Grey sky, a wind with an edge to it, and the kind of October morning where you check the forecast twice and go anyway. Andrea and I drove down to Günzburg today for a day at LEGOLAND® Deutschland, and I can tell you now how it ends: cold fingers, a camera roll that is mostly bricks, and a bag from the LEGO Fabrik that weighs rather more than I had planned. It was a great day.
The main gate, with "Deutschland" half-hidden behind the BOOLEVARD banner.
Halloween, LEGOLAND style
We had picked the date on purpose. From 3 October to 8 November 2026 the park runs its Halloween season. The headline is Brav sein kann warten, which is German for "being good can wait". On the brick-built towers at the gate, the spiders are already waiting for you. The BOO-levard starts right behind the entrance: a themed trail where signs point the way, and LEGO figures in "BOO-sinn zones" give away where somebody has been up to mischief.
A pumpkin has squeezed itself in between LEGO and LAND, and honestly it suits the lettering.
The idea behind the whole event is charming. Instead of being scared, children join the BOO Crew. At the mission start they get a card full of small, harmless pranks: give a grown-up a proper "BOO!", say, or send your parents the wrong way through the maze. Every completed mission earns points, and the points go onto the BOO-rometer as LEGO bricks. By evening the park's mischief level can be read off a pile of bricks. I love that.
Mission start. The left side is for the well-behaved, the right side for everybody else.
Families who would rather not have any spooks get a fair choice: the banner says plainly that there is plenty to discover without the BOO-schief, and outside the BOO-levard the park carries on as usual. Everybody else walks past the giants.
"Ready for some BOO-sense?" The ghost certainly is.
Keep calm and say BOO. The skeleton has clearly been practising.
The spider by the LEGO Arena. Andrea kept a respectful distance.
The programme board by the entrance had the whole day mapped out:
- Hexe BOOde, the witch, on the Miniland meadow from 10:00 to 12:30 and 13:00 to 18:00;
- a skeleton show at 10:30 in Imagination;
- Halloween building sessions at 11:30, 13:00 and 16:30 in LEGO X-Treme;
- a "BOOgie Woogie" disco and Operation Monster Squad at the Burgbühne, the castle stage, in the afternoon.
On the October Saturdays the park stays open until 20:00 and a Halloween parade comes through at 16:00. On 7 November there are fireworks from 19:00. We went on a Tuesday, so no parade for us, but also no queues worth mentioning.
Miniland in its autumn colours
I will be honest: for me Miniland is the reason to come at all, and in October it is at its most beautiful. The real trees are yellow and red, and the little bonsai-sized shrubs between the buildings turn the same colours. The models are built mostly at a scale of 1:20 from more than 23 million standard LEGO bricks, the same bricks you can buy, just in quantities you cannot.
The Halloween season has reached Miniland too. Between a beach and a playground sits a brick-built "Grusel-Labyrinth", a spooky maze, with skeletons, a witch on a pumpkin and a reaper outside. (The life-size maze for the BOO Crew, the LaBOOrynth, is built from real straw bales.)
The miniature Grusel-Labyrinth. Somewhere in there a minifigure has been lost for weeks.
The polar bear on the roof, meanwhile, has decided that Halloween is not his problem. Sunglasses on, an ice-cream cone in his paw, leaning back over the bunting as if it were July.
The most relaxed resident of the park, and the only one dressed for summer.
Venice
Venice is where I always lose the most time. The Grand Canal is real water. The Rialto Bridge mirrors itself perfectly on a windless grey day like today. And every single roof tile seems to have been set by hand, which, given 1:20, it more or less was.
The Rialto Bridge. A grey sky makes the water a perfect mirror.
St Mark's Square, with the Campanile, the Doge's Palace and enough gondolas for a small regatta.
Berlin
From St Mark's Square it is only a few steps to Berlin. The Victory Column stands in its roundabout with the cars queuing patiently, and behind it are the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag.
Berlin in autumn: the Victory Column, the Tiergarten in red and gold, the Brandenburg Gate behind it.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, broken spire and all, with the octagonal new tower beside it.
