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Very nice, cimddwc! Your buildings fit extremely well with the Pet Shop, because your style is very much like the style of Jamie Berard. I'm eager to see what the surroundings will be.

Welcome, Bruz! You've shared an interesting story. My own daughter is three years old and already interested in Lego. Sometimes I let her play with the minifigures and interiors of the modular buildings I've built. And one of her favorite Lego building activities is paving a sidewalk with tiles, like she has seen her dad do with a modular building. You can imagine that her colour scheme is a little bit bolder than mine. So I look forward to let her play at a higher level.

I especially recommend Creator set 6754. Get it while it's still on the shelves and you'll have a large quantity of bricks (around a thousand, with a lot of tan) for a decent price.

I heard our national anthem! That's no background music to me.

Hello from Gelderland, Casper! Nice to see another dutchman here.

Do you have a picture of all your modular buildings combined in a street?

I corrected the green grocer. The little roof of the bay window is not built very sturdily. One can just push the top with the feathers downward. So I strengthened the underlying structure with some extra plates.

Great review, I know the feeling of wanting to have sets that you wanted when you were a kid. For me it was the 8860 that I finally could lay my hands on last year. So calling the 8880 the grandfather of all supercars doesn't sound quite right for me; that title has to be reserved for 8860 and even 853. You should also consider buying the testcar 8865, because then you could see that much of the functionality of the 8880 is foreshadowed by it. It even has wishbone suspension, so you're not correct in stating that the 8880 supercar was the first. All in all a magnificent family of cars.

Why is it called 'interfectorem' instead of 'interfector', i.e. why do you use the accusative case instead of the more regular nominative case? I suppose it's meant to be Latin.

I like the design of the round window on the second floor, with the flowers in front of it. But the interior is also great.

Because he was originally part of the winter toy shop set.... I don't have any yellow hands left.

I wanted to build a new addition to my modular street, and tried to capture a turn of the century art-nouveau house. I also put in an interior. What do you think of it? (it's the house in the middle) The exterior of the first floor: Interior: The second floor: Interior: See my flickr-page for more views.

Most streets in the centre of European cities have many more shops, so there wille be plenty of room voor more shops and speculation about them, I think.

Didn't the new dog star in a documentary that was recently screened on National Geographic? I seem to recall an artist sculpting it.

The most logical conclusion would be: animals = butcher!

The most logical conclusion would be: animals = butcher!

Could it be that there will be a difference in release dates between the USA (may 10th) and Europe (summer?)

A baseplate also doesn't work when you want to have stairs going through the floor. I mainly use plates, I assemble the in the right shape and then put 2-stud wide plates under them to hold the whole thing together. I always try to keep the lowest layer one stud apart from the outer rim of the floor, in that way they fit between the walls of the first floor and keep the second floor in its place.

It looks like you're not a newbie at all, Christian!. This is exactly the kind of of buildings that are a great inspiration for modular-style Lego, and you built them very convincingly. The second building could very well have had an real life counterpart as well. Well done!

It's not often that red bricks work well with a building in cc-style, but this one is right on the spot! Very well done!

What I really like about this diorama, is the way it seems to be much deeper than it is in reality. The little street seems to go on much further than just 48 studs. Very well done.

What a lovely scene. One thing: the upper (turning) part of the mill should have a slightly larger diameter. Otherwise it looks to much like a German or English windmill.

I think it's a very good choice for an architectural set, but in my opinion the columns are way too thick. One of the principles of Mies's architecture are slender columns and details, and these columns seem out of proportion. Maybe a combination of theseand these would have been a better solution.

Lego bricks with holes and technic axles were already in use in 1970, so the narrator is not quite correct when he says that the first Lego technic dates from 1977 (yes, that was the year of the first first official technic sets, I know, but the principle is older). Still Philiform is older, but I doubt if it really was the origin for lego Technic. Mecano is a far more obvious inspiration.

Yes, I did, for instance the windows and roof slopes of the creator beach house, and a lot of other bricks (mainly tan of course) I had lying around. And I have many parts of the Tower Bridge left, for instance all the light blue plates and bricks, and still a lot of tan cheese slopes.