- If you are a fan of LEGO, we are in Billund, Denmark.
Get ready to have your minds blown.
Mecca of LEGO headquarters.
(upbeat electronic music)
We've just filmed a video with the
LEGO channel called Rebrickulous.
We'll link it at the end of the video
and you can go watch it out where we
do a scavenger hunt inside of this building.
- This building is so awesome!
- It's amazing.
- It's so cool inside!
- Let's go check it out.
- [Man] So that's right, Today we are
filming for marketing purpothes.
- This is one of the most unique buildings
you're gonna find in the entire world,
and it's a place that tourists
can come to take in all things LEGO.
- [Man] So here comes Lincoln in the front door.
To the left of it you've got a giant LEGO store
where you can purchase things, and then down here
are a bunch of red and white LEGOs.
These are all creations that just people made.
I'm guessing this is the Denmark flag.
Alright this is the coffee place, Brickaccino,
and they have really interesting things on the menu.
- They have overpriced coffee, which is from The LEGO Movie.
37 Dollars.
- It's 37 dollars.
- Awesome!
- [Lincoln] They have The Kragle, as a smoothie.
That's pretty funny.
- [Man] This must be the bank where you put your tips.
This tree you're seeing right here is made out of LEGO,
and it's one of the biggest LEGO
structures in the entire world.
- [Lincoln] Look at that, there's a little duckie
- [Man] There is a duck in there.
I kind of wanted to have somebody to help us that's
an expert that can tell us a little bit about this tree
because it's massive and it is super cool, so we're lucky
we have our friend Stuart who is one of the
master designers of The LEGO House.
- And I'm actually mostly responsible for the LEGO models
which are here in the house, including this
fantastic tree that you've just seen.
- [Man] Alright so tell us a little bit about
this tree, what makes it unique.
- Well, as you've mentioned, it's one of the biggest
models we've ever built, we call it The Tree of Creativity.
It's over 6.3 million bricks that
went into the construction of this.
It's over 50 feet tall, it took 24000
hours to put together in production.
- 24000 hours!
- [Lincoln] How many days is that?
- How many days is that?
- [Man] Zack, You're smart, go!
- Math is not good but I'll get back to you.
- [Man] Just kidding!
- If you were going to build it on you're own, the average
sort of working year, that would take you
around twelve years to build.
- [Lincoln] It makes sense though
- [Man] Twelve years, one person.
This tree represents Lincoln's entire life,
that's pretty cool.
When I was walking by the tree earlier today,
I felt like I wanted to like jump off and hit the leaves.
They're pretty sturdy though, right?
- It is very sturdy and we take
safety very seriously, obviously.
- Okay.
- So it is pretty strong, it's pretty robust,
there's actually a big steel pipe that runs up
the middle of the tree, you know, we don't wanna knock
the tree over and have to build it again cause we've gotta
wait another twelve years to put it together again,
So we are sort of very conscious of that.
- [Man] Nice
Okay there's a couple things, first of all, I see a bunch
of monkeys down there, it looks like a bunch of monkeys
are having a birthday party.
- Yes
- Is that what that is?
- Yes because the LEGO house
is celebrating it's first birthday.
- So somebody might come here in a year from now
or six months from now and there's
gonna be different things on there?
- Yes we're actually working on a new one right now.
- The tree is forever growing, just like
a regular tree in life, pretty cool.
- [Lincoln] We've got like a city, a transportation thing.
There's trains, there's airplanes, and then this one's
like the sea, it's like the shipping area.
- Some of the fans will notice some of the very iconic
sets we've placed in there that we've
produced over the years, so it's kind of like an evolution
of how play has changed over the years.
You can see the castle branch in the background there.
You can see the yellow castle, which is a very iconic model
produced by the LEGO group.
- I like the little runway that the dragons.
- [Stuart] See the dragon is coming in to land
- [Lincoln] Yeah.
- And he's being directed down with the fire there.
- [Man] Oh man that is cool with the fire.
- [Lincoln] He's got a banana sword, that's awesome!
