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How to get your family downsized and displayed at Denmark’s Legoland

Legoland is offering a family in Denmark the chance to have themselves and their home replicated in Lego bricks and put on display in the popular theme park.

Published: 17 February 2023 17:35 CET
How to get your family downsized and displayed at Denmark’s Legoland
A tiny 'For Sale' sign in place at Legoland. Families can enter a competition to have their home built in bricks and displayed alongside world landmarks at the amusement park. Photo: LEGOLAND and Home

The competition will see a winner picked out and their Lego duplicates placed on display at Legoland Billund within a brick’s throw of the Lego Eiffel Tower and Amalienborg Palace.

“We dare say that we are putting one of Denmark’s most unique plots of land ‘for sale’. This is the first time ever that a family’s house will be built here at Legoland and we will also build the family with Lego bricks so they can stand next to their house and play in the garden,” Legoland director Christian Woller said in a press release.

The winning family and their house will be downsized at a scale of 1:20 and placed on the specially selected ‘plot’ at Legoland.

A house of, for example, 7×20 metres will therefore be reproduced at 35×100 centimetres for the Legoland display.

The competition can be entered via the website of estate agent Home, whose local branch in Billund is acting as the “seller” of the diminutive plot. You can also read more about it on the Legoland website.

“We’re hugely proud that we’ve been given that chance to fulfil not just ‘normal’ housing dreams but also childhood dreams. The Lego corporation and Legoland are a big part of our DNA here in Billund. Now we can share that feeling with a lucky family somewhere in Denmark,” Home Billund co-owner Camilla Lund Hansen said in the press release.

Entrants from anywhere in Denmark could win the prime piece of Lego real estate.

“This is a very unique plot which has a view of the Eiffel Tower and Amalienborg Palace and there is also a view of the sea, so we are in no doubt there will be interest in the plot,” Woller said.

Construction of the house must be completed by April 1st, when Legoland opens for the summer season. It will remain in situ for the remainder of 2023. The winning family will be required to attend the opening where their ‘house’ will be presented – and will also be given free passes to the park for the rest of the year.

Following the end of the 2023 season, the winning family will be able to take their Lego selves and house with them to their real house.

To enter the competition, you must provide your name and address and write a short description of your family, and register for marketing letters from Lego and Home.

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Foreign spouses already in Denmark will not get back 57,000 kroner deposit 

Danes and foreign partners who have already deposited up to 114,000 kroner to qualify for family reunification, will not be allowed to withdraw some of the money when a new law halves the required security in July, Denmark's immigration service has told The Local.

Published: 15 May 2024 09:47 CEST
Updated: 15 May 2024 11:50 CEST
Foreign spouses already in Denmark will not get back 57,000 kroner deposit 

The new law on spousal reunion, which should be voted through parliament on May 30th, proposes that the bankgaranti, or bank guarantee, the deposit couples need to leave in an account accessible to their local municipality, be halved from 114,000 kroner to 57,000 kroner (both 2024 level) from July 1st.  

However, according to the Danish Immigration Service, couples who have already completed the process before July 1st and have already deposited the full guarantee will not be able to draw down their deposit to the new, lower, sum. 

“A concluded case resulting in a residence permit issued prior to the proposal is not subject to the new rules. Therefore, it will only be possible to reduce the collateral guarantee requirement with the amounts applicable before the amendment of the law,”  the immigration service told The Local in a written statement. 

The purpose of the bank guarantee is ostensibly to ensure that municipalities can draw from the fund to pay for costs such as unemployment benefits, if the family reunified person needs them.

But the requirement may have little practical effect because foreign nationals resident under family reunification rules are likely to lose their residence status anyway if unemployed, negating the need for social welfare benefits.

READ ALSO: What’s in the new law on bringing a foreign spouse to Denmark?

The immigration service told The Local that anyone whose application had yet to receive a decision at the time the new law was presented to parliament on April 11th will be invited to request that the decision on their application be delayed until after July 1st, so that their application will only need to meet the new more lenient rules. 

In these situations, it said, the spouse already residing in Denmark will generally be contacted via their Digital Post and asked whether they want the decision on their case to be delayed.  

Couples who have had their request for family reunion rejected “due to non-compliance with the current requirement for collateral guarantee or the current language requirement”, will be allowed to sbmit a new application under the new rules after July 1st.

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