you think that was bad? try the world map. i got it for christmas and it took me 3 months too put together. I am a pretty experianced builder. it took me 1 day to put together avengers tower. world map is torture
I have the Lego Artemis rocket set. The barricades aren't even the worst part. The whole tower part is just the same tedious build like 5 times. That was brutal for me
These are the sets you have to set aside a full day for, no interruptions and have music or audio books or any videos playing that you don't need to change every 3-4 minutes.
I notice that most of these are in display sets. Just another reason I only buy set meant to be played with, rather than ones meant to look good on a shelf.
Between the cost of the sets, the tedium of doing the same piece hundreds of identical pieces hundreds of times and then not even being able to do anything with them except put them on a shelf to look "nice", I usually pass on these kinds of sets too.
I build Gundam model kits (usually shortened as gunpla). The MG guntank has tracks which are all the individual clip connection type. Then there's the detailing process, massive hand cramping, mind numbing repetition. The MG and RG epyon also have issues, with a long chain type weapon. Thankfully, most gunpla aren't that bad.
If you think tracks are brutal in lego kits you should look at tracks for scale model kits. I have seen a couple which basically require you to drill each and every link
Bonus points for 21340, Tales of the Space Age -- there are several steps that have a similar color issue that Starry Night has. However, in that set, there is a color guide between the similar colors included on a step.
Now imagine you're the type of person who wants the LEGO logo on every single piece to be oriented in the same direction? Yeah you're going to be here a while.
@DannyMartin3z you'd be surprised at just how bad OCD can be. I grew up on educational television and the neighboring channels usually has stuff like that. I like to do this with LEGO Minecraft sets, although it's sometimes impossible to have every piece oriented the same way so I do it two ways, but if I ever got a LEGO painting set I think I'd give up on that before even starting. Sidenote: If LEGO ever made a texture pack that replicated the look of their Minecraft sets the logo would probably follow the alternate texture orientation introduced in 1.8 to make the environment a little less repetitive.
@@DJDroz-gh5nt no I get it. I was being serious. I don’t think I’m too bad but I like a degree of uniformity. Like if a I have 20 singles on my hand they’re all going to be oriented the same way. So I can see doing this. It’s also who I hate apply stickers because if I get get them perfect it REALLY bothers me. It’s not normal but it’s my lot
Some of the Botanical sets, specifically the Rose Bouquet with the little white flowers, can get a bit tedious. I actually didn't mind too much; I use a sorting tray and set up a little assembly line. Quite relaxing.
Say that when you build the Darth Vader mosaic out of three “The Sith” sets almost entirely made up of 9K 1x1 pieces. It’s a beauty when it’s finished but it is real strain on the fingers and is far more boring than any UCS set is.
I did that withe excavator where i put some cogs in the wrong position. Thing was i only realised it about 20 steps later and had to dismantle. Still loved doing it though@@Somesomesomesomesillyguy
The Dagobah Jedi Training Diorama has you arrange a bunch of different colored plate pieces where you then cover it with over 200 clear green 1x1 plate and tile pieces to make its swamp. It looks pretty cool.
Not only is the world map probably the dullest thing ever to build in the history of not just Lego, but model building as a whole, but it's also a massive eyesore! 🤢 It's so ugly and the rainbow barf oceans are truly baffling me. Were they trying to do color dithering? How do they expect people to look at this thing? From the same distance you watch at a jumbotron from?! 🤯
The globe and the wreath are some of my favorite looking sets I own, but man is it a slog to build both of them. The lego art sets can be fun to build, my favorite is the milkyway galaxy set because of all the weird and creative piece choices they used. It's always fun with that set to see what they'll come up with next and the end result is stunning.
I recently got invested in mini legos if that’s even a word, it’s even more tedious then you might think, one step required me to place 367 flat gray pieces and it only gets worse from there (set was colosseum (mini Lego))
Lego has made the instructions so simple, it must be thinking we are idiots. 2 pages to place 1 brick? In the 80's you build a complete Technic set with just 28 steps.
I actually enjoyed that certain step on the Artemis launch pad for being somewhat of an ironic build. Still it was way more exhausting after building the exact same 15 minutes tower module 9 times
I got the Empire State Building because it has an absurd number of grille tiles. I thought it was daft. They should release more than a 1x2 version though.
On the Pacman set. To reduce the strain on your fingers when pushing the rods through the Technic connectors? I've found the best way to do that, also for MOCs, is to insert the rods partway, then using a table, and a brick separator to sandwich the parts between, and push the rods into place. And to reduce the tediousness of repetitive steps, take lots of breaks in between to stretch, and do something else. Like drinking a cup of tea, for example.
