Legoland Billund Resort

Legoland Billund, the unique Legoland park, opened on 7 June 1968 in Billund, Denmark. The park is placed next to the authentic Lego manufacturing unit and Billund Airport, Denmark's 2d-busiest airport. Over 1.9 million guests visited the park in 2011 and because the outlet more than 50 million visitors have visited the park. This makes Legoland the most important visitor attraction in Denmark out of doors Copenhagen. The Legoland parks which have for the reason that been constructed are modelled upon Legoland Billund, most noticeably the Miniland vicinity, that's made from hundreds of thousands of plastic Lego bricks.

The Lego enterprise, led by means of Ole Kirk Christiansen, delivered plastic toys alongside their current wooden toy line in 1949 after shopping one of the first injection moulding machines in 1947.10 One son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen GKC, become named the coping with director of the own family business in 1957 rapidly earlier than his father died and simply two years later he offered out his 3 brothers.