Okay, so I’ve seen some pretty cool LEGO landmarks at their store in the Mall of America in the over the last 6-9 months, like the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower, but I hadn’t realized they were part of a proper series. However, my interest just shot up as they’ve revealed an official partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to add some of his designs to their Architecture series, starting with Fallingwater (below) and the Guggenheim Museum. I was a huge LEGO nerd growing up (though admittedly focused on making awesome spaceships and carsdeath machines), and spent a year or two seriously considering going into architecture in high school, so this is looking quite irresistible (at least Fallingwater, never been big on the Guggenheim. Guess I’m going to have to be sure that I’m always making my way to the LEGO store on my weekend malll runs now, as well as paying some more attention to what else is in store for the series. It looks like they’re teasing the John Hancock buildingSears Tower on the official site as a nice little desk model, which I wouldn’t mind having either.
Via Brothers-Brick via Prairiemod.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
The architecture series has been out for awhile now. John Hancock came out last year and is available at brickstructures.com (the partner in the architecture series) or cheaper from other local Chicago locations (e.g. I think I ordered mine from an on-line shop for Chicago Architecture society…) MSRP was about $20 each.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Thanks for the additional information, guess I’ll have to poke around online though if they’re only locally sold in the Chicago area :(
May 26th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
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