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  1. ReplicaOfLife
    Exceptionally well done! I like pretty much everything about it.
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    The only way I can see an 'inverted corner' as a feasible set would be if it had a fully detailed back facade aswell.... the back facade of course being the side 99% of people would put to the front when displaying it. In other words, it would be a regular corner building with a highly detailed back facade, possibly a second sidewalk back there aswell.
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    Yep. An inverted corrner is something that's mostly of theoretical interest. Even with a 16x32 added on, you'd be pressed to get as much facade as with a normal straight modular. So far, this is the oddest and least realistic rumor I ever heard about an upcming modular. And to be honest, I'd call BS even on a regular corner...since we just got one this year.
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    Great work. Instantly recognizable. A few of these are in active service as MOW cars even today. Considering that the bogeys and frames used during reconstruction were from old Länderbahn coaches that even then already were 30-40 years old or older, they certainly are rolling history.
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    Outstanding work once again. Front page material, imo. I'm certain it would't fall out of line next to regular scale models, at least from a certain distance. And even up close it's very realistic. I don't think you could get any more realistic while sticking to Lego parts & those custom wheels.
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    Common practice to make it fit into the pattern is to assume the Detective's Office as a stand-in for a police station. But I also think they abandoned that pattern. .
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    I totally agree with this. Varying depth in facades really helps bringing buildings to life. It makes otherwise pretty simplistic builds rather more interesting to the eye, without much use of greebling. That's why I chose to build the barber shop building of my Detective's Office MOD the way it is - having an even facade over the whole width of the building's front looks rather boring in my opinion. And having entire buildings or parts of them set back or forward a bit has the same effect in regards to the street - this build is a good example of that.
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    This is a great two house modular that would fit right in with the 2nd gen official ones (especially the DO, from which you obviously drew some inspiration aswell). Luckily it's a bit bigger ;) To be honest, to me this feels more like a MOC than 'just' a mod of the official set... which is a good thing! I'd love to see more pictures, especially of the interior.
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    Not sure if they changed anything lately (haven't shopped there since the redesign), but as others said, some stores have always had these kinds of rules. I always check the Splash pages first before I start to put pieces in the shopping cart, too. Learned to do that the hard way when one time I initiated an order and was shocked when I got the invoice with >10€ of extra fees because my average lot cost was a lot less than the 2€ the shop required. I was able to work it out with the shop-owner, but still this has been a lesson for me. I usually place several orders at once when I buy the pieces to build my next MOC, and in this case I had to place an additional order at another store (without such restrictions) to get all the pieces I needed.
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    Great work, both inside and out!
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    I'm a bit late to the show, bit this is stunning as usual. Lots of details throughout, and a keen eye for archtitecture aswell. Can't wait to see the finished hotel in some months. Will that be your biggest building yet, or is the train station larger?
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    Wonderful modular in and out! While bright pink wouldn't have been my choice either, it works surprisingly well here. Great attention to detail, and a great eye for small details and little scenes! Love the small garden area with the overgrown wall & swingset. On the inside my favorite details are the display cases in the store, and how you managed to cram in two entire bedrooms on the top floor. Maybe you could've moved the bathroom under the stairs to fit it all in? I experienced plate/baseplate warping aswell, but always found that the effect subsided once a substantial weight of bricks pressed down on them. So I guess you propably could've kept on building with 1x2s. Color consistency is a different story, though. It's a shame they apparently can't manage to keep the same hue over multiple batches of different bricks.
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    This is excellent! Really like the exterior, and the interior is done very well, too! The overall exterior design is a refreshingly new take on the whole hospital business.
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    Why do you think it's weird? It's a well-known children's song that has been translated or adapted (with different lyrics) into many different languages. The german wikipedia entry for it lists dozens of translations: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A8re_Jacques
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    Fossil Museum. I can easily picture this happening, it somehow feels like a mixture of Lego Birds and Research Institute. 600 pieces isn't too big, either - and dinosaurs always sell. The others are either too big, based on an existing license (which in the past usually led to them being ruled out - though, damn, that BB-8 is a cool design!), or too obscure. On the other hand... the Particle Accelerator would be in line with some of the eraliest Ideas sets, so who knows.
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    Phew. I just checked it out. My impression is that the new design will definitely need some getting used to, figuring out how it works etc. But the same went for the old design. It did have some major quirks that you just stopped noticing as soon as you had it all figured out. From what I've seen, the greatest changes affect the Wanted List and the overall buying process. Not an area that you should suddenly change completely... Right now, I'm quite happy that I ordered all the pieces for my new modular building just 2 weeks ago
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    I'd put my money on old and yellowed as well. I have a number of blue bricks that apparently came from an extremely old blue freight wagon from the late 60ies/early 70ies. They noticably differ from all newer bricks I have as well....and newer in this case includes stuff up until the first Classic Space sets. Your pieces must be a lot newer, though, as the curved piece has only been around for some twenty years or so.
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    Very nice! I always admire those facades built almost entirely out of small plates. Must take an eternity to assemble, but I think it looks great! Nice detailing on the facade, too!
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    All nice ideas, but pretty impropably Lego would do something like that. All the info we have seems to point towards the modulars selling better and better, so there's no reason for Lego to alter the course they're on.
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    Nice take on cimdwwc's design. While it shares the same basic proportions, I think you added way more than enough to make this more than just a copy. Nice work, like the details on the facade!
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    My take on the interior vs. exterior dissussion: I would like them to do a detailed ground floor interior for the shop, but a less detailed interior for the other floors (take PS as a reference, except for the renovating/just moving in cop-out). While the newer interiors are fun to build and I fully appreciate the detail and thought that goes into them, I hardly ever look at them when the building is done. The ground floor interiors are more important here as they usually have larger windows. They could use all the pieces they waste on upstairs interior into maing the building as a whole grander. All that is with keeping in mind that we can't have both - detailed interior throughout and sets on the GG/CC/GE/PS scale modulars should have - withouth a severe price increase. Given those two options, I'd rather have more building than more furniture.
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    Yep...well, not 400km, but ~250km. It's like they drew a circle around where I live (near Stuttgart, one of the areas in Germany with the densest population), and decided to put a store in every major city that circle crossed (Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, soon Wiesbaden and even tiny Saarbrücken), but absolutely none within it. I had hoped they'd open one in one of those big shopping malls that opened in Stuttgart in 2014, but that hope was in vain. I would really like to know what factors weigh in when they decide where to open a new store. Oh well...less money spent at PAB walls, and I can get anything by ordering online, right... (PS: Yeah, I know, a lot of you guys from the US propably wouldn't hesitate to drive 250km (~155miles) to a Lego store...but we see things in another perspective over here)
  23. ReplicaOfLife
    Great build indeed. We've been seeing some great MOCs here lately, and yours is right up there with'em :)
  24. ReplicaOfLife
    Awesome MOC. I would've thrown out most of those pieces without a second thought. Great way of breathing life back into them. And not only did you manage to use them, but you actually got really creative and made this nice gory scene. Brilliant!
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    Amazing MOCs. One really doesn't know where to look first. The corner building with the dome & globe on top and the big windows is propably the biggest eyecatcher though.
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