WhiteFang

The LEGO Movie reviewing fiesta continues! Eurobricks Licensed Regulator and Reviewers Academy Teacher, Clone O'Patra has successfully reviewed the second review of the 70812 Creative Ambush. Click here to view the 70812 Creative Ambush review.

I agreed with you. In fact, I don't think the Marina Bay Sands will stand the chance to have it feature in a larger and more detailed scale. Furthermore, I will think it probably will just stop it there unlike the special Sydney Opera House which is classified under the LEGO Creator Expert theme. Thanks! I am glad the monochrome image is liked by others.

The reviewing fiesta has started! Thank you Clonie for starting it with this set.

Thank you all for taking your time to compose your thoughts and comments which is pretty insightful especially to see a mix of positive and negative comments, but I could largely understand that the main bulk of unhappiness lie on the 10,000 sets of limited edition. Trust me, I am not too pleased to find it to be so limited, because as a Singaporean, I can't find this set in retail stores as of now, and I ought to think that this set is to be produced more so that even my fellow countrymen can also have a chance to own this piece of art. Good question and I got no idea, and I am guessing that it is the water reflection by the river. Likewise, I am not sure why it is meant to be marketed as limited edition. Too bad, I can't locate the TLG poll anymore which I thought it might shed some information from there. Thank you very much, legogal! You have the honour and chance to actually see this in real life! It really matters a lot when you are able to see the real thing and put this into perspective. I totally agreed with you that if this set can be marketed as a regular product line in the LEGO Architecture Series. Erhm, I take it as a general comment and is not meant to be directed onto the review for this matter. I don't really think that most members here will suck up to TLG for mistakes and blunders. I think in general, it is a matter of individual opinions being presented in either a detailed or a simplistic manner which might misunderstood as a form of herd instinct, I supposed. I do apologies if I have understood wrongly. If my memory serve me right, I believe you are referring to the coach stand shelter. Trust me, the outline of this building is very precise especially when I am on the car along East Coast Parkway Expressway (ECP) towards Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE). The back of the building show the outline very clearly.

This is very intriguing. Just as when we thought that we have gotten some progress, and now we got 2 scummy kills. Not sure how the hell they did it. But it is not to our favour if they can pull it off again.

Dear Eurobricks Community, I am very pleased to present to share with all of you on my latest completed reviewing project, of the 21021 - Marina Bay Sands. Please feel free to leave your thoughts! WhiteFang

Superb impressive work! It's incredible and I am a great fan of this movie too.

Thought I also added mine recent film flicks, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Superb and enjoyable! A deserving blockbuster movie and amazing sequel. Frozen - Totally enjoyed the story and music very much.

Excellent review, Rufus! The new City 2014 sets such as this Camper Van is pretty refreshing. Looking forward to pick this up as well when it hit retail.

