hello everyone this is the Lego
architecture Paris skyline set it came
out in early 2019 in Europe and Asia I
believe it was mid 2019 for North
America I'm gonna take you on a little
tour through the individual small builds
here with the disclaimer that I don't
speak French so my pronunciation will be
poor my apologies for that so here we go
first up on the far left the Arc de
Triomphe yeah put a minifigure next to
that just for the sake of scale so you
can see basically what we're dealing
with here rendered in a white color
which gives it some contrast against
some of the tan colored buildings you
know it's not a pure white structure but
it's off-white you know in real life so
this looks pretty appropriate just uses
basic arches for the main shaping there
a little bit of extra width to the ledge
around the top try to bring in a little
bit of texture beneath that as well and
a single stud down in the center to
represent the eternal flame of the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier it is you know
symbolic of course it's rendered
significantly larger than the real thing
but it's nice that they included it
there and also the base is nice with the
rounded corners that were made possible
mighty relatively recent inclusion in
the Lego inventory of the quarter round
1 by 1 tiles next to that the Champs
Elysees or rather a little bit of that
strip with some of the individually
manicured trees represented out front
that looks pretty good it's just it's
just so short it's just such a small bit
of what architectural II and visually
from a landmark perspective is you know
a long Boulevard so there's a
representation here it's nice that the
printed one by one individual plates
were used the white ones to bring in
some of the suggestions of windows but
it's just a very small representation
there's a next thing on the other hand
is beautiful in my opinion and a
wonderful representation of what it is
it's the Grand Palais
I know I absolutely butchered that again
my apologies but I love how this is
built with a lot of studs on the side
construction for the core of it is
actually fairly fairly hollow behind
there I just want to pull a couple
things off maybe just that will do to
show you how hollow it is inside with
the the skylights that are rendered with
two by two bricks you know round bricks
and they just cover up the sides of them
to show you just the half dome tops or
the half circular half cylinder tops of
them and there's nice detailing around
the side as well just a lot of a lot of
depth you know partial partial stud
movements partial plate movement forward
and back up and down just in every
direction there's a lot of a lot of
texture and a lot of shape that I think
is absolutely wonderful for its size and
scale on the topic of size and scale
here's the Tour Montparnasse ah so
terrible so terrible that's the worst
one for me
I just don't have the tonsil musculature
to be agile enough to get those R's in
there but considered by many to be the
most ugly or at least most out of place
buildings in the entire country of
France I don't disagree with that
sentiment it just sticks up quite a bit
but I think that this Lego
representation of the building is a
little bit nicer than the real one
because it's made to look even more
modern and more sleek the use of the 1
by 4 by 2/3 curved pieces makes it all
nice and shiny and everything whereas
the real thing actually has quite a bit
of texture you know it's not that new of
a building you do see a little bit of
color just up at the top just beneath
this 1 by 2 tile here we've got some
medium blue inside they've got some tan
inside those are for the studs on the
side bricks that allow this all to come
together and as I look at this on the
side you see it's not perfectly
symmetrical cool front to back which is
good this is nice I like how the side is
done but then the back itself is
just built the same way as the front
it's really just the sides that are
different but it's done pretty nicely
yeah I really think it looks better than
the real thing personally now of course
we have to get to the Eiffel Tower and
this I think it's done extremely well
just a little bit of the parkway and
suggested there in the front look at the
technique that was used for the lower
arches down here they use these
windscreen pieces that are printed it's
a unique print for this actually brings
in a slightly different curve than the
pieces themselves allowing part of the
the molded plastic in clear to just kind
of disappear for you and I think it
fills up the space very nicely
personally I just thought it was clever
it's nice that they were able to bring
in that additional print just for this I
think it just looks good the whole thing
looks very similar to the last
standalone Eiffel Tower a set that they
did in the architecture series it's just
smaller and I know it almost feels like
it has a little bit more texture and it
went together nicely it was it was a joy
to put together because you use a bunch
of different types of techniques and
they top it off with the French flag I
don't think that actually belongs there
maybe in some celebrations they put one
up there or something but it's it's
nicely placed I think it's a nice touch
you can always leave it off if you don't
like it but this is fully symmetrical
around all angles I will show you more