I dunno. I've had some tedius steps before, but I don't ever find them a big issue. Usually, I get there and either have planned to sit and build, or I set it aside, and plan for a later time. When I do sit and build, I find it incredibly relaxing. I wish I had one right now to do, I'd absolutely do it before bed.
As a huge fan of Lego, I’d say my most favorite and memorable builds are the Star Wars Star Destroyer, the Eiffel Tower, and Colosseum. Each set fun and beautiful but brutal.
I would say that the Captain America shield would look better with plates on the outside- but I would be a monster for expecting that to be another step!
I can imagine the designers in a meeting about that. Bob: "It still looks kinda unfinished." Cindy: "Unfinished?" Bob: "Yea, all those exposed studs look bad." Cindy: "So what ... wait, no you're not about to suggest..." Bob: "What if we covered them with similarly colored plates? You know, just to smooth out the look...?" And Bob never was reported missing by his family that night, never to be seen again.
Spitbrix I found a misprint on an instructions, it’s the technic dump truck and I think it’s step 133 and there’s a misprint that shows 2 technic pins that aren’t supposed to be there.
9:05 since the color quality of lego has gone downhill so extremely in the past years they could have just used the same shade of blue for all pieces and it would have looked the same
Not nearly as repetitive as some of the examples here, but assembling the Lego Bonsai (Cherry variant) was quite tedious. With all the leaves and frogs you have to put down, mostly in the same exact pattern, it gets very repetitive. Good to do while listening to a podcast or something. The results, however, are spectacular.
The trees at the base of the Eiffel Tower are by far the most tedious in that set. The 144 stud set isn’t even close to some of the more tedious steps in that set. The final few steps of the Eiffel Tower might be the biggest breath of fresh air in any Lego set.
I did find the Artemis to be a tedious build, but it wasn't putting the 88 taps on that I found tedious. It was building the launch gantry, which was bag after bag of extremely similar elements that just seemed to go on forever.
Bro, don't even get me started on the bottom of the bottle for the LEGO Ideas pirate ship in a bottle. That thing was a PAIN to build and the worst part is that it's mostly made up of two by two and one by one plates. Thank GOD I didn't have to rebuild it when I accidentally dropped a little storage him on top of it.
The Boutique Hotel has a couple of tedious steps where you have to add a TON of white candle pieces 😂 I also hate any building step with more then a few windows. Putting those panes in is a pain!
I boufgr the Starry Night set for my girlfriend and we built it together, did I mention she's colorblind? We had to dismantle part of that background because we used the wrong colors about halfway through and only noticed when we were short a few plates to complete it.
If you make this video again, here is an idea. If you look closely at the tower part of the loop coaster set, you'll notice many, many tiles that you have to place in order to cover it. I had the firsthand experience of assembling it, and it was probably the least-fun I've had whilst building a lego set.
Robie house: 771 dark red 1x2 plates, 268 1x1 in red, 245 1x1 in clear and 235 LBG 1x1 tiles. Fun. The top ten parts in quantity comprise of 1750 parts - out of 2276 total.
I have some bootlego tanks and for both of them the tracks were so annoying, just click and click and click and click, at least they function and make the road wheels spin so that’s cool
as a train enthusiast I bought 3 of the Orient Express set's and built them all at the same time... let's just say the proses of building the tracks was pain
Something interesting I've noticed while building Minecraft sets, the 2×2 jumpers and tiles aren't all the same. Some have the information on the bottom on three sides of the tube, while others have it in a pyramid (logo on top other info on bottom) orientation, all within the same set? Also, imagine if LEGO Minecraft gave the level of detail they do to blocks like ores to every single block? Yeah every single set would be on this list if that was the case. Hopefully we never get an ore vein set, that would really torture your fingers. "Alright five iron ores don how many left, 25, okay I hate this. *Faceplants table out of exhaustion.*
The floor on Modular Buildings is always laying a million tiles - but really nothing beats the Eiffel Tower. It's not just that step, but the whole build is like this. Just the next steps after those 144 pieces calls for 32 identical ones, then two steps of 64 each…
Just finished the Artemis set and i think there is a more tedious thing in it. Almost 1/3 of the steps are the same like 15 steps repeated again and again to build up the tower. It looks great in the end but there are 10 levels of scaffolding that are almost identical with just a small variation here and there, like one additional piece and so...