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Hello everyone, What is this mysterious LEGO Architecture package? Read on to find out! Revealing the latest 21021 Marina Bay Sands Architecture Set I am really very pleased to bring this exclusive new review to our Eurobricks Community. Special thanks to The LEGO Group (TLG) and Eurobricks Staff/LEGO Ambassador, CopMike for facilitating and giving me this exclusive opportunity to review this superb new LEGO Architecture set! Before I was given this chance to review, I was determined to buy this set as soon as it is available locally, so I can also do a review of this new iconic architecture that is the first international feature of my country, Singapore. Without further ado, let's bring you a tour of this newly acclaimed building structure. Before I begin in proper, some of you is wondering why the first two opening images look particularly unique as compared with the mainstream release. It is because this is a special edition for very special release for publicity purpose and it will not be available at retail front. The content is the same but the packaging is very different. Other than that, the main focus is the LEGO set itself. Name: 21021 Marina Bay Sands (Republic of Singapore) Theme: LEGO Model Making / Architecture Year: 2014 Pieces: 602 Minifigs: 0 minifigure Price: USD N.A, GBP N.A, EURO N.A, SGD $89.90 Resources: Brickset, BrickLink An original box image of the 21021 Marina Bay Sands (Republic of Singapore) Back view of the original box image of the 21021 Marina Bay Sands (Republic of Singapore) By seeing the front and back of this box image, has certainly impressed me very much. The packaging for the LEGO Architecture products is very remarkable and is of the usual high standard that we have seen earlier. There are lots of details that can be found in the front and back. At one easy glance, you could have realised that this building, Marina Bay Sands is designed by the famous architect, Moshe Safdie. The box even reflect his signature. This iconic building landmark is designed by the LEGO Architectural Artist, Rok Zagalin Kobe. His name can be found at the front of the box, located at the bottom left hand corner. In this image, you will be able to view a very brief description touching on the Marina Bay Sands. Different side view of the original box image of the 21021, Image 1 Different side view of the original box image of the 21021, Image 2 Different side view of the original box image of the 21021, Image 3 Different side view of the original box image of the 21021, Image 4 The very first Singapore Landmark which is being featured by The LEGO Architecture Product Line The Marina Bay Sands is a state of the art modern day marvel, even with its bricks built design. Through the LEGO Architecture Series, TLG has officially iconise the first ever Singapore building landmark into the world of LEGO, which I am very proud to associate with. As you may have recall that there was a poll even though the poll link seem to be in non-existence, conducted by TLG, one of the choices was the Marina Bay Sands and I was very pleased that the choice that I have voted for, has actualised into a formal product offering in this series later this year. I was thrilled and elated by the results in early February 2013, when news that the Marina Bay Sands won the poll. The Marina Bay Sands is a model of a Singapore recent new landmark. The building is a hotel by itself, and is an integral part of the beautiful Singapore's city skyline which is mesmerising at day and night. The LEGO building model focuses on the signature hotel complex that showcases the three tall towers and the rooftop Sands Skypark. The building dimensions for the LEGO building model is measured at 224mm length and 136mm height. The official information for the Marina Bay Sands is as followed, first opened in 2010, the Marina Bay Sands is the leading business, leisure and entertainment destination in Asia. It features large and flexible convention and exhibition facilities, 2560 hotel rooms and suites, casino (one of its two in Singapore), the rooftop Sands Skypark, shopping mall, celebrity chief restaurants and an outdoor event plaza. Its two theatres showcase a range of leading entertainment performances including world-renowned Broadway shows. Completing the line-up of attractions is ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands which play hosts to permanent and marquee exhibitions. You may visit the official website for more information. This 21021 Marina Bay Sands is marketed as Limited Edition. From my understanding, there is only 10,000 sets produced and is rumoured only to be exclusive for sales in Singapore. As of now, I can tell you that all of the local toy retailers and even the Marina Bay Sands gift shop is currently out of stock. Apparently, the first shipment had been wipe cleaned off the shelves and I am glad to manage to be able to grab a few before it is totally out of stock. I do believe that there will be a second shipment but I am not sure how or when it will ever appear again. Because I don't believe that all 10,000 sets had been wiped clean in Singapore 'for good' in this single shipment within less than two weeks of retail sales. I really hope there will be more stock appearing, because it will be a huge disappointment for many LEGO Architecture fans especially to our international friends. I also heard that the set is available in Hong Kong, and perhaps in other parts of Asia as well. I sure look forward to see more of these sets appearing in other places, than Singapore. Enjoy your building experience There is lots of hype and anticipation when I opened this! It look as if the packaging is