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Sagrada Família Lego set
- Towaway69 5mo agoWhat's the smallest 360deg camera? Would it be possible to create a virtual tour of the inside of this model with such a camera? Would interesting to use a quest and take a tour of the insides.
- ortusdux 5mo agoOne of the small Insta360 cameras would work well, but they only shoot ~180°. It would be a great excuse to use a probe lens! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZ0MFYup-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZ0MFYup-o
- V__ 5mo agoThis looks very repetitive and not-fun to build.
- butlike 5mo agoYeah I agree. 12k pieces except you're building 100 pillars and 100 spires, all the same.
- latexsalesman2 5mo agoWonder if it will take as long to complete the Lego version as it took to complete the real thing.
- Towaway69 5mo agoHave they completed the real thing ? I thought it was still being built…
- binary132 5mo agoThey just finished the final tower after 144 years, although there is still another decade of (finishing?) work remaining.
- bzzzt 5mo ago“My client is not in a hurry” – Gaudi
- lokar 5mo agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/barcelona-sagrada-familias-church-central-tower-put-in-place https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/barcelona-sagr...
- cantSpellSober 5mo agoSo no, they haven't completed it. They have completed some major construction milestones. https://sagradafamilia.org/en/-/una-creu-que-arriba-al-cel-de-barcelona https://sagradafamilia.org/en/-/una-creu-que-arriba-al-cel-d...
- bakies 5mo agothey havent built the front entryway yet
- slg 5mo agoIf we scale it by height, a historically accurate building of this set should take you approximately 200 days.
- Georgelemental 5mo agoWhy would you scale by height and not volume?
- slg 5mo agoBecause it doesn't appear to either be designed at a consistent scale or be a solid rectangular cuboid making volume feel like an even less accurate basis for my silly joke.
- echoangle 5mo agoThe shape doesn't matter for the scaling as long as it is a 3-dimensional object that is scaled in all directions. And I think for the actual value you get, scaling by volume would actually be more accurate.
- nikhilisvalid 5mo agoThe original took 144 years to build, and this model is anywhere between 153 to 278 times smaller. If one were to scale by volume, the build time would take at most 22 minutes, and at least 3. I think scaling linearly works better here
- echoangle 5mo agoWell that’s because you’re building alone and there were multiple people at once doing the real thing, and it’s a different construction method. That only determines a constant factor though, the scaling of build time for a given method should roughly follow volume. Would you say that building a Lego version that’s twice as high takes double the time?
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- binaryturtle 5mo agoFor the price tag I would have expected something bigger and more imposing (at least twice the size.)
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- liendolucas 5mo agoWhen I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces over and over again is gone.
- alephnerd 5mo agoYou can still buy bulk Legos to mix and match from Lego. And similarly pricey and collector oriented Lego sets existed 20 and 30 years ago as well. Legos releasing single build sets that are clearly targeted for adults (look at the 18+ age statement) does nothing to harm you - it's targeted a different consumer demographic. It's like Taco Bells now serving alcohol or Costcos now selling Asian groceries. Companies will not stay stagnant and will look at additional opportunities to expand to new buyer demographics.
- pyreko 5mo agoExactly, and like, if one literally looks up "Lego catalogue" and actually read it you'll get a bunch of sets - even the brand tie-ins, which aren't new at all - and these are basically the same types of sets I grew up with and would happily build and then take apart as a kid to do other stuff with...
- alephnerd 5mo agoSame here much to my parents chagrin - they thought buying me Lego sets would teach me to follow written instructions but joke's on them.
- cryzinger 5mo agoLego also has "3-in-1" sets that come with dedicated instructions to build different possible configurations out of the exact same pieces, which seem like a cool way to encourage kids (or anyone :P) to then veer off into their own building experiments.
- pdw 5mo agoI'm sad that the building instructions link doesn't work. I'd love to see them.
- sizzzzlerz 5mo agoOnce built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of instructions. I don't even want to think about what would be involved in disassembling it such that it could be rebuilt per the instructions.
- varun_ch 5mo ago> Once built If the LEGO are truly accurate to the real thing, that might take a while!
- vaylian 5mo agoOver a century, as a matter of fact.
- olyjohn 5mo agoSometimes the build is the fun part. Haven't you ever put together a puzzle?
- sizzzzlerz 5mo agoOf course. I do jigsaw puzzles all the time but they aren't meant to be permanent nor is it difficult to take them apart and redo them. I even did the Saturn 5 Lego kit 8 or so years ago. It's why I asked the question. While the rocket was much smaller in scope (and price), it took maybe 5 evenings to complete. It was, and continues to be, very fragile. I have it sitting on a table on its stand but I honestly get no real pleasure nor satisfaction in seeing it. It, and the table, require occasional dusting so moving it is a challenge to not cause pieces to fall off or to replace such pieces that do fall off back where they belong without causing further damage. If something happens that does cause major damage, it's pretty much toast as trying to recreate the initial assembly is nearly impossible. I was just asking to see what others do with such things. To me, they're like visiting a museum that has a very steep entrance fee that hasn't changed an exhibits since it opened. Why go back?
