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  1. ReplicaOfLife
    This MOC is now available on Rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-246236/ReplicaOfLife/the-golden-frog-restaurant/#details
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    Excellent as always - great to see something new from you again!
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    I'm trying out Rebrickable and added this as my first MOC on there: https://reb.li/m/208203
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    SO getting this. Propably twice. Blacktron I is my favorite space theme by a country mile, and this just looks brilliant. Plus, the original Renegade is the only Blacktron 1 set I don't yet have (completely, piecing it together slowly, only missing 2 yellow 4596 now) Next, I'd like a remake of the Message Intercept Base, please :D. (best set ever)
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    love it
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    If that's real, it's a really cool looking set, and one I will get sooner rather than later (or propably never, as with the last two). Finally something I can put next to my tube station :D
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    Thanks, @LL1982 & @jalemac34!
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    That's utterly comical The Botanical Garden looks very good though. Extremely similar color scheme to the friends set, but that's not a bad thing in this case. Seems like we get another new transparent panel to form the corners of the glass roofs. Or did that exits before?
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    This about sums it up for me, too. Floor height and level of detail of a Creator 3 in 1 building, but footprint of an XL modular were my initial thoughts. Weird. At least teh Sanctum Sanctorum looked cool on the outside. The "two" middle floors that are actually just one was a slap in the face, though.
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    On the other hand, if they retire the Museum after three years, the 20th anniversary would be just in time for a new larger building. And I don't expect the Museum to be around for even close as long as Assembly Square. 3-5 years seems to be the usual shelf life expectancy for modulars nowadays. Assembly Square being available for 7 years is a huge anomaly (for the modulars, and even more so for Lego sets in general)
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    Mostly residential corner could be very interesting. Provided, they actually make a real, full corner building and don't scam us out of half of it like they did with the last two with their reduced footprints. It also would ne a nice change to the residential buildings we got so far, which basically were the two two-building sets. And as the corner is a given imho, I think we won't get two separat(abl)e buildings this time.
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    It's a tight race. Corner Garage is up there aswell for me. For me, it's not so much the colors, though. The only thing I don't like about the color scheme is the azure tone for the ground floor of the Jazz Club. Dark red/light gray and bright light yellow/medium nougat are cool color combos for the buildings, imo, and also fit together overall. But the overall look of it doesn't work for me. The entire Jazz Club part of the set just looks lackluster and not very appealing. It's basically a big dark red box with some totally random details tacked onto it. I fail to see an architectural idea behind it. And the 'stained class' style windows on the upper floor don't help either, making the set seem rather gloomy in any normal setting (without lighting inside). It's propably the first modular where I like the throwaway smaller building better than the main one. Usually, those just annoy me .
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    If it is indeed a townhouse, I'm curious which architecturalk style it'll be. Might be the first interesting modular since the Boutique Hotel.
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    @Feuer Zug Thank you! @hugore & @jus1973: Don't mind at all - it's great when my MOC inspires you to start your own. Be sure to share results when you have them, would like to see that!
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    @Yperio_Bricks, @hugore Thank you! I already had them lying around & I think they add a nice splash of color .
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    After taking some time off from Moccing, it's finally time to present my latest MOC! This modular building represents a traditional small german brewery as you can still find them in a lot of villages and towns all over the country - a village brewery, or "Dorfbrauerei" in german :). The brewery features the various tanks and coops required for the brewing process, a small bar/restaurant and a cosy beer garden outside - where a mighty old tree offers welcome shade in the summer time! The MOC sits on a 32x32 baseplate and is fully modular. Despite its rather small size, it consists of almost 3000 pieces - around 600 alone were required to build the tree! Now available on Rebrickable: https://reb.li/m/208203 Let me take you on a quick tour through and around the building - more pictures can be found on flickr The attic. The annex with the brewery itself features fully brick-built windows. When the tree is otherwise occupied, you can get a better view of the facade facing the beer garden ;) Hope my 'small' MOC brings you as much joy as it brought me when building it! Cheers, Tobias
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    Very nice! Great overall design, nice building techniques everywhere and neat little details.