Einstein, and a factory
Outside the LEGO Akademie sits the park's heavyweight. According to LEGOLAND, the head of Albert Einstein weighs 1,875 kg, is built from 300,000 LEGO bricks and took 1,190 working hours. That makes it the heaviest LEGO model in the park. Up close you can see how the builders sculpted the wrinkles and that famous hair in single-stud steps.
1,875 kg of physicist. He looked about as impressed by the weather as we were.
Then the LEGO Fabrik, the factory, where the park shows how LEGO bricks are made. It no longer really produces any, but the process is explained step by step. And right now the Fabrik hands every visitor a free Halloween brick, which spent the rest of the day in my jacket pocket. It is one of those attractions that is aimed at children and quietly fascinates adults just as much. And the factory ends where every good factory ends: in the shop.
The LEGO Fabrik Shop. Single parts and Pick a Brick, and a promotion board out front.
The real reason my bag was heavier
This is the part I most want to tell you about. Inside the Fabrik Shop there are rows of bins of loose bricks sold by the kilogram: basic bricks, plates, tiles, Technic, slopes, sorted by colour and type. And for the rest of the season they are 40% off.
Bins as far as you can see, and a yellow storage box the size of a car above them.
The sign that cost me money. 40% off all loose bricks sold by weight.
The small print matters, so here it is exactly as the sign says: the 40% applies to the loose bricks sold by weight, only while stocks last, and items with individual prices in the display case are excluded. If you build MOCs and need a few hundred plates in one colour, now is a very good time. We certainly did not leave empty-handed.
The year in one banner
On the way out I photographed the "Highlights 2026" banner, because it sums up the park's year nicely:
- the season opened on 28 March with a LEGO NINJAGO Celebration until 12 April;
- a football event ran from 11 June to 19 July;
- the LEGO Festival ran from 20 July to 30 August, with summer nights on 1, 8 and 15 August;
- now it is Halloween until 8 November, which is also the last day of the regular season;
- after a short break, WinterWonder LEGOLAND runs from 28 November 2026 to 10 January 2027.
The park's year at a glance.
A few traces of the football summer were still standing, like this brick-built footballer from the LEGO Editions series with his number 10 shirt and a ball at his feet:
A leftover from the football summer, celebrating a goal nobody else saw.
Next year is a big one too: a billboard by the Fabrik Shop announced 25 years of LEGOLAND Deutschland, 2002–2027. The park opened on 17 May 2002.
Was it worth it in the cold?
Absolutely. The cloudy sky kept the crowds down, the autumn colours in Miniland were spectacular, and the Halloween theming is cheerful rather than frightening, just right for the families the park is built for. Bring a warm jacket, plan more time for Miniland than you think you need, and if you build, leave room in the car for the Fabrik Shop.
Thank you, Andrea, for a wonderful day, and for patiently waiting at every single Miniland canal while I took "just one more" photo.
The details
| What | LEGOLAND® Deutschland Resort, Halloween season Brav sein kann warten |
| When we went | Tuesday, 20 October 2026 |
| Halloween | 3 October – 8 November 2026. October Saturdays open until 20:00, with a parade at 16:00; fireworks on 7 November from 19:00 |
| Regular season ends | 8 November 2026 |
| WinterWonder LEGOLAND | 28 November 2026 – 10 January 2027 |
| LEGO Fabrik | Every visitor gets a free Halloween brick |
| Fabrik Shop offer | 40% off loose bricks sold by the kilogram, while stocks last; individually priced items in the display case excluded |
| Where | LEGOLAND Allee, 89312 Günzburg, Germany |
Sources
- LEGOLAND Deutschland: Halloween event
- LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort at a glance, 2026 (PDF)
- LEGOLAND Deutschland fun facts, 2026 (PDF)
- MINILAND: the world in LEGO format, 2026 (PDF)
- Freizeitpark-Welt: Brav sein kann warten – Halloween im LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort
- Freizeitpark-Welt: LEGO Fabrik
The programme times, the shop offer and the season dates are as shown on the boards in the park on 20 October 2026. LEGO®, the LEGO logo and LEGOLAND® are trademarks of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor or endorse this site. All photographs are my own, taken on 20 October 2026; the models belong to LEGOLAND Deutschland.