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brick projects – lego notre dame (#21061)

picked this up for the next big project with mom, figured a big cathedral was castle-ish enough that mom would be interested, and hopefully i’ll have the lights in for the enterprise soon since mom has seemed really interested in that one too. huzzah projects, here come some pictures. oh also i thought it was neat they had a timeline on the back of the box (and i think we sort of build on in that order too). i didn’t really know it took them six hundred entire earth years to build the thing. at least it should take us less time?

UPDATE jan 25th (got busy, didn’t upload) we finished and i added lights, here’s the video. warning, is flashy.

update: thursday, december 25th. we (i) don’t really do holiday things but mom and i did spend a little time together today doing lego stuff and i do like those days where we’re both up for it.

forgot to upload, but here’s some more of notre dame

another batch upload (three days worth) but here they be. probably do a lil’ more tomorrow (sunday, january 10th, 2026) if we’re both up for it…?

couple days worth of upload but here’s some more. this thing is fragile as fuck though and we kept like mashing it and now the round end looks terrible but i can’t fix it – until it’s done and i put in all the lights anyway. so here’s some pictures with captions

remembered to take photo, remembered to upload

was home sick, did some work — have one step left before it’s done and take it apart to put all the lights in. here’s some pictures

we finished up pretty quickly the next day and i spent a couple hours adding all the lights. now is flashy for the occasions we turn on the lights (rare at best) but hey it looks neat and i do love me some flashy lights. video at the article head.