- [Man] There's the monkey with the banana sword see
theses are things that you wouldn't see if you
just came by, I didn't see them earlier and
I've come by this five times today.
- We're getting to the top of the tree,
this is one of my favorites, I love The Endeavor space ship
that is taking off, it's blasting off and you can see
the fire and the lights inside of it.
- And you can see the aliens are
taking a selfie in front of it.
- [Man] The tree is continuing to grow,
I see up here with the crane, with the inner structure.
- The tree is kind of a story of the LEGO group,
where the LEGO group is continually growing
and renewing itself, and also because our
heritage belongs in wooden toys,
so those are carved into the base of the tree.
- Oh yes, the wooden toys! The wooden toys that is so
cool, no wonder a tree makes sense, I love that.
Okay Stuart, earlier Lincoln and I were up here
and we were looking at this giant T-Rex, and I was trying
to figure out, tell me about this one.
- Three dinosaurs here represent our three
core building systems, we have a Duplo dinosaur,
a LEGO system dinosaur,
and this one the LEGO TECHNIC dinosaur.
We wanted to show was, you know, if you build almost the
same dinosaur but in the three different building systems
how very different they would look.
- [Man] That is cool, I love this one, with the eyes,
the teeth are so jagged and sharp and I love how
each one of the eggs you can see
an eye ball from, like, the baby.
- You can. So at some point, some baby dinosaurs will appear
- Oh yeah! Okay. There's a real Easter egg for ya.
You'll see in the Rebrickulous video we went
more in detail about this area this is the place that
Lincoln wants to spend weeks at just staring
at all these different places.
- It's so cool
- There are caves
- There's Olaf down there, There's Star Wars little guys
- There's everything there are so many hidden things,
like look at this guy right here, he's got a cave.
- There's like, Superman.
Superman's like saving people, Superman's hanging up
his capes over there too.
- It is so amazing, so, You'll see it in the Rebrickulous
video that we'll link at the end of this, but, I heard
that you have you're own LEGO guy that's in this somewhere
- This is my business card, and, he is hiding somewhere
in the world.
- [Man] I like the little top hat that's great.
Lincolns just stuck watching he can barely walk two
steps without stopping to look at these
- It's true
- Wow this one's fascinating, okay,
where can we find the Stuart Harris in this?
What do you think, which world did you put yourself in?
I'm guessing, no, it's either between this one or this one.
This one?
- [Stuart] I've already told Lincoln
- [Man] I think it's this one
- [Lincoln] Nope
- Is it the city?
- [Lincoln] Yes.
- Okay, it's the city, it's somewhere in the city,
he's at a party, there's a parade, this looks like London,
you have a bit of a British accent.
- That's true
- That's true, the hat looks like a British hat.
You're probably at a parade, enjoying the parade, this is
Manchester United just won a soccer game and you're pumped,
- I'm up in The World Cup.
- Oh The World Cup?
- France versus Croatia
- France and Croatia, oh man, that's
the actual world cup that's who played in it.
Lincoln, did you know that?
Yeah he knew that, he saw it, he's smart.
Okay, Alright, So I was getting warm so there's gotta be
something that's British here.
Cinema area, no.
look at this thing, this giant cathedral busted open.
Oh man that big old robot knocked it over perfect.
- This is from Back to the Future
- Oh yes, yes, Back to the Future house right there.
I love it.
Villain, big old cargo ship with the
bananas for the monkeys, and yes it is moving.
The English Pub, yes, I found you!
You're right there, The English Pub!
You're walking out of the pub, oh man.
- Found it, well done!
- I promise he did not tell me.
I just found it, all on my own.
He may have walked over this way, and I felt like,
I was getting warmer, but then it says The English Pub
and I'm like that's it, its gotta be in there.
- And actually there's another little Easter egg there,
just for me, when I moved to Denmark, cause I've been
living in Denmark for Ten years now, I moved over here
in my little yellow beetle, so my little
yellow beetle is parked outside.
