10214: Tower Bridge Unboxing

[Adam the Ant]

10214: Tower Bridge

Ages 16+. 4,287 pieces.

UK. £204.99, US. $239.99, DE. €219.99, CA. $314.99

I received this set yesterday, so I thought before writing my review of it I would post images of what the contents look like.

Arrived in a big box, taking up almost all the space inside.

Views of the front and back of the box, I really like the design, it shows off the model with some great shots.

The instruction books, three of them.

I'm seeing double, biggest 2x model I've made.

This set comes all in bags, lots and lots of bags, unlike some other larger sets.

Lots of windows.

The tan 1x1 wedges come in small separate bags within larger bags, and some are mixed with other small pieces. Going to take a while to sort all of them

Finally one of the printed shields, the print is slightly off, but it still looks great.

So that's the unboxing of this set and I'm currently in the sorting phase. I hope to have the review done soon and with better photos.

If this in the wrong category (should it be in Town?), would a mod be able to move it please?

Thanks for reading, feel free to ask any questions.

Adam the Ant

Edited October 7, 2010 by Adam the Ant

[Mrlegoninja]

Thanks for a scope on that Adam The Ant!

[Topsy Cret]

YESYESYES!

I was waiting and waiting for the review on this one! Thanks for the post, I look forward to the rest of it.

[TheWarden]

Tan cheese slope and 2x2? white window service pack, ahoy!

Nice to see, thanks. I saw this set in person last week and it's beautiful. Enjoy!

[Brickus]

Great, thanks for doing this, I've been waiting on this for a while. It's good to see what I'm about to get myself into.

Edited October 7, 2010 by Brickus

[prateek]

Yeah! This is awesome. Now do a review!

[Adam the Ant]

Just a quick update. I have now finished the model, going to take some final photos and then I will get started on writing the review.

[Barteck]

I love unboxing, one of a best things. Mmm, tan slopes, I love it!

Waiting for review.

[Mrlegoninja]

Just a quick update. I have now finished the model, going to take some final photos and then I will get started on writing the review.

Thats great! Looking forward to the review!

[prateek]

Can't wait! BTW, this is $299.99 Canadian

[Adam the Ant]

Just so you know I haven't given up on writing a review, it's just not my top priority at the moment, I have a uni project deadline next week and I have a lot to get done for that. I'm still doing small bits towards the review when I can, but it will be at least a week until it's done.

[Masked Builder]

Wow that box is absolutely huge!

Edit: 600th post!

Edited October 15, 2010 by Masked Builder

[The Soup Nazi]

Holy crap! Look at all of those windows and tan cheese slopes!

[The Yellow Brick]

Thanks for these pictures, I'm still considering if I'm going to get it

[Locutis]

Thanks for the unboxing pictures.

Mine arrived from Lego this month in bad shape (read: damaged) and was NOT packed anything like what yours was. For mine, they put the retail box inside their "flap-folded" box, no other protection. Usually at a minimum there's a piece of double cardboard between the set box and the outer box , but mine had no protection at all, and was crushed (something fell on it on angle and put a hole in the outter shipping box and the retail set box).

Someone at the shipping company in-between Lego and myself then opened *EVERYTHING* up, and then re-taped the retail box (read: ruined the retail box further with packing tape) and patched the hole in the outer box. I was not impressed.

Fortunately the lady I spoke with at the call centre for Lego was very understanding, knew exactly what I was talking about with regards to how these are supposed to ship, etc., and fixed it all for me. It's all good now, but I was quite disappointed when I received it.

Locutis

[roamingstop]

Sorry for bumping; but does anyone know how many large bags (not the internal ones) are expected in this set? I received a damaged box via 3rd party, which had clearly been opened before. However inside all bags were sealed... However I dont know if any were missing? There seemed to be 24 bags in total; some clearly multiples (x4 e.g. bits for the towers). Does anyone know the correct bag count (excluding the bags within bags).

Thanks

RS

[legolijntje]

Well, you're a little too late, I just thrown my bags away, but I can tell you there are 4 bags with big tower parts, 2 or 4 bags with only cheese slopes and 2 or 4 bags with small parts including cheese slopes. 2 bags with windows, 1 bag with smaller plates (I'm not sure) and the rest I can't remember. I hope your's is complete

Edited May 27, 2012 by legolijntje