- namuol 5mo agoLooking forward to the expansion pack(s) for when they finish building the real cathedral
- sizzzzlerz 5mo agoI wonder when they'll release the Spanish Inquisition set. Nobody will expect that.
- fauria 5mo agoIt is not a cathedral, is a basilica: https://sagradafamilia.org/en/history-of-the-temple https://sagradafamilia.org/en/history-of-the-temple that will be finished next June 10th, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death and the visit of pope Leo XIV to Madrid.
- outside1234 5mo agoWhat they really should have done is sell the kit in 7 stages, each for $99 each, such that you can slowly build it as you can budget money for the construction. :) (This is how the Sagrada Família was built in case folks don't know its history)
- pimlottc 5mo agoThat would actually be really cool if each stage of the build reflected the actual construction history
- genocidicbunny 5mo agoIt's actually supposed to do exactly that! The set is supposedly designed to be built in the same order as the real life basilica was and is being built.
- analogpixel 5mo agoI like the idea of doing lego models, until I'm about 1/2 way through, then I think, "never again"
- ggm 5mo agoTo all North Americans. The singular of Lego is Lego. The plural of Lego is .. Lego. It's like sheep. Legos is a mis--spelled City in Nigeria.
- crims0n 5mo agoNot to all, plenty of us call them Legos.
- lowbloodsugar 5mo agoAnd its GIF not JIF!
- rconti 5mo agoThat's a strange way to spell Portugal
- Hamuko 5mo agoIf we're drinking the Danish Kool-Aid, you're supposed to write it "LEGO".
- qrush 5mo agoIt seems like this Lego set should also take 150+ years to build
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- krembo 5mo agoIf at all, then the white bricks of LEGO Architecture Studio are on my wishlist just because i dont like following instructions https://a.co/d/0iJANnKK https://a.co/d/0iJANnKK
- genocidicbunny 5mo agoSo, fun trick with sets like these, that are in the more 'professional' space of Lego is that most of the time, these sets are very open ended because they only provide you a bunch of common pieces. Which you can buy yourself. Bricklink has a wonderful feature that you can take a set and then part it out into a wanted list, and then search seller inventory to find those parts. That's how I built that giant Imperial Star Destroyer set from the aughts for a little over $200 instead of the like $1000 that used copies of the set were going for at that time (it's probably even more now.) Just for funsies, I looked it up, and you can get the whole 21050 set for about $150 now on bricklink, which is a pretty good $/psc price. Considering what the set is, and the lack of stickers, means it should be easy to wash a used set to get all the pieces nice and clean; a laundry bra bag with a fine mesh works great for this.
- jll29 5mo agoPeople are apparently willing to pay a premium for older Lego sets, provided the original packaging is still intact. Older sets are offered and sold on eBay for substantially more oney that they cost when originally sold.
- httpz 5mo agoOnly the collectible ones. It's do different with shoes, cars, Pokemon cards, etc
- zuzululu 5mo agosomebody outta make a cheaper affordable lego alternative its a god damn crime what lego is getting away with
- hazelnut 5mo agoBlueBrixx is becoming fairly popular in Germany right now. The sets look competitive to me: https://www.bluebrixx.com/en/bestsellers/ https://www.bluebrixx.com/en/bestsellers/
- zuzululu 5mo agostill look insanely overpriced
- margalabargala 5mo agoAdjusted for inflation, lego set prices have been consistent over the years: > https://bricknerd.com/home/greed-or-inflation-an-economic-analysis-of-lego-price-increases-7-26-22 https://bricknerd.com/home/greed-or-inflation-an-economic-an... Inflation-adjusted price per piece has actually been declining over the years, dropping from ~$0.25 to a current $0.10 on average. This set is $0.06 per piece, so even less expensive than a median set by that metric.
- zuzululu 5mo agobut the people buying has not had their purchasing power keep up, demographic have shifted entirely over the years
- margalabargala 5mo agoSomeone should invent a metric for when prices inflate across the board, making the purchasing power of a currency unit go down. Then people could control for prices over time.
- gniv 5mo agoI just looked and of course there are: https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005010679835500.html https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005010679835500.html
- croes 5mo agoAnd how many of these 12,060 pieces are tiny pieces? Maybe it’s time to add the weight and the stud count
- spuz 5mo agoI normally love Lego's interpretation of various real architectural works but I don't believe there is enough detail here to really capture the unique style of Gaudi's design.
- pvillano 5mo ago12,060 pieces
- genocidicbunny 5mo agoThey're doing the best they can given the budget and size constraints. The set has to simultaneously be interesting and not tedious to build, cost a somewhat reasonable amount, not be too huge that no one can display or even reasonably build it at home, and able to closely enough replicate what they're trying to model. Could they make a bigger version of this set that is more closely resembling the real thing? More than likely, yeah they can; look at the displays they have at Legoland. But would that more detailed version be accessible for even the well off AFOL? Most likely not. It'd be too big, too expensive, and too unwieldy, and will probably still fail to capture some of the details of the real thing.
