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My daughter is starting to get into the modulars that are available now. She saw the green grocer and the town hall online this week. I didn't realize how crazy the secondary was on these. Very new to this side of Lego. Is it possible to get most of the pieces for these sets through Lego's site when the larger pick a brick opens back up? i know I won't be able to get everything there. I'll brick link the rest. I also didn't know if the set will end up being as much as the secondary market for it. thanks for the help with the noob questions. i'm learning. thanks! jim

ya sorry i had it backwards. i know my daughter wants to do friends colors for the sidewalks but i just don't want to dump all the money in colors we might not use heavily down the road. she is already liking the creator buildings so i know as she gets older she will move towards these, but right now i'm in a bright rainbow color world! lol another forum member did give me the idea of curbing with a friends color and then using the grey for the main part of the sidewalks. that i would spend the money one cause it won't be a huge amount. jim cool that might even work well with friends sets. thanks a lot for that! jim

thanks guys. i use windows for work only. i can put it on tomorrow. any tips? also when the lego store opens again. not the pick a brick. the other one. is their selection pretty large? the pieces i'm looking for are all recent pieces. we want to make street lights. the two we like are from current sets. we want to make a mailbox. some benches and a few carts for foods. easy stuff. i'll deff try that program tomorrow. jim

Hey guys. Thanks so much! I guess I wanted to match up with the creator buildings as much as possible for the future. I was mentioning light cause I saw it so much around the net but when I go to the pick a brick site it only showed medium and dark so I figured they didn't have light cause it's so popular. So I am correct that the medium is the regular color used in the sidewalk creation in the modulars. Not light?

I'm going to start to put together some city scenes with my daughter and we don't know what color works best for sidewalks. Is the light grey the norm or is the medium grey still light enough. I know the dark grey is not. I know it is personal preference, but was wondering so we can intergrate it into other setups down the road like the creator buildings. thanks so much! jim

I'm starting to put together lists of parts I want for some builds for my daughters city display. I made a want list on bricklink. I'm not set on colors really. I can mix and match. when I make my list should I not specify a color so I get more hits and pick colors from what buyers have available. I'm trying to make this as easy as possible to get what I need. I did put in colors but I'm only finding certain pieces from certain buyers. I really want to ty and get everything from one person. thanks aot, jm

ok i got you. i forgot it will be lower now. some won't be cause they have some sidewalk already in place. friends sets also love the round walls with windows so i'm going to have some issues with doing a 1- wide higher outline of the building. they don't make rounded tiles do they? this should be interesting. i guess i'll keep everything on their bases and lay it out for now to see how many bases i actually need. quick question where is a good place on the net to buy the large sand or green colored bases. cheaper than lego that is? i know i can go on amazon but should i be looking at brick link for these? thanks again! jim

perfect. very easy. that will do nicely cause i can just click on it piece by piece to build out what i want. i really appreciate the time you took to help me out over the past few days! jim

Very cool. . . ok here are my 2 questions. 1. when i extend the 2x2 over the edge it will be by 1 only. will that hold everything together well enough? that was what i was worried about. 2. you lost me on 3. i know i'm going to remove the buildings from the factory bases but i don't know what you mean by the outline to build them up with 1-wide plates? do you mean how they make the second floor removable from the first floor so they can be removed easier for play? i'm sorry. that was the only thing i got lost on. Thanks so much for the help! awesome ideas! i found some nice street benches and lights for the roads. i also found a few smaller trees i like, but my daughter wants some of those larger trees for the park that we see, but haven't found any instructions for those yet. jim

that is the page with the file. i just downloaded it from there. i haven't touched it. the one on my computer is the same that he has for download his site.

First I apologize if this is the wrong area for this thread. I'm very very new to this and it is kinda overwhelming. My daughter and myself want to make a city/town out of the various lego friends buildings she has. I am looking for some guidance on the best route to fit everything together. I want to use bases that have the streets already bart of the base. we want to make sidewalks out of smooth flat bricks like most of you all do for the modulars but this is where we get stuck. all the friends buildings are different size base plates. how do i integrate all of them to put down sidewalks and various elements we want to add. 1. do i use the street bases and add another large building base and place the lego friends building right on them with their factory bases? 2. remove them from their bases and build them onto new flat bases that are all the same? 3. bump them up against street bases since they are going to get covered by smooth flat bricks anyway? (didn't know if this was the smart move cause they wouldn't hold together well) what do you guys do? the plan was to have a building on each side of the street and to maybe make a park area at the end of a street and place buildings around the park. i just have no idea where to start. i have been looking at pictures of diff city modular builds but i know they all fit together and it looks like they are just bumped up against street base plates. so sorry if my terminology is wrong and i hope you all understand what i mean. thanks so much for the help! the work i have seen throughout these forums is just jaw dropping. i can't even express how impressive! jim

http://www.swissgb.ch/lego-ghostbusters-hq-v2/ it's just the original GB headquarters build. I just want to pull out certain parts of room details cause his are great. thanks again. i'm very sorry for all the basic questions for the pro's here. jim

Perfect! Ok how do I do that cause right now I'm only grabbing pieces one by one?! Lol. Oh man I feel so stupid. I'm actually pretty smart I think. Lol I pretty much want to grab the pinball machine, couch, tv. Things like that. If I can grab a completed piece and bring it over as a new file I can spin around I will be cool. Easier than looking through walls and floors and such. Jim

when you say enough time. . . maybe i don't even understand what the instructions are that ldd puts out. are they same as what you get with a regular lego set for instructions or different? using blueprint. . . is it pretty straight forward? I tried o download blueprint but doesn't run on a mac. I don't own a windows machine. jm

Thanks so much. No I'm very sorry. I want to use some elements from the original build for the interior vs the new lego version. I like how he had some additional video game machines inside. I also like his kitchen better and a few other elements like the lockers also. I wanted to build them so I figured I would pump out the instructions in the designer. I finally figured out how to zoom and move in the model build view but I'm not good like you guys and can't tell wheat certain elements are to build the parts I like. I was hoping the instructions generated are like lego ones so i can flip to the elements i like and see what i need and build them. I hope that makes better sense now. Again I appreciate it so much! jim

It got half way and just went back to the beginning?

I am trying to open the LXF file in LDD for the ghostbusters headquarters cause I want to add some of the elements of that build to the new Lego one. I used the Generate instructions button in the upper right corner, but it is taking forever. It was moving along but then it looks like it started over also. I read that it is easier to use the model view and zoom and turn to build from that but I can't even figure out how to do that. Is the LDD app the best choice for getting the building instructions compiled from the LXF file or is there something else I should use? Am I even doing this right? Should it be moving that slow. I'm on a Macbook Pro (2 years with 8 gb of ram). I'm open for suggestions. Please excuse the very very basic questions but I never knew LDD existed before today and there is this huge huge world of mod out there for lego's. it's pretty overwhelming! But very very cool. The work you all do is amazing! Just amazing! Thanks, jim