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I wouldn't automatically assume that the pyramid covers the entire width of the diorama anyway (unless I have missed that in the description).

Really great job and very coherent design, on the buildings as well as the landscape! That little helicopter ist also very neat. I really like those trees, I've never seen those little micro palms put directly onto flower stems.

Really EVERYTHING sounds better than a 600€ 5m Eiffel Tower. ;-) But yes, the description of the pyramid set sounds somewhat optimistic, al least regarding its optics (I still have problems with the general size and price directions). I don't really need the interiors, but if they're done well, they might be a neat addition. I think, though, the option for completing it into a full pyramid is rather stupid, since you'd also double/mirror everything else. That makes even less sense than the Chinese Wall thing. But I don't really need a full pyramid anyway, since the whole thing is going to sit on a shelf against a wall anyway and we already had other sets without a proper backside. So I'm fine fine with half a pyramid, especially if that means spending more effort on the rest of the scenery and not making the set explode even more.

Whoa, that price genuinely sucks, though! Remember the sets with even more pieces, like Statue of Liberty and Empire State? Yeah, they cost about 2/3 of that. I mean, okay, they raised the price of the Taj Mahal to 120€ this year, but that's still 20€ less and has 2000 pieces. Like wut?! And I really can't believe that pyramid to be too much larger in volume than the Taj Mahal either.

At least they had sense enough to not give it a 210... set number, so they kind of pretend it's not an actual Architecture set. Although it still bears the Architecture logo, which is a rather dumb compromise then and sure to cause enough collector's urge (I certainly want one). It really feels a bit unfortunate to see this beautiful building when the plebs can then buy the 5th iteration of the Eiffel Tower instead. But alas, employee presents don't have to be mainstream-marketable. However, the 4000... set number is why I think this unfortunately won't ever make its way into public access (other than ebay for 500€) rather than staying a limited employee present forevermore, like those Christmas exclusives. The LEGO House is publicly buyable in unlimited quantities, but that also bears a proper 210... Architecture number.

Very neat! Turin Turambar is probably my favourite storyline from The Silmarillion. Looking forward to what's to come (I see you also have a second one up already, which is awesome too).

Wow, that's rather unexpected. Though, I can't quite believe it yet really. The price sounds kind of way too low for that part count. It's also not a 21... Architecture set number, although the part count would be a bit much for that anyway (the price would be quite right, though, but as said they just don't seem to match anyway). But it's not a 10... Crerator Expert number either. It rather seems like they're trying to start something rather new there (although clearly oriented towards 18+ non-LEGO-affiliated customers of course). Therefore I wouldn't even bet that the building and its architecture are remotely center of the attention. It might be something entirely different, like an homage to various pieces from the MoMA or just something generically "artsy", or some collaboration with the MoMA. It could really be anything but a building. Not sure where you got these rumours from. It also seems oddly coincident with that mentioned accident. Not that it's just some kind of bad joke or anything. EDIT: Actually, the set number fits pretty much into the LEGO Art Mosaic series, which explains the low prize per part (and also fits to the part count). I'm quite sure it's just a mosaic of famous MoMA works or whatever.

I built an Architecture model of Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany, the former summer residence of Prussian king Frederick the Great. It was built in the 1740s in the style of Rococo based on plans by architect Georg Wenzelslaus von Knobelsdorff and is a UNESCO World Heritage site, together with the rest of Sanssouci Park and its other palaces and gardens. The scale of the model is about 1:275. While the palace is often compared to Versailles, it is a lot smaller and more intimate, as it was deliberately intended for more residential purposes rather than mere representation of luxury. Though, even with less than 1900 parts, with more than 64x32 studs maximum its footprint is still relatively large for an Architecture model. The model is not built all too complicatedly. The playful Rococo flair primarily lives from the colour composition and the plate modifieds in the roof balustrades emulating the sandstone vases. And this part was also the primary problem with the model, as those good old 1x4 fences are extremely rare in tan and the model needs almost 50 of them. But I liked the design too much when I realized how rare they actually are, so I just tried to collect enough of them over time. That's why the project was in the works for about 20 months. However, I have also included a version with grey balustrades on Rebrickable, which is a lot easier to assemble, albeit IMHO not as beautiful and stylistically coherent as the tan version. I'm especially satisfied with how the colonnades on the nothern side turned out. Luckily, the proportions of the circle fit rather well to the not too small roof pieces and the whole column pattern worked out perfectly (it's even the correct number of columns, if you treat one LEGO column as one column pair from the original). Unfortunately, though, the model doesn't include the height changes of the terrain outside of the colonnades, but that's ultimately the compromise of a free-standing Architecture model and is mitigated a little by the rather tightly cut base. I also chose to integrate lighting again, unfortunately only possible for the main wing, though. With 5 LEDs the whole things is sufficiently lit and the power cable can be led to the back under the base, where it leaves the base through a little gap in the frame. There are building instructions for the model on Rebrickable.

