LEGO MOVIES AS NEW 5D FLYING THEATRE – BIGGEST EVER
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THE LEGO® MOVIE™ World opens in LEGOLAND AS 5D Flying Theater
It has been a long time waiting for this year’s big news in LEGOLAND. THE LEGO® MOVIE™ World should have seen daylight already in 2020, but the waiting period is now over.
LEGOLAND opens the gates to a brand-new park. THE LEGO® MOVIE™World, which originally was set to launch last year.
– It is a thoroughly themed experience, and our guests will no doubt feel that they are entering the fan-favourite universe they know from THE LEGO MOVIES, says Christian Woller, director of LEGOLAND.
The biggest 5D Flying Theater
You will not just sit quietly in front of the giant screen. Guests will board Emmet’s double decker couch and experience a captivating movie on a giant 180-degree screen where you will move in tandem to what is on the screen and feel wind in your hair, see fog around you and smell fragrances’s in the air.
While flying, the guests may look forward to a trip into space, fly past pirates and experience some of the well-known areas of THE LEGO MOVIES.
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Denmark’s amusement parks can finally re-open in full after corona.
The world’s biggest Legoland situated in Billund, which is the hometown of Lego, opens presenting Lego Movie in a new 5D flying variation, that soon will appear in the other Legoland all over the world.
However the biggest is in Denmark.
Managing director Christian Woller is pleased to finally open: “It is a fantastic joy to finally open after 13-15 months”.
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LEGO MOVIES AS NEW 5D FLYING THEATRE – BIGGEST EVER
Length: 6:05 min
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The biggest ever investment in the hometown of Legoland in Billund, Denmark could finally open after Denmark tries to re-open after corona.
The successful Hollywood Lego Movies is now presented in a 5D flying theatre version, including moving seats, smells and wind.
Billund, Denmark is where the Lego brick was invented in 1954 and Legoland in Denmark is also the largest in the world.
Managing director of Legoland Christian Woller is pleased to finally open after corona: “It is a fantastic joy to finally open after 13-15 months”.
The 5D flying theatre was tested by the family Dalsen and it seems to work, when you fall down the rainbow and fly through the worlds of the LEGO Movie.
Also a the worlds biggest village inspired by the Lego Movies has now opened in the hometown of Lego.
The Lego Movie’s producer Matthew James Ashton that was behind the actual LEGO Movie 1 and 2 tried the new 5D experience with the designer of Legoland Tom Christiansen.
Matthew James Ashton was thrilled and said “he experience brought back so many memories”.
Matthew James Ashton worked with the Lego movies for 8 years and is now a judge in Lego Masters in the UK and Vice-President of Lego design.
The LEGO Movie was sold for more than $468.1 million worldwide against its $60-65 million budget.
The Lego movies are about the Emmet and other LEGO figures, that plays a resistance movement against a tyrannical businessman, that is glueing everything in the Lego world into his vision of perfection.
The LEGOLAND Billund Resort opened in Billund, Denmark in 1968 and is one of the most visited attractions in Denmark.
The Legoland 5F flying theatre will open in other Legolands around the world.
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SHOTLIST:
DRONE LEGOLAND BILLUND ENTRANCE
COUNTDOWN AND OPENING OF LEGO MOVIE WORLD
SOUNDBITE: CHRISTIAN WOLLER, MANAGING DIRECTOR LEGOLAND
RESORTS: (21.5)
“It´s a great joy for all of us here in LEGOLand to finally have this land open. We have waited a long time, because of Corona, to get it open and now we can see that it is being received by visitors and everybody thinks that it is a fantastic experience, so it is a great joy for all of us”DRONE LEGO WORLD (21.5)
SOUNDBITE: AYBIKE TOPRAK, NANA THOLSTRUP SØGAARD, CAROLINE HELENE HERMANSEN, MARIA WIKTORIA THIMSEN JENSEN (23.5)
“It´s so nice. It´s amazing. I love the details and all”SOUNDBITE: BRIAN BISGAARD HUNT ESKILDSEN (23.5)
“We like the new LEGO Movie World, the LEGO World universe. I´ts funny being down here, we have waited a year for Covid. And we have the LEGO Movies on Blu-Rays as well. We have the LEGO Movie games as well on Xbox. So it´s a pretty good experience watching this right now”FOOTAGE FROM THE NEW LEGO WORLD RIDE
FAMILY CHEERING ON RIDE (22.5)
MATTHEW JAMES ASHTON, PRODUCER LEGO MOVIE 1 & 2 AND TOM CHRISTIANSEN, LEGOLAND DESIGNER SITTING ON DOUBLE DECKER COUCH (21.5)
MATTHEW JAMES ASHTON, PRODUCER LEGO MOVIE 1 & 2 AND TOM CHRISTIANSEN, LEGOLAND DESIGNER SITTING IN THE NEW LEGO WORLD RIDE (21.5)
SOUNDBITE MATTHEW JAMES ASHTON, THE LEGO MOVIE PRODUCER AND TOM CHRISTIANSEN, LEGOLAND’S DESIGNER CONT. (21.5):
TOM CHRISTIANSEN, LEGOLAND’S DESIGNER:
“So Matthew, this was the first trip, how was it?”
MATTHEW JAMES ASHTON, THE LEGO MOVIE PRODUCER:
“Oh my god, it was amazing and honestly the LEGO movie has played such a big part of my life, I was working on it for eight or nine years, and this has just brought back so many happy memories. Seeing all the characters again, actually flying around and being part of the adventure it is super, super cool, so well done you”
TOM CHRISTIANSEN, LEGOParks’s designer.
“Thank you, thank you”
FOOTAGE FROM THE NEW LEGO WORLD RIDE
SOUNDBITE MATTHEW JAMES ASHTON, THE LEGO MOVIE PRODUCER AND MATTHEW JAMES ASHTON, THE LEGO MOVIE (21.5) CONT.:
“When it first started I thought oh well, we are just going to be flying around cloud coo-coo land´, but then when you go down the rainbow slide and brake into Middle Zealand and everything it is so nice with these little snapshots from both of the movies. You then go into space and you flying behind sweet mayhem and everything, it is really cool how it is all really integrated together. It was a lot of fun”
FOOTAGE FROM THE NEW LEGO WORLD RIDE
SOUNDBITE FAMILY: VALDEMAR, GUSTAV, ANNIKA (MOTHER OG VILMA DALSTEN.(23.5)
GUSTAV:
“The most fun part is the rainbow”
FOOTAGE FROM THE NEW LEGO WORLD RIDE
SOUNDBITE MATTHEW JAMES ASHTON AND TOM CHRISTIANSEN (21.5)
“I think that you should be super, super proud of yourself because there was so much, developing the movies themselves there was so much hard work and hearth and emotions and everything put into that, that having it come to life and to be able to fly through it, like you can now, it´s amazing to bring that to life, and i´m sure any of the directors, or any of the cast that were part of those movies, to see this now and to be part of it they would love to have a go at it”
FOOTAGE FROM THE NEW LEGO WORLD RIDE
VARIOUS OF THE LEGO MOVIE PARK (21.5)
SOUNDBITE: AYBIKE TOPRAK, NANA THOLSTRUP SØGAARD, CAROLINE HELENE HERMANSEN, MARIA WIKTORIA THIMSEN JENSEN (23.5)
“We love LEGO Movie World”FOOTAGE OF THE LEGO MOVIE PARK (21.5)
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