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  1. alois
    Since I'm not an employee of TLC I will call the bricks by whatever name I want. BTW, in my youth in the Netherlands we called them ' laygo* ' as a non-countable word, like 'I'm playing with Lego', never in plural. * insert Dutch g-sound
  2. alois
    By the way, this topic was already discussed in 2009.
  3. alois
    Another problem would be the quality of the TV series. I watched one episode last week, just to know what it was all about, and it's awful. A minifig based Galidor theme couldn't mend that either.
  4. alois
    I'd like the homemaker sets to come back. When I had one, when I was a child, I was so impressed by the smoothness (it was the first studless theme) and colourfulness, but also by the playability provided by the maxifig scale.
  5. alois
    What a nice explosion of colour! I understand your hesitation with the flowers; putting them in could be overdoing it.
  6. alois
    It's interesting that this truck originally was on a scale larger than the scale the future minifigs would be using. But nowadays minifig trucks have grown even bigger than this.
  7. alois
    I think this is less of a problem in northern Europe, where Lego has flooded the market since the fifties. Even if sellers don't know, more than 9 out of ten bricks are Lego.
  8. alois
    Buy it on Bricklink for €879 if you want it really badly.On topic: According to Brickset I have around 50.000 bricks, but I have also lots of loose bricks from lugbulk and second hand bricks I bought, so it's probably nearer to 80.000.
  9. alois
    The problem with exactly this set is that is filled with old style black pins, which are almost impossible to remove, all the more with gloves. My hands hurt when I had disassembled one a couple of years ago. So I would try to clean it before disassembling, and start the disassembling process after it's been reasonably cleaned and no longer a biohazard.
  10. alois
    The screenshot doesn't show the ugly holes for the studs that will appear if you use this part.
  11. alois
    People who don't like the classic faces used in the modulars are just too young to own a modular building
  12. alois
    I like the uneven and rough sides of the concrete floors (almost as if someone has bitten it), that will not be visible in the finished building. Very realistic
  13. alois
    I think that a snot build road is best when you're trying to mimic tarmack. But I went for tiles. They give the look of cobblestones and are easier to apply. I raised the buildings one brick by laying loose bricks under the baseplates. The baseplates of the roads themselves are also slightly raised to accomodate the tram track.
  14. alois
    An olive green snotted cheese roof! I like that very much.
  15. alois
    There's no telling, since the release dates are not the same every year. One thing you can be sure of: the next modular has already been designed at this moment.
  16. alois
    I've never been a fan of open-backed Lego buildings, but your buildings make me reconsider this! There is so much to see, and everything is so pleasing to the eye. And everything looks perfect, as if it just had to be this way. Great moc!
  17. alois
    Have you been to Paris? The only place where you can find this type of architecture is Disneyland Paris. No building in Paris is olive green.
  18. alois
    But on the frontside of boxes, European ones have very little text, just to avoid the language problem. And no part count, but that is a legal thing I think.
  19. alois
    The lower part of the old style hinge has very little clutch power on the studs.
  20. alois
    It reminds me of the direction of the minifig hands. They're upside down on the Eurobricks Town section banner.
  21. alois
    So they aren't in fact postal offices any more.
  22. alois
    Really nice modernistic building! This will be looking way better in real bricks, when you won't see all the black lines any more. They distract a little bit from the clear lines of the building.
  23. alois
    Even in the 80's studs down was the exception, not the rule, and I (child in the eighties) always put them studs up.
  24. alois
    I think that to be called an age the period must at least be ten years; otherwise it's more like some dark years. Some younger Eurobricks members think they're experiencing a dark age when they don't build for some months. But real dark ages are less common nowadays when there's a world wide web where you can stay in touch with fellow builders and see so many great mocs, and realize you're not the only one interested in Lego.
  25. alois
    There are more sets with studs down flowers: 379 Bus Station from the first flower years (1979) is an example.
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