I'm generally not the biggest fan of TV-show IDEAS entries, but that aside for now. While this is a good MOC, it really doesn't take a second to think if a LEGO set based on a WWII show, or even more specifically a WWII PoW camp, be it comedy or not, has any realistic chances. And if the entry contains a swastika flag similar to that MOC, it'll likely get removed immediately anyway.

Ui, not sure what to think about that title. I'd take a neat Macchu Picchu or even the pyramids, be they Egyptian or Mayan (albeit not too excitingly built, probably). But that title sounds rather like quite a broad and generic amalgamation of stuff. Even if it's just a codename, it's still plural. I've still been engaged to the Architecture series and mostly enjoyed the sets, including the last two, despite a lot of pessimism from the hardcore crowd. But that really doesn't sound like a promising direction rather than Architecture genuinely jumping the shark of generic 18+ism fishing for new customers. Skylines are fine if you keep them confined to a single coherent city, but putting the world's top 5 sights into a single set? o_O

Very well done! Already saw this on Flickr and I really like the design. I had a few difficulties locating the original, since I'm not too acquainted with the Ural region and you didn't mention the name of the city (which I found is Kamensk-Uralsky). But once I saw photos of the original, it was immediately recognizeable. Your model is totally on-point!

That sounds like a resonable part count. Still high, but not extraordinarily compared to previous sets. Where did you get this rumour from?

Thanks a lot! That was it indeed, finally works now.

Wow, great work! The part use is amazing and the overall composition is just beautiful. It's hard believe this was your first microscale diorama, but in any case I hope it wasn't the last.

Sorry for the late reply, but I do actually need to display the image embedded as an image, not as a link. However, I need the image to be a link to a different page. So I need to display an image (from an external URL, but an actual image) that when you click on it leads you to another site. This way I could use whatever scaled down version of the image in the Eurobricks post but still have it link to whatever external site I want (in this case the actual Flickr page of said image, but any site really). Basically I need an image to be a clickable link, independent of where the image comes from or the link leads to. But I gather that might just not be possible on Eurobricks.

Just in time for Christmas, I built a model of the McCallisters' house from the movie classic "Home Alone". But of course not a playset in minifig scale like the IDEAS set, but a micro model at about 1:250. Of course my Architecture-oriented approach is quite a bit different from the playset approach of the IDEAS set. While the LEGO set is primarily interested in the interior of the house, my goal was to accurately capture the house itself as well as the surrounding property. I also chose a bit different colours, as I find dark red a bit more fitting for the house's brickwork. I also chose a grey roof primarily because it fits better into the colour composition of the rest of the build, but also because there really isn't much snow on the roof for the majority of the film. But even on this scale I tried to pay tribute to key elements from the film, like the tree house Kevin escapes to at the end or the garage the McCallisters forgot to close. And of course it features both Little Nero's Pizza bumping against the entrance statue as well as the van of the Wet Bandits. As a Christmas model it lends itself well to lighting, of course. I put 3 LEDs from LightMyBricks into it, one in the kitchen on the back and two in the main wing. The cabling fits well into the base and the power cable can be led out through a small gap in the back. There is an album on Flickr as well as building instructions on Rebrickable for the model as well. (I tried to use smaller images in the post to link to the corresponding Flickr pages so I could lay them out next to each other for a more streamlined presentation, but I still can't seem to figure out how to do a simple image link on Eurobricks. I hope these above images at least do link to Flickr.)

