Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of instructions. I don't even want to think about what would be involved in disassembling it such that it could be rebuilt per the instructions.

I have the 2017 edition of the Lego Millenium Falcon and ~7500 pieces took about 30 hours without being super organized or focused. At that rate, this is almost 50 hours of assembly but I'd wager there's a ton of duplication in this one, likely speeding things up.

And yes, for these sorts of sets, you put them on display. I added LEDs to mine:

https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1766667069003645362

If we scale it by height, a historically accurate building of this set should take you approximately 200 days.

When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets.

Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago.

All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces over and over again is gone.

Wow. Possibly the worst dickover[1] I've ever encountered.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

What they really should have done is sell the kit in 7 stages, each for $99 each, such that you can slowly build it as you can budget money for the construction. :)

(This is how the Sagrada Família was built in case folks don't know its history)

I feel like if they were really committing to the bit, the ship date would be some time in the mid 22nd century, rather than November.

Wonder if it will take as long to complete the Lego version as it took to complete the real thing.

What's the smallest 360deg camera? Would it be possible to create a virtual tour of the inside of this model with such a camera?

Would interesting to use a quest and take a tour of the insides.

It seems like this Lego set should also take 150+ years to build

Oh boy, I hope they didn't miss the opportunity here: this set must be missing the last pieces, complementary kits should be issued in the coming decades.

To all North Americans. The singular of Lego is Lego. The plural of Lego is .. Lego.

It's like sheep. Legos is a mis--spelled City in Nigeria.

This looks very repetitive and not-fun to build.

For the price tag I would have expected something bigger and more imposing (at least twice the size.)

I'm sad that the building instructions link doesn't work. I'd love to see them.

If at all, then the white bricks of LEGO Architecture Studio are on my wishlist just because i dont like following instructions https://a.co/d/0iJANnKK

I’ll never get Lego. Assembling a plastic premade model, with full instructions to get a blocky pixelated representation of the final thing. It just feels so tacky, it has no gravitas.

That being said, I love Lego as a company and wish them all the success.

People are apparently willing to pay a premium for older Lego sets, provided the original packaging is still intact.

Older sets are offered and sold on eBay for substantially more oney that they cost when originally sold.

I normally love Lego's interpretation of various real architectural works but I don't believe there is enough detail here to really capture the unique style of Gaudi's design.

At that price, better to go visit the real one.

I like the idea of doing lego models, until I'm about 1/2 way through, then I think, "never again"

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And how many of these 12,060 pieces are tiny pieces?

Maybe it’s time to add the weight and the stud count

With those prices LEGO is leaving a massive opening for their Chinese competitors.

Would be funny if every box was missing a few pieces so you can not finish it :-)

LEGO SCANDAL

About LEGO. If someone missed the Lego SCANDAL, where Bricks & Minifigs stole 200.000 dollars worth of lego star wars collection and a youtuber try to get it back and alot of craziness appears like police corruption is discovered and more. Brick and minifigs are destroying their reputation and usa too how the police is handling this. The hole world is watching. If you missed it, you have to watch it, it is just insane.

https://www.youtube.com/@RecklessBen/videos

We're not supposed to finish this right?

Looking forward to the expansion pack(s) for when they finish building the real cathedral

$800?!

I wonder if Gaudi gets a cut!

somebody outta make a cheaper affordable lego alternative

its a god damn crime what lego is getting away with

For that price I'd fly to go see it in person and spend the change on building the Kaaba.

“Build time: 144 years.”

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