What about the globe? That set was so tedious because for the globe itself, you had to build the sections for the outside of the globe twice, and it got so tedious that I eventually decided to build the little parts that made up the sections and then add those little parts together to complete the sections twice. It was not fun. But a set that didn’t tell you what needed to be done properly was the lighthouse, because the light is supposed to turn, and I had completed the set and flipped the lever to turn on the lighthouse, and the light didn’t turn. I ended up taking the set apart to figure out what the problem was, and I rebuilt it and flipped the lever, and I had the same problem. But you want to know what I found out about? It turns out, the gear that connects the big gear underneath the light is supposed to be elevated up just slightly so the light could turn. The instructions don’t tell you how high the small gear is supposed to be, and I’m used to gears being able to connect so they could turn as part of the mechanism.
The Empire State Building is an absolute joy to build. Even though you're placing a ton of grill pieces, it never feels like a chore.
Fr
Totally agree with that. It was one of my first sets and still one of my favorites
Fr
My thumbs hurt after that one
The Lego colosseum was brutal
GREAT SPITBRIX LEGO TEDIOUS STEP BY STEP
Yes the sections were different enough that you could take the mind of it but so similar it was brutal!
you think that was bad? try the world map. i got it for christmas and it took me 3 months too put together. I am a pretty experianced builder. it took me 1 day to put together avengers tower. world map is torture
Anything with large amounts of technic tracks gets annoying real quick
Hold up why was the "lego coloseum" in blue???
I have the Lego Artemis rocket set. The barricades aren't even the worst part. The whole tower part is just the same tedious build like 5 times. That was brutal for me
I was up until 3am building that damn tower
Same
Agreed. The end result is nice but I hated building it.
Same here.
But was it worth it?
These are the sets you have to set aside a full day for, no interruptions and have music or audio books or any videos playing that you don't need to change every 3-4 minutes.
I notice that most of these are in display sets. Just another reason I only buy set meant to be played with, rather than ones meant to look good on a shelf.
Between the cost of the sets, the tedium of doing the same piece hundreds of identical pieces hundreds of times and then not even being able to do anything with them except put them on a shelf to look "nice", I usually pass on these kinds of sets too.
I am getting the UCS Sail Barge and I’m so excited because it looks amazing and has so many play features!
Is it really tedious when you are just placing lego bricks? I think lego is satysfiying enough to cancel it out.
1:23 Casual Cobi model kit experience. When you are collecting a tank you usually need to clip together from 45 to 55 track links, on both sides.
Don't say anything about a preference. I said I like mega figures more and I was featured in a hot takes video from spitbricks
Try their warships with ~30 links per anchor chain at the longest
The 1:12 Tiger 131 has two sets of 105 links in one step, for a total of 210.
I build Gundam model kits (usually shortened as gunpla). The MG guntank has tracks which are all the individual clip connection type. Then there's the detailing process, massive hand cramping, mind numbing repetition. The MG and RG epyon also have issues, with a long chain type weapon.
Thankfully, most gunpla aren't that bad.
The old statue of Liberty is built with top down view instructions. And all the pieces are in the same color.
The roller coaster chain gives me KNex flashbacks
If you think tracks are brutal in lego kits you should look at tracks for scale model kits.
I have seen a couple which basically require you to drill each and every link
7:30 the only lego set I ever gave up on
Bonus points for 21340, Tales of the Space Age -- there are several steps that have a similar color issue that Starry Night has. However, in that set, there is a color guide between the similar colors included on a step.
When i built the captain America shield i found it very relaxing
I got a headache just looking at it
Lemme guess, when you were building the shield you were like:
"I could do this all day"
Me too! I’ve had it on my shelf for around a year now.
The Lego guy: "I need to put together 200 chainlinks. Oh the humanity"
The Cobi guy with 30 tank sets at home: "Amateurs. Such rookie numbers."
2:50 i would like to go on record and say it is not at all and that part was actually really relaxing. those strings are made by the devil though
the strings are so hard to line up properly 😭
Now imagine you're the type of person who wants the LEGO logo on every single piece to be oriented in the same direction? Yeah you're going to be here a while.
Even my OCD shuddered at that thought...
Omg. I didn’t even know that was a thing! If I start doing this now, I shall haunt you in my next life 😮
@DannyMartin3z you'd be surprised at just how bad OCD can be. I grew up on educational television and the neighboring channels usually has stuff like that. I like to do this with LEGO Minecraft sets, although it's sometimes impossible to have every piece oriented the same way so I do it two ways, but if I ever got a LEGO painting set I think I'd give up on that before even starting.
