The building process is based on the historically accurate order that Notre Dame was built, up until the 2019 fire. About a foot tall, 8 inches wide, and more than a foot deep, the highly detailed set is made up of 4,383 pieces and is priced at about $230, available for preorder on the company’s website. The building features intricate plastic imitations of the historic cathedral’s flying buttresses, columns, pillars, and even 12 small “nanofigures” representing the 12 apostles on the roof. One nanofigure faces inward, representing the cathedral’s architect, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Notre-Dame itself took 182 years to build, and the set follows that model, split into four time periods: 1163 to 1182, 1182 to 1200, 1200 to 1225, and 1225 to 1786; though it should only take builders about eight hours total to complete.
“In designing the LEGO Architecture Notre-Dame de Paris, we tried to bring it to life by not only capturing its outward appearance, but the way and the stages in which the original was built,” said set designer Rok Žgalin Kobe in the LEGO press release. “We wanted LEGO fans to retrace the architectural journey and evolution of this landmark during its construction, to encourage a deeper appreciation for its real-life counterpart.”
This is not the first LEGO creation to imitate historic Catholic buildings.
Father Bob Simon, pastor of Our Lady Queen of Peace in Philadelphia, built a 500,000-piece replica of the Vatican several years ago. The work of art spanned 14 feet by 6 feet and was featured in the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia when Pope Francis visited the city in 2015.
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