Review: 10234 Sydney Opera House

[talos]

I just noticed today, on the USA S@H site that the Sydney Opera House has vanished. It's not there in any category, and searching for it's set number 10234 brings up nothing. I'm not sure how long it's been since I last noticed it.

It's not like it sold out, usually a set will stay visible with 'sold out' or 'out of stock' for a long time before it disappears.

Does anyone know what the story might be?

[Steve309]

Odd

I got to it but going to Canadian site. Adding to bag. Then switching to American. And clicking on it. So I found it the web page for it.

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Sydney-Opera-House-10234?_requestid=10645212

[talos]

It's strange it won't appear on the 'hard to find' category. For me, it's mainly an iPad problem, I think. If I search on my desktop Mac, it comes up in a set number search, but on the iPad, it can't be found. There are a lot of differences between the tablet version of the S@H site and the desktop browser version, I have other problems with it too..

Edited July 19, 2014 by talos

[welverin]

hi,

in the picture soh07.jpg "Here the first detail appears that gives a hint what techniques would be used in roof construction"

there is an angle element (dark grey) and upper something like Brick o16 with cross, but it is impossible, the round brick don't have a axle to connect to angle element, i try the connection in ldd

i wrong something ?

[rollermonkey]

I'm not sure what "brick o 16 with cross" is, but having built the set myself, I assure you it all goes together easily, but in a very ingenious way, and I would NOT be surprised if LDD cannot deal with some of the more unusual building techniques.

There are bricks bottom-to-bottom in that picture, held together in a sandwich involving the offset holes on the modified 4x4 plates and 2x2 round plates with short technic axles inside... That's probably impossible in LDD, too.