While it is ultimately a matter of choice and construction process, it is a very frequent outcome that the detail is not given enough attention - not just for my skyscraper but for others I have seen as well. As a result, they're far more likely to dominate a city build in the modular style rather than complement it. Skyscrapers tend to be much more proportionate to their real equivalents, going much deeper down a block to make the correct visual profile. They're facade-oriented and quite shallow, intended to make up the face of a block but not its depth, and are just generally small overall. Modulars are like caricatures of buildings. Also, if your town is predominantly modulars or modular-style buildings, a skyscraper likely won't make a lot of thematic sense. If you're doing a downtown high rise section of a city, it really needs to be a whole neighborhood, or at least a block. A single skyscraper in a city that's otherwise filled with short buildings is going to look awkward. Slapping one together because you want something tall is going to yield poor results, but it's more an issue of underestimating the undertaking, IMO. The fact of the matter is that a skyscraper is just going to be a large build, and that's going to require a certain commitment of parts and design. Lastly, since this post has turned out to be all about stair racing, I wanted to quickly mention the great workout I had on Saturday: I climbed 188 stories in a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper.Well sure, I think there can definitely be a tendency to prioritize size and scale over detail, but that's an individual's choice to make. Would I be jinxing myself if I bought a LEGO kit that had an Empire State Building before I’ve done that race? Share your thoughts in the comments section! It’s very hard to get into the Empire State Building race, which has a lottery if you’re not one of the top-ranked people in the world (and believe me, I’m not even close). On one hand, it features 1 World Trade Center, which I raced in 2015, but on the other, it has Empire State Building, which I haven’t raced yet. I have my eyes on the LEGO New York City skyline set, but I haven’t committed to it yet. (Guess that means I’ll have to race up it a second time at some point!) I also have a Space Needle, and a Burj Khalifa, which I climbed symbolically in a StairMaster challenge. Now I have two Willis Towers, since I already had the Willis solo set. LEGO has been releasing “skyline” sets lately, and Hancock is part of the Chicago skyline set, which also includes Willis Tower, Big Red, Wrigley Building, the DuSable Bridge, and a little Cloud Gate. Well, a few weeks ago I raced up the John Hancock Center, so it was time to build that tower out of little bricks. LEGO has been selling kits based on skyscrapers for almost ten years, and I have a few, for buildings where I’ve done races. This map is one way I celebrate my stair racing accomplishments, and another is through LEGO. And while I have upcoming races on the calendar that’ll bump my total count higher, none of the next few are in new cities. That’s 43 races total! Recaps for all of them here.
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