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Congrats for the feature on The Brothers Brick, Giacinto! https://www.brothers-brick.com/2018/10/11/a-beautiful-lego-baroque-cathedral-emerges-out-of-nowhere/

Thanks! It's crazy to think these are almost two and a half years old. Funny you say The Iron Horse, as it's one of the ones that gets overlooked constantly. Looking back at those models, I wouldn't build them exactly like that now. Somewhere in the middle I would inevitably think: "Stop! Stop! You need at least two buildings!". Maybe I should do a single-building modular sometime soon. We'll see So glad you like them!

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Brutal! In real bricks, it really show that extra "airy" feel that's so wonderful, everything seems even more grandiose. All the angled sections are wonderful, especially the Bernini-esque arms that extend out. The side naves on the back have wonderful angling too. I particularly like the middle nave's long sand green roof, as it reminds me quite a bit of Parisian Restaurant. Overall, this is amazing. Two little things, is the decoration on top of the dome warm gold? And how tall is it? How does it compare to your modulars?

I see what you mean, both our styles are somewhat similar. I take extreme care in making prominent focal points to my buildings, something to look at straight away, and am very much into finding new colour combos that might work (I found out white, flame yellow and teal work magnificanetly together!). Everything I do I want it to feel new, and Bricky_Brick (I feel) that always repeats the same tanninh-nougatish colour scheme with unclear lines to the builds.

I think a new model dedicated to a sole business is not coming any time soon (in the style of GG or TH). That said, this model is very far from my top modulars list. It's nicely designed, just not my style

Really surprised! This is probably alongside Voltron, the big Ideas set no-one saw coming but that I might even consider buying

I'm seriously in love! The coral formations up close are a real beauty to behold. The only thing I would do it tile the base or roughen it up with sand and so on. I love how you've used almost every single colour in the palette!

Thanks @koalayummies! I definitely always try to challenge myslef on something, here it was shaping, but I guess my parts usage and colours for façades already comes in the pack subconsciously. Building it certainly was a struggle, but in the end I think the buildings are nothing like I've build before, which is ulimately, the goal Glad you like it, means a lot!

Really cool, hadn't seen it

Thanks @kodlovag ! It's funny you say this about colours, as it's not something conscious I do. Maybe it's because all the buildings that I get inspired by are yelling for attention, most Art Nouveau stuff. I tried to use interesting shapes everywhere I could and I think the building on the left may be the most traditional or pleasing to the eye, as it has some Dutch influence to it. So glad you like it!

Love it! The frog's moulded detail really shines in this model. There's many fountains in Barcelona that look like this

Thanks @Digger of Bricks Really tried the hardest I could to make an architectural element that is not present in any official modular and that I'd not captured before. Thanks! Thanks @Feng-huang0296! I really like how it seems as if there's two different buildings, one for the ground floor and another for the first and second (or second and thrid, how you prefer it). Which of the three whould be your favourite? Well, I'm polar opposite, if I buy DD, I'll be sure to put some classic smileys tot he figures! It was really fun to play around with that figure. Btw, do you know who he is? Thanks a lot for writing this long message @Bricked1980! This time I even challenged myself to retrain the palette a little bit, but... inevitably, there was not much I could do. I agree, there's many similarites with Klee Corner, but this time, I wanted it to have a more relaxed atmosphere, less of an "in your face" effect. While the colours are still there, I consciously toned it down a bit. As for the swooping on the green building, it just felt right to do so, as Klee Corner was supposed to have its swoop centred in the first place, but didn't work out. I'm not sure which out of the two is my favourite. Too early to decide for me. The building on the left is also maybe my favourite, but the others have such great elements that it's really hard to decide. My favourite architectural element is definitely the brown building's roofline. So glad you like it!

Great model @koalayummies! At first I was going to comment about how it feels a bit short, but at a second glance, it looks more balanced. The exterior is not at all my style, but I can appreciate when something is well done. The texturing of the windows and the columns is great and neatly topped off with a dome. The interior pulled a couple laughs out of me. Judges bribed, prosecutors doing nothing at all! This is really great. I must say I adore the little slot for the judge. I wonder how he knows from whom each incentive is coming from, as 100$ Lego bills don't fit into 1x2 envelopes . Overall a very nice build that perfectly captures politics and judges nowadays. Love it!

