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  1. Thetford
    Then if it will put your mind at ease, how about this for a scenario, the Dark Orange Building initially spanned two ground floor units when built in let's say ... 1874, the unit on the right (where the barbershop presently is), was destroyed by fire sometime around the early 20th century, the landowner constructed the building on the right, but had to provide access to the one remaining unit above ground floor as the original stairwell was destroyed in the fire, and the left building is structurally sound enough to stay up (either the landowner can't afford a full redevelopment of the site, or the occupier of the unit above the left shop owned in title the unit, and therefore the landowner was required to provide access to his/her unit as part of an easement), the blue building was constructed, and as per requirement had stairwell access to the rest of the site? (Not trying to be facetitious or pedantic, just offering a possible backstory).
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    Given that the police officer in question is wearing a modern uniform rather than one of the period, the gender of the minifigure is somewhat irrelevant irrelevant, I guess the Modular series has more of an anachronistic mess, for example, compare the more historic FB engine to the more modern PC interior, one could make the same assertions about location, for example, why the PR, typical of Parisian Haussmann design is in a series of typically American design. There is also the issue that, without the police officer, there would only be one other clearly defined female minifigure in the set.
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    Given that the windows look (not function) like sash windows, I guess they Monica Geller it and go through there? Also, I think I can see a light brown squareish thing at the top of the first floor of the blue building in the right corner, I guess those are the stairs for the apartment/maisonette.
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    To be honest, I have only ever seen two episodes of Community, and those were on a transatlantic flight, and they didn't encourage me to watch more, here, according to Wikipedia, it is broadcast on an obscure subscription digital channel I doubt many would have heard of, whereas TBBT is on one of the four big major terrestrial broadcasters.
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    I have wondered about the possibility of a "Travel" theme, though not sure if that would qualify more for City or Action, but it could range from tourists in tropical print shirts buying tat from markets to backpackers trying to find themselves, while exploring ancient trapped tombs and temples, while being pursued by treasure hunters, like a modern setting take on the Adventurers theme. Think The Beach meets Tomb Raider. Though an Art Deco Dieselpunk theme wouldn't go amiss.
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    For the past couple of decades, pubs have been quite unprofitable, so many have become more "Gastro pubs", which serve food and accommodate families, a bit like how you describe your bar and grills.
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    I hope they change Bernadette's legs, because it just looks like she is just standing on a black box, highlighted even more given that her legs are non articulated.
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    The first set I got was 6332 Command Post Central, gave me many hours of joy, and is a little disheartening when I look online and see constant negative reviews about this and other sets I had as a child from this period, and I have been thinking lately about using the green bay windows to make a police station in a similar fashion (though not with white walls, and definitely not black, way too dark). The white panels and the criminal's torso have aged badly, but the other bricks seem in fairly good condition still.
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    Could be a hot dog vendor one associates with American stadiums, ie, a guy with a tray (as a body accessory) in front of him holding hot dogs, if so, I guess the tray could be used in a future series for a theatre usher to hold tiny overpriced portions of ice cream.
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    Perhaps food colouring would work in such instances, though I imagine that would stain Lego bricks/models. While I can't think of a pure Lego method for large open bodies of water like lakes or rivers, for small bodies of water like swimming pools, I guess you could sort of make a purist one with the use of large pieces such as the dumpster from those large dumpster trucks they had half a decade back, would that work?
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    I have a Piggy Guy and a Swashbuckler, no idea which code is for who as I mixed them up, but one has 5 in the top right hand corner the other has 7.
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    So far, I have only noticed two places that stock them in the city centre of Birmingham, and one of them, WH Smiths, keeps them in the trays, on a high shelf behind the cashiers, and couldn't see a price displayed, and none on the shop floor. I didn't even want to bother inquiring, so I just wto the Tesco metro instead, who were still fairly well stocked, with one tray open, and another four I think, still unopened on the shop floor.
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    A culture difference is very much at play here it seems, for example, in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand, police officers are routinely unarmed, in fact, it caused a minor stir when it was revealed that a specially trained armed unit was doing regular patrols in Scotland. In the UK's case, it is known, if I recall, policing by consent, that the police should work with and for the public. And if you give the cops guns, what about the criminals? Up until now, most of the crimes these criminals have been guilty of are stuff like heists, where they do not interact with bank or museum staff, jailbreaks and escaping the law, no screaming hostages, no lives ruined And outside the law enforcement context, I can only think of about three subthemes where the presence of firearms wouldn't be that controversial: Farming (protecting livestock from predators such as foxes), Forest (protecting the public from dangerous animals such as bears) and Arctic (protecting researchers from polar bears), and even then there could be issues such as Forest being seen to glorify hunting. I feel many seem to forget that Lego is a Danish company that makes a children's toy, what maybe be considered normal, acceptable or a fact of life in your society, may not be in others, and Lego tries to avoid casting judgement.
