Well, look at that. The harbour landmark is set to be immortalised in miniature form as part of Lego’s Architecture range. Now your Lego space ships can include bits and pieces from an Australian icon.
The new architecture range will initially include 7 kits and be available from select David Jones and Myer stores in March (the Opera House kit will be $60). The range is split into both “landmark” and “architect”. Jørn Utzon is the third architect involved after Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. Other landmarks include New York’s Empire State Building and Seattle’s Space Needle.
As for the Opera House kit, it uses 260 bricks so you can build the shells and sandstone concourse.
Like I said, though, in my house – it all ends up in the same bucket eventually. Bring on the Lego Harry Potter Star Wars Opera House battle of middle earth for the ages!
Leo
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:24 AMUgly model is ugly.
monkeymind
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:43 AMLeo speaks truth on Lego Opera House
Thorbjørn
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:31 AMhow big is the model? it looks like complete shit
Monte
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:44 AMso shitty.
AnthonyP
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:49 AMIt does look to small to really be able to show off the sails of the opera house.
They should have done it in minifig scale! Now that would be a set!
Corteks
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:58 AMIndeed they should’ve done it minifig scale. Recently I’ve been looking at some people’s custom Lego creations online and their ability to create unique angles and curves using existing Lego bricks is absolutely masterful.
After seeing those creations this looks extremely amateur, especially considering they could’ve actually molded some special new pieces for the sails if they really wanted to keep it small. I mean it’s an official set! Wut?
Alex
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 12:12 PMlooks like a crashed space ship … made of lego
TSH
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 12:40 PMAgree with others – this model looks like arse, and only useful for the other things you can do with those new bricks.
It needn’t have been minifig-scale, but remember the LEGO Creator models of 4WDs and semi-trailers? Those things had 10x as much detail as this, and they were just generic vehicle models!
Sevrin
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 12:45 PMBut really…. who the hell got drunk at lego land and built that piece of disjointed plastic crap?
I’ve built better stuff than that with my feet!
bazuden
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 1:38 PMIts as ugly as the real Opera House.
charles
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 2:16 PMGET OUT!
Azoshi
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM+ 1
Cameron
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 4:28 PMThe trouble with the Architecture Lego range is they’re too small. This would work so much better as a 2000 piece set (think the Taj Mahal set) instead of this 200 piece set we’re seeing here.
romzz
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 6:55 PMThis…. this is really really shit.
morgs
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 12:59 AM“architecture”?
clearly they didnt look at a single photo of the opera house when designing that piece of crap, thats a disgrace
jrl
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 8:48 AMi personally like this set. I don’t really care that it isn’t exactly like the Opera House. Adam Reed Tucker, the designer of Architecture sets, stated, “I first and foremost do not view my models as literal replicas, but rather my own artistic interpretations through the use of LEGO bricks as a medium.”