The concert's on, come have a listen! Disco 2000 Vinyl Store is my (I think) ninth modular and the closure of the A Summer in Tuscany - Klee Corner - Disco 2000 trilogy. I was dying to do a new corner building, mainly for three reasons: First, Lego's doing one this year, so I figured... why not? Second, because I hadn't done a pure 32x32 corner building since Sweets & Co., almost a year and a half ago! And third, because I wanted to. Without further ado.... It may not be apparent at first glance, but this modular has easily been the most time-costing and hardest modular to build. The ground floor was built up fairly quickly between May and June 2018, but creating something worthy on top is what took me all summer to figure out. So the model began on steady wheels. The brightly-coloured "boxes" on the ground floor take direct inspiration from both my own Klee Corner (the pizzeria had a similar idea) and the London Undergound. In fact, the dark red ground floor used to be an entrance to an undergound station that was closed down some years ago that has now been transformed into a state-of-the-art vinyl store. The dark red ground floor is almost a copy of those entrances that can be found in the Tube's Northern Line, covered in those beautiful blood-coloured tiles. Even in my Lego interpretation, I was able to add the beautiful sand blue lights. Outside there's a sign, "Disco 2000", it says. The old-fashined font and style of the sign is totally on purpose. Wait, there's people singing and dancing on the street... A paparazzi on the roof of the dark green glass box... Is he famous or something? Both the white windows of the tube entrance and the dark green windows are lying on their sides. In the case of the green ones, it's not quite so obvious, so it's pretty cool. There's some albums outside, which (if you can guess which they are you're a real god), but I'll talk about architecture first. The Architecture: Architecturally speaking, this model is very interesting. Just like in Klee Corner, this has three different buildings onto a single baseplate. The advantage being, of course, that I have two full façades to split them up. The final building is almost colour-coded. Every part of the build has a colour associated to it. The central and most important part of the building, kind of the "eye" of the building, is constructed using a similar method to the one I used for the façade of the lounge on Klee Corner, only this time using a 2-stud-wide pillar going up rather than a 1-stud-wide one. There were so many different iterations for the central part, even one being sort of a peacock-coloured flimsy spaghetti (maybe at building 8 out of the 15 built). I got that bug of wanting this building to do so many things at the same time that I had to chop down things that I'd done which no longer fitted the image I chased. The final result is way simpler than some previous ones and has a lovely Belle Epoque feel to it. This final iteration is inspired by the gorgeous entrances of the Paris Metro (metro entrance over underground entrance, that's kind of hilarious ). I retook one iteration of Klee Corner for the shape of the roof, so it has a perfect triangular balance with the two side pieces. The Iron Horse+Klee Corner+Paris Metro, I think the result's pretty cool! I had already done the first render when I realised the façade needed some more dynamism. Initially, the windows were totally aligned. I then changed that static feel by breaking the lines and making them follow the curvature of the escaling roof. I love the double curve that the escalating windows and the curvature of the building itself have. creator saying stupid stuff. The brown building on the right scared me a little bit, as I'd never been able to pull off a good dark building, brown, for instance. Dark Orange, when rendered in Pov-Ray, though has this chocolate colour which is just delightful. In fact, this side building was not part of the plan first, as a whole building covered the whole "London undergound" ground floor. Then, for quite a while I had a cool texture for a brick wall that was just six studs wide which helped me figure out the measurements for the central building. That idea stuck, but in the end, due to the central building being shrinked, this brown building grew. I gave it some windows inspired by those of a school that I walk past every day and the greatest of rooflines. You really have to look at this: there's pieces looking in four different directions. The right way up, upside down and to both sides! The white/blue/yellow building on the left has a bit less of a tumultuous story to it. It began as a version of the Met Breuer, as the central building was to be something along the lines of a Gehry work. Once I'd settled for a much more colourful design on the other two buildings (after a looooong while), that grey thing looked as terrible as a stain on a red dress. Therefore, I reused on of the ideas for the central building for this side one, adapted some earlier window designs, changed the colours, added the sign, and voilà! There it is! The Interiors: Cross the gates to the awesomeness of the world of music. Because this was done in LDD, I couldn't build those racks full of vinyls, so instead I covered an entire wall of the best-selling vinyls. Note: All the covers are Lego interpretations of real albums! In fact, there's the entire discographies of two bands! Have a guess! The pattern on the floor, funnily enough comes from a "Where's Wally?" book which had a similar one. There's turntables and hanging vinyls on the window shop. On the opposite side, there's a nice Dalí-inspired coach with... again the same special guest!? Now, that can't be a coincidence, can it? The floor above has a magnificent concert stage for artists to play. I really like the atmosphere I captured in this area. I can easily imagine a songwriter playing his/her songs on that stage, as the city lights shine bright behind the sand green building. There's a small bar for guests to take a drink as the concert's on. The room's, though, not big enough for all the audience, so some of those left outside have to climb outside the window and listen from there. Be careful! The interior is built in a Brick Bank kind of way, all the different buildings share one same interior. Finally, the top floor is... A music shop! Couldn't be anything else, could it? 1 Assembly Square can start to tremble as there's a new neighbour next doors with much better instruments and at a better price. The widest range of guitars in all the imaginable colours and shapes, keyboards, amps, synths, drums and pianos. They say the owner of the Magic Shop built this drum kit and his grandchildren have put it on sale. They also say that both pianos, those of Magic Shop and Klee Corner were bought here and that's why they don't have one on stock right now. This drum kit, they say, is so loud that it was able to distort time and make the owner of Magic Shop live over 170 years. Maybe it was his potions what kept him alive. Again, who's that guy? He's everywhere! One Last Image: Disco 2000 Vinyl Store, surrounded by its two new friends, A Summer in Tuscany and Klee Corner. I think that Disco 2000 may even look better surrounded by other models than alone, unlike the other two, which definitely look better alone. Hope you like this modular! Pau

