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Unless you have been collecting sets for a long time, its quite likely you will not have sufficient quantity and variety of bricks (especially some specialty bricks very useful for modulars) to make a MOC modular from scratch. My plan for my first MOC is to take currently existing sets (one of Creator Houses, City, Friends - can't decide yet!) and modify them in the modular style. I read in another thread someone took 2 x 41006 (Friends bakery) and combined it with 3315 (Friends Olivia's House) and made it into a 3 storey modular. Since Friends sets seem to be generally available at a discount I may try that first.

No, it definitely does not ship to my country..

Your city has a number of superheroes, must be tough being an evil criminal mastermind there.

This is amazing. Especially love the PAB Wall.

Wow, the double wide version looks really nice, but buying a second one means not buying something else. Decisions, decisions..

In addition to the CS Lewis quote above, I would like to offer this gem from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was known for being exceedingly quirky and had oddly diverse interests. "What do you care what other people think?" - Richard Feynman

Thanks. Exceeding odd - the first part doesn't appear on the parts list on rebricable??? http://rebrickable.com/sets/10182-1/cafe-corner-café-corner-modular-buildings-2007

This has probably been asked a million times - I've seen a few of the question threads but unfortunately can't quite seem to wrap my head around the answer, even with illustrations - but how do you attach curved tracks to baseplates? I've seen a few posts which suggest mounting tracks one plate higher than the base plate, and just leave the curved tracks loose, but that seems pretty inelegant to me. I'm open to mounting tracks one plate higher (easy enough to do for straights) but how do I deal with curved? Will the curved tracks occassionally (every few sleepers/ties or so) match up to studs on the baseplate, and they can somehow be joined? I've seen another option of 2 x 2 turntables suggested, turned at an offset to match the angle of the ties. Would some kind soul be willing to take closeup pictures of such a setup so I can see how it works? Most pictures I've seen aren't on a close enough scale so I can make out the detail... Thanks a lot!

Sorry for the ignorance - just finished ordering parts for green grocer and moving on to cafe corner - but whats the part number of the doors that everyone's price gouging on?

Very nice MOC! Is that a goblet high up in the bell tower?

That's awesome, thanks.

Can I ask, what is the size of the table you are using? I am thinking of having a similar layout and am wondering how big a table I need. I was thinking of something like 2m x 1m, that would give me 4 x 8 32 stud baseplates to play around with.

Whoosh. Just got done ordering my first batch of bricks, about 1800 of them in all, total cost so far (excluding shipping, haven't been invoiced by BL stores as yet) is approximately $300. One annoying thing that happened a couple of times was that a store initially had stock of a particular brick when I was pricing things out, but when I got around to checking out they were no longer in stock so I had to scramble a bit. The bricks I haven't ordered yet though are presumably rarer since I couldn't find them in a broad spectrum of stores I ordered from - nine so far - so I'm guessing my next batch of orders will be pretty expensive.

Must get fire brigade before it disappears from regular retail channels and scalpels start charging an arm and a leg.

Do you guys mind sharing the merchants on bl you placed the largest orders with?

Also you would expect these to be available in reddish brown or some brick-ish color. I get that the greys are used in castles, but medium flesh??

Compound Annual Growth Rate. Its an investment measure of how much prices have changed over the years. In Lego terms it would be the RRP of a set at release measured against current average prices on the secondary market.

Couple of set numbers have showed up for trains but no other details / pictures. Hoping for more information so I can decide between them and the currently available train sets.

Just getting started on this now with Green Grocer. Am at the first (probably most arduous step) of pricing everything out on BL stores. There are some great fluctuations on individual part prices between stores, and its hard balancing getting the best price for each part without having to order from fifty different stores (and having to pay for shipping fifty times). What I've been trying to do is to identify a couple of large stores that have good prices for the most expensive parts (sand green, I'm talking about you) and try to get as much stuff as possible from them at reasonable prices. Its extremely time consuming and detailed work though, and with the amount of time I've been spending plugging numbers and sorting data in Excel I feel like a first year analyst at an investment bank. I'm only halfway through and I'm already wondering if it would be overall less grief to find a decently priced set on eBay and pull the trigger..

With more and more people getting on the bandwagon to purchase and keep large exclusive / rare sets for investment appreciation, I wonder if we will ever again see such large CAGRs as in previous years e.g. Grand Carousel, Taj Mahal and even the first three modulars. The Triple E may be out of stock now, but since Lego has already advised on a restock date unless you are 16 and must have everything RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW all you have to do to avoid paying inflated prices is to wait.

Apologies if this is discussed elsewhere (am new here!) but am wondering what people would recommend to get large quantities of bricks suitable for modular MOC-ing? I don't have any set design to follow and am interested in bulk value purchases to start a part collection. What I'd like to do is have a ton of random pieces and sit down and build a modular building from scratch. Any particular specific sets I should look at or is bulk on eBay / BL the way to go?

Had a ton of lego as a kid (sadly, all given away long time ago. I shudder to think of what those sets would be worth now) and got out of my dark ages (greatest regret - missing out on first three modular buildings!) about a year ago when I visited Legoland (the original in Bilund). I first went when I was 7 and amazingly a lot of the things are still the same. It was a greatly nostalgic trip. Picked up a couple of sets here and there but am now going 'full steam ahead' and planning to set up a modular town in a spare room at home. Going to be an exciting year!