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  1. ReplicaOfLife
    Btw, I would strongly adviose against dividing the Town forum into several sub-forums for modulars, Winter Village, Speed Champions, etc. In my experience, on any forum where such a step has been taken, this actually led to less activity within the section than before.
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    Wow, I almost missed this. Not familiar with the original (haven't been to Innsbruck yet), but your Lego recreation is stunning. Would love to see some more photos showing more of all the details.
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    This is brilliant. Perfect diorama! And the classic Bugatti shape is instantly recognizable. Who wouldn't dream of finding some long forgotten treasure in a long forgotten corner of an old building?
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    To be honest, I'm mainly here for discussion on modulars and other big buildings. And while discusisng the official sets is fun, the really interesting things are the great MOCs we see again and again from all the crafted builders that are active here. I often look at other topics if the title draws my interest, but there's also lots of stuff I simply don't care about - for example Speed Champions - imho, those sets are abominations, so I just ignore everything that has Speed Champions in its title. I also have very limited interest in pretty much all other vehicle related stuff (except for trains, but those have their own forum), concurrent City sets including MODs of them (I'm up for nostalgia stuff from the time I was a kid, on the other hand). I may look at the occasional Winter Village thread, if it sounds interesting, mostly because those often are nice buildings that would just need to be freed from the tacky christmas stuff ;). Friends gets the Speed Champions treatment. City layouts I usually look at, but hardly ever comment on. Edit: When I started here, there often were exhaustive reviews for current sets. I really liked reading those, but over time first general interest in them twindled, and then they went away (mostly). And nowadays, in the rare cases one does show up, I mostly don't open it because usually I've already seen Jangbricks' video review of it.
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    You just proved my point. All the encounters you describe are snapshots. Now imagine the scared or grievously hurt faces in any other situation. Yes, the smiling face is inappropriate in those situations. But what's the bigger leap, projecting neutral/happy emotions 90% of the time onto a minifigure that looks like its being disemboweled, or projecting feelings of grievous bodily harm on a smiling figure 10% of the time? Unless you're seriously telling me that kids keep an arsenal of spare minifig faces around to exchange them countless times during play, I stand by my original point.
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    This! Also, I don't get the argument that the new faces allow different expressions, while the old ones did not. They don't. They allow exactly ONE expression each, just as the old ones. But, contrary to the old ones, what you get is not a neutral face for all that allows you to project whatever you feel like unto it. Instead they are frozen in - sometimes grotesquely overdone - expressions that can't be more than momentary snapshots, that are just ridiculous if you want to have that same minifig just 'walking around' or doing something else. Having someone walk around with an expression of extreme frustration/anger/strain all the time is nonsensical. Having someone walk around with a smile on his face, on the other hand, is not. So my vote in favor of the plain, smiling faces is also a vote for creativity and usage of imagination, and against prefabrication and scripted storytelling. With the old faces, you could project whatever you wanted upon any minifig. For example: A plainclothes minifig in a police set could be a crook, a passersby, a secretary, a witness or anything else you wanted it to be. With the new ones, all you get (usually) beside the cops are angry/mischievous crooks that are pretty much impossible to cast into any other role.
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    Funny how we get people complaining about a lack of interesting building techniques on the one hand, and others complaining about it employing too many SNOT- and special techniques and thuis looking more like a MOC Btw, @ukblock, you might wnat to check the size on some of your montages. In some of them, the Diner clearly is pictured way too small, most obviously in the one with the Detective's Office. Use the streetlamps for scale, they should be about the same height.
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    Sue me, but I like it a lot. Much, much more than I originally thought I would. Love the whole 50ies Rock'n'Roll vibe it gives off, and of course a recording studio is just right up my alley. Lots of great details in there aswell, the interior of the diner looks amazing! Only truly negative points I can make out: - completely unnecessary and ugly car (they at least should've included Homer Simpson if they're gonna give us a convertible version of his car...) - ugly modern minifig heads. BOOOH!
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    Uhm, just noticed: Why is this tropic in the Special Lego Themes section when all other modular discussion always was in the Town forum?
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    Sue me, but I like it a lot. Much, much more than I originally thought I would. Love the whole 50ies Rock'n'Roll vibe it gives off, and of course a recording studio is just right up my alley. Lots of great details in there aswell, the interior of the diner looks amazing! Only truly negative points I can make out: - completely unnecessary and ugly car (they at least should've included Homer Simpson if they're gonna give us a convertible version of his car...) - ugly modern minifig heads. BOOOH!
