Name: Empire State Building
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 21002-1
Rating: 70 (5 reviews)

Empire State Building is LEGO set 21002-1. It has a score of 70. This is bad compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 0 reviews, based on 5 scored reviews and 5 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 14.8% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2009, and it is categorised in Architecture.

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Recommendations

Avoid 60%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2009 is 0.16. PPP for this set is 0.31, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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We do not currently know how the average price per minifig for this set compares to other sets.

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

Eurobricks Recommendation: meh 8 / 10 → 80 / 100

Brickpicker Recommendation: meh 7.3 / 10 → 73 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: no 3.5 / 5 → 70 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: no 3.3 / 5 → 66 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: no 60 / 100 → 60 / 100

Set information

Set ID: 21002-1
Name: Empire State Building
Parts: 77

Retail price (USD):
Original: 19.99
Inflation adjusted: 23.82

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.26
Inflation adjusted: 0.31

More sets:

2009 Architecture Landmark Series

Statistics:

Best Architecture sets of all time Best Landmark Series sets of all time

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: meh 8 / 10 by Rufus

For a collector, or a casual dabbler looking for a little adult-orientated LEGO fun, I could recommend it.

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Brickpicker

Recommendation: meh 7.3 / 10 from 3 reviews

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Brickset

Recommendation: no 3.5 / 5 from 10 reviews

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amazon.com

Recommendation: no 3.3 / 5 from 273 reviews

A little smaller then I had expected, but with my ever growing collection of Lego Architecture kits, I am quickly running out of room to display them all. As usual, a wonderful kit by Lego!

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 273 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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