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    Of course it looks better than the car from PC. But then, that's not saying much . In the end, it's all a matter of personal taste. @Overcold made some good points aswell, but for me, the whole idea of including cars just holds no additional appeal. But I also never was much of a car builder - sure, I had several sets as a kid, and loved them, but even then I hardly ever built a car of my own. Still, I'd rather seeLego releasing, for example, just releasing 1-2 minifig sized cars that fit the modular scale in the Creator line each year. Create a bit more of this world, but without this 'one set fits all'-approach.
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    Hm,let's see hope things play out. Garage could be awesome, or it could be bad. Without any additional info, it's absoluitely pointless to speculate or to praise/condemn it. I'd be absolutely fine if Mike designed the building! The Diner was one of the most enjoyable builds yet, with many moments where great ideas and extraordinary knowledge of Lego geometry led to things fitting together in completely unusual and unexpected ways. Loved that. And the building looks absolutely fabulous with it's sleek lines. As much as I love Jamie's deisgns, it was a real breath of fresh air. Only possible negative point to take away from that rumor is the high possibility of another build with a car. And I gotta say... "Hey, Lego!!! We're buying these things because we love BUILDINGS! If we want cars, we'll buy them! No need to waste parts on them in the modular line!". Although, in all fairness, it would make a lot more sense to include one in a garage then sticking that pointless pínk thing in with the Diner,
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    Pretty much exactly like that, yeah :D
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    This, and then the interior shown in the movie was way bigger than the exterior would allow. Thinking about it, the laundromat propably would have been an even better fit as the third business in DO. A Detective's Office, Pool Haal and a laundromat would evoke quite a seedy/shady feeling all by themselves.
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    Don't get your hopes up. Grand Emporium and Town Hall retired at the same time aswell (much to the surprise of everyone, including myself, in the latter case). There also were years were no modular retired, and still we got a new one ;) One thing I wonder: Did both DO and BB only get one production run, while PR got two (which would mean that DO was a really slow seller or BB was a fast one), or is it more convoluted, i.e PR maybe being into it's third production run, DO getting two and BB already being retired after it's first? Yep! Those were really bad ideas. Still can't get over how badly stuck on the laundromat part of BB looks... That set would've looked so much better if they had just given it a second full facade for the bank - it wouldn't even have had to exactly mirror the existing one, imho, there's enough possibilities to change things up without adding on a fake facade of another building.
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    Not a feasible/realistic idea. Think about what that would necessitate: You'd need some sort of orchestra, which - even when scaled down a LOT - should be at least 4-6 minifigs. Then you need some sort of stage to put them and their instruments on. Then you need room for the audience - again, even if it's scaled down to 6-8 seats, it needs space. Which a modular, especially a corner one, doesn't provide that much of. Palace Cinema is the perfect example that grand buildings with huge rooms for an audience just don't work in a standard modular. And that just needed a few seats for the audience, and no stage or space for an orchestra. Imho, any reasonable attempt at a theatre or opera / concert house in Lego needs a footprint of at least 64x64 studs. I think a Police Station is our best guess at the moment. And let's just hope they don't return to that ridiculous idea of squeezing several buildings on a baseplate. Because I could just see them giving us a nice Police precinct facade, and then, just like in the Brick Bank, squeezing in a second pseudo-building with a donut shop on the ground floor instead of finishing the building properly.
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    My guess is, the next modular will be a train station, built as an inverted corner building-. It will be modeled after the old "Süd- und Ostbahnhof" in Vienna (before the two separate termini were converted into a single, regular station)... Ridiculous ideas aside: Damnit, I wanna see the next mdoular now!
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    Already kinda posted this in the Special themes forum, but... Benny's Space Squad?????? Shut up and take my money!!! I'll definitely get a couple of those. You never can have enough classic spacemen. Also nice to see the 918/924 tribute in Emmet & Benny's Workshop, though it's nose looks VERY stumpy - they try to conceal that by putting Benny in front of it on the box art, but it's obvious that the nose is a 6-wide straight. They should've gone that with a more pointy nose instead..
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    Most of these sets hold about as much interest for me as the TLM1 sets, but... Benny's Space Squad?????? Shut up and take my money!!! Also nice to see the 918/924 tribute in Emmet & Benny's Workshop, though it's nose looks VERY stumpy - they try to conceal that by putting Benny in front of it on the box art, but it's obvious that the nose is a 6-wide straight. They should've replaced that with a more pointy nose. Emmet's Resue Rocket looks like a gret throwback to the older Creator houses that were released about 10-15 years ago. Too bad it's in basic colors - that thing in more toned down colors would be an awesome parts pack!
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    As usual, seconded! They were pretty awesome parts packs, especially if you got them at a discount somewhere, which usually wasn't hard. I got several of each of those except for the Toy Shop, which just looked weird (and it was the only one whose parts selection I found somewhat lacking). But Bike Shop, Corner Deli and Park Street Townhouse were awesome sets if you wanted useful parts for building buildings.
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    Imho: It has connection points that are paralell to each other. Thus it counts as a straght modular and fits the pattern. I don't think it matters that it's 16 studs wider. ...and maybe they'll surprise us with a 16 wide corner modular now to even out the overall width of a 'block'
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    I'd be surprised if it wasn't a corner. That's pretty much the only really consistent pattern they adhered to throughout the years.
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    They already did that waaaay back in Market Street (albeit just one of them). I mostly got around that as my outer facade is 2 studs wide. But in a few places, I also had to resort to the 1x1 plates.
