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New York, London, and San Francisco LEGO Architecture set reviews
Today, I want to discuss three sets that I’ve completed from the LEGO Architecture series. I recently completed the last one, San Francisco, and looking at the three of them together reminded me of all the memories of putting together the other two in the past few years.
So what did I think of them?
New York City
The New York set was my first one. I’ve been to New York a few times and it is one of the popular sets in this series. It is so incredibly fascinating and satisfying to create something you’ve seen in real life on a miniature scale. You get to have that memory right inside your room.
In a way, this is one of the appeals of art. Whether it’s a painting, a photograph, or some other medium, there’s something so beautiful about having that thing that you saw that can’t physically be here and yet here is a representation of it.
Set Background
From left to right, this set features the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Flatiron Building, and the One World Trade Center. It was released in 2016, for ages 12+, and includes 598 pieces. The box states the piece when constructed measures 255 mm [10.04 inches, not displayed on the box] wide and 260 mm [10.24 inches, not displayed on the box] tall. According to my measure, it was closer to 10.5 inches tall (266.7 mm) for some reason and 1.8 inches (45.72 mm) at its widest since the Statue of Liberty juts out in the back a little.
However, I admit that I struggled a little with identifying which was which when comparing the images in the booklet to the LEGO representations of the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the One World Trade Center, and ultimately needed the guide on the back of the box identifying each to confirm. They weren’t immediately recognizable, at least to me since the details, especially those at the top, that were featured in the…