of the back of this entire model shortly
but I don't want to focus on just the
the main views and the the main
structures of what you get here also
this is placed at a 45 degree angle
relative to the base and it is
completely secure no illegal building
techniques use there nothing is is
forced nothing is loose you know it's
very secured to its base and finally the
Louvre
how I was always taught as a youngster
just ignore the consonants and just call
it "Loov" but it's another one of those
things that's a tonsil twister for us as
basic Americans but this is another nice
build
of course the pyramid in the center is
absolutely perfect for this scale with
the help of the pyramid piece that's a
one by one and just a plain clear and
there's some nice texture on the side
wings nice texture on the the center of
the building
overall shaping is good doesn't look so
great to me from the sides it's it's
missing some texture towards the rear so
as I look around here I don't like it so
much and as I look around here it's not
quite so bad just well maybe a little
bit does look a bit like the sight of a
building going down an alley over there
towards towards the back but I think a
little bit more texture towards back
would've would have made this absolutely
perfect as it is
the main courtyard area is perfect and
most of the front is good
I think the shaping of the roof segments
is also pretty fantastic
now getting around to the back of this
entire collection of miniature models
see things become very plain so that
plane segment of the side of the
building there just extends and kind of
paints the entire rear view of this in
contrast to the Eiffel Tower which does
still have its full detail all the way
around so it's very nice to look at from
any angle and even the back of the Grand
Palais it looks pretty nice and uh here
we go again
my apologies tool more panache tool tool
Mont Panos yeah terrible anyway you know
it has it has the same level of detail
as around the front which is not a lot
it's not as much as you would see on the
real thing but you know it's rendered
pretty well the the back of these
smaller buildings not so great to look
at overall this is kind of interesting
to look at from multiple angles I'd say
it's better than most of these skyline
sets tend to be from around the back but
it's definitely not ideal it is kind of
nice though that there
all of this depth though again on the
negative side of that if you were to put
a bunch of skyline sets together these
ones that have a lot of extension
towards the rear really stand out you
know they cannot be placed on as shallow
of a shelf as a lot of the ones that are
really just this deeper they have just a
little bit of extension to the rear just
something to consider not necessarily a
bad thing I'm very glad that they do
have a full three-dimensional Eiffel
Tower model there and again it's done
well here's a quick look at the spare or
leftover parts including the beautiful
1x1 clear pyramid piece right there in
the newer form of Legos clear plastic
and one of the printed one-by-one white
plate looking at value this is a $50
u.s. set for just shy of six hundred and
fifty pieces officially that gives it a
very nice priced part ratio which it
very much needs given how many of the
pieces are 1 by 1 plates and tiles the
amount of stuff that you get here for
$50 u.s. doesn't feel worth it
especially relative to other lego themes
even considering the fact that Lego is
always expensive the architecture is
even more expensive still and Lego
itself has all but admitted outright
that the reason behind that is that well
they can they can price architecture
sets higher than others for the amount
of stuff that you get because the
average buyer is older and more likely
to be willing to pay more so they charge
more it's kind of how the world
tends to works plying demand
availability of funds and interest in
products and trying to train to match
that and get as much as much back as as
possible relative to other Lego
architecture skyline sets I would say
though in my opinion this has better
value than most because of the depth as
well as the height and the level of
detail you know how well most of these
things that are built here are done I
think the Arc de Triomphe is my least
favorite thing and all that they've done
here it almost feels it almost feels
like an like an Asian temple with the
the design was just how wide the ledges
are there wish they could have brought
that in a little bit closer it just
feels a little bit overdone give us a
little bit too much of a of a t-shape
you know you recognize what it is but I
don't know I wish that was I wish they
could have gone and another quarter stud
narrower or something but overall I'm
pretty happy with this relative to other
sets in the same line it's a pretty good
value and I think that it'll make a lot
of people happy probably already has
made a lot of people happy given that it
is not a brand new release let me know
what you think about it though if you
want to see how it all went together
including the interior details of the
medium-sized buildings and also how the
Eiffel Tower was assembled at least you
can check out my real time or speed
builds on the respective channels I will
link to both of those in the end screen
right now and I'll talk to you in soon
thanks for watching
