I have visited several Legoland parks across the world and my new favorite is Legoland Billund.
The chain’s original park offers the deepest and most diverse ride lineup in my opinion.
The Legoland parks understandably usually cater to kids and families. While this park certainly does,
it also features a few thrill rides to offer something to entertain older kids and adults
as well. So in this video, I will rank this Danish park’s top 15 rides and attractions.
And compared to the other Danish countdowns I have done and will be doing, these names
are thankfully much easier to pronounce. 15) X-treme Racers- This Mack wild mouse is one
of the rarer large park models that starts with a zippy first drop into a tunnel with light effects.
The elevated hairpin turns offer mild laterals, but the ride does run noticeably slower than other
mice presumably due to the family demographic. This is especially apparent in the heavily braked
second half that has no airtime nor laterals. But the ride is smooth and a hit with kids.
14) Miniland- This walkthrough area is the heart and sole of the Legoland parks. This
area has some of the most elaborate and detailed Lego models on earth.
You have full cities with moving vehicles, you have skyscrapers, and you even have a space
shuttle that launches. You could easily spend an hour here looking at all the scenes in detail.
13) Ghost- Haunted House- This attraction is split into two parts. It starts with an
elaborately well-themed queue line that made the experience for me. You pass through a
creepy mansion past some Lego ghosts and ghouls. And it ultimately leads to a fun mirror maze.
Then you reach the main ride, which is a 3 story tall drop tower. The drops are quite tame, about
on par with most junior drop towers, but the cycle was surprisingly short since you had just one
bounce drop and one full drop. DRA GUN
12) Dragen- This Legoland staple uses a different ride system.
Rather than being a traditional roller coaster with a lift hill, Billund’s Dragen is a powered
coaster that can interestingly run two trains. The ride starts in a similar fashion as you slowly
pass some medieval scenes and a large dragon animatronic. Then you have a pseudo-launch as
you accelerate past the station and head outdoors for some helixes. This section is very tame,
but it is well-landscaped. But the dark ride section is really what makes the ride for me.
11) Fire Brigade- This Legoland hit has teams race to extinguish a fire.
Guest manually power their own truck with a crank. Then you work as a team to pump water
and aim it at the fire. Then you race back to the finish line. This ride is amazing if you ride it
with friends and compete against each other. 10) Temple- This shooting dark ride is one of
the shortest out there, but it is fun while it lasts. You have these nice-looking Lego
sets and there are plenty of targets with different point values to take fire at.
They all work, but the laser sight was a little different on this one. It would disappear whenever
you fired, so you had to pause in between shots if you wanted to re-establish your position.
PEE RAT BUD 9) Piratbade- This
slow-moving boat ride is basically Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. You pass a series of figures and
animatronics outdoors before heading into a cave with some larger and more elaborate sets. This is
a really cool dark ride that is not to be missed. 8) Flying Eagle- If you’ve ridden Morey’s Piers’s
Runaway Tram, this is a clone. You have the same smooth ride with a pinch of airtime and
some mildly forceful turns. And like the one in Wildwood, you also get two laps. But this Zierer
coaster is plussed by some nice theming as you zip past rockwork and waterfalls along the route.
7) Lego Canoe- This small flume ride isn’t about the thrills. The final plunge is both
small and shallow. However, the ride has great visuals as you pass through caves and
travel past a variety of Lego scenes. Not many flumes have as much to look at as this one.
6) Emmet’s Flying Adventure- I really like flying theaters. Usually they offer
a scenic tour of famous landmarks. This one is different. It’s a frenetic journey that
really feels like an acid trip. The ride is sensory overload. The screen is busy
with all the background characters sort of like the Star Wars prequels.
But the motion is well synchronized and the ride is fun. It just has a much
different flavor than the usual flying theater. 5) Vikings River Splash- This Intamin river
rapids ride, like many of the rapids rides in Denmark, is very weak on the rapids.
This one does redeem itself in two ways. One, you have some Lego statues to admire along the course.
Two, there are three drops. The first two are these abrupt dips that build up good speed.
Then the final one is a large drop accessed by an elevator lift. This plunge is shallow,
but it has a little speed to it and whoever goes down backwards will get very wet.
4) Polar X-plorer- This Zierer creation is the best coaster at a Legoland park. I think this
coaster has some oomph to it. The first drop has some laterals, the speed hills have a pinch
of airtime, and the helixes offer some decent positive Gs. The layout is really short, but it is
plussed by some theming. Most of the ride takes place in and around the mountain. Then you pass
some Lego statues and even a penguin exhibit on the final brake run. There’s also one other trick
I don’t want to spoil here, but I talk about it in an individual review for this coaster.
3) Apocalypseburg Sky Battle- This Technical Park flat ride can be as wild or tame as you like.
Much like the Gerstlauer sky flies, riders are given paddles and can use these while also
shifting their weight to fully invert. This one is easier to invert than the Gerstlauer versions and
the flips are more varied as you get hangtime over the top and more rapid flips at the base.
The one thing I want to note is that the handles for the paddles seemed to be closer
to the restraints. This makes sense for kids, but it was a little uncomfortable
for an adult to hold the flip compared to the other installations out there.
2) Ninjago the Ride- This interactive shooting dark ride is both a joy and a workout. You use
hand gestures to fire projectiles at screen-based targets. The system works really well as long as
you remember not to change elevator too much and there’s plenty of cartoony figures to hit.
I know Webslingers has gotten a lot of attention at the Disney parks lately, but I think this ride
is better. It’s much easier to follow the action! 1) Ice Pilots School- This quintet of Kuka robot
arms can either offer a mild experience or the wildest ride in the park. I of course picked
the latter. Riders go to a kiosk and can select level 1 through 5 with 5 being the most extreme.
You can then pick 3-4 maneuvers for your arm to complete. And if you picked level 5, you get
1 minute of mayhem. I’m pretty sure I spent more time inverted. I got tons of hangtime and lost all
sense of direction from the arm wildly flinging me forwards and backwards. The dark lighting and
strobe lights just add to the disorientation in my opinion. This ride had been closed for a few years
and it unfortunately has a miserable throughput, but it was my favorite ride in the park and
I talk about it more in a separate review. So those are the top 15 rides and attractions
at Legoland Billund. As I mentioned at the start, I really appreciated how this park
had some extreme flats to be paired with the family-friendly roller coasters and dark rides.
It really gave this park variety you don’t get at the other Legoland parks. What are
your favorite rides at this park? Let me know in the comments. If you enjoyed this countdown, I’d
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