![]() If LEGO would make these skyscapers, it would have a high piece count and this will drive up the price by quite a bit. If you examine all of the CITY or town models in the past years, none of them can be considered quite as skyscapers, and the prices weren't sky-high either. Unless there is alot of action/playability involved, the target audience (children) would not want to buy them.Ģ) The High Price. But I think the reason why LEGO would not make them is that:ġ) The low appeal and as it can be seen from some of the replies in this thread that many people think of it as just a block of transparent LEGO pieces. I would definately love to see skyscrapers. Is it because the sets would be too expensive ? Is it because (as alex mentioned) that type of architecture doesn't encompass all the cultures that it is marketing to ? So i ask, why doesn't LEGO make skyscraper sets ? strange hu ? but i don't really care for transportation or police station or hospital architecture. but what i do see is an interest in modern architecture and city planning/layout. Its funny, cause when i look at my other interests in life (outside of LEGO), and i don't see any pirates, islanders, cowboys or indians (there is a little ancient egyptian interest). i know a lot of people have done it, but i in the past, i've always stuck to what i liked as a kid, history inspired themes.īelieve it or not, i was actually re-inspired by the Wayne Manor MOC in the haunted houses thread. ![]() I've recently become fascinated with the idea of building skyscrapers from LEGOs. ![]() On the far right, we have the 7th tallest communications tower in the world, simply named the KL Tower which broadcasts free to air radio and TV channels.It's a good way to build skyscrapers Section8, but I don't like those building so much (maybe because they are not in the european culture.) In the middle we have the Petronas Towers, sometimes referred to as the Twin Towers of Malaysia, which was once the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 until 2004. If we step back in time, it was once the home to various key departments during the British administration. The left-most building, Sultan Abdul Samad Building was built in the 19th century and today houses the Information, Communications and Culture ministry. These are great, iconic buildings that highlight a spectacular, multicultural and multi-racial city. This build of three iconic buildings in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia expresses the love that Ng Wen Yeh has for his country. When LEGO released their new Skyline Architecture series, it was inevitable that we started seeing LEGO builders take the diminutive buildings to heart and begin creating skylines closer to their own homeland that LEGO missed in their official sets. This makes for an interesting mix of architecture and an extremely impressive LEGO model. ![]() The builder took on a daunting challenge recreating Hearst Tower, but the effort paid off with this accurate and realistically detailed model – which includes the original six-story base as well as the 40-story glass tower finished in 2006, here accomplished perfectly with triangular road sign elements. One building which exemplifies this mix of old and new is the Hearst Tower, painstakingly recreated here in LEGO form by Daniel Stoffler.īuilt for and named after the famous American publisher William Randolph Hearst, the building claims a spot as the headquarters for one of the world’s largest media corporations, Hearst Communications, with ownership of numerous newspapers and publications including Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. Past, present, and future often lie within the same block, Art Deco and Modern architecture mingling to reflect the city’s status as a permanent symbol of capitalism. Manhattan bustles with the edifices of American enterprise, towering symbols of capitalism whose many styles span New York City’s distinct historical periods.
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