Great Pyramid of Giza (LEGO 21058)

About this set

This is LEGO Architecture 21058 The Great Pyramid of Giza, a 1476-piece build rated 5/5 for difficulty. The main pyramid is stacked in white and beige with a gold capstone, accompanied by three smaller pyramids, a temple and shrine structure, an obelisk, a blue Nile section with boats, green palm trees along the bank, and a black display base. Build the main pyramid layer by layer first, since the alternating white and beige courses are easy to misalign and costly to redo; save the gold capstone for last so it does not get knocked off while handling. The smaller pyramids and temple are fiddly and repetitive, so batch them after the main structure is capped, and leave the river, boats, and palms until the end to limit flipping the base. The black base carries the weight, so move the finished model as one piece. This suits builders who have tackled Architecture sets and are comfortable with stacked courses and sloped edges, or anyone after a desk display piece; at 5/5, newcomers should set aside a full session rather than build in fragments.