Review: 10234 Sydney Opera House

[TomLego]

Okay, for those of you who have completed the Sydney Opera House........how is it as far as stability goes? Luckily, I built the Tower Bridge on a piece of plywood that allowed me to move it around until I found a suitable place for it. Some of the large piece count sets are difficult to move around without having them resemble like they've fallen victim to an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale.

How does the Sydney Opera house fare in this regard?

[merman]

I also hate it when I cannot read a review fully. It feels as though the main goal of the reviewer was to be the first. Well congrats...

[Erik Leppen]

Someone else owning the set already? If so, I'd be thankful to the first person to do a complete review. I'm still very curious to the building techniques used to build the sails. :)

[FuzzyBallz]

Okay, for those of you who have completed the Sydney Opera House........how is it as far as stability goes? Luckily, I built the Tower Bridge on a piece of plywood that allowed me to move it around until I found a suitable place for it. Some of the large piece count sets are difficult to move around without having them resemble like they've fallen victim to an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale.

How does the Sydney Opera house fare in this regard?

If I have to take an educated guess, the SOH would be stable during the building process simply due to the very large plate underneath the structure. From other review I've seen, mainly the one done by TheBrickShow on youtube, it's modular, but at the same time independent built.

[rollermonkey]

Okay, for those of you who have completed the Sydney Opera House........how is it as far as stability goes? Luckily, I built the Tower Bridge on a piece of plywood that allowed me to move it around until I found a suitable place for it. Some of the large piece count sets are difficult to move around without having them resemble like they've fallen victim to an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale.

How does the Sydney Opera house fare in this regard?

The video announcement for the set (viewable at the listing at the lego.com store) shows the set's designer lifting the completed set with no flex at all. It's apparently designed with an internal support structure for additional rigidity.

[BrickDafki]

Okay, for those of you who have completed the Sydney Opera House........how is it as far as stability goes? Luckily, I built the Tower Bridge on a piece of plywood that allowed me to move it around until I found a suitable place for it. Some of the large piece count sets are difficult to move around without having them resemble like they've fallen victim to an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale.

How does the Sydney Opera house fare in this regard?

I build it already but I'm afraid I could not write a quality review...

As soon as we we're returning from our holiday in Sweden (with a stop @ Legoland Bilund). I went to the LEGO Store in Lille to buy the set.

I've build it a week ago, I and my girlfriend build it together with 2 friends and ik took the 4 of us more then 3 hours to complete it :-)

The structure is as solid as the video on the S@H website shows. I didn't found a permanent place yet so I moved it around a bit without anything as wood or cardboard under the baseplates.

Amazing! (Very different then the Tower Bridge :-s )

[merman]

Is there any chance of this set eventually showing up on Amazon for a better price?

[TomLego]

Thanks to all for responding to my question about 'stability'. I was moving the lego Eiffel Tower around and had the lower level collapse. Just wanted to know about the SOH. I will probably go ahead and build it on a wood base, like I did the Tower Bridge, so that its easier to pick up and relocate. Again, thanks.

[rollermonkey]

Is there any chance of this set eventually showing up on Amazon for a better price?

If by "better" you mean, much, much higher priced, then yes.

[TanTile]

I Just finished building it on Monday Such a fantastic build! There is a link below with my review if anyone is interested..

[Cwetqo]

Since this never got finished: our LUG member posted nice review. Its in Slovenian, but you can use google translate:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kocke.si%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D35%26t%3D7792

[Kivi]

Since this never got finished: our LUG member posted nice review.

Thanks for promoting my review. Unfortunately Google Translate does some bizzare translations here and there, so it might be better to post it here with more coherent description than the machines do. Just have to finish the translation...

[Holodoc]

Thanks for promoting my review. Unfortunately Google Translate does some bizzare translations here and there, so it might be better to post it here with more coherent description than the machines do. Just have to finish the translation...

Aaaah - that's the spirit!

[TomLego]

Okay. So I've complete the first three instruction books. This is by far the easiest build of the large Lego sets, IMHO. None of the repetitiveness of Tower Bridge and none of the questionable construction techniques that caused such instability in the Eiffel Tower.

Really enjoying this one despite the fact that I'm not a big fan of the SOH.

As far as a parts set goes, it would take someone a lot more creative than me to figure out how to utilize all of the curved pieces.

Nice job by the designer of this Lego product. Great representation of the actual SOH and a straight up, fair build.

I hope to finish tomorrow.

[TomLego]

Done.

Great build. As you may know, I'm playing 'catch up' with many of you AFOLs because I just recently became afflicted with the Lego addiction.

Gotta say, the SOH is a winner. Forget about cost per piece. Not as relevant here. Many, many large, unique pieces that I'm sure raised the production cost on this particular set. The set is very stable once built. And, there are not any construction techniques/methods that result in a portion of the build collapsing when you breath too hard or look at it the wrong way. The Lego designer really got it right with this one.

I didn't find it to be much of a challenge because the construction techniques were so well thought out. There are also a lot of large pieces, giving a well deserved break to an old geezer like me.

I don't even like how the real SOH looks. I find it more of an oddity that an architectural masterpiece. However, the Lego presentation is a lot of fun to build even if the final product isn't of a design that I'm crazy about.

[lightningtiger]

Now the funny thing is the Opera House is a Danish design in the first place and is still an on-going project even 40 years after it opened.

I have been told it is very stable, in fact one survived a flight between Sydney and Melbourne in an overhead locker and only one light pole fell over.