Possible Upcoming Architecture Set: United Nations Building

TedEBear

My great-grandfather was a great and famous photographer. He photographed many iconic buildings, mostly in New York City. One of these famous pictures is of the United Nations Building.
My grandmother now runs his photography agency, and she was contacted by someone from the LEGO Group that wanted to obtain rights on that particular photo, so that LEGO could incorporate it into the little booklet with the set, as well as having it be next to the picture of the LEGO model in the catalog, showing how realistic the set was.
However, this means that LEGO has plans to sell a United Nations Setmfor their Architecture line. They might have cancelled its production, but I think it is still worth informing Brickset about it.


-Ted E. Bear

Huw

Interesting... There are two more Architecture sets scheduled for 2013 release, maybe this is one of them...

Diggydoes

Wasn't there some talking about the Eames House beeing one of the next releases?

Reliant

Neat thanks for the info. It will be interesting to see if this really will be the next set.

wagiwaby

If they are only putting the set together now. It is more likely will be a 2014 release.

CCC

Another step towards lego politics ...

Isn't the building a bit boring though? Assuming it is the general assembly buiding.

Brick_Obsession

CCC said:

Another step towards lego politics ...

Isn't the building a bit boring though? Assuming it is the general assembly buiding.

It is, but if they could have all the flags off the front of the building that would be very cool.

dougts

aren't going to fit many flags in micro scale...

rocao

@TedEBear: if it comes to pass, this would go down as one of the more unique and interesting ways we have come to find out about an upcoming set. Thanks for sharing!

Basta

On another forum I frequent somebody who works at TRU in Australia said that two new Architecture series had appeared on there computer system (can't be orderd though).

They are Leaning tower of Pisa & United Nations Building

This is all I and the person who posted knows, but I haven't seen any thing else about this yet except speculation, unless I missed it.

Huw

^ Interesting news, thanks.

jockosjungle

That's a shame, I would have thought Tower of Pisa could have done with the Tower Bridge treatment, rather than a Big Ben treatment

Coolsplash

TLG needs to revamp their Architecture line, maybe add more bricks and detail to the models. But, the UN Building will be good and so would be the Tower of Pisa.

bricknation

@jockosjungle @Coolsplash I bet it will be something like these two:

Coolsplash

Wow @bricknation, those are great designs, but we need details don't you think so :P as that would add a new dimension to City/Town layouts to add real models of buildings from all over the world....

cheshirecat

@jockosjungle The leaning tower of pisa is incredibly repetitive. At eifel tower/london bridge/taj mahal scale it would be incredibly dull - both to build and to look at to be honest.

jockosjungle

@Cheshirecat, very true but it'd look good in the end. My concern is that the architecture series makes modern buildingslook great, with their flat architecture but falls short on the more intricate stuff like Big Ben

LegoPodcaster

Skip to 3:55 in this video to see how the set should look. This is a great version of the United Nations building done by, Spencer Rezkalla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYq9j4CLLqE

cozy

yep. looks proper boring

CCC

Do people in the US (or other countries) care that much for the UN building?

I partly see it like the European Parliament. It might be a well designed modern building, but there is no way I'd want a model of it. When I see it, I just see the politics.