LEGO Architecture New York City Skyline Building Set 21028

We bought this for my grandson after visiting New York. He loved it! It didn’t take him too long to put together but it was much bigger than the small postcard lego sets of cities. A great purchase!

My grandson really enjoyed building this city skyline set.

It was enjoyable and it also is very addictive it was really fun and my favourite building was the one world trade centre

The set itself looks great when built however building is where the issue lays, the bags aren’t numbered which makes the building process awful, you basically have to empty all bags out across a big surface to actually build this. Whoever thought this was a good idea to not use numbered bags clearly didn’t actually try to build this which is a shame as the set shows off all the great buildings of new york

I have been spending a lot of time building/playing with Lego with our children. However, building Lego with small children, though rewarding in its own way, is not relaxing. That is why I decided to try this set out myself, without the kid's help. Overall, I enjoyed this set, but I do have several issues and items I can share for those contemplating trying out the Architecture line. This set was very repetitive, which, on first glance, sounds like a negative. However, I found the sorting and repetitive use of similar elements to be soothing. The limited number of colors used in this set helped to make the sorting process much simpler, but did make it a little harder to find pieces a little harder during the build. The Instruction booklet is very nicely laid out. I enjoy reading about the places which the build represents. I would have preferred if the beginning section were spread out throughout the book, with facts about each building coming right before you built that building. The instructions begin with the all black base the set rests on. This consists mostly of plates with some tiles. However, there was an interesting section with some bars towards the end of the base build that inspired me to wonder where this would be leading. Next, you build the Statue of liberty. the statue itself is represented by a sand green microfigure, which is fun, but it is small and the base is not that interestsing. After that comes the Empire State building. This structure is covered with 1x2 tan grills. It does use some interesting techniques, but it was the most repetitive part of the build. The Chrysler Building was mostly just stacked plates and jumpers, but did have a interesting top section. My biggest complaint with this building was the difficulty of disassembly. All of those stacked plates are a pain to seperate. I was underwhelmed with the Flat Iron Building. It was essentially just stacked wedge plates, but it was small and easy to complete. One World Trade Center was the most interesting part of the build. It utilized some innovative techniques to accomplish the offset structure of the various levels. Overall, I enjoyed building this set alone. It really has no "play value" as it is just a display piece. I enjoyed this build enough that I did later purchase the larger Statue of Liberty sets to go with it.

I used to be all about minifigures when it came to LEGO until I got the Statue of Liberty architecture set. Now I love the architecture series, and this set is a great addition! Totally worth the hour it took to build. There was one mistake I found but others have addressed it so I won't go into detail. I think it would be epic to see a full-scale World Trade Center set.

Perfect gift for out of town visitors to NYC. Small pieces so better for older children or ones under parental supervision.

I got this lego set to complete my architecture collection, and it is beautiful! The directions were clear and simple. It still took me 3ish hours to build, which makes the money worth it. Love this set !

The set features New YoekCity and is one of a number skyline sets offered by Lego. Bought for grandson who is collecting all of the sets. He really likes them and is eager to continue to add to his collection.

There should be one for all major cities and it’s a shame some of the ones I’d like have been retired e.g. Venice, Berlin. Saying that these are nice small builds showcasing key iconic landmarks. Only thing missing is maybe a Brooklyn Bridge like the London and San Francisco ones.

Was fun to put together, but the Statue of Liberty does not have her arm up.

As someone who had never built a lego before, my friend was challenged but but enjoyed the end product.

he said that the build was really fun to build but why kis is it for ages 12 and up. and my son is only 10

This is one of my granddaughters favorite legos. She loves the challenge

I purchased this set as a gift to my niece and we realized immediately that this set was going to be challenging to put together. I think the biggest complaint is that the pieces were in all different bags instead of packaged by each section (like other sets we've put together) which caused a lot of questions to make sure we were using the correct pieces to construct the set. Also the "Statue of Liberty" was comically small.

Fun city scape to put together and won’t take up too much space to display.

Nice set and when you add lights it looks amazing.

Quick, easy fun build with good representation of the city.

I bought this for my son. He enjoyed the build but there was an instructions error as I’ve seen mentioned in a previous review of this product in 2019. I assumed the instructions error would be fixed by now but it’s still there. My son ended up realizing it was an error and got through it, but it did cause him some frustration. He enjoys the set though!! We are a Lego family so I know this isn’t the usual circumstance.

After building London and Paris I thought I’d get this New York to complete the set. It brought back memories for me too. I have to say this was my least favourite to build. The towers were repetitive. Quick to build. Price could be cheaper.