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I took a break trying to solve the lockers. I completely gutted my firehouse after a fellow ghostbuster enthusiast sent me old set design pictures. Venkman's office was not accurate at all according to the set design pictures. What we don't ever see in the photos or movie is the top, how it fits in the space provided and what is behind it. I am reiterating that I am doing a Hook & Ladder 8 recreation on the outside from Tribeca NYC. In order to do this I got blueprints and specs I printed out to reference while doing the new firehouse. I was right in doing 26 by 74 bricks because the actual size of the place is 27 x 75 feet. The major issue we have with LEGO bricks will hinder the exact height for the car to fit through the door. My Ecto-1 can fit inside a door height of 10 bricks tall. If you stick the little red and white antenna up all the way my car clears a 10 brick and 1 plate height door. Using the blueprints and specs, I found that the proportion with lego bricks needed to be 9 bricks and 2 plates in order it to accurately look like the real location. I cannot do this for the sake of Ecto-1 wouldn't fit through the door. What you will see is I did what no other version has shown, doors swinging out but kept inside the firehouse. I had a lot of time thinking that the other version, minus Venkman's office, looked more proportional to the movie, but what I didn't account for was the support beams in the correct location. Support beams, instead of 2x1 bricks like you see my old version has, I only did 6. Firehouse Engine 23 actually has 12. I used a half slot idea to get a 1x1 brick look like it was cut in half. and keeping proportions accurate. Details: Venkmans office is done. The "storage" area was based on fans ideas not set pics. Venkmans office on the one side is wider and goes against the far wall. It includes a desk and 2 seat couch. The other side had a 4 ft table and a lamp on it. The following video shows Venkman talking to Walter Peck and Peck walks around Venkman's office. This is the only time we see it next to the far wall through the glass. Earlier scenes they used fronted glass and hid it. I gave up the idea of doing storage in the back because of the deleted scenes a fan provided. In ghostbusters 2, https://vk.com/video-1220580_170526979?list=33241e141140a92c86 You see Louis prating with a proton pack. This is the only time we actually see that there are brick pillars next to the stairs, the complete layout of Venkman's office, and Janine walking to the storage area. Based on set design pics, the storage makes an "L" shape around he firehouse office, but no reference to exit door. With tons of pictures from my trip to NYCC I went to the firehouse last october and took outsold photos of the alley way and side we hardly ever get to see. The lego version makes all the sides look the same. The original Hook and Ladder 8 had 2 bay doors and cut in half back during the 1920s. The original specs did have both sides match, which LEGO did, but only on the original 2 bay version. When they cut the place they used interior brick walls and covered them on the left alley way. Photo 1: New layout. Dark red bricks for back wall, not sure what to do with the stair well. Maybe I will make it an emergency stairwell? Only no door entrance to ground garage? This would solve the lack of fire escapes. Which LEGO made up as a nice touch, but the actual firehouse doesn't have that. This could be a nice second stairwell. New city street. Accurate to actual street, proportionally. Wider than modular sets, but Tribeca has huge sidewalks! New and improved front, Lower profile, 2 plate bricks taller than actual location. Need to fit echo-1 through doors! New huge lamppost: Tribeca 1 way street is 5 lanes wide. So, needed a proportional and to scale lamp post that matches it. Bay doors on the inside?????????????Yep, they swing open inside the firehouse and there is enough room to fit Ecto-1 (26 studs long), and a few speed champion size cars lol, or my custom Speed Racer Mach 5, which I will post another day. I always had an issue with the new decoration that comes with my LEGO Ghostbusters set. In Ghostbusters 1, it was Black, but I think I will continue to follow suit with LEGO making it a GB2 firehouse. The NINGA headpiece they used for the gold mantle above the door was perfect. I flipped it because the real one is bottom heavy. And it fits better. Since LEGO Digital Designer doesn't allow us to separate those antennas, you will see a random