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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
A triumph in Lego engineering
I've been a Lego fan since I was a child and bought this product the moment I saw it. It took me and my girlfriend about 10 hours to complete. The final product is very tall (box says 42" tall, but mine measured about 45") and absolutely beautiful.
Amazingly there was not one point in the instructions that was in any way confusing. Only difficult part of building it...
Published on December 30, 2007 by Mr. Carter
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Haven't seen it constructed yet
My son is a Lego fanatic, he builds every set that he gets within a few short hours. I purchased this with hopes of keeping his busy for awhile (not to mention his fascination with the Eiffel Tower), but it has yet to be built. Maybe one day...
Published 2 months ago by J. Howard
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
A triumph in Lego engineering, December 30, 2007
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
I've been a Lego fan since I was a child and bought this product the moment I saw it. It took me and my girlfriend about 10 hours to complete. The final product is very tall (box says 42" tall, but mine measured about 45") and absolutely beautiful.
Amazingly there was not one point in the instructions that was in any way confusing. Only difficult part of building it is digging through the 3400+ pieces to find the one you need.
For years I've wished Lego would make models of real-world skyscrapers. I guess the Eiffel Tower probably falls more into the world monument category. Either way, I look forward to more world monuments and skyscrapers in the future.
Worth every penny!
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Fun Challenge, December 4, 2007
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
This a very challenging and rewarding model to put together. It is exceptionally well designed and the precision fit of the blocks for such a large model is marvelous. It looks great and impressive when finished. You have to be attentive every step of the building process due to its complexity. I wish Lego would start making more world monuments.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Challenge but Fun, December 27, 2007
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
My son (age 12) and I assembled this item together during the Christmas. It was challenge but fun. We helped each other to find the pieces and read the instruction. It took us four days to finish it (2 - 3 hours per day). I wish I can upload the finished tower on the website for you to see.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Lego should make more sets like this, January 14, 2008
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
I purchased this set a couple of weeks ago and just finished building it today, I must say I haven't been this impressed with a lego set in many years.
You don't understand how large it is until you have finished it. By the time I put the spire on I was amazed.
The actual building of the set isn't complicated, you can actually figure out how to build the different levels by building the first couple w/o the instructions, but can be frustrating due to the thousands of tiny pieces that comprise the set. Three or four times I spent 10+ minutes searching the sprawling pile of pieces for the elusive piece.
You build the set in three stages. The first stage is the base and is the only section I have any complaints about. The base is very fragile, don't even think about trying to lift it up by any way other than the base plates. The fragile nature is a consequence of just how well the set resembles the real thing so it is acceptable, just be careful. The middle and top stages are much more sturdy and easy to handle.
I was missing 15 pieces which made finishing it complicated but Lego is very good and prompt about replacing them so it did not turn out to be an issue.
I highly recommend this set if you are into the model sets, not much fun for playing.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Eiffel Tower, January 25, 2009
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
Hi - My name is Peter and I am 7 years old. My parents didn't think I could do this myself, but I got it for Christmas and after a few weeks, I did it. My dad helped a little, especially sorting out all of the pieces. It was hard but I had fun!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
This set consists of 6 gazillion pieces, all of them gray., January 21, 2008
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
Okay, okay, I'm exaggerating: it's only 3428 pieces, and only 3027 of them are gray.
This is an incredible set, and looks amazing when finished. It's the most difficult build I have done, though I hear that the Ultimate Millennium Falcon is even harder.
The almost completely uniform color scheme demands a disciplined approach and plenty of multi-compartment trays. I hate to think what it would be like if I followed my usual habit of ripping open all the bags, dumping all the pieces in a pile, and building the coolest bits first regardless of official sequence. Some of the parts are packed in sorted bags (eg. the 230 gray 1x4x1 fences are packed in three bags). Other pieces are mixed in together, which means you have to sort them out, all the while grumbling about why they didn't sort all the pieces. Seriously, why sort some but not all?
The middle and top sections of the tower are relatively simple, and very sturdy. The lower section is both fragile and tricky. In some places the pieces are not so much locked together as balanced against each other. It is vital that you make sure all the pieces are aligned and tightly connected. A slightly loose piece in the bottom of the structure can be a huge problem for the pieces a foot above it. It's not easy to tighten two pieces after the fact without disturbing lots of other pieces.
For the first time ever I found some of the instructions hard to follow as the uniform color made it hard to figure out the perspective in the instruction drawings. Twice I found that two parts which were meant to join up were a tile-thickness different in height. I had to go back through the steps to figure out which teeny-tiny piece I had put in the wrong place, then dismantle and rebuild. In one case I had put one too many 1x2 plates in one of the legs; in another I had a 1x3 plate one stud out of place. You need to be methodical, gathering all the pieces for a given step, paying careful attention to the diagrams, and making sure all pieces from a step are accounted for.
