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Nice building on the outside, and nice interior with all this rummage, erm, valuable antiques, too. ;)

1) 1 point 2) 1 point 12) 1 point 13) 2 points 17) 1 point 39) 1 point Lots of great entries indeed.

Well, for instance, I got a newspaper vending machine: street scene 4 by cimddwc, on Flickr And a (defaced) election poster, a bench and filled trashcan - and adding some scenes like a police action is good to liven things up:

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Well, let me just agree with the others. :) Though I think the singer and drummer could use another musician...

Only 6? How about this? No, that's not mine – only someone else's photo from a 2007 show from this Brickshelf folder. Contains a more reasonably sized version, too. I'm only considering adding one additional floor to my regular CC.

It does look like an intriguing idea, but you can't really have an abrupt change of the inclination: the tops of the cars will touch; and bogies aren't that flexible either, so unless you have only rolling stock with one axle on each end, well, even if it works with some axles lifted off the rails, it will certainly look odd... Also, the modern magnets (with full plastic casing) don't tilt much up and down, so they will lose contact easier, which would be a problem especially for the first cars of a long train, unless there's a motor in the back pushing it. So you'd rather need a smooth change of inclination, which also means more space. And there's another problem: the engine at the top will receive power again, but the cars are still hooked on the slope or below it and can't really be pulled. You'd have to match the speed of the slope and the engine pretty well. In the end, I'd say you're better off with a cog railway for steep inclines, but that won't be easy for existing trains, and not as space-saving as your idea...

Hmm, I can't see any address of them – I only can assume USA because of the LLC –, no shipping costs or anything. The images look rendered, so no photos of the finished product either. Thus I'd rather not place an order there – if that actually worked, that is: when I click an order button, all I get is the same page again (with some parameters in the URL). Pity, kinda.

Great! Nice variations on the outside, and nice interiors, too. Houses indeed become more interesting with more floors than the usual official Modulars...

Great vehicles! (I really need more experience building cars myself...)

Lots of great interior details! And the smaller gothic building looks better than the big version, too – less repetitive and less menacing.

While I'm not really a fan of stone walls made from 1x1 round plates (they leave too many and too regular gaps), I have to say this is indeed another beautiful building with a great interior. How many more houses will share the same neighbor's bathroom? And does he get paid for that? ;)

That's a great building with a nice and interesting color scheme. And the elevator's a great idea, too. Now if the round corner brick you used in gray as awning would be available in a matching color...

Well, there will be no religious thing like Noah's Ark, but a zoo would certainly be nice. And being a city builder, I want pigeons! Maybe even in two variations (head up and down), and available in packs of at least 50, for a realistic city. :)

Really a beautiful house, nice colors and architecture on the outside, lovely details on the inside! Nobody has, according to BrickLink. :)

Thanks, everyone! Well, I can always use the bricks elsewhere later on; I didn't want to wait^^; and the 15% discount on AFOL shopping day in (apparently only the German?) LEGO Stores were good reasons to buy two now. :)

Thanks! I quickly added a little more detail to the second floor windows on the left: If someone gives me the money... ;) Though I think it would become too big then – at least for what I have planned in my town.

Yeah, I understand that. That would indeed be nicer. It's just that there are not enough special parts (log bricks etc.) in two sets – and I don't have any extra dark orange except for a few plates, nor these new double curved slopes – to do that on the full sides and make it as wide. On the other hand, I could add a reduced level of detail, but still more than now, on the left side... well, maybe... :)

As I already mentioned, I got two sets of this new modular building – which unbornchikken reviewed there – to build a bigger standalone version of it. Here's the result: Featuring a bigger auditorium, a few extra rooms, and a staircase. I left the elevator the way it is – preserving this nice little oddity, so to speak. :) I've added one window on either side, and with an extra stud between windows and protruding center, that adds up to 46 studs instead of 32. The top line (below the tower) is widened to 48 (because of the 2x8 plates with wide door rail); I actually wanted to use a double convex inverted slope at the corners, but who would have thought that this is one of these rare and expensive never officially released parts in this color... I also thought about continuing the structured lines between floors (you know, the grille bricks and the inverted slopes with the round bricks in between – is there a special term for this stuff?) on the sides, but the top would also need the aforementioned slope, and the bottom in dark gray would clash with the window, so I kept the sides relatively flat. Eating a croissant and looking up above the entrance... hmm, are these edible too? Ground floor – larger auditorium and extra archive room on the right: Second floor – restroom and separate office: Third floor – double table, extra table (brown) for secretary/keeper of the minutes or whatever you call that, and a room for cups, dishes, catering, dishwashing: I tried to use as few extra parts as possible, in addition to what the two sets offer – not because I didn't have enough (except dark orange, that is), but mostly because I was curious about this... Not counting my foundation and the additional row below ground in the auditorium, I needed: • 16 dark bluish gray tiles 1x1 for a properly aligned pavement around the flowerpots; • 1 light bluish gray plate 4x6 on the ground floor; • several white plates 4xX adding up to 24 and 6xX adding up to 16 for each of the upper floors; • 17 white bricks 2x4 and 2 bricks 2x8 for the stairs; • a bunch of old bricks as support structure below the ground floor, replacing the nice ones Lego hid there; • 1 dark bluish gray plate 1x1 on the left side where Lego used a black round plate to cut costs; • interior decoration of archive room (ground floor) and catering/dish room (top floor). And these are the leftovers: » Same photos on Flickr.

Nice review! And I can say I enjoyed building my XL version from 2 sets (pics to come soon), too... It must be significantly cheaper: Grille bricks and windows are used elsewhere, so the automated packing process just lets another two drop into the bag, whereas the 1x1 plate would have been the only one, requiring accessing another item container...

No. Well, I thought about it, but then I decided to keep this nice little oddity the way it is (including ladder and trapdoor to the roof) and instead of making it bigger and enclosed, use the additional width for a staircase (more important regulations, it seems, than an enclosed elevator ) and a bigger auditorium.

Well, it doesn't have to be fancy to be nice. And nice it is! Especially the upper floor with the bathroom. Though I'd tile the lower floor; it looks a bit too much like they're walking on grass there...

I got two on Saturday and built a bigger version over the weekend – but I want to make some more interior changes, so no pictures yet. Interestingly, while the previous sets had a price of $150 for you and €150 here in Germany, this one costs "only" €180. Glad they didn't do a 1:1 translation this time...

Thanks again! As mentioned yesterday, here's a photo of this house next to Green Grocer with an identical second second floor: The interior features not much yet, just some not so nice sand green places and a wall around the staircase since this is supposed to be an apartment of its own:

Thanks again, everyone! Seems there are enough customers who ask for golden tridents etc. :) I added another floor to the Green Grocer today, but it's just the same as the original – on the front, that is; the back and sides are tan because I didn't want to buy so much sand green. And there's no interior yet. Anyway, it looks really good next to this house and is about the same height; I'll take some photos tomorrow. And with some of you mentioning a dark green roof, I guess I'll photoshop one of the images to see what it would look like, but honestly I think black is still better; after all, the looks are more important than the name. :)