Sidenote: If LEGO ever made a texture pack that replicated the look of their Minecraft sets the logo would probably follow the alternate texture orientation introduced in 1.8 to make the environment a little less repetitive.
@@DJDroz-gh5nt no I get it. I was being serious. I don’t think I’m too bad but I like a degree of uniformity. Like if a I have 20 singles on my hand they’re all going to be oriented the same way. So I can see doing this. It’s also who I hate apply stickers because if I get get them perfect it REALLY bothers me. It’s not normal but it’s my lot
@DannyMartin3z it's not that it's not normal, it's that it's _your_ normal.
Some of the Botanical sets, specifically the Rose Bouquet with the little white flowers, can get a bit tedious. I actually didn't mind too much; I use a sorting tray and set up a little assembly line. Quite relaxing.
I disagree that these are tedious steps. Building LEGO is just pure relaxation.
Even when you realize that you misaligned every piece in one step?
Dude one time I hade to make 16 of the same piece it to make a big circle it took me so long to
Say that when you build the Darth Vader mosaic out of three “The Sith” sets almost entirely made up of 9K 1x1 pieces. It’s a beauty when it’s finished but it is real strain on the fingers and is far more boring than any UCS set is.
I did that withe excavator where i put some cogs in the wrong position. Thing was i only realised it about 20 steps later and had to dismantle. Still loved doing it though@@Somesomesomesomesillyguy
The Dagobah Jedi Training Diorama has you arrange a bunch of different colored plate pieces where you then cover it with over 200 clear green 1x1 plate and tile pieces to make its swamp. It looks pretty cool.
The whole Artemis set is a tedious, repetitive nightmare
Not only is the world map probably the dullest thing ever to build in the history of not just Lego, but model building as a whole, but it's also a massive eyesore! 🤢
It's so ugly and the rainbow barf oceans are truly baffling me. Were they trying to do color dithering? How do they expect people to look at this thing? From the same distance you watch at a jumbotron from?! 🤯
Lego set 10261. Nuff said. That or assembling excavator tracks.
Rods in pins have to be illegal 😅
Only in red states.
@StrawB0ss wtf I love Red States now
The globe and the wreath are some of my favorite looking sets I own, but man is it a slog to build both of them. The lego art sets can be fun to build, my favorite is the milkyway galaxy set because of all the weird and creative piece choices they used. It's always fun with that set to see what they'll come up with next and the end result is stunning.
Tedious? That's LEGO Life for you...
5:25 dude, the worst part of the Eiffel Tower is the cross beams. The studs aren’t that bad
I recently got invested in mini legos if that’s even a word, it’s even more tedious then you might think, one step required me to place 367 flat gray pieces and it only gets worse from there (set was colosseum (mini Lego))
Honestly, the whole Artemis set is tedious... worth it, but tedious.
The Globe was quite tedious and pretty repetitive at times too lol
Lego has made the instructions so simple, it must be thinking we are idiots. 2 pages to place 1 brick? In the 80's you build a complete Technic set with just 28 steps.
Better safe than sorry
@@NeputuniaNepp It's Lego, not a nuclear plant. If you mess up, just redo.
@”Just redo”
Yeah, let me just remove an hour of work to fix this one spot.
@@NeputuniaNepp Yes. The joy of not reading the instructions correctly and pay for your failures.
Never tried Ikea I guess?
@@quickwimnl It’s LEGOs, kids are supposed to be having fun while building it. If you don’t make it fun for kids, what’s the point?
I've actually built the NASA Apollo station with the 88 pieces.
I actually enjoyed that certain step on the Artemis launch pad for being somewhat of an ironic build. Still it was way more exhausting after building the exact same 15 minutes tower module 9 times
I got the Empire State Building because it has an absurd number of grille tiles. I thought it was daft. They should release more than a 1x2 version though.
On the Pacman set.
To reduce the strain on your fingers when pushing the rods through the Technic connectors?
I've found the best way to do that, also for MOCs, is to insert the rods partway, then using a table, and a brick separator to sandwich the parts between, and push the rods into place.
And to reduce the tediousness of repetitive steps, take lots of breaks in between to stretch, and do something else. Like drinking a cup of tea, for example.
While repetitive and often time boring, the end result of the Eiffel Tower pays off
the empire state building takes the cake and looks kinda like a cake. 3:13
I dunno. I've had some tedius steps before, but I don't ever find them a big issue. Usually, I get there and either have planned to sit and build, or I set it aside, and plan for a later time. When I do sit and build, I find it incredibly relaxing. I wish I had one right now to do, I'd absolutely do it before bed.
