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Since I'm not employed by lego, I can call the little bricks by whatever name I want. I prefer not using caps, since it's a name and not an acronym. I never use the plural 'legos' since it's not common in my native language (dutch) to use the plural, but I can't be bothered by people who do. Now I'm gonna play with my legos, or lego.

That's an excellent tram you made! Nice curves, great windows. Does it have a motor?

In this MOC of mine (I mean the tan town hall), there are a lot of pieces of set 4954. By the way, good to see you're starting your first MOC ! I'd love to see the result when all the sets you have will be gone and transformed into great MOCS!

You really should try to build a MOC. And the first one will not satisfy you probably, but maybe you'll learn and like to build your own creations. So I'd choose sorting out the pieces.

Many congratulations to the three winners! They were the best in a very strong competition.

Some questions will never be answered, I guess... Feel free to figure out your own explanation

An excellent collection of buildings. I especially like the little park, giving it something extra. Your church has me a little bit confused about scale, but then again, trying to get everything to scale is near to impossible in minifigureland.

The street is made of tiles, not snotted bricks. I did consider it, but it would have been rather complicated given the different patterns and the inclusion of the rails. Moreover, I could get the tiles relatively cheap. It measures 1.75 m (7 baseplates) x 0.81 m (3 baseplates + track). You do the math.

I didn't have any I's left

Layout Since oktober 2010 I've been working on a Lego street and now it's more or less finished. Well, I could expand it endlessly, were it not that the limits of my table have been reached. I've called it the 'Steenstraat', which translates as 'paved street' and is a very common name for old streets in the Netherlands. But it can also be translated as 'street of brick' which is fitting for a Lego street. So here are some pictures: Overview: Some old Dutch houses and a tram: Some traffic on the street: Overview from a different angle, which shows the tram stop in front of the town hall: Waiting for the tram: Some teenage skateboarders in front of the fountain: Another corner: Finally, an overview into the other direction: I hope you like it. More to be seen on my flickr account.

A year ago I received this from amazon.de: Thanks for the stickers, Amazon. (note: there was no other packaging)

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Thanks for your kind words, but it is not an entry, since I already entered my café in category 3.

This is certainly the nicest entry in category 3 I've seen. But I have a thing for playgrounds since I've kids of my own. In the Netherlands we call them 'wipkip' (chicken seesaw).

The inhabitants of my modular street were in need of a place to fulfill their religious needs. But since the street only has lots of max. 32 studs, a church would be to large. So instead they built a chapel, and tried to made it resemble a church, while remaining within the rules of modular buildings. The chapel is a corner building (as café corner and grand emporium), but it can also be placed in a row of houses, thus creating a small alley. The tower: The interior: Through the backdoor next to the altar you'll see this (it was the only way I was able to photograph the vaulted ceiling): I hope you like it.

As nice as this building is, wouldn´t there be a problem with the width? The rules state that any entry must be 32x32, and yours is 16x32. Personally, I don´t have a problem with it, beacause I think it´s a proper modular building, bu maybe you could put another 16x32 next to it to comply.

A great moc, combining a recognisable building and many great architectural details with a ´gezellig´ (cosy) interior. I´m anxious to see your completed city!

There are more ad more gorgeous buildings coming in from newbies, and yours is one of them. Where were you hiding? I like the colour scheme of the front (the dark orange works very well), but I particularly like the amount of detail on the back. I'm almost always out of inspiration the moment I get there, I must confess.

I really like the snotted sliding windows. Quite an intersting technique you've used.

A very stylish modular, from the colour scheme to the architecture and the interior.

The windmill is of course very recognisable and makes it look very much like a real Parisian cabaret. Colours that match the theme of the building, and a nice interior. It certainly cathches the eye in a row of modular buildings.

They're attached with clips on the backside. I just tried to make the two gables different in a lot of details, to keep them interesting. For a part, they need to be different because of the different scale (12 studs vs. 16 studs).

It's called snir 45 and was developped bij Eric Amzallag.

B-OM-22E When I first read about this contest, I knew I had to participate. So here's my entry: It's a bar on a corner in a Dutch town. It is called "'t Hoekje"(which means "The little corner"), for obvious and multiple reasons. It was built in the 19th century in the Dutch renaissance-revival style, and afterwards an extension with a sunroof was added to provide more seating for the café. This was actually the first part I built, due to the fact that I wanted to do something with the solar panel pieces. It has two typically Dutch 'neck gables': I added the piano to show the purpose of the hoist beam on top of the gable. It also features a complete interior, with the actual bar on the first floor: The interior of the extension can be seen here: On the second floor there is a bachelor pad with a living room/kitchen (and a separate sleeping chamber): There is also an attic, but this doesn't have an interior, although the piano may find its place there, if it fits through the window... There are more pictures on my flickr-account.

Nice! Can we read the interview somewhere?