I don't need Flickr to support it. I already know how to get the URL of a specifically sized image. All I really need is have Eurobricks show an image (the one I get using your described "show all sizes" approach) but have it be a link (to anywhere really, but in this case to a Flickr page). I don't think it really has to do anything with Flickr, it's more a general question of how to get Eurobricks show an image that is a link to an external page. I don't know if that's a dumb question (I feel it is, because that seems a rather basic thing to do), but I just can't get it figured out from the controls I see above the post. Yet I definitely have seen others use images as links in their posts.

But how do you turn the image into a link to the actual Flickr page? I tried creating a link from the Flickr page as URL and using the image link as Link Text, but that will simply show the image link as text rather than as an image. All I really want to do is create a link to a Flickr page using a specific sized version of the image, but it's a bit hard to find satisfying information how to achieve that (especially since the post preview seem broken too and simply shows nothing).

Do you mean the Raffles Hotel? Because the Fullerton is actually included (in front of the Supertrees).

They are absolutely beautiful. I love a great micro spaceship and seeing them all together is all the more stunning. Great work!

With the last two sets being standalone buildings rather than skylines and the last year not seeing any skyline set, I don't know if it's really possible to speak about getting "skylines shoved down our throat". You also have to see that January tends to be the time for the skylines and I'd be optimistic that there will also be a standalone set later this year. That optimism might get disappointed, but I can live with that. But like Tom I can only repeat that Wright, Niemeyer, Calatrava, and whoever will certainly not make a reappearance in this series because the mainstream simply doesn't know them. I know it sucks to a lot of people, especially given the vision this series started out with. And I too would enjoy models of their buildings. But I feel the Architecture community needs to find a way to deal with that and move on. We need to be happy about the buildings we do get and make the best of it, rather than longing for days to come back that will likely never make a comeback in the near future of LEGO's mainstream market orientation. It was a bold move by Adam Reed Tucker back then and it paid off and together with things like Star Wars UCS also generally contributed to developing an adult customer base. It was pretty much the 18+ series par excellence. But Fallingwater and Sears Tower just aren't going to come back since now LEGO has a mainstream adult market and they want the tourist attractions they know. Sorry if I'm getting a little philosophical there, but the general negativity that I also observe in the general Architecture thread can be a little too heavy sometimes. I understand not everyone is happy with this new orientation of the series and you don't have to. But it's here and it's been here for quite a while and is probably here to stay.

I'm definitely among the fans of the set for its composition and overall atmosphere. I am far from a Singapore expert, but I do feel it captures the atmosphere of a Southeast Asian city full of history and modernism quite well. I know Singaporeans will likely miss their beloved Merlion, but I tried to add it into the skyline in my own review, which can be found here (it's in German, though): https://roguebricks.de/forum/index.php?thread/3345-review-21057-singapore/ I agree the detail and curvature of the MBS doesn't quite hold up with the old set, but on the other hand the new model ist more streamlined and fits better into a skyline. And I like its more prominent colours quite a bit more in comparison. My biggest problem is, that it's so similar to the old set, which makes presenting them both (in case you're one of the lucky 3 who owns one and dares to build it ;-)) and comparing their redinitions rather disappointing. But at best, you can see it as an homage to the old set. I also know many people don't like the use of printed parts in the set, but while I'm not the biggest fan of printed details either, I do think they work rather well here and the new 2x3 tile might offer some interesting uses in various projects. I don't really have a problem with the colour of the greebled band on the box. Yes, white fits a bit more to the Architecture line, but at best you can say they tried to adapt it to the particular set (as the last two were mostly white buildings anyway). A much bigger gripe for me is the replacement of the good old deluxe Architecture box with a simple thumb-tack box. Together with making the instructions grey instead of black, this feels like quite a break with series traditions for me. But I can't say I didn't expect or rather fear this already as part of the whole 18+ gig (in fact I was positively surprised to see the White House still had a proper Architecture box).

There are a few custom Skylines floating around the net that sport a Merlion statue, complete with spewing water. It is doable at a small scale (even though rather abstract). But still it would have a scale of about 1:500 which is about 4 times as large as the rest of the buildings. That's not to say it couldn't fit in with the rest, but maybe that was a factor. Another possibility is, that there will be a limited GWP of a Merlion similar to the Sakura tree you got with the Tokyo Skyline.

That might be a bit of a hot topic right now (especially when they want to pander to the Chinese market), while Singapore just saw the opening of the biggest LEGO store in Southeast Asia this summer.

Those are some really neat truck and bus designs, great work!