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    That's an interesting development if it's true. Seems like PR is the new Fire Brigade / Pet Shop then, as in: stuck around way longer than everybody expected.
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    I'm almost certain they wouldn't use those in a modular. But as I said, all it'd take was to release e.g. the 1x8 brick in light yellow and they'd be set. As for modulars using small bricks, the Detective's Office infuriatingly only used bricks up to 1x4 in size in the entire blue portion of the building. It's one of the many pet peeves I have with that set, as it needlessly drove up the part count of a set that already was physically too small to begin with. And there were comparatively few larger bricks in the rest of the building, too.
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    Back when I built it, the parts selection was even more limited - the most arduous missing piece back then was the 1x1 brick, which came out in cool yellow just last year. The addition of the 1x3 brick in 2017 also is very useful. For my modular I only had 1x2, 1x4, 1x1x5 and 1x2x5 bricks and the 1x6x5 wall panel available. Imho, the only thing missing now to make it feasible to build a modular in that color without resorting to the large wall panels is a 1x6 or 1x8 brick. Adding that should be no problem.
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    A black modular would be a spectacularly bad idea. Unless there's really good lighting, you wouldn't be able to make out any details, so what's the point? Plus, apart from giant skyscrapers with black glass all around, black buildings are very rare in real life. The latter is also the reason why we propably won't see a modular with a really bright predominant color - bright red, bright orange, brigt blue, lime green, most of the weird Friends colors etc. There are very few places where you'll find buildings in such colors in real life. Still there are some existing colors that would work as a predominant color in a modular. Sand red is an obvious dream (they should've brought that back instead of dark turquoise!), but e.g. cool yellow would be another great choice.
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    Absolute eye-catcher that I already marveled at over at flickr this morning. How are the modulex parts connected? Is it just those assemblies involving light saber blades and various modiefied plates we see in the backview, or are there more hidden connection points?
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    Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if PR survived one or two of it's successors, given it's the last modular that was met with overwhelming praise (not saying everyone liked it, but there were far more critical voices for all of the modulars that appeared after). And a somewhat early retirement of DO and/or BB might also indicate that their sales figures didn't live up to expectations - which in turn might be a reason why they returned to the true 'one building per baseplate, without a stupid storyline'-pattern with the Diner. At least, I would very much welcome that.
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    Oh, dang Didn't know there were two different tones. Thanks for pointing it out!
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    @cimddwc actually used that old salmon color in one of his builds: The Fishmaster - Front 1 by cimddwc, auf Flickr It works for his building, but I wouldn't exactly be excited if the next modular used a color like that in huge amounts.
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    Don't think this matters to you, since white bricks should be much easier to source than sand blue ones, but back then I had worked out that it'd cost me less if I used more 1x6 and fewer 1x4 bricks (so not jsut replacing the 1x8s with two 1x4s). So I went through the instructions and basically worked out how many 1x6, 1x4 and 1x1s I'd need (there's lots oif repetition, so this was lessw ork than it sounds like). It more or less worked out in the end, there was one portion on the uppermost level where I was one 1x6 brick short, and used six 1x1s instead . I didn't have any alignment issues - since I had to regroup entire sections anyway, I just took care to always have interlocking bricks.
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    I couldn't disagree more. While I absolutely see the merits of having some licensed themes around, especially in the action-oriented markets you mentioned, the gross neglect of traditional themes like Castle and Pirates is a short-sighted and stupid move. Kids LOVE stories about knights and pirates, and love making up their own stories about them. The only thing you need to sell sets in that area is a consistent theme that can be continuously added to over the years that kids do play with Lego. Lego was really, really good at that 20-30 years ago, but at some point they forgot all about it, and the few attempts they made ever since where half-assed. And sinec you mentioned that the recent attempts at Castle and Pirates were short-lived: Yes, they were, but imo that's not so much for a general lack of interest but more so due to Lego itself not being commited to those Themes. If they released a strong initial wave and then added more and more stuff over the following release cycles (like they used to), things surely would've looked different. Lastly, I think that Lego's "One strategy fits all"-approach is also a problem here. as @Mylenium already pointed out, much of the licensed Super Hero stuff does not work in Germany. They may sell well in the US (don't know, just supposing), but over here there is still a huge demand for way more traditional toys that Lego simply fails to fulfil. So parents whose kids want to play with Knights or Pirates do the logical thing: No, they don't go to Bricklink and buy old sets for huge amounts of money - they simply go and buy Playmobil. Resulting in a kid who'll have little contact with Lego, and thus may have little incliniation to buy his or her kids Lego 30 years down the road. And that's just plain stupid.
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    Personally, I rather omit the bathroom than the stairs. Not having stairs feels very weird to me, not having a bathroom is unfortunate, but having nicely detailed rooms makes up for it. Sometimes, I also only do incomplete bathrooms, so e.g. it'll have a toilet, but no shower, or vice versa. In my mind, minifigs are much more sociable than humans and thus have no problem at all to just pop into their neighbours flat if they have to let go of some digested ABS, or need to wash all that grime from the big hands moving them about off their skin. Often they'll stay for a chat, or a coffee, or whatever else is lying around in the kitchen. Confining them to floors with no way to enter/leave, on the ther hand, is just cruel.
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    I'd third it. It would be an awesome colour for buildings. While there are a number of colours that you can use, we lack more options to represent the different colours of real bricks that exist throughout the world, and sand-red would be perfect for that! ...even though I actually used dark turquoise for the roof of my Outdoor Store before it was brought back, I absolitely would've preferred them to bring back sand-red!
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