black one on Venkmans desk. I am attaching to bases to 1 rod to make a small lamp. I saw it somewhere searching "LEGO furniture" and it would ft there instead what LEGO gave us, which I placed for reference later on the desk. The back isn't glorious and I am trying to solve the revolving door issue. Somehow I need to take out or cut a 16x8 brick plate base down. I want the front to swing open like the official LEGO set, very dollhouse effect. I love that they did this, I just want to make sure there are walls and doors for a bathroom and darkroom. Pesky Lockers: Currently as placeholders you see 2x2 brown bricks representing the proportional lockers. Cannot figure out what to do, LEGO Dimensions gave me ideas. I made a few in the program, just very large right now. My older ones, have been modified and look nicer. My 1/2 slot issue. You can see i blew up area where i cannot figure out how to fill it. I used a white brick to show you the area i need to fix. Questions/ Concerns: Still those tricky lockers, trying tog et them to fit my new layout, harsh. The garage bathroom area. Right now I used 2 2x1 window pieces. The area now has room in the back to fit toilets and such, But the door would only work if I can solve it with 3 bricks wide. Maintenance closet is huge now lol. Mostly due to the fact I now have sliding doors inside the place. Wall decoration using door rail pieces. All other people used those 2x1 plate door rails to run around the whole area. I know they closely resemble wide of half stud. I replaced them on the front so we have corners, which LEGO didn't do. Sergio fought with this area and I now know why. INFAMOUS 1/2 brick dilemma. There is a small gap I cannot figure out what to do where the 2x2 plate with 1 center studs are used for corners, They go against the 1x2 and 1x8 plate door rails nicely, but i don't know techniques enough to fix this 1x2 stud gap. Dollhouse style opening. I may nee to cut down plate bases to fit them. I need 2 8x8 baseplates so I can swing open the whole thing without scratching tiles. THE LEGO version slid on the tiles, but the sheer weight cause it to scratch tiles. I wanted to resolve this by creating a pure dollhouse effect.

Did a bit of research and watched a walkthrough. Took tons of screenshots. Great lockers. They work quite well. I will modify them a bit, but their size is closer to what I wanted. 3 bricks wide.

My fiancee bought the demensions game for her son's birthday in July. I bought the ghostbusters sets, but have no access to the game yet. Could you do a few screen grabs up close or of the sides and such of the storage lockers? Those look perfect to the size I am looking for. Do they open?

Thanks guys. I will create a LDD file for the roof rack and my Ecto-1 model when I get the chance. As for the firehouse: Before I begin the second floor I will figure out the lockers. The second and third floors should be pretty easy. The layout will go quickly and I plan on using some of Serio's techniques for the kitchen and lab. I think having more room will allow me to get the movie accurate details in the lab area. Much more in tune with Alex did on his huge firehouse display I mentioned earlier.

Echo 1 Much of my love and admiration for hopping on this project was when I saw this post June 2014, http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=96868 Though I still need to buy a few different 2x1 decorated title bricks, white minifig telescope, a new way to place my technic flex cables 7 stud long, new parts from brick arms (monocles u clips to finish the ladder), I am almost happy with my new build. I wish LEGO made bar ladders that were 2 studs wide, along with their 3 stud wide ladders. It would be of great use for this project. I saw a guy on brick link selling these, but they make theirs using 3d printing and won't be smooth like LEGO http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=80779 I think I will buy a their shortest and longest ladders to see how they look since I broke the office LEGO parts mod with the brick arms. Happy to say, all but so far 2 pieces were LEGO. Brick Arms makes a great set of clips and double clips. I used 1 of each to do the closer to scale and accurate post holding the white and red Marine Radome (yes it has a name lol) To connect the 7 stud tall ladder with clip ends without using their 3 stud wide bars like the set I decided to use the Brick Arms U clip http://www.brickarms.com/U-clip.php to connect the two. In order to clip to the current bar I have on the top rack, I need to use