Customer Reviews for LEGO - Architecture Paris 21044
Customer Rating
4
A good Paris set
on October 26, 2020
Posted by: LordPizza
Overall, the Paris Skyline is pretty cool. I like all of the buildings, but I will say the Louvre is rather lacking on the sides for detail (not a big deal in my opinion), and the black building is rather obtrusive (I wonder if they could have found a different building that was tall as well). Overall however, I like the look of the city and having it on my shelf.
I used to love LEGO as a kid, and recently got back into it through LEGO Star Wars. My LEGO Architecture sets allow me to display something I really enjoy while having a more mature aesthetic to them, which is a great plus.
Paris, London, and New York are all excellent sets, and I suggest anyone who likes LEGO and wants a more sleek, mature set to display go for one of these three.
This was my first Lego set. My daughter has legos and I have played with her but I have never had a set or build one of my own. After a visit to Legoland, my husband and I have become huge fans of legos. I loved building this set. It was so much fun and really engaging.
I wish they would make these seperate from architecture sets. I want to do Lego architecture for its design details and representations of monuments throughout the world this is like an expressionist painting of several building with as little detail as possible. Plus it seems like they are doing so many of these now to fill time between releases of better architecture sets. I feel like I have to buy them to complete my architecture collection but I don't enjoy them nearly as much as the detailed buildings. Lego should make skyline it's own category for those who wish to have more of these. Also the price is going up and I don't feel like they are good value for the price these days. As far as Paris specifically the buildings were mainly repetitive small pieces but the Eiffel was a nice solid design although the scale compared to the building just doesn't seem quite right, could be me. It's alright but I hope the next architecture set with a full building will come soon.
being an affectionate lego fan from my childhood i cannot resist to buy some lego for myself from time to time. being an architect, the lego architecture series are a specialty i like the most. i had only one - the trevi fountain in rome (excellent!), but recently i bought paris and san francisco. both are excellent too. knowing paris very well i can confirm that this set recreates the overall atmosphere of the city featuring some of it's most famous monuments. in technical terms i have no objections considering the build quality. i must say that this eiffel tower is far the best - it finally has the right proportions and an overall impression - really great work :) however i have one important objection: the color of the eiffel tower. in reality it is not grey, it is painted brown. i my oppinion, if it was made from brown bricks (as used for the 555 california street tower in san francisco architecture set) it would be perfect! what a pity i cannot change it :(
The Paris skyline’s depiction of the arc de triumphe resembles the one in Pyongyang, North Korea instead of the one in Paris. The proportion and roof pieces especially shows the much closer resemblance to the Pyongyang arc de triumphe, which is not a replica of the Parisian one. The LEGO design made a serious mistake for this skyline and should be corrected.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from LEGOBy Keith, Customer Service, February 6, 2019
Hi there, thanks for your review. With our architecture theme, our designers are challenged to recreate famous landmarks from around the world using very few pieces. They create sleek and compact models that are great to display on a desk or shelf. Due to the small scale, it may be hard to distinguish the features of the Paris Arc De Triomphe in this set from the myriad other triumph arches around the world. However, any resemblance to these other structures is purely coincidental.