$20 for 69 pieces?! Whatchu talkin' 'bout?!

If this tower belongs to Willis how to 2,334 of you own it?

Unless. oh of course, all two thousand of you are named Willis. My mistake.

This model reminds me of Lego Minecraft = redundant.

I have this.
Unopened and unbuilt. Found in a charity shop for a very very low price. I thought "ooh sell this on for a profit". One problem....no one wants to buy the blimmin thing.
It's high up there on the Most Boring Sets list definitely.

The Architecture line did have a rather rough start, didn't it?

Behold! The only LEGO set I could replicate 20 times over with my current inventory!

I think you mean Sears Tower.

I think this is the first day when RPOTD has a more complex design than RSOTD.

@pretzemilia:
Take it in context. This was a theme that began outside of The LEGO Group. They had to not only license many/all of the buildings depicted, but share profits with an individual who was not employed by them. The instructions were printed white on black, which someone here has commented takes at least four passes to get an aesthetically pleasing black background on paper. They were also glued bindings, the boxes were fancier, and the intended primary outlets for these sets were in gift shops located in the buildings they depicted (where everything is overpriced). That basically set the price that everyone else had to deal with. The wholesale price may have been high enough, and the general demand low enough, that there wasn’t a lot of point in selling below MSRP if it didn’t actually make carrying the theme more profitable. Meanwhile, people buying souvenirs in the actual building are already choosing between shelves of overpriced wares, so these at least stood out for being unusual. Why do you think I prioritize keychains? Most of the time I can pick one up for $5-10, meaning I can grab a souvenir at pretty much every stop and still afford something really special if it catches my eye.

You could probably sell for $99 pretty quickly on bricklink

@bookmum said:
"I have this.
Unopened and unbuilt. Found in a charity shop for a very very low price. I thought "ooh sell this on for a profit". One problem....no one wants to buy the blimmin thing.
It's high up there on the Most Boring Sets list definitely."

Wha ya takin bout Willis?

I have never heard of this building LOL.

I wouldn't blame the set designers for the boring, brick based design. Modern buildings are extremely boring, they are literally just giant rectangles and squares with a glass fetish.

I mean, I have the original Empire State Building which does look very bland compared to the updated one but at the time it was pretty good. Same with the Effiel Tower, the one in Paris skyline is better than the original but that doesn't mean the original is bad.

Never heard of the Willis Tower. They clearly just copied the Sears Tower. ;P

As a Chicagoan I really wish Lego would revisit our skyline and give us some decent sets. It would also be nice if they actually knew that in Chicago this building has and will always be called the Sears Tower.

No one calls it that.

It's spelled Sears...

To be honest I was rather sceptical of a Chicago skyline, I know none of the buildings used in the skyline set and nothing stood out to me as particularly famous or unique. I've never heard of either Willis or Sears Tower.

I'm surprised we haven't got Rome yet. Personally I'd love to see Vienna (the capital of Austria, not that random Yank city). They could do the Vienna ferris wheel (forget the name), the Hofburg, Volksgarten, maybe some markets? St Stephen's cathedral would be cool.

Personally I think skylines should be allowed to have religious buildings. Paris without the Notre Dame or Istanbul without the Grand Mosque just aren't right.

Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam, Madrid are all options that ought to be done.

Unfortunately after Sydney Australia hasn't really got many skylines, maybe Melbourne or Adelaide? Canberra has lots of important buildings but wouldn't be very popular. Auckland would be a cool set.

Moscow would have been an interesting one but we won't ever be getting that anytime soon for obvious reasons. I would have also been interested to see whether Lego would make St Basil's Cathedral given that technically it is a religious building, but it is the most famous and recognisable landmark of Moscow and arguably Russia as a whole.