As a huge fan of Lego, I’d say my most favorite and memorable builds are the Star Wars Star Destroyer, the Eiffel Tower, and Colosseum. Each set fun and beautiful but brutal.
You just earned yourself a sub ❤️ love your content
BrickBender would look at these and go, "Needs about 2,000 more 2x2 pieces".
Brick bending was laughing the whole time.
I look at these after building plastic models and think "not too bad, lol"
Painting 50 tiny planes breaks a man
One of my favorite sets is the Lego Ideas International Space Station (ISS), but the 8 solar panels are RIDICULOUSLY tedious!
The Starry Night is absolutely amazing to do, but THAT step was horrible. Although it's a beautiful set, so 100% worth it
Placing all those one by one tiles in the Lego dagobah set was insane
The grill piece is one of my favorites. This has made me want the Empire State now. 😁
I would say that the Captain America shield would look better with plates on the outside- but I would be a monster for expecting that to be another step!
I can imagine the designers in a meeting about that.
Bob: "It still looks kinda unfinished."
Cindy: "Unfinished?"
Bob: "Yea, all those exposed studs look bad."
Cindy: "So what ... wait, no you're not about to suggest..."
Bob: "What if we covered them with similarly colored plates? You know, just to smooth out the look...?"
And Bob never was reported missing by his family that night, never to be seen again.
Can’t believe he didn’t include Lego Rivindale roof tiles in this vid, that was my personal most tedious steps ever
I talked about it in the video that I mentioned during the conclusion of this video!
Ima go watch that video rn, and I just subbed cause I love ur content ❤️
What about the taj mahal from lego creator that set just asks you to build the same thing 4x times over again and again its very annoying @@SpitBrix
another spitbrix banger!
That’s the REAL illegal Lego move
Spitbrix I found a misprint on an instructions, it’s the technic dump truck and I think it’s step 133 and there’s a misprint that shows 2 technic pins that aren’t supposed to be there.
how cooked am I when every single one of these sounds so fun
Crazy to see how much you've blown up, saw a video back when you were at 150k, congrats man
Having the Fender set I can confirm those grills were a pain
EXCELLENT SPITBRIX LEGO INSTRUCTIONS TEDIOUS WORK.
9:05 since the color quality of lego has gone downhill so extremely in the past years they could have just used the same shade of blue for all pieces and it would have looked the same
Not nearly as repetitive as some of the examples here, but assembling the Lego Bonsai (Cherry variant) was quite tedious. With all the leaves and frogs you have to put down, mostly in the same exact pattern, it gets very repetitive. Good to do while listening to a podcast or something. The results, however, are spectacular.
The trees at the base of the Eiffel Tower are by far the most tedious in that set. The 144 stud set isn’t even close to some of the more tedious steps in that set. The final few steps of the Eiffel Tower might be the biggest breath of fresh air in any Lego set.
Fantastic rollercoaster … lol
With the Lego nes, placing all the tiles was actually pretty fun since it wasn’t the same piece all the way through
I did find the Artemis to be a tedious build, but it wasn't putting the 88 taps on that I found tedious. It was building the launch gantry, which was bag after bag of extremely similar elements that just seemed to go on forever.
Bro, don't even get me started on the bottom of the bottle for the LEGO Ideas pirate ship in a bottle. That thing was a PAIN to build and the worst part is that it's mostly made up of two by two and one by one plates. Thank GOD I didn't have to rebuild it when I accidentally dropped a little storage him on top of it.
There’s another one you didn’t mention that deserves some honor, the tajmahal set where you have to put so many 1/1 flat tiles done to make the floor
The Boutique Hotel has a couple of tedious steps where you have to add a TON of white candle pieces 😂
I also hate any building step with more then a few windows. Putting those panes in is a pain!
The Eiffel tower is my pick for most boring. It’s on par with the others until you realize that you do the same monotony 4 TIMES
I boufgr the Starry Night set for my girlfriend and we built it together, did I mention she's colorblind? We had to dismantle part of that background because we used the wrong colors about halfway through and only noticed when we were short a few plates to complete it.
nice video
If you make this video again, here is an idea. If you look closely at the tower part of the loop coaster set, you'll notice many, many tiles that you have to place in order to cover it. I had the firsthand experience of assembling it, and it was probably the least-fun I've had whilst building a lego set.