I also strongly advise keeping small children at bay. My 5 and 8 year-old sons thought the Eiffel Tower really needed a train station under it, and track surrounding it, which might have been workable had not a dispute over the exact placement of the station led to a massive engineering catastrophe.
As others have said, I would love to see more world monuments. The Colosseum, Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, or Ely Cathedral would be awesome. The Seven Wonders of the Lego World would be a fantastic series.
An update (May 11, 2008): According to brickset.com Lego will be releasing a model Taj Mahal later this year! No pictures or a release date as yet, but the set number is 10189. Bricklink hears about new sets several months in advance so I imagine this will be a Q3/Q4 release.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
This was a great team building project with a 16 year old, April 15, 2008
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
I have no idea WHY purchasing this seemed like the "ideal solution" for dealing with a cantankerous adolescent but...amazingly, it worked! Instead of the "parent", I was assigned the role of "occasionally helpful assistant". I was wowed by my offspring's persistence, guidance and skill in putting this together. Meanwhile, there was some chat here and there, all appreciated (by me, at least).
It was a learning experience....and I'm not talking just about the task of finding exactly which pieces went where. That was indeed a challenge! More important? Getting outside our usual routine and doing something different. He was the seasoned Lego pro and I was the apprentice.
Some words of advice about building this truly amazing structure: it is delicate but not complicated to complete. We did have part of one level come apart, temporarily, when applying pressure to get a piece to stick. That only happened once and we upped our learning curve.
You need to pay attention to the height and width of every piece to make sure you do indeed select the exact...right..piece... and the drawings and instruction booklets could have had more details, although my son didn't find them impossible to follow. I have no idea why the pieces aren't sorted so that you can find them when you come to the next step of the directions...but they aren't.
There are three books of directions for this one. It doesn't come together quickly and having a partner sure helped when piecing together some of the more delicate and flimsy sections.
It actually looks nice when displayed too! I don't think I could have done this on my own.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Before you start/larson, February 7, 2009
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
Lego Eiffel Tower
Before you start to build this model read the other reviews. Finding the parts for each assembly step can be a problem so obtain about 22 aluminum pie plates and number from 1 to 22. Sort the parts packages into identical shapes but do not open yet. Give each package or group of packages a number. Open one of the 22 or so parts-packages into an appropriately numbered plate. On an 8" by 11" lined piece of paper, number a line and draw a small sketch of the type of part in each plate. ("Yes you can!"). Some parts look the same but are thicker. Note thick ones. Now when you goto each different assembly drawing, you will note the part shape, then you will be able find its pan number from your sketch, and go to the correct pan to get the 2 to 4 specific parts needed for that specific assembly operation. Then you will have more fun.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Beatiful, magnificent, must I say more?, June 4, 2008
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
I've been saving up to buy this for a long time, and now that I've got it, I couldn't be happier. Fully built, it stands 45" tall (The box says 42", but I measured it myself)!!! It was much bigger than I expected, and I had a blast. It won't fall apart as long as you don't do anything crazy to it.
Here's some tips as to when you're building it:
1. When you get it, it'll be 10 pounds, so be prepared for hauling that to wherever you're going to build it.
2. I'd say to have plenty of space. I'd suggest about 4 feet of flat space in every direction.
3. When you open it, take out all of the bags. Organize the bags into piles of bags that look the same or just about the same. I'd say that the bags are organized well. There not organized chronologically, but by piece, which is better in my opinion.
4. Lay the organized piles in a circle, with enough space in the middle for you, an instruction booklet, and 4 base plates sitting edge-to-edge.
5. Cut open the bags and NO MATTER WHAT keep all of the pieces still organized. It will be much easier to have them organized than to have a massive pile in front of you.
6. Tupperwear (spelling?) bowls are not necessary.
7. Get in the middle and start building.
8. The above technique isn't suggested if your back and neck hurt easily. If that is the case, lay the pieces out ORGANIZED THE SAME WAY on a table in a crescent shape.
9. When you finish each section, set it aside instead of building the next one on top of it.
10. When sticking pieces together, try to push it down with your thumb and push the below piece up with your index finger to keep anything from falling apart.
Mainly JUST DON'T THROW ALL OF THE PIECES INTO ONE BIG PILE!!!!!!
Have fun building!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
16+ no kidding, June 25, 2009
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This review is from: LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300 (Toy)
Very high in detail and exceptional structural design. The durability is very good consider it's a plastic brick toy. Some reviewer compliant about is not durable after done building it, I don't agree. If you are a seasoned LEGO builder and know where to push or hold when you put together pieces so they would stick together very tight, I would say this LEGO Eiffel Tower is very sturdy. I have tested by dropped it from the table height and of course the tower break but only those little pieces (like the flag, the radio pole, and the little decorate vertical brick) the core structure still hold pretty good.
After finishing this piece make me want to buy LEGO Taj Mahal (wait for the price drop).
PS: It isn't kidding about "age 16+" on the box, building this set require lots of effort and patience (took me 14 hour to complete it).
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