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Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by seanhunter »

pickleglitch wrote: post #56
sizzzzlerz wrote: post #21

Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…

For me, when I was into legos, the answer would be: take it apart and add the pieces to my larger collection, from which I can build whatever I want.

Me too. Reminds me of the Milton Jones joke:

When I was younger, I used to own a zoo, and a pirate ship....

Though not at the same time. We couldn't afford that much lego.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by genocidicbunny »

ragebol wrote: post #63
slg wrote: post #6

If we scale it by height, a historically accurate building of this set should take you approximately 200 days.

12000 pieces over 200 days, means about 60 pieces per day. I'd say that is a reasonable about actually.

So the set supposedly is going to be built with the same progression as the real thing -- the parts of the basilica that were built first in real life are also the first parts of building the Lego set.

So I kinda wonder, what is the scaling like if you account for the actual build phases. How many pieces would you have to do on each of those 200 days to match the real-life progress of the basilica.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by butlike »

a_e_k wrote: post #75
butlike wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I agree. 12k pieces except you're building 100 pillars and 100 spires, all the same.

On the other hand, crafts like knitting and other fiber arts can be very repetitive and people still enjoy them. (Personally, I've also enjoyed unit origami, which involves folding the same module many times over and assembling them.)

fair enough

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by spuz »

I normally love Lego's interpretation of various real architectural works but I don't believe there is enough detail here to really capture the unique style of Gaudi's design.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by rbonvall »

fauria wrote: post #43
namuol wrote: post #25

Looking forward to the expansion pack(s) for when they finish building the real cathedral

It is not a cathedral, is a basilica: https://sagradafamilia.org/en/history-of-the-temple that will be finished next June 10th, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death and the visit of pope Leo XIV to Madrid.

(It's Barcelona)

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by esafak »

rjh29 wrote: post #65
sizzzzlerz wrote: post #21

Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…

What's the point of a colouring book? Once you've coloured your drawing you can't do anything with it. You can display it but you're not showing any real skill. ^ bizarre thought process tbh. Both building it and displaying it is fun. That's all.

Coloring books give you some freedom; to pick your own colors and texture. If we were to draw an analogy, it would be using the LEGO pieces in this kit to build something else. But nobody is going to do that, so it is like a color-by-numbers book, which exercises little creativity. It's a mindless activity to pass the time.
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