Each floor can be occupied by different people, families, and what not. here's several examples of what it can be.Īpartment - why not? Im sure the Lego minifigs would need a place to live right? Being a form of house, it should have some playability. Lets say the 'sky scrapper' is a 10-storey building. Lego can create a Sky Scrapper set! Make it either an apartment builing or a small office type building with many uses such as different floors for different companies, not to mention a high-rise hotel. The are many other better (both in design and functionality) skyscapers built by AFOL's than the one shown, as well as differences in the other two models as well, if you try to find models of the same structure. And do not forget about the box, it a small set already have oversized boxes, imagine what a skycraper set would have as a box in terms of size.Īnd lastly, I think the pictures that are provided do not make a good comparison. If LEGO would make these skyscapers, it would have a high piece count and this will drive up the price by quite a bit. If you examine all of the CITY or town models in the past years, none of them can be considered quite as skyscapers, and the prices weren't sky-high either. Unless there is alot of action/playability involved, the target audience (children) would not want to buy them.Ģ) The High Price. But I think the reason why LEGO would not make them is that:ġ) The low appeal and as it can be seen from some of the replies in this thread that many people think of it as just a block of transparent LEGO pieces. I would definately love to see skyscrapers. Is it because the sets would be too expensive ? Is it because (as alex mentioned) that type of architecture doesn't encompass all the cultures that it is marketing to ?

So i ask, why doesn't LEGO make skyscraper sets ? strange hu ? but i don't really care for transportation or police station or hospital architecture. but what i do see is an interest in modern architecture and city planning/layout. Its funny, cause when i look at my other interests in life (outside of LEGO), and i don't see any pirates, islanders, cowboys or indians (there is a little ancient egyptian interest). i know a lot of people have done it, but i in the past, i've always stuck to what i liked as a kid, history inspired themes.īelieve it or not, i was actually re-inspired by the Wayne Manor MOC in the haunted houses thread. I've recently become fascinated with the idea of building skyscrapers from LEGOs. It's a good way to build skyscrapers Section8, but I don't like those building so much (maybe because they are not in the european culture.)

Making a lego skyscraper