My first look at the box filled me with more excitement as the way these landmarks are arranged is a really beautiful design. 1x2 grille bricks on the tower and 1x2 log bricks on the main building are effective representations of the textures and the four rotated Dark Stone Grey space guns (which TLG have named " Butts", tee hee) are an inventive way to represent the turrets.ĬonclusionAs a fan of LEGO Architecture who has lived in London for over two decades, my expectations were high. Once a plate is added to the bottom and top of the clock brick, a perfectly square frame is achieved. Next comes Big Ben, which I think is a superb balance of simplicity and effective use of parts. We can push the envelope, but this doesn’t make us an exception within the LEGO Group there are of course many things that we all have to do." "We are a bit more focused on the more mature market with the LEGO Architecture line. "This is not something that crops up in every set! We did quite a bit of work proving that it actually works, that people are able to put it together - and by people I mean regular people, not lovely LEGO designers." The target age range for this theme also helps unusual building methods to be approved. Having a whole chunk of an official set based upon flex tubes is highly unusual, as Rok confirmed. ![]() The London Eye actually looks much better from the side of the model as the support tower is especially accurate. After some massaging of the flex tubes it looks much rounder and once connected into the back of the model the worst gets largely hidden, so you don’t really notice so much. Technic angled connectors are used at the bottom where it connects to the main model, resulting in a shape that is not perfectly circular. Technic holes have a groove around them to accomodate the ticker middle section of a Technic pin, and the side-stud of the Erling just sits inside the space of that groove. That's why the Erling surprised me, but as Rok explained, the microscopic geometric differences permit it in this instance. You'd never notice, but they are, and so it is for example not permitted to connect a regular 1x1 SNOT brick with a Technic brick. Secondly, the Technic System is fractionally different to regular LEGO System, in particular that the height of Technic pin holes are not the same as the height at which side-studs are positioned on SNOT bricks. It's not a problem, and clearly would not have been approved if it were it's just unusual. One is that you place the Erling down first and then the Technic brick, so the protruding stud of the Erling gets nudged ever-so-slightly. ![]() The former (shown on the left of the image here) is especially interesting I was surprised that this is considered 'legal' by the LEGO Group, for two reasons. This means a stud protrudes on the opposing face, into the area occupied by the adjacent brick and so to solve this, a Technic 1x1 brick is used in one instance and a 1x1 corner panel in another. Erling bricks are utilised for their faces that have square holes (the back and the base). ![]() Tower Bridge is the most varied section of the build, featuring interesting connections and some SNOT techniques.
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