juddtaylor

Everybody whines about the size. But it's a detective's office and a pool hall in that building. This is seedy-back alley stuff, guys. No private dick is going to be in the fanciest hi-rise there is out there. I don't see lego "going in the direction of smaller modulars" at all, they just provided a level of realism here for this one set, IMO.

What's the part number for the 1x3x2 window?

Well last night I opened everything up with my daughter and we sorted and then inventoried everything. It was missing 141 pieces (52 unique), so not too much. The worst was one of the baseplates being missing. Those aren't cheap from US vendors, unfortunately, and I don't want to wait for one to ship from Europe. It's already all on order on bricklink. If it weren't for one odd item I could have got it in less than 3 orders, but I'm good. The total was about $30 (guessing a little bit due to shipping). I'm certainly not complaining about the deal! I figured I am minimum $50 ahead on the other sets even without considering the nearly complete pet shop thrown in. The seller was pretty straightforward about the condition. He said it weighed about right, but couldn't say it was actually complete without doing a full inventory, which he understandably didn't want to do at that price. He seems to specialize in finding sets with major box condition issues, and then passes the savings along on craigslist (I'm sure he's making money, though--good for him). He's a saint if you ask me!

This is my first set where it's significantly incomplete. It's a bummer, but I got it as part of a lot including a complete PR and Simpson's House for just $300. I think I did pretty good on the lot as a whole, but the PS is the critical one I wanted to be complete as it will discontinue first.

I'm not, but that's not going to keep me from trying this anyways. Thanks for the suggestion!

I bought a pet shop off of craigslist, and it's half open, and there are pieces missing. I seem to have all of the #3 bags, all but the small #4 bag, and then a small #1 bag. The rest of the parts are loose. I know I'm missing one of the baseplates and several other parts as I was trying to build it last night. The instructions only have a full inventory, rather than an inventory for each bag. Does anyone have such an inventory (per bag, or per number)? I'd hate to have to open the remaining bags just to be able to count off all of the pieces on the inventory chart. That's going to make assembly a lot more difficult when I get to that. Does anyone else have any ideas how I can figure out what's missing?