Day 8 & 9 Building a LEGO Tokyo Imperial Hotel

Hi there...
I'm saying the following is Day 8 & 9 of my LEGO build - but really, I did everything during Day 8... I just won't have much opportunity to build anything on Day 9. Unless you count the time between midnight and 2AM part of Day 9... which I suppose I am doing, now that I think of it.

So... I am building my own version of the LEGO architecture series Tokyo Imperial Hotel out of my own collection of bricks using the free downloaded instructions from LEGO.com.

I don't have my the exact colors or in some cases the exact bricks, so I have had to make a few modifications. In fact... get I get closer to the end, I am running out of needed bricks and having to get kind of creative - which makes it more challenging - and more fun!

Case in point - the left and right roofs of the Hotel.

Here is the section of the hotel with the roof off:

And here is the section of the roof itself:

The main challenge here was that I didn't have the exact style of angled roof bits.

Forget color, I just didn't have the right bricks... See the photo below:

I needed the longer angular ones in the background... I think I had maybe eight of them... but then I would also need a corner angular piece - a total of 10, and I had zero.

What I did have were the smaller angles and smaller angled corner ones... so I made due... it threw off the entire outer look, but it still works.

The point with LEGO is that it will NEVER look exactly like an original building, but it will look similar. It's tough to get your head around that sometimes - especially when one is following a set of instructions... but the point is.. its a representation of the original.

Hmmm, I'm not sure how that photo slipped in there. That's my son wanting to be a baseball catcher - but he's using an old glow-in-the-dark Halloween hockey mask I wore a few years ago.

Anyhow... I know I had one LEGO store guy complain that my model would look like crap because I couldn't make it with the same colored bricks as in the actual LEGO kit. He's correct ONLY in the fact that it won't look the exact kit, but he was wrong that it wouldn't look good.

It's a replica of the Tokyo Imperial Hotel made of LEGO. Forget about the multi-hued bricks... I think, and obviously thanks to personal e-mails to me, I know many of you do, too.

Cheers
Andrew Joseph