Might be my tism speaking but these steps sound like a lotta fun!!
The Pyramid Of Giza is also quite tedious
As someone who builds a lot of tank sets...
The tracks.
Robie house: 771 dark red 1x2 plates, 268 1x1 in red, 245 1x1 in clear and 235 LBG 1x1 tiles. Fun.
The top ten parts in quantity comprise of 1750 parts - out of 2276 total.
The Lego avengers tower 💀
That's what I'm saying, that huge removable window was hell to build
@ Fr
I was kinda surprised by the lack of The Titanic set but then I remembered that it wasn't a super tedious builds, it was just long
Angular brick ❌
Headlight brick ✅
I found 2 things in Hedwig at 4 privet drive. Lot's of stickers, and a candle piece as a handle for a wand
I have both the NES and Vam Gogh sets. They're both among my favorite sets, but WOW were they tedious as all hell to build
About tracks/links: that doesn't really bother me much, just watch a video while mindlessly clicking them together.
That's why those sets are advanced sets
I have some bootlego tanks and for both of them the tracks were so annoying, just click and click and click and click, at least they function and make the road wheels spin so that’s cool
Shoutout to the pink version of the lego bonsai tree and its 100 pink frogs
Building the Lego Eiffel Tower is worse then bashing your head in with a brick
I think the tie crawler set has a butt load of chain links aswell
I have the Lego Ducati and the chain was painful
as a train enthusiast I bought 3 of the Orient Express set's and built them all at the same time... let's just say the proses of building the tracks was pain
Can confirm the nes display was a headwrecker, and I had to keep taking pieces off because I put them in the wrong place lol
when you are one of the very rare where there is 1 piece is missing out if 10k
I have the Starry night- that background was extremely annoying to make.
Something interesting I've noticed while building Minecraft sets, the 2×2 jumpers and tiles aren't all the same. Some have the information on the bottom on three sides of the tube, while others have it in a pyramid (logo on top other info on bottom) orientation, all within the same set?
Also, imagine if LEGO Minecraft gave the level of detail they do to blocks like ores to every single block? Yeah every single set would be on this list if that was the case. Hopefully we never get an ore vein set, that would really torture your fingers.
"Alright five iron ores don how many left, 25, okay I hate this. *Faceplants table out of exhaustion.*
You have no idea how painful it was to build the Eiffel Tower.
4:20 "The United States Capitol Building etc..." Wait 'til my guy discovers the taj mahal set!
You cant forget set 42055, though it had a variety of parts adding the gears tore the skin off my fingers
I kind of like the tedium sometimes. Put on some music, kick back and build. I’m cool with repetition once in a while, lol
And I thought building sixteen whole solar panels for the ISS was tedious. I'm gonna get clobbered when I'm not broke 😅
The floor on Modular Buildings is always laying a million tiles - but really nothing beats the Eiffel Tower. It's not just that step, but the whole build is like this. Just the next steps after those 144 pieces calls for 32 identical ones, then two steps of 64 each…
When I did the Jazz Club set I forgot a row of Gray 1x2 tiles after finishing the entire first layer. My brick separator had a dent in it after that
1:23 for the chain things I don’t understand why they can’t just make it one big piece and you have to connect each end
Call me weird but I actually enjoyed doing the tiles for the NES game screen
Just finished the Artemis set and i think there is a more tedious thing in it. Almost 1/3 of the steps are the same like 15 steps repeated again and again to build up the tower. It looks great in the end but there are 10 levels of scaffolding that are almost identical with just a small variation here and there, like one additional piece and so...
What about the globe? That set was so tedious because for the globe itself, you had to build the sections for the outside of the globe twice, and it got so tedious that I eventually decided to build the little parts that made up the sections and then add those little parts together to complete the sections twice. It was not fun. But a set that didn’t tell you what needed to be done properly was the lighthouse, because the light is supposed to turn, and I had completed the set and flipped the lever to turn on the lighthouse, and the light didn’t turn. I ended up taking the set apart to figure out what the problem was, and I rebuilt it and flipped the lever, and I had the same problem. But you want to know what I found out about? It turns out, the gear that connects the big gear underneath the light is supposed to be elevated up just slightly so the light could turn. The instructions don’t tell you how high the small gear is supposed to be, and I’m used to gears being able to connect so they could turn as part of the mechanism.
i had the Lego flower set and when I was doing the lavender I needed 56 purple pieces💀
I absolutely love Rivendell, but that roof tile section is something I never want to do again. The end result is gorgeous, though