a 3 stud wide bar, the ladder, and 4 u-clips from Brick arms. I tested the length I need to hand the ladder off the side perfectly against Ecto-1 without hindering it. If I go with the custom made 2 stud wide ladders, I need a 7 stud long ladder, and have him manufacture a custom 2x2 square ladder. Or use Brick Arms 4 Brick Arms monocles clipped to each other to make a square. Either way I see it, I need to somehow help the 2 stud width and make it work. Exterior My reference for this is the Hotwheels Elite series Ecto-1. http://www.hotwheels...hostbusters.php You will notice I used the new racing champions wheels and it feels like a white wheel and rim. Unless I figure out another way to make it work without using those silver/metallic dumbbells I am happy with that. Rear fin is composed of a 4x2 wedge instead of that 3x2. Not sure how happy i am with how far back they rest, but that back slope works better and looks more film accurate. Blue Hose connections. You will see on the roof details below how they slide into the roof. As for connecting it, never was a fan of those technic pieces. I have to think about that. They will be held together with official lego 2 stud rubber bands. 3, like I seen other people do. Wheel Well placement The front wheel area: Using Hotwheels elite, as my go to guide for the car, I noticed that LEGO made the wheel well too far back. I fixed that issue, but came up with a new dilemma: Keep the 6 stud length, with that curve making it 7 studs, go back and use their basic shape, or figure out a new way to cover the lights and 1 round bricks. Currently the 1 x1 round metallic bricks hand out too far. I tried a solution where they almost touch the wheel, as you can see. It isn't as durable, but does the job. The majority of the photos you will see the first version of the front headlight area leading to the wheel well. Wheel Well and Headlight Options: 1. Bottom 1x1 round studs stick out too far. But this version is quite durable. 2 Less durable, but 1x1 round bricks don't stick out too far. If not one issue, it is another. Roof Rack I didn't even try to make the official set or any other version work. It is quite hard to make a lego version of it, but I believe using my elite model it paid off. The rack surrounds the gadgets in the middle of it, holds all the right components in their location. Side Ladder Options: Coming soon: Using Brickarm's clips and more mono clips, I will connect the provided 7 stud ladder with a 3 stud bar. Use the custom 3d printed ladders I bought from the guy featured on this article: http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=80779. For this to make it closer to movie accuracy, I will either need him to commission/manufacture a custom 2x2 stud square ladder, use his 7 stud long 2 stud ladder and use 4 Brickarms u-clips to piece them all off the side to make it look like the echo-1 movie ladder. I wish he didn't 3d print them and i wish somebody would make a smoothed molded piece. Dare I say it, buy a few extra ladders, cut them down the middle, size them to 2 studs, smooth them out and glue them back together. Maybe eventually figure out a moving process and make them myself. Bottom of the Car Nothing special here, just showing you how many studs it is. Engine/Hood Completely redesigned the hood to accommodate the engine which comes out really easy. Interior I would have to say 70% goes to Flailx http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=96868 I first built his version using LDD. His model was quite helpful. I used reverse engineering on it at that point to get everything in there I wanted in the real vehicle. The actual Cadillac has a sloping front seat. I used the 2x2 black curve slopes with a 2x4 black plate, and black angular plate to achieve this. I also needed the back floor to fit 4 brick forge proton packs and wands, 2 containment units and places for goggles or a radio. I want to get some sort of thin hose to connect the proton pack and wand. Looking for that online, not lego. Medical equipment and plastic hoses. Coming soon, new tiles. I need to replace some of the tiles with computer buttons tiles, like Flailx used. If I could cover the top of the front seat with white greebles I could simulate the electrical boxes they have between the front and back seat. Not any real space to do it, so I may just use a 1x3 plate. Photo with newest and less durable side wall, front headlight area. Roof rack with Brick Arms U Clip and Monoclip holding up the black bar. Makes the whole top roof rack very durable.

