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you mean the single store employee that has to attend to three floors and an ice cream stand single handed I actually thought she was a customer and there weren't any employees but I looked at the pictures again and I suppose she is.

the ice cream cart in GE seems quite incongruous to me. If anything were a clue I'd take that as it. A mail box and store shopping bag don't seem unusual but an ice cream cart with no vendor does. Had it been a coin operated newspaper stand I wouldn't have found it unusual but has anyone ever seen an unnattended ice cream cart? Unless Lego are toying with us. Leaving a red herring....

All we need now is a chiahuahua with Sarah Jessica Parker's head

I think my first set with proper minifigs was 361: Garage. Or possibly 675: Snack Bar. My brother had 381: Police headquarters but I obviously favoured less authoritarian town settings.

looks like something at a stately home. used to take people on a tour of the grounds. the carriages will no more than wheeled boxes with a few seats and a canopy. but the fact that's painted in that shade of green and the landrover has a special crest in gold makes it oh so special and magical to tourists. I've been to urban farms where they do the same thing but use a tractor to pull the carts instead.

Hello all you lovely decal creators. I have a request. Would it be possible for you to create a bank teller torso to go with the new city bank please? An identity badge would be nice if possible and the dark blue and yellow colour scheme would be cool. If it's at all possible to have the gold 'CB' logo on the chest that would be fantastic. I don't mind if it's male or female or one of each. Many thanks if anyone picks this up. :) and keep up the grand work.

I really like the shop The Red Brick. I think the size and design is far better than the city corner effort. However, if I might offer my thoughts, it seems a little odd that a bicycle and motorcycle repair shop would be situated so high off the ground. In my humble experience places that deal with wheeled transport tend to be at ground level. Or at least have the repair side of the operation leading onto street level. I'm not critisising here. Just offering the thought that either your build could do with some kind of ramp or perhaps a split staircase leading to the shop that turns at right angles halfway up. As I said I love the shop itself I think you've done a great job. It's just the access for wheeled things I think needs looking at.

I like the plain barding. I realise it'll probably end up with a design on it but it looks okay plain. Lego should do a horse blanket covering for stabled horses.

I want a minifig of young Kai. And Sensai Wu's tea set. Okay I can live without the tea set but young Kai looks cool. Lego should have included him in a set. Hope they do the ship seen in the trailer as a set.

fair enough. It was just a thought. I don't buy these sets as the cost is prohibitive on my meagre budget but I enjoy the reveal when a new one is announced and the whole buzz of dissecting the photos. I just wasn't sure if the baseplate footprint was something Lego had set or if it was something that had arisen from fan expectation.

Hear hear! Lego needs More empowering inspirational female characters. Scientists and power dressed business women. Female Police chief and so on. Reading these forums it's clear that many people crave more females In Lego sets other than licensed themes and many with children would prefer less gender stereotyping. While it's realistic to have some female characters as mothers or sales assistants the wider world has moved on from the 1970's and as an iconic product Lego should too. I am slightly biased in that I despise pastel colours.

Naughty naughty..... I assure you it was purely lust for Lego.

Lego is probably a cure for althzeimers disease. It stimulates parts of the brain other less interesting and less challenging pastimes can't reach. At 43 I'm past caring what people think. It's a peaceful way to pass some time and it's money well spent on something that will last for decades rather than wasting it on alcohol or other almost instantly disposed of substances. as for buying Lego, I mostly buy online due to not being mobile but before when I could get around more easily I'd happily wander round toy stores covetously stroking lego boxes and purring in contentment. quite often parents would ask me if I could help them find whatever their child wanted. Parents can be so lazy sometimes. I didn't mind though. I'd tell them to pay the extra for Lego quality over cheap clone brands. Explain how each lego brick is a mini masterpiece of engineering. How I still have bricks from when I was a tiny child. I probably give the same speech to people whenever Lego and me are mentioned in the same sentence. I'm proud of my Lego and how sane it keeps me. It stops me getting all grown up and pompously dismissive of creative outlets. It frees my inner child and keeps me young at heart. Just remembered, a 20+ guy called at my house trying to sell me some new internet package and in passing he asked if he was interrupting anything. I replied that I was sorting through Lego minifigs and the guy almost broke his neck trying to peer into the room where the minifigs were. twenty minutes later he was on his hands and knees giggling like a kid playing with them and wanting to see the rest of my Lego collection. So I reckon there's an awful lot of people out there who may sneer at Lego and look on disapprovingly but secretly harbour jealousy and a yearning to play with plastic bricks and feel the liberation of creative freedom again. At the end of the day, don't let anyone steal the joy a hobby/pastime brings you. people you meet in stores are probably more embarassed than you are and cashiers and store managers don't care as long as you pay for goods before leaving. There are far worse things a person can buy or choose to spend their time partaking of.

