On May 17, 2002 – 24 years ago – the LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort theme park opened its doors in Günzburg, Bavaria. At the time, visitors could experience 40 attractions, shows, and workshops across seven themed areas, along with impressive models made from more than 50 million LEGO bricks.
24 years later, LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort has grown to include eleven adventure worlds, 68 attractions, an aquarium, LEGO models made from more than 57 million bricks, and its own Holiday Village.
The smallest model at LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort is a pigeon in MINILAND, made from just six LEGO elements. The tallest, on the other hand, is the 7.5-meter-high giraffe, which is so tall that it can even look over the tracks of the Pedal-A-Car elevated railway.
More than 57 million LEGO bricks are used throughout LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort. If all of these 2x4 LEGO bricks were placed end to end, they would create a LEGO chain stretching 1,767 kilometers. This distance would be enough to cross Germany from north to south twice.
More than 1,300 fish and marine creatures, 600,000 liters of tropical seawater, and 50 LEGO models made from more than one million LEGO bricks can be discovered in the ATLANTIS by SEA LIFE underwater world, located in the LEGO X-treme themed area.
Weighing 1,875 kg, Albert Einstein’s head is the heaviest LEGO model in the park. It is made from 300,000 LEGO bricks and took 1,190 working hours to build.
The largest LEGO building in the park is the Allianz Arena, measuring 5 m x 4.5 m x 1 m. Built from one million LEGO bricks, this highly detailed replica offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at areas such as restaurants, the kitchen, and the VIP section. Weighing 1.5 tons, the arena is certainly no lightweight.
In MINILAND, 30 kilometers of cables have been installed to provide power and control signals. Two million liters of water flow through the canals, waterways, and harbor basins of this miniature world.
The name LEGO comes from the two Danish words “leg godt,” which mean “play well.”
On January 28, 2018, the LEGO® brick celebrated its 60th anniversary. On exactly this day in 1958, Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of the LEGO Group, patented the LEGO brick in Copenhagen, laying the foundation for the company’s worldwide success story.
On August 10, 2022, LEGO celebrated its 90th anniversary. So why did the LEGO brick only recently celebrate its 60th anniversary? In the early days, the toys created by master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen were actually made from wood.
Six 2x4 LEGO bricks can be combined in 915,103,765 different ways.
If 40 billion LEGO bricks were stacked on top of each other, they would reach all the way to the Moon.
Without a hat, every LEGO minifigure is exactly four bricks tall.
DUPLO bricks are exactly twice the size of standard LEGO bricks.