- It just turned to night time because it changes every
seven minutes or two minutes, it turns to night time
or day time, you can hear the crickets going, the lights are
on in the different places, the amusement park is
looking cool.
Oh, its daytime!
- [Bird Voice] Daytime!
- [Man] Daytime!
Check this out you've got the rocks
and then you've got a cave down in here.
There's people going on a tour through the cave.
This room right here is full of different sets and
so you can walk in and you can film stop motion video
with the different legos, and its all set up for you
with the different sets all throughout.
- There's something really cool that you need to see.
- It's worth it.
- Zack verifies.
- So I didn't know this, he showed it to me,
so you see that little ski jumper right there,
he's going off the huge jump and there's a bunch of people,
so he goes off, where does he land?
- [Man] You come down, you jump off, everybody's cheering.
Oh no, maybe it's over this way,
we have this other land over here.
Oh no, oh no, face plant, face plant, look at that landing.
That is so clever, you guys like your jobs don't you?
- Pretty much, yes.
- You have a lot of fun, there's a lot
of creativity going on in here.
- Its pretty much a dream job.
- [Man] What would it take for him to become a builder
- Well if I can do it anybody can do it.
All the designers, we all come from very very different
backgrounds, so, whether you study, you take a traditional
sort of design course and study design, that's one way in
but of course if you're just passionate, and you're just
creative and a great builder, that's also another
route into becoming a LEGO designer.
- [Man] Please remove you're shoes before entering the pool.
- That's pretty awesome.
- This is a giant basically swimming pool
of bricks, you have the waterfall.
- It kinda hurts, just warning you.
- The ultimate test of endurance.
(dramatic electronic music )
- [Lincoln] Ouch, it hurts!
- He has a very low pain tolerance
(loud laughing)
- Every kids dream, swimming in a pool of LEGOs
- Except for what they feel with the legos
- It's a little painful, Let's get out of here.
- Get me out of here!
- I'm standing up in it. Ahhh!
- Wait you actually did it?
- I think I lost a few toe nails, but I did it.
That was painful but awesome, this is the waterfall room
if we didn't mention it already.
How do you feel bud? Was it worth it?
- Yes
- This humble little brick here,
plastic two by four red brick is made of ABS,
that ABS comes as a granulite, this is what a raw brick
looks like before it's been to a molding machine.
It's heated up really hot, and it's squeezed into a mold,
and out come a two by four brick.
- [Man] Zack, with the answer
- The particulate is in the basement, comes up through
these suction kubes, suction tubes, goes into the machine,
drops down into the heated injection molding portion,
pushes it into the mold, which are these metal parts
right here, and the pressure takes that molten plastic
and shapes it into the shape of a brick, drops the plastic
bricks right there onto the white conveyor belt, you can
see one on the floor right below it that's fallen off,
goes on the conveyor belt to the other conveyor belt
which puts it in these plastic bags
and spits it out down here at the bottom.
- How did you figure that out?
- I've worked with injection molding in the past,
and I hope I got it all correct.
- That looks right, if you had a LEGO brick from all
the way back to the first LEGOs, they would still be
compatible, they would still go together.
This is a small glimpse of what's inside of The LEGO House
here in Billund, Denmark, if you ever get
the chance to come out here, do it.
The airport is super close, this town revolves around LEGO.
It wasn't super busy when we were
here today, and we learned a lot.
Make sure you check out the Rebrickulous channel
for the video that we did with them.
- There's so many thing's we didn't do here,
which we did so much, so, it was so much fun.
- And if you come, and you see someone wearing yellow
shoes, there's a good chance it's going to be one of
the best master builders, Stuart, and the best helper
today, check out those yellow shoes, those are great.
Thanks for your help today, keep doing what you're doing.
- Bye!
- [Man] Mister Hunter, right there, swimming in the ocean,
the LEGO ocean, hey what's that, is he peeing out the back?
It's a mystery Hunter.
This is so cool, thank you for doing all that, burying us.
Thank you for that.
- You're welcome
- And you can see the aliens are
taking a selfie in front of it.