As you may now, Wright designed many fantastic buildings in Japan, and if you didn't know, may I suggest the resource HERE that I compiled a while back on March 20, 2012.
I saw this at the Sherway Gardens, Toronto LEGO shop a week or two ago - and finally! - there's an architecture set modeled on a Japanese building.
While it wasn't one I was expecting, I'm certainly glad it has been created.
Unfortunately, with all of the LEGO architecture sets, the $159.99 price tag on this particular set, is a tad too rich for my blood.
I have to eat and pay bills, and at least once every pay day, I try to get something nice for my son. That's always going to happen.
So... I can't buy this set. Or any of the other very complex LEGO kits I am sure I would enjoy building.
I have no idea why I didn't think of it previously - perhaps because I'm a bit anal retentive and prefer to have the exact brick in the exact color, but I could have built many kits I could not afford. Maybe.
LEGO offers its instructions for damn near everything it has ever supplied to the public for free on its web page - something I have only ever used previously after being given LEGO by my aunt.
My aunt gave my son Hudson old sets belonging to her - my cousin - Marc, who turned 21 last week. Holy crap. He's my godson, and never has anyone had a worse god-parent.
Regardless... the old sets we received had no instructions, so after I found a weird piece or three, I would scour the instruction manuals on line looking for that piece, and then, when found, build it from all of the bricks.
So... I finally came to my senses, and began to build the Imperial Hotel...
I don't have the colors, and don't have the exact pieces, but I can make a pretty faithful copy of this LEGO kit. And that's what I am doing - probably at a cost of $40 in pieces gathered from the LEGO wall of bricks, plus maybe $40 worth of bricks from my own collection gathered over the years. Regardless... or color or exact brick... I'm building the damn thing.
It's not much, admittedly, but I have to search a lot of collected bricks to find the proper match for size.
In that photo, you can see that I have placed my first day's adventure on the keyboard of my wife's laptop, showing the instruction manual.
Colors be damned - it's coming together. I will take a photo after every night's accomplishments as a visual diary until I finish.
It won't be pretty, but it will be mine.
That's all for now... I'm going back in to work on the kit.
Cheers
Andrew Joseph
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