GeoCaching with LEGO City

[gerth6000]

The LEGO City design & development team has been out in the forest to do GeoCaching. We have stashed the new LEGO City robber in two caches in the Western Jutland area (in Denmark). They are near the town of Vejers Strand. If you don't know what GeoCaching is, or just want to know more about it - go to geocaching.com

If one of you is fast and lucky enough to find it, please let us see it here on EuroBricks

Gert Hansen

Building Instruction Developer for LEGO City

LEGO System A/S

[Wout]

Nice to promote the sets in this way.

It's only a bit far away for me.

I searched for a link and found one for Vejers Strand

wikilink

So If you live nearby, Good luck.

The map of the wikilink is the south of Denmark.

[greg3]

Great idea!! Geocaching is currently rivalling Lego as my favourite hobby... but unfortunately I live a bit too far away to search for the robbers!! (although I've recently put a few of the collectible minifigs in caches closer to home)

[Captain Becker]

Soon all the eurobrick fans are in that forest looking for taht minifig

Its a great idea indeed, but how can we be sure at it is there. maby you just didnt putted it in to the forest

Anyway, who ever wants to go and look for it, good luck. (maby this is a start of brand new compitission: hide a minifig or Find a minifig 9

Captain Becker

[F0NIX]

Soon all the eurobrick fans are in that forest looking for taht minifig

Its a great idea indeed, but how can we be sure at it is there. maby you just didnt putted it in to the forest

Anyway, who ever wants to go and look for it, good luck. (maby this is a start of brand new compitission: hide a minifig or Find a minifig 9

Captain Becker

Captain Becker, first you need the cache name where the minifig is hidden, then you go to Geocaching.com and download the GPS-position for thet cache and enter it into your GPS. Then go out and search for the GPS-position you have entered. When on the position, search for the box. Open box and take minifig (if not someone else have been there before you).

You can ofcourse read the logs at that cache to see if anyone have grabbed it before you. But it could still be gone just hours before you get there. So there is no way of knowing for sure that it is there before you go out and search :)

Geocaching and LEGO is a great combination. I do both :)

I have tried some combinations on a few of my caches. At one I put in the pieces for a little set (#7424 Black Cruiser) in a ziplock bag. Then I instructed the finder to build something of the set, take a picture of the creation and make a part of a story that I started. Then the next visitor could build another thing and add to the story. Unfortunately, some parts got lost and the camera was damaged by some water. The story can only be read in the logbook in the cache.

I also had another cache with similar task and it was also a set from the Orient Expedition series, but don't remember which set that was. After 3 years in the forest, most of the parts got lost.

Another funny Geocaching-game is the Travel Bug (TB). There you pick up the item with the TB-tag on it (it is a little metal plate with a number on it) from the cache. Then you take it with you and put it in to another cache that you visit. Some TB's has a mission, and you are supposed to help it on its mission as best you can. Normally the mission is to travel from one cache to another. Some may have a mission of going as far north as possible (I have seen a lot of those in my region). Some may have a mission to visit a special place, be taken a picture of at that location and then travel back home. I have even seen logs of minifigs that have traveled around the globe several times.

And now we have both geocaching and LEGO in space too. :)