News about Emmet’s Flying Adventure - Masters of Flight

At the end of 2025, Emmet’s Flying Adventure - Masters of Flight returned to the news for a backstage incident. During a Christmas event at Legoland Billund, police and firefighters were called after smoke was spotted in an electrical cabinet behind an attraction. According to Looopings, the likely cause was a short circuit in equipment near the flying theater. As a precaution, Legoland closed off a small part of the park so visitors and employees would not be affected by the smoke. Ten firefighters attended the scene and the power supply was temporarily switched off during the response. Authorities treated it as a technical problem, possibly overheating, and found no sign of deliberate action. For visitors, the most important point is that the incident remained limited: the situation was quickly brought under control, damage was minor and nobody was injured. In the attraction’s history, the article marks a rare technical incident around a modern indoor ride that is usually discussed for its cinematic flight experience. It also shows how much a flying theater depends on backstage systems: guests see film, motion and effects, but safety relies just as much on the technical infrastructure behind the scenes.

On 21 May 2021, Legoland Billund could finally open THE LEGO MOVIE World. The themed area, based on the popular LEGO films, arrived a year later than planned but immediately added three attractions to the Danish park. The key one for W8baan is Emmet’s Flying Adventure - Masters of Flight: a large flight simulator that Looopings described as Scandinavia’s first flying theater. Visitors also found Unikitty’s Disco Drop, a drop tower, and Apocalypseburg Sky Battle, a 14-metre interactive aircraft ride. For families and LEGO fans, the opening gave Billund a modern film-based area with a different rhythm from many classic outdoor rides. Emmet’s Flying Adventure offered a covered, sensory flight through the LEGO Movie universe and naturally became the area’s headline experience. The article also places the opening within the wider Legoland family: shortly before, Legoland Windsor in the United Kingdom had opened a new area with a flying simulator as well, but under a different theme. For Billund, THE LEGO MOVIE World was the largest investment in the park’s history.

In May 2020 it became clear that visitors would have to wait longer for Emmet's Flying Adventure - Masters of Flight. Legoland Billund had planned THE LEGO MOVIE World for that summer, but construction of the new area was hit by the pandemic. The park said foreign suppliers were unable to finish the attractions, which also made the remaining work and inspections impossible to complete on schedule. The opening moved to 2021. For the attraction's history, this delay is an important chapter: the flying theater was one of the key pieces of the largest investment in Legoland Billund's history, yet it landed in a period when international supply chains and travel restrictions disrupted theme park projects. For visitors, the delay meant the park could reopen, but without the eagerly awaited LEGO Movie area. Legoland framed the news with visible disappointment and understanding, acknowledging that fans were looking forward to the expansion while promising that it would be worth the wait. Before it even opened, Emmet's Flying Adventure had already become a symbol of a project bigger than a normal seasonal addition.

Legoland Billund took a major step in June 2019 by announcing a new themed area based on The LEGO Movie 2. THE LEGO MOVIE World was planned for 2020 with three attractions: a large flying theater, a drop tower and an interactive aircraft ride. For Emmet's Flying Adventure - Masters of Flight, the positioning was especially notable. The then unnamed simulator was presented as Scandinavia's first flying theater, comparable with large-scale flight experiences such as Voletarium and This is Holland. That brought a ride type often associated with bigger resort parks to Billund. The area would cover five thousand square metres and require an investment of more than 100 million Danish kroner, around 13.5 million euros. For visitors, the announcement meant Legoland Billund was not only adding another film-themed land, but also an indoor headline attraction built around motion, projection and a clear LEGO Movie identity. In the wider Legoland story, Billund followed Legoland Florida, where a similar area had opened shortly before, although with a different attraction mix.