BirdOPrey5

People could vote. but voting wouldn't be the only means to having LEGO give serious consideration to a set. There are sets posted that are generally a waste of time, sets posted that could be great sets, and sets posted that reach the 10,000 mark, and the later two do not completely overlap. There are also the sets with no chance that reach 10,000 votes. Take for example the Corvette that recently failed the review. That set was virtually perfect. It either didn't pass because LEGO couldn't get a license or LEGO felt it would compete with their existing or future sets. Either way they shouldn't have to have waited for 10K votes. Someone can just look at that project the day it's submitted and get the ball rolling. Do whatever they do. And then they could change its status to "Thanks but no thanks" so we know it got its review but for whatever reason is being passed on. People don't have to waste time voting on it, and others with similar ideas may learn not to bother submitting anything too similar.

The Town Hall and Fire Brigade were available much more recently than Cafe Corner and you can buy them on the secondary market for a small fraction of what an unopened CC goes for. There would be no real benefit to re-releasing either of those at this time.

Sure they could. It takes me less than 10 minutes a day to look at any new projects that day. I'd say on any given day at least half can be immediately thrown out, the rest may require a deeper look. But in short order a couple people can easily determine if anything submitted is worth serious evaluation- the vast majority of things will not get that far.

But they aren't looking for Ideas, are they? They are looking for people to guerilla market their website for them. If they were looking for ideas a panel from Lego would decide every project, there would be no need for 10,000 votes.

It's unfathomable a company like LEGO can't get an expired security certificate fixed yet. I would say chances are pretty good the ideas website might just get shut down by the end of the year, only reason I can imagine no one has bothered to fix it.

Do you have a verifiable source for this information? Oh wait... Do you mean selling instructions to make an existing product? Or do you mean instructions to make an alternate build from an existing set?

The back wall, I can see covering it up with some large plates, studs facing backwards, just have to add a few bricks with studs on the face to the back wall. Easy enough. Maybe cover the back facing studs with tiles if I wanted to get fancy.

What I don't get, why do both have a traffic light? That wouldn't be obvious to me to include looking at the movie- plus it hangs over the base, can get in the way of something next to it... I never understood why it was in the LEGO Ideas project and I really don't see why it was in the official set. While I doubt the official LEGO project wasn't in the works, that detail alone makes me wonder if the Ideas project didn't have some influence. Legally, it's allowed to, would just like to know if it did.

That appears to be the very back of the first floor, under the stairs. I don't see enough room for the car in this at all.

Thanks for keeping this open.

My guess is exactly because there were such similar projects they were rejected. They probably don't want LEGO Ideas to become LEGO NASA or LEGO Science... they want new and different ideas.

I don't want to point anyone out specifically and the comments are rarely aimed at me personally but I have to say this site seems to have some (not all) exceptionally rude moderators, Maybe it's just a couple and the rude posts stick out more than the regular posts to me, but reading through a thread today I almost deleted this site from my favorites because I saw a moderator go off on someone discussing something they didn't think was relevant. Personally I thought it was completely relevant and I'm sure many others do to. I think it would help if the moderators were reminded this is a site ultimately about building with bricks. Not everything is going to fit into one and only one topic. Even this site puts modulars (which are under the Creator theme in the LEGO Universe) into the City and Town discussion on this site.Not everything is going to fit into a nice little box. And price is relevant to the discussion- to any discussion. LEGO might make the most awesome set in the word but if it's priced at $25,000 and only 1% of the population can buy it, that deserves some discussion. I'm giving this site another chance, I hope some mods will lighten up on the users. Sorry if I offended non-rude moderators, this was not aimed at you. My 2 cents.

I hope the Corvette brand didn't want to give LEGO a license because if it was any other reason the Corvette didn't pass they should just close down Lego Ideas now... That was virtual perfection.

It looks good, better than next year's modular for sure, but to me Sergio's Ideas submission looked far better than this official set. Shame they didn't abandon their set and just go with his.

Is there anyplace that sells (or gives away) alternate builds for modulars? I think that would be very lucrative... Buy another Pet Shop (and maybe some random smaller set for decorations) and you have all the pieces you need for some awesome alternate design. My biggest problem with the instructions they sell on eBay and other sites now is that I don't have the time nor will to bricklink a thousand different pieces- so if all the pieces from from an existing set or two, that solves the major issue. It would be great if Lego did it themselves... then instead of selling one modular, people might buy two or three.

There's no reasons the buildings can't be in the classic style but with modern conveniences. It could be an "historic district" where the outside of the buildings really can't be changed much, by law, but you are free to use computers, coffee makers, or whatever you want on the inside.

I can't believe so many people like this- to me it's the ugliest looking modular not counting Market Street. The colors look awful, nothing flows together. It's shorter than the DO. It doesn't seem to say "Bank" anywhere- not even on the printed windows. The DO was small but at least I thought it looked good. I don't understand where my sense of design began to differ so much with the rest of the community.

http://i.imgur.com/AFF6wDV.jpg Looks like there isn't even a full wall between the bank and laundromat....

Yes sorry about that my posts were moved into this thread by the forum staff, in the thread I originally posted in there was no other info before it.

$10 more expensive than the DO for a yet smaller modular- when the DO was $10 more expensive and smaller as well. The trend is clear.

More pics/info: http://zusammengebau...llt-10251-2382/ Sorry this was moved here from the modular rumors thread- hadn't thought to look for a new thread just for the bank yet.

OMG... I saw that picture I thought it was a joke- something someone copied from Lego Ideas as a prank, Those colors are horrible, It's too small. Far more disappointing than DO was. Sorry- but they went in the exact opposite direction I wanted.

The two I bought (Big Ben and EIffel Tower) were decent enough quality with no missing pieces in either, but some Amazon reviewers claim to have missing pieces so maybe I just got lucky. For the size/scale I was happy with the price.

So Big Ben... Wange already makes a large scale Big Ben, probably about the size the LEGO Landmark set would be (in physical height) and it's only $55 or so on Amazon. One main annoyance of the set was how repetitive the build was... you had to assemble the same thing like 80 times... I hope they figure out a way to make it a more interesting build.

Don't you think if they could show us, they would? They are obviously still waiting on licensing approval or some other legal issue. They aren't purposely saying "Let's screw over Dr. Who fans!"