Five justifications for buying LEGO 10307 Eiffel Tower

10307 Eiffel Tower is about as extreme as LEGO sets get, so fans might struggle to convince their partners that it’s justified. Allow us to help.

For many, LEGO collecting and building is a shared pursuit with husbands, wives, partners and children all getting involved. Others though, find their love of the brick is something just about tolerated (or not) by their families. For every AFOL who has an amazing display in the lounge, or a dedicated LEGO room, there are others who are allowed one small set out at a time.

So as the LEGO Group announce 10307 Eiffel Tower, a £550, 10,001 piece monster of a set, standing nearly five feet tall, there will be more than a few collectors who will want to buy it, but are going to struggle to maintain domestic harmony after the articulated truck drops it off.  Let’s face it – you’re not going to sneak this one and build it on the corner of the table without someone noticing.

So here are a few suggestions as to how you might talk round a doubting partner.

5 – It’s a hat rack

Unlike, say, the 1940s, people don’t tend to own or wear many hats these days. In fact, most families are a one hat household. So rather than drill a hole in the wall for a single hook to hang your single hat, why not build the stylish and sophisticated Eiffel Tower model which can double as a hat rack. For one hat. Bonus feature: You could also tie a scarf round it, making it even more effective as a storage solution.

4 – It can be used to measure the children

Many families mark the growth of their offspring by marking their heights on a door or doorframe. This is great, but what happens when you move house? The simple and effective alternative is to mark their height by adding a brick to your Eiffel Tower model, which can then be deconstructed if you ever move house. Just remember where the marker bricks went before you take it apart. Bonus feature: If your child is after a bike or other expensive toy you can tell them that they have to be as tall as the Eiffel Tower before they can have it.  If they put an inconvenient growth spurt on, just add some more bricks after they’ve gone to bed.

3 – It’s educational

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, well-to-do families would send their sons, and occasionally daughters, on ‘The Grand Tour’. This involved travelling around Europe and being exposed to the history of the nations and the culture of the day. The Eiffel Tower would undoubtedly have been a highlight of these trips but for the fact that construction wasn’t started until 1887, nearly a century after the tours fell out of fashion. Now you can expose your children to one of the architectural marvels of Europe by sending them into the living room. Bonus feature: if you get away with this argument, it leaves an open door to collect the rest of the Architecture range. 

2– Pretend it’s the Blackpool Tower

For LEGO fans in the North, simply tell your beloved that it is in fact the world famous Blackpool Tower. Any self-respecting northerner will rejoice in having this iconic building in their home, rather than all those Architecture sets that are based on that there London, like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben or Trafalgar Square. Bonus feature: There’s probably enough parts in the set to take it apart and make a decent job of the Angel of the North.

1 – It can double as a Christmas Tree

Okay, this is probably a time limited argument, but buy the set on day one, get cracking on the build and it should be standing proud in the corner of the room by the beginning of December. At four foot nine inches tall or thereabout, it’s the perfect size for a Christmas tree/tower.  String some lights around it, throw on some tinsel and a few baubles and voila! Bonus feature: no dropped needles to vacuum up.

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