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    While it propably is a decent attempt at recreating it without resorting to prints to better capture the face/facial expression... this is fuel for nightmares. It's like "Mona Lisa, but she looks angry because of a horrible alien growth on her forehead". Her torso is fine, the background is fine, but the face and facial expression are just completely off, imho. Even leaving the shape of the forehead aside - having the entire forehead elevated by one tile creates too much of a brow, which gives her eyes a mean expression that is nowhere near the soft, peaceful look she has on the original.
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    Reminds me a lot of the MOC by JKBrickworks: https://jkbrickworks.com/earth-moon-and-sun-orrery/
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    Oh, cool, thanks for the heads-up. Will need to get some of those parts.
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    Took some time to let it sink in, but I have to say: Not very excited about this. On the plus side, it's big enough to be somewhat credible as a museum. Like that it takes up most of the baseplate. And finally, we get a building without unnecessary small pseudo-buildings attached to it again! It's been a while... But on the other hand, I find the design of it a bit lacking. Again. Just as with the Jazz Club, most building techniques seem to be rather straight-forward, the proportions feel just a tad off and the exterior design - while checking most of the classic museum boxes - looks a bit unimaginative to me. Regarding proportions, I feel that the roof should be higher. Both the dome and the smaller roofs over the wings to the far left and right seem too small for the overall building size. Design-wise, the cornices beneath the roof look rather bland, as does the detailing around the windows. Also, the capitals of the big white columns feel too small - ionic style capitals usually protrude to the left and right, here they sit pretty much in line with the column itself. And the interior seems mostly empty, with relatively few and mostly smaller exhibits dotted around in a lot of empty space. And most of the upper floor literally is empty space where the huge openings to the ground floor are. The one for the dino skeleton makes sense, obviously, but overall it still feels way too empty. It's missing at least two or three more sizable, imaginative exhibit builds there to give the place some more life. So, certainly no Day 1 purchase for me. Might wait to pick up a used one for cheap once the excitement dies down.
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    Wow, those facades really capture the vibe of a traditional english street perfectly. Love it.
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    Nice work on your first modular! Some very nice part usage, especially that bowser shell in the tower. I wasn't even aware of that piece, but it fits perfectly where you used it! Also great work on the interior detail, especially the apartments are very nice! I'd also look into making the ground floor a bit higher. In Lego's modulars, it's usually about 11-12 bricks high. Also - and this may look worse on the pictures than in reality - the dark colors in the the roof area (with the dark red cornices and black roof) drown out the details and create too much negative space, if that makes sense. I'd go for some additional contrasting color there, or maybe a different color for the roof altogether.
  24. ReplicaOfLife
    99% of the set consists of parts that are fairly easy to source. Apart from the five printed windows, which will set you back around 115€ or more, the most expensive pieces are - the Tile, Modified 2 x 3 Pantagonal (22385) in sand-blue - it's exclusive to this set. But you could just replace the sand-blue color on the bank floor with any other color of your choice - the Minifigure, Utensil Key, Ornamented with 1 Stud (19118) in lbg, also exclusive to the set. As it is fairly prominent to the exterior, it's hard to replace, especially since the other colors it exists in aren't exactly fitting for the purpose (like lavender or lime ) - the chrome gold pack of coins and ingot (97053) is also very rare, but you can easily replace the coins with any other coins you might have, and e.g. a pearl gold ingot - finally the 2x4 tile with the printed cheque is expensive aswell, but I think it's neglectable for the set overall The minifigs themselves are mostly made up of common pieces, so you should be able to get them rather easily. I went through the process of piecing it together earlier this year, when I finally decided to build that set. I actually did have it still MISB , but after seeing the prices it goes for nowadays and then going through my inventory, I figured it would be way more sensible financially to sell that copy and get the missing pieces for my own build. But I did have quite the head start, as I had over 2/3rds of all the pieces in my collection, and especially since I had bought extras of the bank windows and keys back when the set was on the market. So I only had to spend somewhere around 100-120€ on pieces. I replaced the hexagonal tiles (and subsequently the other sand-blue tiles on the floor) with sand green, and I'm missing the cheque. Otherwise, it's complete.
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    Classic smiley all the way.
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