Fugazi Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Includes unique printed shield! Features hundreds of 1x1 slopes in tan! Many useful arches, angular bricks in tan! Includes 4 blue base plates and over 80 windows! Is it me or TLG learned to speak AFOL! Unique printed shield, that will be a sought after part! By the way it's funny they should call tan tan, instead of their official colour name (isn't it Brick Yellow?) Quote
Yendred Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 A really fantastic set without a doubt. I don't have a problem with the bottom pillars but I really have a problem with the missing towers to the left and right of the London Tower Bridge. To me this landmark set is incomplete. +1 !! This is too bad from Lego. I hope someone will MOC the missing towers. Includes over 80 windows! The Grand Emporium is beaten. Quote
Yendred Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 One mistake on the box : they translated the landmark name in French by "Le Pont de Londres" and in Spanish by "El Puente de Londres". This is the London Bridge, not the Tower Bridge. In French, we don't translate the name and just call it "Le Tower Bridge". Quote
GRogall Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 (edited) Jamie Berard tells us all about the set here! WOW, 556 tan cheese slops! Awesome! Edited August 6, 2010 by grogall Quote
roamingstop Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Jamie Berard tells us all about the set here! WOW, 556 tan cheese slops! Awesome! Makes me green... in a good way; ideas for future. And wow a great model to see in the brick. Quote
DLuders Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Does anybody know whether the opening draw bridges could be MOTORIZED with Lego Power Functions elements? If an AFOL is willing to model the "missing" side towers and raise the model with taller bridge piers, then one might as well add a remote-control drawbridge too.... Compare the real (grimy) Tower Bridge (from http://www.fmschmitt.com/travels/England/london/towerbridge/towerbridge.html ) with the clean set: Quote
lostcarpark Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 I just got official word of the pricing... everybody sitting comfortably? 10214 – Tower Bridge: US= 239.99 UK=204.99 DE=219.99 CA=314.99 James Quote
GRogall Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 I just got official word of the pricing... everybody sitting comfortably? 10214 – Tower Bridge: US= 239.99 UK=204.99 DE=219.99 CA=314.99 James Thanks for the info! Quote
prateek Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Compare the real (grimy) Tower Bridge (from http://www.fmschmitt.com/travels/England/london/towerbridge/towerbridge.html ) with the clean set: Maybe it looked like that when it was brand new in 1894 Quote
Edmond Dantes Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Jamie Berard tells us all about the set here! WOW, 556 tan cheese slops! Awesome! I don't see the video, but my tan cheese slope estimate was pretty much right on the money! Quote
prateek Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 (edited) I don't see the video, but my tan cheese slope estimate was pretty much right on the money! There might even be 50 extra ones, so your guess might be even closer I just saw the video, and that thing is huge! Edited August 6, 2010 by prateek Quote
lightningtiger Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 You're right 'prateek' this set is HUGE ! If there is space in the towers to hide the motor and gearing it might be possible to PF this bridge, but it also depends if you can get the gearing/linkages, etc., out to connect to the hinge/axle for raising and lowering of the bridge. I'm a conformist! ! Quote
Temet Nosce Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 It looks a LOT bigger in the video than it does in the pictures, and I love how even the Lego designer is raving about all the tan cheese! It seems this thread is less about the Tower Bridge model and more about the excitement for tan cheese :P Quote
DLuders Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 I don't see the video.... Here's the link to the 10214 Tower Bridge video (on Shop.Lego.com): http://shop.lego.com/Product/AssetPopup.aspx?p=10214&AssetType=49&s_button=moreViews . Press the rightmost "tab" that you see on that screen. Quote
GRogall Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 There is actually an HD video on Youtube but I don't know how to embed it! Quote
-R8- Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 That makes the Tower Bridge set to have the maximum number of cheese slopes in any one set, by far (although that already was pretty evident from the pictures)! Neat use for the Technic wheels in the towers. The architecture and build looks brilliant at the top of the towers. I'm wondering where the model splits - between the middle bridges and each tower perhaps? Quote
mjenk430 Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 Does anyone else feel that they should have made the base of the tower the same color as the tower? I guess they had to stop the tangasm somewhere! Quote
ILikePi Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 (edited) Ah, so Jamie is behind the gigantic amounts of tan cheese! I should have known. But wow, 556! This set has got to be the one the uses the most of a specific piece in a single color! Edited August 7, 2010 by ILikePi Quote
Legobricks+flicklego Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 They said it was going to realease in Octomber 2010. Quote
RileyC Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 Of course Jamie is behind this set! Who else would give us so many cheese slopes? He sure does treat us. Quote
Yendred Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 (edited) But wow, 556! This set has got to be the one the uses the most of a specific piece in a single color! You must be true. As far as I know, the previous record was the Statue of Liberty with 504 sandgreen Brick 2 x 2 Corner. http://peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/inv/sets/3450-1?PagerSortDir=r&PagerSortCol=Qty My tan cheese number estimate was 580 : On each tower corner column : Tower base : 30 2nd floor : 18 3rd floor : 18 4th floor : 6 Multiply this by 4 columns / tower, and add 2 on the counterforts, makes 290. Finally multiply by 2 towers, makes 580. Edited August 7, 2010 by Yendred Quote
GRogall Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 Did Jamie show us a new colour? at 0:43 when he holds up all the cheese pieces if you look at the one to the right of the white piece it is a colour I have never seen before! Light Green Yellow slightly transparent? Click on the picture for a HR version! Quote
GRogall Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 Glow in the dark, from the Racers series. Ah! ok never bought a racer thats why I never would have guessed! Thanks! Quote
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