LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300
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Toys and Games Reviews of LEGO Make & Create Eiffel Tower 1:300
Customer Review: "All I Can Say Is: WOW!"
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wonderful Lego set! Excellent build quality, clear directions, and the finished product is massive! After spending almost 12 hours together building this wonderful tower, my 9-year-old said: "All I can say is: Wow!"
The first part of the tower, the bottom third, is unstable during the building process, but when you connect all four "feet" of the tower, it becomes stable. (This must have been true of the real tower when they built it in the 1890s as well). The middle and top sections are very tight and stable the whole way along. The design is brilliant, divided in three parts for stability and mobility. The attention to detail is astounding; this set even has the elevators inside the tower that people who have never visited the real tower have probably never noticed.
Lego creates their products with such care and perfection. Despite having over 3500 pieces, not a single piece was missing. At one point, we thought a piece was missing that we needed to move forward with construction. We took a piece from a different Lego set that was the wrong color, intending to email Lego to have them send the right color piece out later. However, later in the process, we found the correct piece! We simply carefully exchanged pieces to make the color correct. We have built over 10 big Lego sets together and have never found them to be missing a piece.
I agree wholeheartedly with those that say you should keep the pieces organized and not dump them all in one pile. On the other hand, it's unnecessary to separate pieces by every single piece type, because Lego was smart enough to have the pieces mainly sorted by type in each bag inside the box. We just dumped all the "tiny" pieces in one box together, and had to dig for them when needed. The organization was actually quite easy for this project.
The best thing of all was hearing my daughter say to me every day as we built this project together "I really love building Legos with you, Daddy!" As others have noted in their reviews, building this tower together can be a great way for people to bond together. It is much more satisfying than a video game, and the three-dimensional aspect makes it a lot more fun than a jigsaw puzzle.
Now we are eager to visit the real Eiffel Tower. We have a renewed respect for Mr. Eiffel's amazing accomplishment and appreciation for how proud the French are of this wonderful landmark.
Well done, Lego company! Now if they would only make another landmark tower such as the Chrysler Building or the JinMao tower from Shanghai!
Customer Review: Beatiful, magnificent, must I say more?
Summary: 5 Stars
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!
Customer Review: This was a great team building project with a 16 year old
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Lego should make more sets like this
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Better than going to Paris?
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow - this thing is big! Have you ever put together a puzzle where alot of the pieces are the same colors? This is a 3D version of that challenge which makes it more rewarding, but, be prepared to search for the pieces needed with each step of building -
At least half of the nine hours it took me to put this together were spent hunting for pieces and that is the main complaint I have about this set - 3400 pieces is too many to just dump out and search through, so I left them in their bags and assumed they would be somewhat related within their plastic bags as to when you need to use them - but they're not. Most frustrating is that they are not logically in the correct bags and some multiples of pieces are spread across different bags. You must be very patient at the beginning to find all the pieces needed for each step.
Having said this, the finished product attracted neighbors that wanted to see it (I put it together in my garage and they saw me working on something big) and it was a satisfying project to work on. It truly feels like a piece of Legoland is in our home now :) Problem is, my wife wants to go see the real thing now; and so do I just to see how my build compares :)