communicating with me and it is definitely effective, when it convey such a simple message across to my mind. I will certainly enjoy this building experience that I have been waiting for. The content of the sealed box Within the sealed box, it comes with five packages and a beautiful instruction manual to build up the set. It also come with a single promotional leaflet which feature the recent LEGO Architecture highlights and a survey request by TLG. I will encourage you to do your part and send your feedback to this survey if you happen to buy the LEGO Architecture series. I am sure the LEGO Architecture design team is keen to find out your thoughts on your latest purchase. The construction materials As you can see from above, it is a good assortment of white and transparent blue bricks that form the main building structure, while the dark and light grey form the building foundation. Let's see how this building transform itself in LEGO bricks. I like the part, that the Marina Bay Sands is feature as a printed tile which is shown in the next image. The beginning of the construction of Marina Bay Sands Laying the building foundation The various dark grey flat tiles, mainly 2x4 size, are placed in a systematic manner that laid the foundation of this building structure. Front view of a single tower This building component form the main structure of a single tower. We will be repeating these steps for the other two towers as well and combined them shortly. As of now, it only show the half-completed tower of the front building. As you rotate to the back, you will see many of these white grids. These are the illustration of the hotel rooms balconies. The bottom of the walkway of the building show the connection of the base from one end to another. Back view of a single tower All of the three towers together ready to be constructed This is the back view of the building structure which depict the hotel rooms There are individual supporting layers within each towers We also need to create these three individual supporting layers that are meant to be placed within each towers to represent the different floors from within the towers. This is the design of the glass front of the building structure Now you add in the main design of the glass front onto the individual towers with numerous levels of transparent blue to show the glass levels accordingly. From the actual building design, I personally felt that this design is lacking of, is the gradual curves of the three towers. It is not as perfect as I hope it will be, but at one glance, people can still instantly recognise it as the Marina Bay Sands. Placing the glass windows onto the building front Building the top level of the building structure After completing the three towers, we will turn our attention to the top level that will be featuring the Sands Skypark and within the attraction, you will probably noticed the Infinity Swimming Pool from the top aerial view. It is amazing to swim in such a spectacular scenery which is 57 stories above ground floor and enjoying the Singapore's city skyline. Front view of the Marina Bay Sands Back view of the Marina Bay Sands Top view of the Marina Bay Sands This is the side entrance of the building It appears to be an exit shelter Black and White feature The base and the building structure can be removed as two distinct pieces Lining up the Marina Bay Sands building structure Some of the nice pictures of the real Marina Bay Sands The completed building can be kept safely into the original box At the end of the day by separating the two distinct pieces away, I will be able to keep this whole set nicely in the original nice packaging for storage. I wasn't feeling so well lately and I failed to take a good picture of the actual LEGO set with the scenery behind. I am planning to take a picture within the next few weeks! The weather was not very good lately due to the rainy season. Still, I will love to get an actual shot from my camera together with the completed built. I will keep all of you posted later on. To conclude, I am very pleased with this LEGO Architecture of the Marina Bay Sands. This deserved a very special place in my own collection, especially since this is my second LEGO Architecture set that I own, after the 21006 White House. I like how the designer capture the essence of this whole building design and present it in our favourite LEGO bricks. Even though the gradual curves are not captured perfectly for the three towers, but the overall appeal is very nicely done up and it made as a fine masterpiece to placed in a display cabinet. Not to mention, that I am proud to see a Singapore building landmark being made into my favourite toy hobby, LEGO and to showcase this icon to the global scene. I really wish to see more of other Singapore landmarks being able to capture in the LEGO Architecture series. Summary review Playability: 7/10 (LEGO Architecture sets can't played well with regular LEGO System sets because of the lack of the minifigures.) Design: 8.5/10 (The design is done up very nicely and it is almost perfect, minus the imperfection of the gradual curves for the towers.) Price: 7.5/10 (The set is a little pricey and furthermore with the 10,000 sets released worldwide, will expect the price to rose further in the secondary market.) Overall: 7.7/10 (Complete your LEGO Architecture series and don't give this set a miss, for Singapore fans, you ought to grab this iconic landmark by showing your support for it.) I gave it a "4" based on my Review Score Card. What about yours? I hope every one of you enjoyed reading this simple review of mine. Comments and Criticisms are strongly welcomed. Pictures can be found in My Flickr and My Brickshelf (When moderated)

