Hey, it's JANG here with a look at the
LEGO Architecture New York City Skyline set.
It's the largest of the first wave of full skyline sets
that they've released for 2016.
This includes... relatively well-scaled versions
of The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State Building,
Chrysler Building, Flat Iron Building, and
and one World Trade Center.
These are viewable from every angle,
so they are fully built up to look displayable and presentable from all around.
You don't have to just present it from one particular camera-friendly angle.
The New York City placard down there is a printed tile.
You never see stickers in LEGO Architecture sets.
Statue of Liberty, over here,
uh well, the statue itself is a sand green recolored trophy piece.
It was originally designed to be used as a minifig-scaled trophy that would be
held in, just the hand of one of those little figures,
so it's not specially designed, but, given the selection of parts LEGO has,
this is definitely the most appropriate thing that they had available
and it's nice to get something even this specialised at this scale.
See a little bit of the greenery in the lawn down around the base,
and a bit of the base of the monument structure around and it's surrounded by water,
represented by the clear tiles.
The Empire State Building looks pretty good.
It makes copious use of grill pieces in tan, and obviously tan is just used all throughout,
until you get to the very tippy-top.
This has some interesting LEGO math involved with it, with a switch between horizontal and vertical units,
basically, you know, basic LEGO bricks are not square; they have a 5:6 ratio and they go back and forth
using, basically exploiting that back and forth so that you end up seeing some horizontal elements
and vertical elements that are perfectly lined up, and,
it's not quite as simple as it looks, I mean a lot of this center area, the major area right here, is
fairly straightforward, but the top is a little bit tricky and certainly the base is quite, rather tricky.
The way that ends up all going together - it's pretty nicely done.
Chrysler Building is relatively simple for sure.
You're pretty much stacking things up that are very straightforward with plates and tiles,
or jumpers, really, and tiles.
And that's pretty much it until you get to the top.
It's very tough to pull off this shape, you know, that very iconic shape.
They tried to, to do the best they could of turning it into a cone.
It's a very interesting choice of using four cone pieces in the metallic silver color to just start that,
start the cap, the stainless steel area of it.
I think it- it's... I mean I personally I'm sure I could not have come up with something better
and I'm sure that they tried many different things
many different options for trying to replicate the general look of this thing and
for this scale, I'd say this is done pretty well.
And then, over here The Flat Iron Building, well, there's just not much you can do with it
you're really limited and again I feel like they just made the best choice that they could or
the designer of this made the best choice possible here.
I appreciate how the roof is done a little bit differently, so it's not all just shaped exactly the same.
It's such a small thing here. Not only is the scale small, but it's such a small thing to replicate here.
It was tough enough with them to do the larger scale, standalone Flat Iron Building set
so this, I really can't complain about and
it ain't perfect but it's pretty darn good for its size.
Last but not least, one World Trade Center
and that's another one that's really, really difficult to do
because, well frankly, it's just not designed to work with LEGO.
They actually have the angles in the thing
and you just can't do that with LEGO at this scale.
So once again, given what they had to work with, I think this is,
this is pretty good. It tries its best when you look at it from a little bit farther out,
you know, it tries its best to get some of that shaping.
You can just see how it just grows as it goes up,
and this one gets a little bit tricky
but mostly just, more clever than tricky
and by that I mean making smart choices, that don't involve actually very advanced building techniques.
It's not difficult to put this together.
Some parts of it are a little bit repetative - very repetative actually
behind there, but, yeah, a valiant effort especially when you see it from the corner.
When you see it directly from the front, I'd say not as good,
but you turn around just a little bit and it starts to get the feel in there a little bit more,
especially what they've done right up in here -
this transition from this level - this tier, up to the top tier,
I respect that quite a bit.
This a good LEGO set in general.
I'm gonna say that this is an especially a good LEGO set for adults
who aren't very familiar with lego, maybe not even familar with it all or haven't
been involved with it at all since they were children.
This is a good thing to get an adult back into LEGO,
or even just to use just as, almost a, a therepeutic item because
even some of the more repetative areas of the build are satisfying.
You get into there, kind of get into a little bit of a rhythm,
the instructions are good and clear,
and you end up with something that's very presentable.
A small child could be very proud of this.
Somebody who's a CEO of a company could be proud to have this, I think, on a desk,
or on a wall display or something.
It's fun, it's based off something that's designed to be a kids toy,
but it's good art.
If you have any thoughts that you would like to share about this set based on what you've seen,
please do leave a comment down below.
Thank you for watching, and I'll talk to you again soon.
