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  1. jus1973
    There must be plenty on either rebrickable, or bricklink MOC sections, so have a look. I’ve built an amusement arcade (ground floor) and bowling alley (first floor), with a roof bar, with a hint of the art deco about it. The interior needs refining, and i was limited by brick selection, but I’m reasonably happy with it. I have attempted a Miami style hotel in the past, but had to dismantle it due to a house move, and never rebuilt it.
  2. jus1973
    Hmm I hope that rumour is not accurate. We had a music ‘store’ upstairs in Assembly Square, so I’m not so sure another one would be needed when there are plenty of other choices for themes of the modular are out there. The furniture store would be an interesting one, but what about a small food shop, such as a butchers or corner neighbourhood store. I’d also welcome some form of doctors surgery. I think a hospital is only likely to be made when its a 48x32 sized modular, unless they went for quite a tall 3 story modern structure, as they would probably lose a good ⅓ of the baseplate with an ambulance bay.
  3. jus1973
    Sadly we won’t be adding this years WV model to our Christmas lego set up. And if #Wicket is correct, then we won’t get next years either! So compared to the first winter village train, this one is something of a let down. The loco using standard carriage sized wheels looks so wrong. Neither of the wagons offer anything really new, compared to the previous version, and the tender looks almost the same. Such a shame. I was hoping this would offer existing train owners some additional interest in the wagon/carriage department. If I had to guess, I’d say this was a ‘second option’ after the initial model failed to get produced in time. I’m sure it’s not, but it just feels that way. Sadly we
  4. jus1973
    I don’t think it’s really an inverted modular. The connection points are not all in place for that. They are in place to make it a normal modular corner, however. Having now looked at the official images, and the 360 video on Lego.com, its got big holes in the wall designed to look like blast damage, but no bricks to make up those gaps. Also almost the entire of the rear side is designed to be pulled out in 6 panels, to access 6 of the cells. A great play feature, but makes it more difficult to site in a modular town.
  5. jus1973
    Whilst the Boutique Hotel was a 15th anniversary, I felt it lacked the scale of Assembly Square. We can only hope that the designers have something equal to or even better than, that 10th anniversary special for the 20th. I’d welcome a 48x32 again, but I also think it would be great to have 3 16x32s that can be placed in different orders, or even separately. They’d have to be a bit bigger/better than Birch Books & house though.
  6. jus1973
    That’s a really fab addition, and so much better than my attempt to create an historic quarter to my town. I have purchased the Lion Knights Castle, with the hope of tying it into the town, but have epically failed. You, however, have provided some excellent ideas as how it might be done. You should be rightfully proud of this model.
  7. jus1973
    I think the problem with the fairground sets is simply the space they take up. I have the carousel, ferris wheel, original red and white coaster and the haunted house drop ride. The last one has been dismantled and turned into a church in my town, the coaster is dismantled into a box and the other two currently are on shelves all made up. I really love them as builds, but along with Modulars and a number of the Icons, and Ideas builds, I don’t have the space to have them all built, and they don’t attract the same level of resale value or interest either, so I can see TLG only keeping 1 or 2 sets on the active list at a time, and perhaps spreading the releases out further.
  8. jus1973
    Oh that looks good. I think the black corners make it look more classically Tudor.
  9. jus1973
    I couldn’t find a dedicated thread for this so here’s one. My first thoughts are that there is some serious design in it, especially in the top floor walls and roof. I don’t see how it could have been done differently without printed tiles. Hats off to the designer for a really good build which captures the look and feel of these kind of buildings. It’s right up there with the best in my opinion. A couple of things that I’ll change. Number one being making the bar actually have traditional British style beer taps. If i have enough dark green, then I’ll change the right hand wall colour, as you go up the steps to the first floor. Whilst on those steps, I’ve removed the jumper tile beneath them, as its just too tight a grip to pull the stairs out with it there. A couple of oddities. Number one, the down pipe on the side of the top floor, which doesn’t go anywhere. Oddly, I had a number of black spare pipes and odds, that look like they could be used to extend it somehow. (It’s also possible I missed something in the build so will recheck). The lack of kitchen, bathroom and bedroom in the top floor is odd, and I can see it would be super cramped up there if you tried to fit it in. It kind of makes it more of a break room for the clock maker and his wife, and they live elsewhere. I’ll try to arrange photos of any mods I make, if i can wrestle my photo bucket account into submission. Whats everyone else think?
  10. jus1973
    I’m really liking this one. It definitely has a British air to it, and it’s the sort of thing you might find in a small town or village. I’m not sure the angled front of the pub offers much extra, other than an interesting angle to stop it being all flat, which is something that a lot of the modulars do suffer with. I do think the haberdashery should be a millinery though, as he seems to only sell hats. Definitely a day one purchase for me and I hope to get the GWP too, as it does kind of fit in. British men stereotypically used to grab the paper on the way home from work, stop in the pub for a ‘swift half’ to read the paper, before stumbling home sometime later.
  11. jus1973
    Hmm. I’m trying to remember. I think they were in with the instructions. I’m sure TLG will send a set out. When my wife accidentally binned the half used set of UCS falcon stickers, they sent me them, no bother.
  12. jus1973
    That’s quite unusual I would have thought, since it’s the only printed plastic sheet. I know it sounds daft, but have you double checked it’s not wedged into the instruction book, or the paper folder somewhere. I’ve had a few times when this was the case.