Nice built indeed. I am honoured to have a chance to see this piece of art before, and it's great to see you coming forth to share it with the EB community as well.

Seeing this link, excites me and my wife pretty much. It's great to see these beautiful new sets!

I really don't have anything constructive else to add but shocked by our mistake yesterday. I will also place my vote too, Vote: Finn the Squinter / Fhomess

I don't get it, how could we even get it wrong! Oh my gosh...

Vote: Dagstyrr the Fool (Darkdragon) Like what everyone had summarised and he is also in my top suspects listing.

My top 3 suspicions as of now are, Dagstyr - I found him to be extremely jumpy and cautioned of answering any accusations that is potentially against him. I just somehow find him to be trying very hard to fly under radar at times. Lefsi - He seem to be participating 'just' enough to make himself look active and he hardly have a strong opnion of its own, look to me like he seem to stand by to await for some of instructions to act accordingly. Cantue - It is nothing personal, but I find him always jumping at me whenever there is a viable opportunity presented to him and it is like I am accounting for myself in public and it ended up that no questioning of any sort come from him as well. A lot of poking at others, may seem town friendly just to stir topic discussion but I find him doing too much of that.

Yea!!! Finally, we have some good progress!! I am very glad that Wary is dead which mean I am relieved of my main duty. However, something worried me greatly, I am very concerned that and pretty confident that Wary is murdered by the scum, because of this sentence, "our master sends his regards. Die, traitor!", which give me a strong concern that it could belong to 'Servant of Loki' with the direct meaning of Loki being the master. I think this is how it went.

As what Chief Mursi and Naemr had pointed out earlier, you are indeed suspicious, so I pray that we are right to nail the right one with sufficient interpreting evidence at this moment. Vote: Dufa the godless (Def) I apologies for my delay as I am stuck with some other urgent matters. However, I am back in proper. Last night, I targeted Dagstyrr as he was suspicious on his own and clueless at times, based on his daily limited contributions. So, I checked on him and found he is not a serial killer, but I don't have any slightest clue if he is a Servant. Since a serial killer will try his/her best to blend into the crowd to make themselves least suspicious by doing very careful actions, Dagstyrr was in my potential target listing.

Oh my gosh!! Thank you CopMike! I can't believe I have won something, which I believe is Prize F (odd days). Superb thank you from me! Take all the time you need, it will be an overwhelming task for you to process them altogether!

Last night results, were plain chaotic, like everyone has pointed out. It's a sad day for me as well, to see my fellow friend, Gofraid depart and my communication with one ally is lesser. We will avenge you, my friend... It is obvious that I see the missing third killer, and I suspect for some reason, this third killer did not use the night action for some unknown reasons, and if the third killer was blocked, I believe we should be seeing a successful action results based on last night description, but there aren't. So, I am not sure what must have happened last night... I don't quite think so. This is a very imaginative tall tale.. I didn't expect to even see a compulsive vignette claim, like an one-off action? Anyone care to debunk this myth? What kind of strategy will this person be thinking to use his/her single shot at one random target? Sorry, I am not buying this. It is reckless, and for some reason, if there is truly such a role, then why did the person use it so randomly and recklessly.

Oh, thank you for helping. It is much appreciated. I didn't know that you are able to login to amend the content? I thought it is the control of the webmaster for pictures upload related.

Very nicely done indeed!

Thank you very much for sharing all of your in-depth thoughts with regards to this new LEGO Movie Series. It is always interesting to find out various members' views and opinions. On a side note, I am upset to discover that some sites out there, doctored my images... I clearly don't appreciate it... I am aware of which sites are doing this on purpose by removing my watermark and host it in your site and resources.. This is intentional and copyright violation of my work. I do not mind others using my images and host it, but clearly enough these sites did not ask my permission to reproduce any of such materials. This upset me greatly as no due credits is given for using it. To clarify, I did not use any custom prints or custom products in this review. The 3 robotic cyborgs were done by using existing LEGO parts to demonstrate the interchangeability. I still think robots are still cool with children these days. So, I don't think it is a sort of decline of popularity as well.

Sharing facts, in my opinion is also a way to share your participation. I have been carefully noticing people that has been hitting me hard in Day 1 and Day 2. What did I exactly do to make them felt that way, and the probable reason is myself being seen too helpful and re-highlighting others' statements, is a suspicions to me? Ok, then in my case, I will state my suspicions at this point in time, is Canute for being overly targeting at my statements without even explaining for himself or his own actions but merely pointing accusations in my day statements. If he truly want to test the robust of my statements, then is he cleared of anything at all that warrant his accusations against me? As for the suspected SK, it is very hard to get a read based on the day action as that likely candidate may blend well in the daily scene and that is my job to ponder about, provided if I am still around. I targeted Gofraid because it is based on my gut feeling to make sure that he will not be a threat to me and to clear my own suspicions, so I can have my own trust-able listing that I hope to contact in private, if require. Yes, there is a risk in doing so, but I won't be doing it alone. To the Servants of Loki, I may or may not be a threat to them directly since I had exposed my role in early Day 2 and my job is going after the SK. If the SK enjoy/want to go after the fellow random townies at night and in the process hopefully he/she can target a servant, then we could have won, but I highly doubt we could trust Lady Luck on this. I just pray that I can reach the SK before it is too late.