Mods - Town Square's Pizza and Bike Shops

[rockethead26]

We thought that the half-baked buildings (City Pizza and the Bike Shop) that come in the Town Square set (60026) needed a little work before finding them a place in our LEGO town which is in progress.

My wife wanted to do the pizza shop, so I decided to tackle the bike shop. These are our first modded buildings and we had fun doing it.

First, here's a "before" shot of City Pizza from Brickset.com:

Leslie expanded the building and added a rooftop sign:

A walk up order window:

Lots of windows and a rear entrance/exit:

An expanded kitchen:

An extra table with chairs and she relocated the cash register to work at the walk-up window:

and finally added a small bathroom to meet code:

Now, everybody's happy!!

Here's a "before" shot of the Bike Shop from Brickset.com:

The Bike Shop needed to be expanded, too to hold more bikes and both motorcycles:

So, I added little tiled patio with some flowers, a roof-top air conditioner, lots of windows and a taller sign:

Lots more windows and a rear exit around the back:

Added some stairs to the second floor and some more display items:

Another view of the second floor:

Now we have room for a motorcycle and a bike on the street level. The Bike Shop is an equal opportunity employer with one of the Friend's girls attending the register:

We now have a fully functional retail bike shop (maintenance is done off-site ;-)

The dude that came with the shop looked like more of an HVAC guy, so...

Hope you folks enjoy the pics. Any comments, criticisms and/or suggestions are all welcome.

Edited August 25, 2014 by rockethead26

[lightningtiger]

Not bad modifications at all 'rockethead26'.......it's always interesting to see how others pimp there open back sets into modulars.

Brick On 'rockethead26' !

[rockethead26]

Thanks, Lightningtiger!

Edited August 22, 2014 by rockethead26

[Blakstone]

Rockethead, it is impressive work. At first I did not really notice the changes. It took going to Brickset and comparing the initial set photos with yours. You and your wife were able to complete the buildings while keeping the same design feel as the original sets. Great work.

[cgarison]

Very good work in completing the look of the buildings. These will be nice in any layout.

[rockethead26]

Rockethead, it is impressive work. At first I did not really notice the changes. It took going to Brickset and comparing the initial set photos with yours. You and your wife were able to complete the buildings while keeping the same design feel as the original sets. Great work.

Thanks Blakstone. Yeah, I guess I should have posted some "before" photos before the mods. It would have made it easier to see what we did. My goof.

Very good work in completing the look of the buildings. These will be nice in any layout.

Thank you. I need a couple of single wide slopes to finish the roofline on the bike shop, but other than that, they're waiting for us to put a town square together that we like so they have a home.

[tedbeard]

Quite nice. The pizza shop is very nicely done.

In the bike shop is there a reason the "jackets" for sale have hands in them?

Edited August 22, 2014 by tedbeard

[rockethead26]

Quite nice. The pizza shop is very nicely done.

Thanks and I'll pass that along to Leslie!

In the bike shop is there a reason the "jackets" for sale have hands in them?

That's kinda funny. I have to say that I never noticed that. That's the way they came in the set. I'll have to remove them unless I want to pretend that the Bike Shop is selling jackets with sewn in flesh-colored gloves.

[CityBuilder]

Nice mods, I like the more filled in City styled buildings better than the actual City buildings.

[rockethead26]

Nice mods, I like the more filled in City styled buildings better than the actual City buildings.

Thanks Citibuilder! I agree about the open sided buildings. We really don't need the play factor that they offer and it's easy enough to add modular style removable floors and roofs.

Have a good one!

[BricksMcgee]

Great mods. Love the Bike Shop mod particularly, though not so keen on the "pizza" sign on the roof, just can't put my finger on why. Definitely needed a toilet, though! :)

[rockethead26]

Great mods. Love the Bike Shop mod particularly, though not so keen on the "pizza" sign on the roof, just can't put my finger on why. Definitely needed a toilet, though! :)

Thanks, Bricks! Yeah, until we get an airport in Lego Town, the roof-top pizza sign doesn't make much sense, does it?

I edited my first post to add a pic of what we started with before each mod you you can see better what we did.

I should have done this before making the OP.

[TWO2SEVEN]

Good work!

[Modelmaker]

Thanks, Bricks! Yeah, until we get an airport in Lego Town, the roof-top pizza sign doesn't make much sense, does it?

I edited my first post to add a pic of what we started with before each mod you you can see better what we did.

I should have done this before making the OP.

Skyscrapers can see it

Nice job, pity i already parted my town square out in other Moc's

[rockethead26]

Good work!

Thanks, TWO2SEVEN!

Skyscrapers can see it

Nice job, pity i already parted my town square out in other Moc's

Thanks, Modelmaker. There's always more parts!!!