35. Buy and build the Tower Bridge Lego

I can't recollect when I first saw the Tower Bridge Lego.  It may have been in the Lego Store or it may have been an advert online.  What I do remember, however, is that I knew I wanted to build it.  It was a lot of money though.  I knew I'd be saving for quite a while.  Then, a couple of birthdays ago a clever friend of mine bought me a Lego voucher.  My last birthday I requested Lego vouchers from my friends and most of them obliged.  I decided to pay for the rest myself and bought it in January.

When the box arrived I got incredibly excited.  When I got around to opening it, I thought I would construct it like when I build IKEA furniture where I count out all of the pieces first to make sure I have them all.  However, at 4,295 pieces I quickly changed my mind.  Aside from the fact that in book one (of three) there didn't seem to be a list of pieces anyway.

The box

I decided I would create a video sped up of me building it which you can see below.  It took me a few days but it was great fun to build.

It turns out, in the back of book three...there's a list of all of the pieces!!!

As a Lego VIP (anyone who registers on the Lego website can be a VIP) I got points for my order.  I now have points to spend on more Lego...what to buy next?

I also recommend that you check out the Lego Ideas site.  You can login using the same VIP details.  It's a site where people upload their ideas for new products and you can support them.  To support the ideas you don't need to pay towards them, you just need to click to support.  The more support these Lego innovators have; the more chance their product will get the green light to become a new product on the shelves.  This project here is one of the ones I'm supporting.  It's a Beatles set.  Less than a year left to support.

BEATLES LEGO

Has anyone else reading this built Lego to "Tower Bridge" scale?  Are you an instructions person or a creative person?

What's made me even more proud is that my five year old niece is starting to get into Lego and can follow instructions very well.  I can't wait to show her Tower Bridge.

I find building Lego incredibly therapeutic and especially because...EVERYTHING IS AWESOME (see Lego Movie)!


The music in the background of the video is Matchbox Twenty's "How Far We've Come" live from Wembley Arena - 1st May 2008.