Is there an absolute rule that modular buildings have to sit on a 32x32 baseplate? could it span two 16x32 baseplates side by side to make a longer narrower set? I was just thinking that businesses side by side forming more of a street profile might be interesting. Surely the modular aspect is which floor sits where and that all the sets interlock using the same connection pins?

was lying in bad last night, unable to sleep. Started thinking about the farm sets and realised Idon't actually like them. I like the idea of farm sets but not the ones Lego produced. If it wasn't for the fact they contain tractors they hardly look like any farm I've ever seen. There wasn't even a farmhouse. No what really appeals to me about Lego farm is the animals. I fell in love with the cow and pig. Same as I'm falling for the goat and chicken in the castle mill set. So what I want from Farm is sheep (with clip on horns so you can make a ram), duck, goose, crow, sheep dog, fox and other woodland animals like a woodpecker, badger, new scaled down rabbit, hedgehog and a hawk or kestrel. No buildings or tractors just the animals. Buildings are easy to throw together, we've got enough tractors, what we don't have are the animals. so why not just do a big set of them? really blow people's minds. Big bunch of animals like that would sell well to castle enthusiasts and properly flesh out a city farm. maybe I'm talking crazy talk because I'm deprived of sleep but it makes more sense to me, shoving out a set that will fly off the shelves than releasing one or two new animals every few years.

excellent photos. My favourite is the one captioned 'ride like the wind'. Just awesome!

On the mothership there's a whole black arm coming from the underbelly. It's sort of like a robotic grabbing arm with joints and (possibly) an articulated claw. Probably another abduction device. It looks like a proper ship part rather than just a prop to hold the figure up for the photo.

I bought seven of those listed sets and no buildings. Nothing has stood out as truly fantastic this year. I can't really pick a single set. but if the list doesn't include exclusives then why is TRU exclusive Public Transport on the list?

It wasn't a complaint it was an opinion. And it wasn't immediately obvious at all.

Hospital. There's never been a good one. hospital sets are either more like clinics or cottage hospitals or sadly lacking like the last city one. A modular hospital could at least provide a good solid foundation for building a larger spread out collection of buildings. If the modular hospital was the main building with the main entrance and reception hall on the ground floor, an operating room on the next floor and a ward on the top floor.

you're so right. I just didn't see it was a cyborg due to being awed by the fact we're getting cool aliens. I'm with Mathias on this, Definitely in favour of more B-movie elements and less earth defense blueness machines.

I don't really like the eyes on the alien in the Earth defence HQ set. I know this will sound odd but they seem too alien and don't seem to fit with the cartoony eyes of the other aliens Which I think look fantastic. I like the head shape but the eyes are too weird.

oooooooh that's a whole different kind of alien threat...

I wasn't aware of that custom. I am now. I suppose I'd never thought of a sweep wearing a topper. In my minds eye they wear less ostentatious head gear. cloth cap perhaps. brides in white and sooty chimneys don't immediately seem like happy pairings to me either. possibly that's a custom made up by out of work sweeps once gas and electric fires put them out of business.

Started putting the sketched ideas I've posted in this thread into my photobucket gallery. I'll be adding to it as I finish adding colour to the black and white doodles I did. These aren't brilliant but express what I was babbling about.