I was a cartographer too, until my job series was changed to an aeronautical information specialist.  [emoji4] 

Sweet!

Sadly, I retired from map making years ago. “Rose” to Management, then got pushed aside. Now I’m in my second career as an IT/Web/SharePoint guy. But funny enough I’m still on a Geographer Series PD.

I really wanted to like this set...but it’s just bleh...Here’s hoping they do a better job with the globe. 

On 5/25/2021 at 3:09 PM, Alpinemaps said:

There’s at least instructions for an alternative, Asian-centric projection.

This hurts my eyes.

 

This set is so bad. Actually all the Lego “Art” series are terrible. Google “bead art” to understand how poor of a value these are. 

9 hours ago, melting said:

This hurts my eyes.

 

Earlier when I read this on my phone I was like, woah, eurocentric much? But now I'm looking at it on my laptop and holy cow this image just straight up hurts my eyes! 😆

44 minutes ago, Mathew said:

This set is so bad. Actually all the Lego “Art” series are terrible. Google “bead art” to understand how poor of a value these are. 

When I first saw those kinds LEGO art at Ripley's many years ago, my thoughts was "this look cool, but I would not want to be the one putting it together"

9 hours ago, melting said:

This hurts my eyes.

 

From this angle, that looks like a map from 1 of those old PC games with world maps.  It reminded me of how cool it was to see the map in color on VGA monitor (16 colors baby!!)

Earlier when I read this on my phone I was like, woah, eurocentric much? But now I'm looking at it on my laptop and holy cow this image just straight up hurts my eyes! [emoji38]

I was noticing the same thing. The area I live in (east coast US) is pretty much split right on the border. I wonder if the map is evenly split on the edges so that you could put the American continents in the center if you choose to.

Not that I am going to buy it though, just more of a curiosity.

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Earlier when I read this on my phone I was like, woah, eurocentric much? But now I'm looking at it on my laptop and holy cow this image just straight up hurts my eyes! [emoji38]

China/India is right smack in the Center.


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surprisingly one of the few sets that went backorder on the first day

On 6/1/2021 at 2:58 AM, Shortbus311 said:

I was noticing the same thing. The area I live in (east coast US) is pretty much split right on the border. I wonder if the map is evenly split on the edges so that you could put the American continents in the center if you choose to.

Page 139 of the instructions shows that you can put it together in three different ways to make a Euro/Africa, Asia or America centric map.

Edited June 4, 20214 yr by paulvdb

2 hours ago, paulvdb said:

Page 139 of the instructions shows that you can put it together in three different ways to make a Euro/Africa, Asia or America centric map.

I thought this was obvious by the pictures on the front of the box.  The 2 smaller maps on the lower left are America centric and Asia centric, while the huge one is Euro centric.  Also it says 1 picture, 3 combinations

Back in stock at LEGO Shop at Home. 

Also available at Kohl's if anyone prefers

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Any set above $100 performing better? The Globe and Typewriter have done well but not like the Map

I don’t recall any of the “influencers” mentioning this one. 

Edited May 10May 10 by Pseudoty