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    I like it, I just wonder if the awning blends too much with the white walls, do you have those curved pieces in another colour perhaps, something to make it "pop" more ...
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    Which what I was thinking, perhaps half the building would be the station building itself, while the other, back half is for example, the ends of the track with a covered glass roof above, which modders can replicate to create the rest of the platform (like how you need to buy multiple Midnight Expresses to create more than one carriage, or multiple Pet Shops to create a row of Brownstones, or perhaps, use common pieces for said roof), perhaps the ground floor can be a concourse with shop/coffee shop and a ticket office, with stairs leading up to a restaurant on a mezzanine, and have the rest of the building as a void creating a grand hall.
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    Perhaps a terminus station with tracks running perpendicular to the road, avoiding issues such as tracks/platforms running behind existing modulars, and allowing multiples of the set to create wider station with more platforms.
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    Why not a town hall? Just have the council chamber double up as a courtroom, I'm sure such a building would be interesting to children, since the most important/powerful person in a children's cartoon/comic is usually the mayor, which could give a rescue the mayor scenario. I believe one of the 50th anniversary sets had a city hall (replacing the church from the original set).
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    With those saying TLG will never do a bar (or at least, an outright bar), perhaps the focus for the unit downstairs will be a pool hall, with the bar itself a side feature like other sets?
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    I wonder if the alley is just on the side of the building, they would include a wall on that edge just so it can attach to the next building. Hopefully, there will be at least a chain link fence in the alley for the detective to chase suspects over.
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    OK, hope I have the right grasp of this ... 1. Business woman (Sand Blue suit and pink shirt with skirt printing on legs, Big hairpiece, shoulderpads accessory to go between the head and torso, and mobile phone made out of a walkie talkie, and printed 1x1 tile, and cheese wedge) 2. Tudor Queen (Printed dress piece, ruff neck piece thingy and perhaps a small upturned cape thing, short dark orange curly hair, and a sceptre) 3. Grim Reaper (Black dress piece, black torso, white hands, skull, hood and scythe, and perhaps an hourglass) 4. Realtor (female in red suit, holding a plate of cookies and a 2x2 tile with a picture of a house and the word sold across it) 5. Greaser (leather jacket, jeans printing on legs, styled hair, holding a comb and tub of hair wax) 6. Kitty girl (girl with short white legs, whiskers face paint, cat ears hood, holding a fish) 7. Personal Assistant (guy in shirt and tie, tired facial expression, with headset, holding a report and a tray of takeaway coffee cups) 8. Gumshoe (guy in brick yellow jacket, with coat tail/cloth skirt piece thingy printed as a continuation of the jacket, dark brown legs, brown fedora, magnifying glass, and a letter addressed by "the Dame", or a newspaper article about the "Maltease Dame"). 9. Housewife (woman in cloth skirt piece, cloth apron piece that goes on top of the torso and leg pieces, holding a lattice pie and a rolling pin). 10. Psychiatrist (old man in tweed suit and white beard and hairpiece, with a book called Freudian Excuses). 11. Jock (young guy in red letterman jacket with white sleeves, baseball cap, baseball bat and and a book with year book written on the cover, and pictures of various high school age CMF printed inside). 12. Peasant (dirt printing on torso and head, missing teeth in smile, holding farming equipment) 13. First Class Passenger (woman in dark red dress, dark orange hair in a bun, white gloves that cover at half arm length, and a necklace that can be both held and worn between torso and head and can hold a gem piece, and a 1x2 tile saying 1st) 14. Diner Waiter (pink shirt with white collar, short pink sleeves, holding an ice cream and a burger) 15. Magician's Assistant (woman in tuxedo jacket, brown legs with black shoes and fishnet printing, red waist, cloth coat tails, holding a saw and a rabbit held by the ears) 16. Rancher (guy with black and white cow print chaps, showing some blue denim underneath, frilly red and pink cowboy shirt, brown gloves, neckerchief and cowboy hat, holding a revolver and a cattle brand)
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    More modern style? I guess as mentioned before Streamline Moderne would fit, while keeping in modular character. I'm thinking a corner building done in mostly brick yellow (that is the palest brown right?), with the corner of the upper two floors using 1x1 transparent bricks set on hinged pieces to create the image of a glass brick curved wall. The sidewalk is sheltered by a black and white veranda/canopy thing (the architectural term escapes me) that follows the curved shape of the building. Use of silver metal bricks as chrome embellishments. Add some horizontal stripes on the ground floor, and a flat roof etc.
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    I am aware of that, but it is just an odd choice of word, since bureau, in my experience, is rarely used outside public and government offices and agencies (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Bureaucracy etc), or a French use of the word (such as Bureau de change). However, I believe I recall someone saying it was just a Google translation and that it will be called the Detective Agency.
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    I like it, though just a thought, your museum could also work as a junk shop/antiques parlour, to compliment your run down town.
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    Just curious, is this the first City set to actually have a bathroom of some description?
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    Bureau? Sounds Federal.
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