![]() ![]() The fact that it is a brand-new building that many people don’t yet associate with the city doesn’t help. Unfortunately, we also have some disappointments in this model, most notably the boring and poorly captured model of Salesforce Tower. We also have a lot of lovely smaller details including an intricate rendition of Alcatraz Island, an attractive house-lined hilly street, and an inspired but simple design for the Transamerica Pyramid. On the one hand, we have a convincing suspension bridge that explores forced perspective to achieve a greater feeling of depth than past sets. #21043 San Francisco has a wide range of highlights and lowlights, making it more difficult to summarize than most of the other sets in the series. One (1x) Three lengths of Flex Tube in 154 Dark Red.Two (2x) Part 61406 Tooth with Flexible Tip.There are only a couple parts appearing in new colors for the first time in this set. This is fine in isolation, but extremely noticeable when placed side-by-side. Stacking bricks side-by-side reveals very inconsistent alignment of the printed patterns. I need to mention that the print quality is not very consistent with these parts. Printed parts are not calibrated consistently. (It doesn’t say in the literature what building it’s meant to be, but it turns out it is an existing part: 2431pb499 from #21312 Women of NASA.) One (1x) 140 Earth Blue Dark Blue 1×4 tile with a strange looking high-tech pattern.(It is 3024pb010, which was introduced in 2017 set #70620 Ninjago City.) Five (5x) 1 White 1×1 plate with a black stripe on one side.(The pattern is reminiscent of classic printed part 3004p06, but appears to be a new part.) Five (5x) 1 White 1×2 brick with three rows of eight black vertical lines.#21043 San Francisco includes three different printed elements, but only one is unique to this set. (I’d prefer to see architecture sets under 0.08$/piece since they are unlicensed sets, and they typically use a lot of small pieces.) Printed parts That would be just under $0.09/piece, which is pretty good, although the set features lots of relatively small parts. ![]() ![]() The set contains 565 pieces with a likely retail price of $49.99. (Bag 1: about 20 minutes, Bag 2: about 30 minutes, Bag 3: about 30 minutes.) About the parts You will also notice tiny waves crashing against the sea wall.īuild Time: The model took about 1 hour and 20 minutes to build. It’s built out of two 2×2 Cut Corner Plates (part 26601) in 192 Reddish Brown. Just below the left span of the bridge, you will see a tiny re-creation of Fort Point, which has guarded the Golden Gate for over 150 years. (I’m not saying that I could have done a better job, but rather that it isn’t an easy building to re-create in LEGO at this scale.) Making matters worse, the LEGO re-creation doesn’t capture the buildings rounded form very effectively the real building tapers more gradually than the LEGO model, and the top of the tower isn’t smooth enough to capture rounded shape of the real building. Built in 2017, Salesforce Tower is an uninspired phallus with rounded corners that tapers near the top to a rounded tip. Unfortunately, the least pleasing building in the model is the tallest one. We also build a steep street with cars 140 Earth Blue Dark Blue and 154 Dark Red cable cars on it, although they are mostly covered when the model is finished. They are assembled from right-to-left: Salesforce Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, and 555 California Street. It’s finally time to build the city! In this bag, we build all of the skyscrapers that appear on the left-hand side of the model. We also see clever usage of clips, which various structural elements in the latter steps will be attached to. ![]() While we don’t build any of the architectural features themselves, we do build some of the support infrastructure including part of the hill on the left, and the concrete platforms the bridge piers. ![]()
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