May. 28th, 2018

Legoland!

May. 28th, 2018 06:14 pm
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General overview of legoland (the Denmark one)? It's awesome if you like lego :)

It's about 2km from Billund airport (Billund is the town where Lego is), which is the closest destination to an airport I think I've ever flown to.

There's lots of lego. There are many giant sculptures made of lego. Often of dragons.

It's probably most enjoyable as a mixed group of children and adults, but most people will get something out of it. There's a lot of effort to make it inviting, e.g. in the hotel the showers have separate, normal-height and lower-height showers.

There's a spectrum, the oldest bits tend to be tiny models of Danish and other European scenery. IIRC lego has stayed backwards compatible since about when it was launched, but the oldest things, you can see the building style is noticeably older, even if the bricks are the same. And then there are "pirate world", "wild west world", "ninjago world" etc, each with a couple of rides, ranging from sedate to roller-coasters, with lots of lego themes and scenery, and other relevant attractions, and big bins of lego for people to play with.

And a few notable things in the middle, like lego safari, and boat ride past famous world landmarks.

The water rides were especially fun.

I don't know how representative our experience was, but the queues were not-that-bad on sunny danish bank holiday weekend days (40min for the most popular rollercoaster, less for everything else, or first or last thing), and there were almost no queues at all on a normal weekday, we rode several rides round several times on the trot.

I also enjoyed the non-lego-themed Billund sculpture trail just outside.

(One caveat, the representation of native american culture in wild west world didn't seem very appropriate. I asked them to fix it but I image that will take a while.)

Moar books

May. 28th, 2018 10:08 pm
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Pendulum Sun

Missionaries go to faerieland! There is much dwelling on the nature of faeire, and how it fits into Christian theology. It's not very like, but it's one of the few books that reminds me much of Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrel.

The sun is actually a literal glowing pendulum.

My biggest problem is that I wanted *more* like that, more of faerie than this little corner, more history of the theology that we learn.

And I admit, I am aching to write some things set in faerie that describe more what it's like living day to day in a land where navigation is more about states of mind than distance.

Soul Kitchen

Poppy Z Brite's third novel about New Orleans chefs G-Man and Ricky. Like the others, it's incredibly incredibly lovely to read, but leaves you feeling a bit like not much happened. I am enjoying seeing the characters grow into their success a little.

AIUI the next one is set after the hurricane.

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