Customer reviews from LEGO
LEGO - 21028
Average customer rating
4.3
(75 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 75 reviews
5 Stars
43
4 Stars
21
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
5
1 Star
1
84%of customers recommend this product.
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63 out of
75)
Customer Reviews for LEGO - 21028
Customer Rating
4
Good product
on January 4, 2016
Posted by: Bowler4Lyfe
This was a good product by Lego Architecture and I'm the first review. When you start to build it, you would thing that it will be small or what the yellow pieces are for. Those go in the WTC. I missed out on the Empire State building, so this is a nice replacement. I had to have this one on hold, otherwise I wouldn't of gotten one of them, the day they came out. I picked up all four of the new ones. I recommend all of them. They don't take very long to put together either.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
3
Great idea, poor execution
on November 8, 2016
Posted by: yuyu
This set has the potential to be a great but I feel Lego fell short on this one. I was really disappointed with it, especially being a New Yorker.
The set is really small and for such an iconic landscape as New York City Lego should have made this set bigger with more detail. Take the Statue of Liberty for an example. It's just a little Lego dude and it isn't even in the right pose with the arm and torch lifted up. Not to mention it falls off the base with the slightest touch.
Also, on my set the bottom base piece wasn't flat which makes the set swivel from side to side.
They also had the facts about NYC worked into the instruction book which I think is a waste. It's interesting in sets like the GT3 RS to read as you're building it. But I think it would have worked better to have separate tiles in front of each structure with facts/history of each building always on display.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
Interesting twist on this theme.
on January 14, 2016
Posted by: Legocanine
Interesting idea to offer these affordable sets that represent city skylines. Simple build, nice display piece. This set, I assume, is intended as a representation of the city and not an exact map of the city. A nice follow up would be a creator sized set of the Chrysler building.
Thanks for another set in this true AFOL series. Well done.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
NYC Arq
on September 5, 2016
Posted by: Lego3057
Just finished mine now.
I have the previous Empire State, which is the same size of the one included in this display, but this time with an incredible real look.
Just one word : Amazing
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
First Ever Full Lego Set
on February 25, 2023
Posted by: Michael
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] When I was a child, the only Lego sets I collected in the early to mid 90s were earned through a promotion with Kellogg’s cereal where you mail the form with several UPC codes, if I remember. It was four sets of 30+ pieces and were of a race car, glider, boat and helicopter. Fast forward to now, I win this set at a company raffle and was hooked after that. I took 4 hours of uninterrupted building. Mentally, I did get a little frustrated during the built. After each completed task, I felt I’m never going to finish, even with this 598 piece set. I wanted to be easy and finish fast. I didn’t enjoy at first as I hoped I would. So I forced myself to break it down brick by brick and start over. I needed to take time building and enjoy it. I need to work on my patience as well. Mind you, this review is not a dig towards Lego, this was personal things I needed to work on. In order to test my patience for the rebuild, I purchased a lighting kit for this set to make it mow challenging. The rebuild took over the course of 5 days each, one to two hours each day. And voila! I found the enjoyment of building my first Lego set a second time. Bravo to Lego and it’s Architecture series. I’m an engineer by trade and really come to appreciate the little details of each brick, component, and building of this set, and many sets that followed. The spare bricks and little statue were a plus. Looking forward to building other Lego sets!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
on March 29, 2016
Posted by: Tiff
Great build and unique pieces. A great addition to the new series. Made me have fond memories of my NYC trip
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
4
The Tourist
on January 17, 2017
Posted by: Mikas2002
It was my first LEGO Architecture set and it was a great experience building it. For a small set, it is very accurate. Everyone who visits New York should have this set as a souvenir.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
4
Fun, even for a New Yorker
on April 22, 2017
Posted by: TCWyldstyle
I live in Brooklyn but am in Manhattan almost everyday. My favorite well-known buildings are the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center, with the Empire State Building (ESB) and Flatiron Building as close seconds. I can see the Statue of Liberty, One World Trade Center and the ESB as I travel to and from Manhattan (it's amazing and I don't take it for granted). So, this set was a "no-brainer" for me to own. The pieces are unique and the set is really fun to build. The skyscrapers are a little unsturdy (several disassembled when the set tilted back into a box) but the pieces came off in chunks and were easy enough to put back together without needing to look at the instructions, and that's why I gave this a 4 block rating. I would recommend for older kids to adult due to small pieces. The end result is beautiful and fun to admire.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO