Light Kit for Shanghai #21039

A temple below the towers

Shanghai's modern skyline is a recent construction. The Bund was the financial front of the Treaty Port in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, lined with banks, hotels and consulates in neoclassical and Art Deco styles. Pudong, across the river, was largely farmland until the 1990s, when the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center turned it into a global financial district. The city now displays two centuries of ambition in one view.

LEGO Architecture Shanghai 21039 is a 597-piece skyline, 25 by 28 by 7 centimetres. Longhua Temple sits at one end, with its pagoda and tiled roofs; the Bund's neoclassical bank fronts and hotel facades form the middle ground; the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center and the surrounding towers close the composition. The base is shallow, so the river and the streets are suggested rather than mapped.

The set is arranged as a vertical timeline. The temple and the Bund belong to the old city; the Pudong towers belong to the new one; the shallow base compresses the river between them. That is a design choice rather than a geographical one, and it lets the model show how quickly the city changed without needing a large diorama.

The old-city/new-city divide carries into the ZENE Bricks display lighting for #21039. The temple and the Bund's stone facades take a warm amber, the Pudong towers a cooler white, and the Oriental Pearl's spheres a soft pink-white. The river is a low blue line, and the street lamps along the base stay dim. The old and new sections run on separate circuits, so the model can be shown as a warm historic waterfront or a cool modern skyline.

• Supports already assembled LEGO® sets with minimal disassembly required.
• No circuit experience needed, just follow our simple step-by-step instructions for guidance.
• Twisted pair design balances robustness and installation concealment.
• Have your LEGO® sets be exciting and soul-filled even in the daytime.

What's Included

• The Led Light Kit includes Connecting Cables, Lights, Expansion Boards, etc.
• Battery Box (Without Batteries).
• Instructions in PDF format provided.

Type: Compatible with LEGO® sets
Material: Eco-friendly ABS plastic