- ajaimk 5mo agoWe're not supposed to finish this right?
- dyauspitr 5mo agoI’ll never get Lego. Assembling a plastic premade model, with full instructions to get a blocky pixelated representation of the final thing. It just feels so tacky, it has no gravitas. That being said, I love Lego as a company and wish them all the success.
- ajaimk 5mo agoWould be funny if every box was missing a few pieces so you can not finish it :-)
- wizardforhire 5mo agoAnd/Or halfway through have to change the design
- caseysoftware 5mo agoI have the 2017 edition of the Lego Millenium Falcon and ~7500 pieces took about 30 hours without being super organized or focused. At that rate, this is almost 50 hours of assembly but I'd wager there's a ton of duplication in this one, likely speeding things up. And yes, for these sorts of sets, you put them on display. I added LEDs to mine: https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1766667069003645362 https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1766667069003645362
- genocidicbunny 5mo agoI'd love to see the back of that if you actually integrated the LEDs into the main engine (and I apologize if you did post other photos, I have X mostly blocked so I can only see the directly linked post.) I've been hacking at adding some lights to a few sets that I thought would look great with actual lighting on them, and my biggest challenge has been the routing of all the wires in a way where the lights actually look like they're integrated into the set and not just randomly sticking out of places.
- caseysoftware 5mo agoI don't think I have pictures of the back specifically but the route was: Started on one side of the engine framing, all the way across, inside through the body then around the round section holding the bottom gun turret, then along the front bottom edge, back into the body and around the top round section of the gun turret, back into the body into the bridge and across the ceiling ending there. The LED string itself had adhesive backing, so I'd put it in place, remove a section of the adhesive cover, attach it, then do another section. It was probably 3-6" at a time, so not fast or easy. I had to take off a bunch of the ship panels - super easy - to get at some of the portions. My goal was that you couldn't see the LEDs directly from most viewing angles and was mostly successful The LED string was ~$60 and it was a silly amount of work but I have it sitting over my left shoulder during conference calls and people ask about it constantly so it was fun. Other pics: https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1757069749501018411 https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1757069749501018411 Edit: Just realized you can see the string here: https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1980269018511794422 https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1980269018511794422
- alentred 5mo agoOh boy, I hope they didn't miss the opportunity here: this set must be missing the last pieces, complementary kits should be issued in the coming decades.
- storus 5mo agoWith those prices LEGO is leaving a massive opening for their Chinese competitors.
- yomismoaqui 5mo agoQuestion is, are Lego fans going to buy a similar-quality chinese product or do they only buy Lego?
- Markoff 5mo agowhy not if it's the same thing for 1/3rd to 1/10th of the price? I mean you can buy some of them for one tenth, at that price is no brainer, I wonder why nobody imports them to Europe, it's same fun, no matter the brand we bought for son among others some motorbike model for like 10€ in China, same thing grim Lego would cost here in Europe like 50-80€
- genocidicbunny 5mo agoAs a long-long-time Lego fan, yeah, some of us will buy the 'knockoffs' if they provide something different that Lego itself wont. I myself have tried many of the non-Lego lego sets over the years. One that has been holding my attention recently has been Lumibricks, which integrates lights into the sets, and is also cheaper than official Lego sets for similar part counts. One of the big things I've found is that where Lego wins a lot of points is on their instructions and build steps. Many other companies either make their instructions hard to read or parse, or don't do a good job with progressively building up subassemblies so they don't collapse in your hands. But there are some Chinese companies that are now making the entire experience a similar quality level as Lego does. A lot of the 'knockoffs' also focus more on the visual of the model rather than the play. Lego itself is often willing to sacrifice some realism to make sets be more playable, much to the chagrin of some fans. Lego used to have a huge moat in manufacturing. They made good molds, they perfected the processes for making pieces (barring a few problematic colours....cough brown and dark red) and they invested heavily into clear design targeted towards accomplishing a certain level of play and excitement from those buying and building the Lego sets. Now though, those things are not a moat, they're just basic table stakes, and there are a lot of other new players entering the market who are doing just as good. I've seen multiple stages of Lego's evolution over my life, and I think they're going to need to come up with something new that's not just a silly expensive noise/light brick to continue to command the price premium that they do. Sure, their IP deals will probably float them for a while, but without bringing something new to the recipe, they might slowly start to go the way of jello deserts.
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- khazhoux 5mo ago“Build time: 144 years.”
- hohithere 5mo agoAt that price, better to go visit the real one.
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- cmurf 5mo ago$800?! I wonder if Gaudi gets a cut!
- ChickeNES 5mo ago[dead]
- mieses 5mo agoFor that price I'd fly to go see it in person and spend the change on building the Kaaba.
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- rsynnott 5mo agoI feel like if they were really committing to the bit, the ship date would be some time in the mid 22nd century, rather than November.