@Brickchap:
Sears was the last western building to hold the World’s Tallest title, for about a quarter century. It kicked off two architectural trends, which are the “bundled tube” that can be seen as recently as the Burj Khalifa, and the “glass skyscraper”. In the US, it’s probably the most recognizable skyscraper (the Empire State Building was probably cribbed off Detroit’s Penobscot Building, and the MOC one of my fellow LUG members made of the latter is constantly being mistaken for ESB). Hancock is probably the only other universally recognized skyscraper from Chicago, but it’s missing the criss-crossed diagonal structure, so it’s barely recognizable in the skyline set. The only other thing I actually recognize is the Cloud Gate sculpture, represented by the drum-lacquered voodoo ball. In reality, it’s more bean-shaped than spherical, and has a polished mirror surface. It pops up in a lot of film/TV that was set in Chicago (most recently in one of the first two episode’s of HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Wife). The only other component I recognize is the river.

Wow the Space Odyssey monolith has really let itself go

Named after Bruce Willis I believe.

That's uhhh nice set of black bricks, I guess?

@Brickchap said:
"To be honest I was rather sceptical of a Chicago skyline, I know none of the buildings used in the skyline set and nothing stood out to me as particularly famous or unique. I've never heard of either Willis or Sears Tower.

I'm surprised we haven't got Rome yet. Personally I'd love to see Vienna (the capital of Austria, not that random Yank city). They could do the Vienna ferris wheel (forget the name), the Hofburg, Volksgarten, maybe some markets? St Stephen's cathedral would be cool.

Personally I think skylines should be allowed to have religious buildings. Paris without the Notre Dame or Istanbul without the Grand Mosque just aren't right.

Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam, Madrid are all options that ought to be done.

Unfortunately after Sydney Australia hasn't really got many skylines, maybe Melbourne or Adelaide? Canberra has lots of important buildings but wouldn't be very popular. Auckland would be a cool set.

Moscow would have been an interesting one but we won't ever be getting that anytime soon for obvious reasons. I would have also been interested to see whether Lego would make St Basil's Cathedral given that technically it is a religious building, but it is the most famous and recognisable landmark of Moscow and arguably Russia as a whole."

Sounds like somebody needs to watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

Seriously, ignorance of Chicago architecture is ignorance of modern architecture (at least from 1940-1990). Thus, it's hard to take anything else you say seriously.

Educate thyself.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @Brickchap said:
"To be honest I was rather sceptical of a Chicago skyline, I know none of the buildings used in the skyline set and nothing stood out to me as particularly famous or unique. I've never heard of either Willis or Sears Tower.

I'm surprised we haven't got Rome yet. Personally I'd love to see Vienna (the capital of Austria, not that random Yank city). They could do the Vienna ferris wheel (forget the name), the Hofburg, Volksgarten, maybe some markets? St Stephen's cathedral would be cool.

Personally I think skylines should be allowed to have religious buildings. Paris without the Notre Dame or Istanbul without the Grand Mosque just aren't right.

Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam, Madrid are all options that ought to be done.

Unfortunately after Sydney Australia hasn't really got many skylines, maybe Melbourne or Adelaide? Canberra has lots of important buildings but wouldn't be very popular. Auckland would be a cool set.

Moscow would have been an interesting one but we won't ever be getting that anytime soon for obvious reasons. I would have also been interested to see whether Lego would make St Basil's Cathedral given that technically it is a religious building, but it is the most famous and recognisable landmark of Moscow and arguably Russia as a whole."

Sounds like somebody needs to watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

Seriously, ignorance of Chicago architecture is ignorance of modern architecture (at least from 1940-1990). Thus, it's hard to take anything else you say seriously.

Educate thyself. "

And that attitude is why the US is looked down upon so much.

@monkyby87
"And that attitude is why the US is looked down upon so much. "

I agree that there’s no need for the chippy attitude. I AM surprised at the number of people saying “Never heard of it” when it was the tallest building in the world until 1999.

It’s also a glorious building! I know for a lot of people “good design” basically stopped at Art Deco or Mid-Century Modern, but I can’t help but be in mild awe at the Sears Tower.

I would be really keen to see that MOC of the Penobscot Building that someone mentioned in the thread. I live in Metro Detroit and it’s a vain hope of mine that we may one day get our own skyline set.