Hello, this is my first post, but longtime follower. I have a few questions near the end of this post that I would love to have input, comments and hopefully solutions while developing my model. Intro I have been working on and off a proportional Ghostbusters firehouse that makes the LA interior fit the NY exterior. Working with blueprints from both places, reference images from Ghostbusters 1 & 2, reference from the interior set from gbfans.com and talking to various people in the Ghostbuster community, I have been trying to make my own version of the firehouse in LDD. I have a lot of respect for Sergio's beautiful design and Orion Pax's ultimate headquarters. I also like what Brent Waller did on his LDD file. I took Sergio's file with interior and began my journey. At first I used his width proportions and made the baseplate floor plan 60 bricks long, then worked on a 62 brick version. As I began reconstructing the interior to fit the 4 fire poles, 2 sets of 3 door storage lockers, the mechanic closet near the front garage door, the stairs, the bathroom in the front next to the other garage door and the opposite maintenance closet midway down the hallway I realized the size was too small. I tried to make it work with Venkman's office, struggling to make it fit with a storage in the back, so I shrunk his office quite a bit, but could not fit his chair, desk and client seats without hindering the details on the back wall. After several months of tinkering in my free time, I realized that by making the width of the front 24 bricks wide for the main building, with the slope adding 2 bricks, making it 26 total bricks wide, the front would actually fit the same number of bricks the actual Hook and Ladder 8 fits across. The name plates on both side under the lights would fit perfectly centered in a 6 brick wide wall. The appropriate length, based on floor plans, and google maps, meant that if the door is 4 bricks wide, then the walls needed to be 72 bricks long. I used a blueprint and overplayed in photoshop my ldd file to see where it would match up on the plate. Technically 71 bricks would make it work, but i needed an even number for windows and doors to match up perfectly. This also allowed me to get the appropriate height I need for my new customer LEGO Ideas echo 1. I will get to that later. The first thing I noticed was that Orion Pax had his spot on in terms of appropriate length, fitting the following layout I used off of gbfans.com as my official guide to the layout of the firehouse since they merged the interior of the real location into the shorter Hook and Ladder 8 "box". The movie made use of the office windows in the second floor lab my making it appear to be the firehouse exterior windows of the back alleyway, we never see in the film. The actual alley between the long side of the firehouse and the next building, has a small extended wall with a gate that encloses off the area. The google maps images were perfect in showing the second and third floor windows in relationship to the building. They justified my reasons to placing windows on the back wall for the lab I will create. The video game made a few years ago had a great firehouse walkthrough, i used to help figure out the layout. They used the size and shape of the actual interior of the LA location to make it and felt huge. The second floor had too much space as they stretched out the rooms to fit what was shown on screen. They made the bathrooms, bedroom and living room ridiculously large. With this said, I included the layout of the gbfans layout. Orion Pax created a huge replica, surprisingly, his is 30 bricks wide by 78 bricks long. My replica will be 26 bricks wide by 74 long. What does that mean, besides less brick count? I only need to raise the total height of Sergio's model by 1 to 2 bricks. I will however need to alter the grey bricks surrounding the windows in order to make them screen accurate. Orion did this quite well and only needed to use the regular height of the LEGO bricks to achieve this. When I tried laying out his dimensions, I realized that he used 3 2brick wide window panels for the center set of windows and he actually could have used the normal 4 brick wide windows to make it screen accurate. Although I assume he did this in order to make the window air conditioner smaller because I will tell you it looks huge in a normal window (see images below). After lots of thought, I did my best to recreate the floor plan without making my model any larger. The nice part about making it a bit smaller it feels more appropriate to LEGO minifies. I still think its huge. This is why I tried so hard to get it to stay the same width as Sergio's model and try to keep it at 60-64 bricks long. I really wish I didn't accidentally save over that version because I used Orion Pax's middle window idea and it worked out quite well. Questions/Concerns So is it closer to scale? almost. lol. Without going as large as Orion Pax did, I lose space to fit everything in the garage. He had enough space on his layout to include a bathroom on the left side of the garage door. He showed space for an elevator shaft where I am placing the mechanic closet and water heater. He had plenty of space between the fire poles and echo 1. Garage bathroom ​As you will see in my layouts, I have a window, and a closed off room that can accommodate a 2x3 brick lol. DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY SOLUTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS THAT CAN HELP SOLVE THIS ISSUE? I wish that I could come up with a better solution for the garage door so I didn't need to lose that extra brick width and I could fit a toilet in the bathroom and maybe a sink by making the room 2x4. I thought about using 1x2x3 panels in the bathroom area to open up the space a bit more. I wish LEGO made doors 3 wide and 5 or 6 bricks tall. That would answer this issue and question 2 The 2 sets of storage lockers As you can see, I added extra images of the contraction of it. I heavily modified Sergio's idea, basically grouping the lockers together and making them enclosed. I am not a huge fan of the exposed hinge, but I did the doors revered because it felt like the embezzling on the wood in the movie. I know I need to fix the top to have the decoration peaks and curves which I will use the 1x1 slope to make this work like the LEGO official set did. IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR ALTERING OR IMPROVING THE DESIGN OF THE STORAGE LOCKERS THAT WOULD BE A BLESSING. biggest gripe In order to hold them in place I had to use snot techniques and the right side of the far left set of lockers had to use flat bricks running up the green wall. This didn't allow for the nice white, green, white pattern to work. I would prefer to make it fit somehow with the wall as is and not have a weird gap or bricks turned sideways. As you will see, the reason why that 2x8 plate is attached to the brown lockers is holding the door hinges up. And overall, it overhangs the brick width just a tad. If I could figure out a simpler solution and one that doesn't use so many rare bricks I would be super excited. The actual number of lockers near the front are 4, space between and another 3. Unless I do them in 2 to 2.5 bricks wide, i won't be able to get 4. The new Official LEGO set uses 2x4 door panels. My space allows for 9 bricks wide, gap, wall structure pole, then another storage locker about 9 bricks wide again. - Solution would easiest be solved if LEGO had a 3 wide door at 5 to 6 bricks tall lol. Sacrificing space in Venkman's office As you will see in the photos, I made Venkman's office with a large storage area behind it just like the movie. Orion Pax didn't include a storage space, but he definitely had the width to fit the movie accuracy shape. SHOULD I EXPAND VENKMANS OFFICE BY 1 BRICK AND REMOVE THE DOOR ON THE RIGHT SIDE? In the movie and photos provided by GBfans.com there is clearly a door on the right side, you see it when Venkman jumps the door when Dana arrives. *** Solution would easiest be solved if LEGO had a 3 wide door at 5 to 6 bricks tall lol. If I expand the office, I can offset the desk and chairs 1/2 a brick to recenter it. I could move Janine's desk 1 brick down, and it would allow the gliding doors 5 bricks wide between them instead of 4. It would allow me to fake filing cabinets using 2x2 bricks instead of their 3wide cabinets. This would realign all 4 the green pillars like the movie and layout from gbfans. ONLY ISSUE: not sure if it will fit the echo-1 between them since its 8-9bricks wide. If we can figure out the locker issue, that would solve this next question. Otherwise: SHOULD I ADD THE SAME STYLE LOCKERS TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE NEAR JANINE'S DESK? As you can see in the layout, there are a set of 3 more lockers (9 bricks wide) that would need to be placed near her desk. Whatever I do with Question 2, obviously affects this issue. WHAT DO I DO WITH THE GROSS DARK ORANGE WALL BEHIND THE LOCKERS? In the movie, as well as the actual Hook and Ladder 8 location, the stairwell wall does not fit within the box much like it's LA interior location. TARDIS ISSUE!!!!! Seriously, after visiting the area, I went in the alley way and noticed they have a side door. My only guess is it is an emergency exit for the stairwell. I am sure they have storage inside the area as well, but its basically just a set of stairs. I don't know what to do with this shape. The official set, Sergio and Pax all omitted it. Sergio and LEGO made matching windows to the other street side view. LEGO made a nice set of stairs scaffolding and doors most NY buildings have. The video game breaks all rules and used the interior of the LA location to place the windows on the back wall on the second and 3rd floor. I may be fine with that since the movie shows the kitchen and lab area with windows that don't exist on the exterior location since there is a stairwell wall there. Currently, I placed a door inside the area where it leads to the basement under the stairs. I thought it was a good idea since we never saw the top of the stairs before. Future issues Stairs for 2nd and 3rd floor. Current layout shows stairs don't exist. Reason? Well in the real location the stairs continue up to the 3rd floor from the same set of stairs that started on the first floor. Just 1 long star case. In the movie, they blocked it off with a fake wall to make people think that was the back of the building. They never showed any other rooms from the 3rd floor so various layouts justified that the 3rd floor must be an extra set of beds, kitchen, and laboratory as well as their dark room from GB 2 scene. It would make sense since they used one of the rooms on the second floor that was located behind the blocked off area I believe. Photo reference: Found by a ghostbuster fan, who posted this on deviant art.com