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  1. ReplicaOfLife
    Thanks for the shoutout above! Much appreciated Not the worst attempt at a modular I've seen on ideas, but if Lego enforces their own rules it'll propably be rejected - piece count is too high (around 3400 pieces according to the submitter).
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    All of your work is just incredible. Please keep on with these beautiful creations! Would love to see all those buildings in one place and marvel at all the details.
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    Wow, you're on a roll lately! Another great build utilizing a daring color that I'd usually just hide away if I come across some pieces not usable as foliage. Well done again! What's the silver piece you used as decoration above the ground floor windows? Don't think I ever saw that one, its top looks like a tiny frog's head, which works great
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    Hm... even though I was very keen to get the Diner asap, its now been sitting here unopened for over a month. I want to really cherish and indulge myself in the build, and so far I haven't found enough time to do that. One of the reasons propably was that I finally found my motivation again and finished deisgning my next MOC . Ordered the missing parts today, can't wait to start with that. Another reason for my tardiness propably is that I#m rapidly running out of proper space to put all the modulars. But, back to topic... my Brick Bank has been sitting around unopened for over two years now . Modding it into a 24-wide straight building will be my next project when my MOC is finished. I'll propably squeeze in the Diner somewhere inbetween.
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    Oh wow, just seeing this now! Great news they did another update, finally some new parts! Had no trouble installing it from the setup linked here. This comes just at the right moment, as I finally found motivation to finish planning my next MOC
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    Yet another brilliant MOC!. I ordered a few of those light aqua bricks a while back to see them in person, and figured I'd use them rather sparingly as a contrast color. Your building clearly shows they work in larger amounts as well! The interior is very well done, too - I admire your ability to seemingly seamlessly integrate parts of many different sets and themes while still maintaining a coherent style throughout. As for the positioning, the second variant definitely looks better. I like the contrasts in style and level of detail between the individual buildings. It's rather lifelike and allows you to appreciate the detail of each building much better, since they don't compete that much visually. E.g., in the first arrangement, both the Fishmaster and the blue medium building somehow blend together since both have spikey vertical detailing done in light grey. Btw: I'd love to see you do a pictured walk around your city
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    It's definitely a unique experience. It makes you wonder what went on in the space you live in all those centuries before. ...and it's nothing for people who only like 90° corners, and perfectly even floors
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    Just go to the page of oyur picture. In the lower right corner of the image area you'll see four icons, the one with the big arrow is 'share'. Then you just have to select BBCode and the desired size of the image, and the rest is copy/paste of th generated code :)
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    This is quite nice. Nicely recalls Market Street in its color scheme, but it's a lot, lot better. Juts wish it was built in real bricks
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    For me, it has been different with every build. The first one (no pictures online anymore) I put together only from vintage parts I had. The second one - which I consider my first proper MOC - is largely inspired by cimddwcs Chima Trikes Store - the ground floor exterior is an almost exact replica (only adjusted to the dfifferent footprint), and the upper floors take a lot of cues aswell, the most obvious being the tower, of course, which is also very closely modeled after cimddwcs brilliant MOC (and before anyone asks: Of course I asked him permission before I even started planning the building!). The Brownstone coupled together with the Barber Shop part of my DO mod pretty much grew organically. I only knew that i wanted it to be brown, and just started building in LDD. The Outdoor Store had several ideas going into it: The general design with two front gabled parts left and right and a recessed, side-gabled part in the middle, the usage of Dark Orange (since I had decided not to keep my Town Hall, but still wanted a dark orange building) and finally stumbling over the dark turquoise slope pieces on bricklink. The Sideways Building evolved from me playing around with lots of 1x1 medium blue bricks left over after my DO mod was finished, and thinking that it would look cool to use them in that way to create the masonry effect. And my next MOC, which is already finished in LDD except for the interior of two floors, draws inspiration from various buildings in my hometown - most notably the one I live in, a medieval half-timbered house (without exposed woodwork). I modeled the front facade after it very closely. Might still be another few months until that one is finished in real bricks. Right now I find myself kinda lacking in motivation :-/
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    Cool mocs! Captures the brownstone feel pretty good!
