Parting Out 10190 Market Street - Advice Wanted (and a Larger Discussion)

[jedisquidward]

I parted out Cafe Corner last year, and am extremely happy with how it turned out. I actually have a decent percentage of the parts needed for 10190 Market Street, not even counting the color/part variation substitutions I can make for elements not on display. However, I have a few questions in general.

First, how do people here feel about having just the building and not the market next to it? I like the market quite a lot and it is an important part of the visual identity of the set, but I like the idea of having an individual 16x32 to equalize the space with Assembly Square taking up a 48x32 space.

The bigger question is that in some ways, I feel reluctant as to whether or not I should even go forward with this. I love the process of parting out the sets and saving money, but what I really want right now is to build one of my own designs. The only problem is that the design isn't finished. Throughout so much of my last MOC, I wanted to buy a set but the only one I absolutely LOVED was my own design, that still wouldn't be finished for a long time.

Has anyone else gone through something similar? Thoughts on this?

[crowe-k]

I parted out the older modulars a few years ago and debated whether to adjust them or change some of the details but I found out I am a completist and much to the chagrin of my wallet, competed them fully. I guess it depends whether you want the set exactly as it was intended. I have recently started to work on buildings using my own design (just designing now) and find this an enjoyable alternative now that there are no other modulars I can buy. I imagine buying the pieces needed would be a bit of a chore, but I find the design process challenging and a whole new level of enjoyment that is different from collecting pieces for sets or building new modulars etc. To each their own I guess.

[Withacee]

We (my wife and I) missed the first three modulars (CC, MS, GG), but got the rest.
Over the years, we bought the parts for the first three (as close as we could get, >99% original parts), just because we wanted to get them all.
Like @crowe-k, we're "completists" where modulars are concerned, so skipping one was no option, but the prices for the originals were way too high, so we took the BrickLink road.

MS, albeit not the greatest modular, looks absolutely okay with the two sections split into different locations in our city as far as we are concerned.
The market part just becomes an autonomous small market stand in the city.

Edited January 30, 2021 by Withacee