I can't see it either, but I see no reason a mechanic with rusty tools and cars stacked one on top of each other shouldn't be a thing.

I can already kind of envision this. I couldn't pinpoint an exact example, but in many italian towns there's garages/mechanics on ground floors. This sounds a bit like the evolution of Mike's design that didn't quite work for DD, that maybe they've found a way to round off this time. First floor garages is not something I'd personally ever envisioned in a modular setting, but it's less probably less restictive than a Diner. I mean, a flamboyant diner kind of needs as flamboyant of a building to match it. A garage on the ground floor can have anything on top of it, interior and architecture-wise. I'm curious how they'll tie it up if this rumour's true. A vet seems like a nice choice too

Well... There were six rumoured sets for 2019. While I would not really like a rerelease, there's certainly room in the portofolio for it. So the wind turbine has a January 1st release, right? If so, would a modular be released alongside the turbine? I would think so, as the turbine may be sort of a minor release. I'm assuming the turbine is all about the new Lego plant parts, but doesn't it feel a bit cheap to put the Expert badge to a set that might not have had it when it was released originally? I know Expert was not a thing then.

I don't know if my opinion is shared by others or not. I just own te newer modulars, currently PR, DO and BB, and would not at all buy a GG rerelease. I think of it as a model of the past that is there, but that is just worse than current style modulars. Such choice would alienate those who do own it and those who don't really think it's that cool of a model anymore. A double release modular could be interesting, but I doubt Lego would put out two in a row, despite the huge Creator Expert product list for 2018. For me, an all-new model is always the way to go. Besides, would a kid in a toy shop understand the model? I mean, it's not entirely new, because unless they really revamp it, GG feels rather outdated, but it's not old either. I know I wouldn't buy it. Besides, wouldn't a CC rerelease make more sense? Corner, first of the series...

Nice shed and cars! My favourite would be the beach buggy with the curved bow on 45-degrees at the front

Nice! That Calatrava-inspired bridge is not-so-nice as we all know his mastery in spending thirty times the budget and making his "amazing buildings" leak all over the place, rather literally.

100% true. Before you know it, the 3000 piece mark is blown past; especially on corner buildings. Fair point, actually. A straight modular can have three floors and full interiors, a corner... It's a bit of a drag. If the 3000-3500 piece mark's real, then a three-story building would make absolute sense. For me, it's been a while since I saw an official model and said "wow!". The last that did so was DO. Neither BB, nor AS and not at all the newest DD have. BB and AS have their flaws, don't have that "wow" factor. Whatever it is, the first impression for me is key. Hope they'll go real creative.

I have recently been making a corner building myself. The piece count on corners grows fairly quickly as there's two full façades to be built, whereas in a straight modular, there's one full-on façade and another one which an be pretty half-baked. I would say BB's height is about as tall as you can get with a corner unit as long as you stay in the 2500 piece mark and keep all the interior detail Lego have us used to.

Amazing! I've never really comented on any train thread but the TEE is an absolute favourite of mine an I coudn't help. On a first look, it felt like I was seeing a Marklin model (definitely a good thing) and then as I scrolled down and read to how many lenghts you went to cover up all the gaps and integrating all the windows, I just fell in love. Superb job! Pau

Interesting. On Pricevortex they're listing SIX Creator Expert sets for 2019. 10264 through 10269. 10264 might be the landmark, 10265 the modular, 10266 the vehicle, 10267 the winter village set, 10268 the rerelease @TheLegomane's mentioning and 10269 a fairground set, maybe? https://www.pricevortex.com/