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    Great work. Usually I'm not a fan of one storey buildings (just not common around here, thus nothing I associate with city centres), but this looks really nice.
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    That. Is. Amazing.
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    The ground floor is smaller, but the upper floors should work fine with the modulars. Given that it is three storeys high, and more substantial, I'd put it nearer the modulars than the Creator buildings with regards to the size of the facade.
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    Looks great, Got mine this week, looking forward to building it.
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    I'll have to chime in with the majority here: While I DO consider it an offocial modular (if Lego does, why shouldn't I?), I still consider it to be among or propably the worst of the line, for the following reasons: color scheme doesn't work for me at all 'Market' area is empty and thus pointless weird off-color, structured bricks that propably should create a sort of run-down feel, but jsut look out of place stacking two old-school 2x4 windows on top of each other looks rather dumb So does using them directly at ground level the balcony railings look amateurish lack of windows on the back That being said: In the video they did for the 10th anniversary of the modulars, Jamie showed the original design of Maret Street, which was mostly dark red and tan, somewhat a mixture of the color schemes for CC and FB. That looked WAY better than the blue color scheme they went with. And most of the other flaws can be fixed relatively easily. Thus, one of the items on my bucket list of things to do is creating a MOC that echoes that dutch building feel. I'll rpopably borrow a few details from MS for it (e.g. the curved stairs & general facade proprtions), but it will be very different.
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    This is propably the best 32-wide PR mod I've seen so far. It's pretty hard to translate the general design principles to a 32-wide without it seeming off in one way or another, and you managed to do that quite well. I rather like the design of the middle windows on the upper floors - the small one-wide windows to the side are a nice touch while and also neatly help avoiding that window from seeming way too wide for it's height.
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    ...aaand I just got a mail that it's backordered... And again I really wish there was a Lego store somewhere closer to me than a 200+ km drive
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    Just ordered mine. It's odd, but I find myself looking forward to getting this a lot more than I did with the last three modulars - really looking forward to building it.
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    Heh, fancy that .
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    Somebody posted a video here a few weeks back of him giving a presentation on DD. The video was pretty bad quality (filmed from the audience), but yielded a LOT more infos on the set, the design process and design choices. Lego should post something like that as the designer video. Oh yeah, there also was a short interview that zusammengebaut did, and in it Mike mentions that he doesn't know/can't figure out why people love the modular buildings. See here.
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    Wow, so I just watched that video, and all I learned about the set was that they originally wanted to do a car dealership. That video was a waste of my time.
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    Wow. While I'm also not entirely sold on the three main colors for the facade (it somehow looks like the upper floors of two separate buildings stacked on top of each other), everything else is brilliant! I love both the tan and white facades, the roof is well done, and the ground floor and its interior are executed perfectly aswell. Nice snotted building techniques used throughout, too. What's wedged inside the white 1x2x6 arches on the third floor? Looks like several bars?
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    Yep, those are really sturdy. I have some of them aswell, some of them (the smaller ones) even might still be in production. There's also at least one modified version of those, the 4x10 with cut corners: The 10x20ies are far older. Apparently there are a number of different versions with different kinds of reinforcements on the underside. So far, I personally only came across two types, one of which has very limited reinforcement on the underside (I had two or three of these, all broken beyond repair): I still have two of these, so I guess those were sturdier: There also was a version with almost no reinforcement and not even the ring of bottom tubes around the border. Guess those wouldn't survive being stepped on or anything... I'd argue that these in fact should be considered baseplates, even though they are one brick high, since you can only connect other bricks around the border on the underside (or not at all in the earliest version).
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    Oddly enough, the 10 x 20 bricks seem to be very prone to breaking the older they get. I had two as a kid, only one survived to this day, and I aquired some more in used lots over the past few years, and most of them were broken right down the middle. I'd guess the reason is that there's barely any reinforcement underneath except for the edges. But to be honest, for me I don't seem much use for large bricks anyway, except maybe for filler material. I'd rather have 16 1x8 bricks than one 8x16 brick.
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