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    @brickextreme2 I never noticed the missing apostrophe, though. But even a spelling error on a print wouldn't be a first (remember the DeLorean, for example). Interesting observation. A lot of the points you bring up boil down to personal taste, regarding some of those that dont: - no visual separation between floors does not mean they are not separatable. What we see is SNOT-construction with tiles facing us. You can see in the recession for the balcony that there appear to be plates/tiles on top on the part of the wall not facing towards the front (small brown lines), So it's propably safe to assume that the sides and propably the back of the building will feature the usual stripes. - visible studs in big window construction: I don't get why this gets brought up. The window is built studs facing right, so its impossible to build it without some studs showing through. And why would a studs-on-the-side assembly spanning three floors be a sign that it was not the work of an expert builder?!
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    Wasn't Cafe Corner released before Market Street?
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    Imo, Market Street is the weakest. But I guess it often gets ignored as it was basically an AFOL-MOC turned into a set, and many people don't even view it as a real modular (I do). Weakest modulars for me are: 1) Market Street 2) Town Hall 3) Detective's Office 4) Brick Bank 5) Palace Cinema
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    Wow. Brilliant, as is to be expected coming from you. It captures the look and feel of that kind of architecture exactly.
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    Too bad you're in the US, otherwise I'd gladly take those off your hands :D
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    The most likely way is - as cimddwc also pointed out - that they are mounted on plates, which themselves are attached using bricks withstuds on the side. Basically the same technique as the vertically attached 1x6 and 1x4 tiles on the blue building of the Assembly Square. We don't know how the area in front of the stairs is built, it's hidden by the car. There could be a whole area that's raised by one brick.
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    After a night's sleep, I actually like it better than yesterday evening. I might get it after all, but would have to display it apart from all the other modulars, maybe paired with Palace Cinema. Still a massive Boooo! to the non-smilie faces. Yes, it's easy to swap them, but the clöassic smilie faces were one of the trademarks of the modulars - and who didn't like them could just swap them for overdone modern faces, after all You might be onto something with the color. The side facade of AS is in tan, and it's noticably darker than the front of the diner. And that might not just be down to lighting. Regarding the door area: There's a print or a sticker (hopefully not a sticker! ) on the door. The door is surrounded by transparent 1x1 bricks on the side and larger ones up top, and behind we just see parts of the interior. The interior usually is way brighter than it ought to be on Lego's photography. There were full interiors long before the PR.
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    I was curious what the chinese text on that page said, and fed it into Google translate. The result, predictably, is rather hilarious:
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    What you see are snotted tiles, not bricks. Absolutely no problem to do this while still having separatable floors.
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    Oh yeah, positive thing to take away from this (if it's real): It's just ONE building, and a full three floors high. So no pseudo-buildings with shared staircases or useless upper floors.
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    If this is real, this will the first modular that came out since I became a fan I won't be getting. While the aesthethic actually is quite cool for what it is (I'm feel pretty 'meh' about Art Deco in general), it doesn't fit in with the rest of my modulars. Also big BOOOH! @ the stupid non-classic faces & Simpsons car. Which windows do you mean? The ones on the left are this https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=57894#T=C The big one on the right utilizes transparent 1 x 2 x 2 panels turned sideways. Using brackets, that's a rather simple feat.
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    Me neither. I suspect either a lack of grasp on what defines a modular building, or a total lack of grasp on how large even a smallish train station would have to be to even remotely make sense, and how a train station usually is structured regarding both its own architecture and the city architecture of the surrounding area - they never are a single building smack-dab in the middle of a regular city street, and for very good reason... The only way you could create a modular with a connection to trains is by either creating a house with an upstairs passthrough for an elevated railway (there were/are very few real world examples for that, and some builders have managed to pull off something like it in Lego form, albeit usually utilizing the monorail due to its smaller loading gauge), or by creating an entrance building for an subway station, similar to what, for example, is found all throughout London for the Underground. But an actual train station modular is bound to fail, badly.
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    A Train Station. This can't be stressed enough.
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    I've got to agree with @Man with a hat - the interior details are exceptionally well done, but the exterior doesn't do it for me. Just a thought: Seeing Lego Ideas' general attitude towards modular buildings, you might stand a better chance if you re-engineered those display pieces to small vignettes in the vein of "Women of Nasa" or "Research Institue". It's a unique subject matter I personally haven't seen done before, and might have a better chance. Kudos also to managing to tie pretty standard Lego printed tiles into your backstory so smoothly!
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    Nice, unique design, well done!
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