celebrate your successful completion of the tour!
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VIRTUAL REWARDS 4.0 - 2024-2025
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between January 17, 2024 and January 17, 2025. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 4.0 on the Geocaching Blog.