Legoland Billund Is Building Copenhagen Out of 225,000 Bricks

Legoland Billund is adding a new Copenhagen section to Miniland, opening July 1, 2026. It includes miniature builds of the warehouse district at Engholmene, the colorful Reffen street food market, and the Circle Bridge, but the real showpiece is a model of the Royal Yacht Dannebrog sailing into the harbor. It’s built from 225,000 LEGO bricks, over four meters long, took 800 hours to construct, and it’s built from the actual original design drawings of the real ship, right down to tiny Royal Family figures standing on deck.

If you’ve never been, Miniland is the part of Legoland Billund where entire cities and landmarks get rebuilt in brick form at a tiny scale, and it’s one of the more impressive things in the whole park, more impressive than most of the rides. Kids run through it fast, parents end up crouching down staring at the detail work for way longer than planned.

Here’s why this particular addition matters for planning a Denmark trip. If your family is doing both Copenhagen and Billund, and a lot of families do exactly that since Legoland started here in the town where the company itself began, this new section is basically a preview of the real city before you get there. I’d actually sequence a trip around it. Do Billund first, let the kids see tiny Copenhagen in bricks, then land in the real Copenhagen a few days later and watch them recognize Nyhavn or the Circle Bridge for real. That kind of before and after moment sticks with kids in a way a straight itinerary rundown never does.

Legoland itself is easy logistically. Billund has its own small airport with direct flights from several European cities, and it’s about a three hour drive or train and bus combination from Copenhagen if you’re routing overland instead. Either way, plan a full day at the park, not a half day squeezed between other stops. There is enough there, rides, Miniland, the Lego workshops, to fill it.

Book your Billund hotel early if you’re going for the summer opening. A brand new, heavily marketed section like this tends to spike demand at the handful of hotels actually inside or next to the park, and those sell out well before the generic chain hotels a twenty minute drive away do.

Our full Denmark family travel guide has the routing between Billund and Copenhagen and how we’d actually split the days.