Replicating the Eiffel tower in Lego

I love the Eiffel Tower and seeing is made out of Lego

I think the trick of building the tower is getting the base legs straight with inner connecting arches and  proportional to the top length of the straight vertical portion

The 2 pics above are from Las Vegas and the 3rd infogram from google images

The large lego tower did this great as a set

I think that the straight beams going up from the 4 corners in contrast. To the connecting round arches between the 4 towers are hard to do with square blocks!

Here's more great pics of mocs people have done...

I cannot find who did this on the internet but I think it is genius using smaller more detailed pieces in ways that I would never have thought of.

I like this build also for the intricate detail (pic above)

Yet another way to build the base of the tower (above pic)

Again, love the intricate detail is fantastic 

Above 3 bricks are great pics of set 21019

Another group of 3 pics above from great designers!

The towers below nearly if not identical versions...

Unsure if book author of brick city book is different from creator of the tower featured

The gray small structure at the bottom corner of the last picture of the 3 above is positioned different from the middle picture between the two red brick city book pics.

Also the red cover versions have a small blue piece in front of the red bus and white car at the base

The 5 pics below are good renditions of the tower...they are from pinterest or google images

Love the details of the arch portion between the corner bases above

I like the use of simple elements above.  Up close it's rough to look at but in the distance it appears more complex

More detail from Sean Kenney above.  The guy is a master!

I like the darker color and the column use at the base

From pinterest above pic, minifig scale, unbelievable!

Finally, there is more from lego and legoland!

So it's amazing how much variation and construction techniques come from replicating 1 structure!

A Christmas card design from Staples

Vive la France!!!

 
 

My attempts to reuse and recycle things for my lego room

 I have found ways to try to recycle objects for my legos storage

I was really struck by a sign at a zoo having a picture of...

The amount of debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch accumulates because much of it is not biodegradable. ... For many people, the idea of a “garbage patch” conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called microplastics.Jul 5, 2019

https://www.nationalgeographic.org › ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch | National Geographic Society From google search 10/9/21

From marine litter vital graphics, cartographer maphoto/Riccardo Prevettoni 

So I've tried to help this problem.....

1) my favorite idea found the day after Christmas...plastic containers made to hold 5-10 display items

Walmart had inserts in boxes the day after Christmas to display various trinkets, ornaments....I got at least 70 for drawer partitions since they would have just been thrown out...here's a better pic of just 1

2 OJ plastic containers

These work really good for pieces that don't have odd edges that catch on other pieces i.e. dollies that on city set had, also minifigs.  The containers are easy to clean and they hold a lot of small pieces.  I tried grape juice containers but the dyes can bleed on to the legos

Great for small pieces, bad for large plates and minifigs that hook together when in the bottleneck as happened below

3) oxyclean detergent containers (more of a heavy cardboard)

These are a good size for holding objects in sterilite and the near square size helps prevent lost drawer space due to round curves wasting room...cool whip container is good but has roundness wasting drawer 

4...the obvious Pick a brick containers and lego plastic containers as per pictures 4a-4e below

I saw on the internet where there was a behind the door organizer with each slot holding a cup.  I never did that, but I kept them in a drawer

4A above (the containers on the left were not lego, the lids weren't airtight so instead of using for food, I converted the use for Lego!)

I wish the black container above on the right was more sqaure vs wider at top, makes it take more room and unstable vs box shape

4B (above) this is the best lego container...perfect for stacking and durable

4c. Pick a brick container

4d lids for pick a brick containers...good for stacking when assembled but not very stable without being braced against something on 2 sides/wedged in

4e..these containers were slippery and didn't stack well because there was no interlocking mechanism....2 studs on top would have been perfect, but even then the lids didn't stay on

5) KFC washable containers for veggies or mashed potatoes and jello cups...both are easy to clean but the roundness and low profile didn't work well in sterilite drawers

Above: KFC containers were easy to soak and wash

6) not really plastic, but thrift stores are full of these type of either cooking or shelving accessories...when put in containers with various pieces, they allow lifting bigger pieces out quicker

Hopefully these things will make a small dent in the plastic problem!

"The lego experience"

I went to lego fest and thought the lego experience roadshow would be different...it was slightly different as there were different models, but everything else was about the same.   The models amaze me as to the detail, color use and size.

I liked the above 3 pics for older kids about how to organize and give info how to build like the master builders

I think this was neat to show kids how to use simple lego pieces as something else...creating a visual illusion.

It was a definite experience!!!