  13. jus1973
    That’s a tough question. I didn’t get the first 7, as they were released and mostly withdrawn during my dark ages. Finished build, for me is a toss up between Assembly Square and Parisian Restaurant. For the process of the build itself, I enjoyed Boutique hotel a lot, and Downtown Diner would be a close second. The Museum would be up there too as I think thats an unusual one that invites us to add more to its interior.
  14. jus1973
    You can get that gap down to 2.5 studs without too much bother. There is a thread in the train forum about this set, correcting this and also adding a motor, although that so far has been less successful.
  15. jus1973
    If you do live, as your bio says, in the US, the thats possibly why you might feel like that. Us european types see these type of ‘streetcars’ or trams to us Brits all the time in many cities. A quick google search for images of Bern Trams will give you what I think TLG were going for. This is what I’m trying to achieve in my Modular based town, although its a long work in progress.
  16. jus1973
    Well that has been the usual Modular release date, and if I remember correctly, the museums release date got shifted up a month, and there was a rumour that there had been delays in another Icons set, which left a gap to fill.
  17. jus1973
    I don’t mind the 5/6 wide cars, as this sits better with the modulars and the MOCs I tend to build. This does mean that trucks should be 7/8 wide, which they currently aren’t and also would make them very snug on the 16x16 current road plates. At least you can extend the width of them quite easily, 1 stud at a time. We forget sometimes, that the City range is for 4+ kids, so bright colours and play gimmicks are what they want. The trains do need to be bigger though. 6 wide is not enough. I get why they are not, as its a range mostly aimed at kids, and would cost a lot more, but I remember thinking this as a child, and trying to make my train bigger (and failing) so it looked like what I saw around me. I was so hopeful when some of the adult builder trains came out wider, but i don’t see them making city ones wider any time soon.
  18. jus1973
    Assuming that the ‘prediction’ and/or ‘leak’ is right, just residential is quite a departure, and although the modular ‘town’ really lacks homes for the people who work in all the shops and services, I think its got to be something special to look at, especially if it is just a house or two. Whilst the house in Birch Books was a welcome addition, just slapping two more of these together for a new modular would probably seem like a cop out. A apartment building might work, but it’s got to look good, as well as fit in with at least some of the existing sets. Lots of those around the UK are brutalist concrete blocks, which i think would struggle to sell. Maybe if they went more sort of southern European in design, perhaps in a pastel shade, then that would be interesting.
  19. jus1973
    The newsstand GWP is an odd one, as most of the others have been either vehicles or at least mobile in some way. A newsstand is, as far as I can tell, a fixed object. Since we have had one in the police station, I’m not sure I’m too bothered about acquiring it. I missed the food truck with the museum, and that I did want. As for the building itself, then I think we’re all expecting it to be a corner, if the pattern continues. I’m not fussed about a post office, but would love a small corner grocery store. The sort of place that you’d find at the end of a traditional UK Victorian or Edwardian terrace. You could have residential upstairs which would add to our limited housing stock. Let’s be honest though, most of us will by it, regardless of what it is.
  20. jus1973
    That’s brilliant. I love how you managed to capture the interior in a small footprint. I hope you don’t mind, but i may take a couple of those details to make a whisky distillery for my town. Something i wanted to do, but struggled to get started on. You’ve got me thinking with this fab build.
  21. jus1973
    That’s a good, all lego start, although the slowing down is a little odd. I can only assume thats to do with some form of friction between the wheels and rails owing to the fixed wheels. If the set on the car with the longest wheelbase were on some form of bogies, then it might be solvable.
  22. jus1973
    I assume you’re discussing this https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/spring-lantern-festival-80107 in which case, its not an official modular, but it does have the key connection points in the right places, and pavement around 2 of the sides. I have it next to the palace cinema, and it does look the part.
  23. jus1973
    Thanks for sharing this build and mini review of this tram. I’m just about to pull the trigger and order it, as it reminds me of the trams in Bern, not far from where I used to live. I’m going to add it to my modular (based) town, so your comments re R40 curves are really helpful. I think I’ll be OK going for the 2L connector, but I think there is a way to get a 2.5 length if needed. I just need to check my available parts. I look forward to your thoughts on Motorising it. I was considering Circuit Cubes, since they are really small and could fit in the centre car, just taking out one end seating place, but I don’t know if there is a way to automate it to reverse as I only have enough space for a single line of track, not a complete circle.
  24. jus1973
    Theres a website (Quite old now) here; https://amodularlife.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/modular-standards-for-lego-city-buildings/ which outlines the basic footprint and connection points for most common footprint variations. The above mentioned Ideas sets, whilst using mini figs as a basis for size, don’t conform to the standards as sold, as they don’t have these key features, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be adapted. Some are easier than others. Home alone wouldn’t take much, although it opens as a dolls house rather than each floor lifting off. I’ve got the tree house, and it can be squeezed onto a 32x32 base plate, although the branches do overhang the sides which might cause issues next to some official modulars. I’m not sure about the A frame, as i dont own it. Others on here could offer advice if thats what you wanted.
  25. jus1973
    It’s an ideas set, so it’s not officially in the modular range, however the initial idea has some of the key modular components, such as the footpath/sidewalk, so if the Lego designers leave these alone, then it would fit into the modular range quite well. Quite a lot of us have had a go at modularising the friends botanical gardens, so this ideas set is an interesting proposal in that it made it past the review phase. A fair few of us didn’t expect it to get the nod.
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