Is the Notre-Dame de Paris the first time since 1957 that Lego has made a set with a direct and specific religious basis? Not counting Advent calendars or Indiana Jones [edit: or Thor] sets. As far as I can tell at the moment, 1309 Church was the one and only religion-based set. I don’t think the Taj Mahal sets would qualify since the building seems to just a mausoleum and not a temple per se?
It’ll be interesting to see how it does. I personally have zero interest in spending a shit pile of money to have a massive Catholic Church in my place. I’d be willing to bet it will make more people who are interested in this sort of set decide to get something else than it will attract people who wouldn’t get this sort of set decide to get it
I personally have zero interest in spending a shit pile of money to have a massive Catholic Church in my place.
I can understand where you are coming from, and have a hypothetical question: If the church were to be sold to a secular organization, would that affect your interest in the Lego set?
In the future, will it be possible to appreciate churches purely for their architecture, or will they always be “tainted” in some way?
It’s an interesting question. For me personally, there will always be some level of taint. But we all also have our own tolerances
So something like net-value= value - (taintedness - tolerance) and the higher the net value, the more likely I’ll buy
Like, Sagrada Familia to me has an incredible value because of how crazy the architecture is and how crazy it would be as a lego build. Still has a decent amount of taintedness cause catholic and my tolerance for catholic stuff is low.
But U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel in CO is a dope looking building so a high value. It does have catholic chapels but also has many different other chapels, which I think overall reduces the taintedness over a straight up catholic churches.
No but the (Austrian?) Muslim community made a fuzz and wanted the set banned since it reminded them of a mosque and had guns which was an association they obviously didn’t want
Is the Notre-Dame de Paris the first time since 1957 that Lego has made a set with a direct and specific religious basis? Not counting Advent calendars or Indiana Jones [edit: or Thor] sets. As far as I can tell at the moment, 1309 Church was the one and only religion-based set. I don’t think the Taj Mahal sets would qualify since the building seems to just a mausoleum and not a temple per se?
It’ll be interesting to see how it does. I personally have zero interest in spending a shit pile of money to have a massive Catholic Church in my place. I’d be willing to bet it will make more people who are interested in this sort of set decide to get something else than it will attract people who wouldn’t get this sort of set decide to get it
I can understand where you are coming from, and have a hypothetical question: If the church were to be sold to a secular organization, would that affect your interest in the Lego set?
In the future, will it be possible to appreciate churches purely for their architecture, or will they always be “tainted” in some way?
It’s an interesting question. For me personally, there will always be some level of taint. But we all also have our own tolerances
So something like
net-value = value - (taintedness - tolerance)and the higher the net value, the more likely I’ll buyLike, Sagrada Familia to me has an incredible value because of how crazy the architecture is and how crazy it would be as a lego build. Still has a decent amount of taintedness cause catholic and my tolerance for catholic stuff is low.
But U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel in CO is a dope looking building so a high value. It does have catholic chapels but also has many different other chapels, which I think overall reduces the taintedness over a straight up catholic churches.
I guess you could count 10189/10256 Taj Mahal from 2008/2017.
A cynical person could also say Jabbas Palace 9516 🤭
Jabba is a religious figure?
No but the (Austrian?) Muslim community made a fuzz and wanted the set banned since it reminded them of a mosque and had guns which was an association they obviously didn’t want