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  1. paupadros
    Ninjago City has 1400 pieces more and costs just 30$/€ more. That has clearly a better price/piece ratio, but 7.8 cents/piece isn't too bad though for this set. Everything over 10 cents is basically a carnage to your wallet. I'm winking at you Minecraft and Architecture sets!
  2. paupadros
    Totally. That's why I didn't include the Landmarks under the "brilliant D2Cs". I would also take a Ninjago City over Taj Mahal, or even Big Ben, but I'd take a modular over any of those. You mentioned the others as the "Good D2Cs", I don't think there's anyone in this entire planet who thinks Assault on Hoth was even remotely decent ;)
  3. paupadros
    Probably others have said this before, but high price may come from brand new rollecoaster pieces and all those fancy new decorations for the figs. Anyway, some months ago I thought that the Carousel was a "too" large of a middle-class set. 2500 seemed a bit too many pieces. Suddenly, it seems like bigger piece counts are the norm. I don't know how many of us are there to afford one/two large sets a year, but one of my two yearly picks will definitely not be this one. Fun to look at, but, when I buy a set, I'm in for the style., I'm in for a treat. I enjoy putting together something you can marvel and not only play with afterwards. Maybe it's just my point of view, but it seems like D2Cs have parted ways. There's the stylish, well put together, sleek, well-proportioned and well-coloured models, such as the Modulars, the big scale cars (Mini, CamperVan...), the amusement rides, the Winter Village sets (with some exceptions there), the Star Wars UCSs and many many others along the years. Then there's other sets, which look like lost of good intentions thrown at a bowl, not surprisingly often them being sets that recreate bigger places in movies (Batcave, Assault on Hoth and now this).
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    I do think it does proves something. Time and popularity can be extrapolated to one another. Probably both Jang and BrickBuilder had more subscribers on Jan 2017 than on Jan 2016. Yet, less response. You might say: BB has been out for double the time, so Assembly Square should have double views. Well... No. There's something called "hype". Hype builds up and drops down when it has been released. Look, I don't have the facts and figures, but I bet most the views in all the videos and articles happened in 2-5 days. Later, the number dropped and dropped and dropped even further. So, is Assembly Square less popular? At least these numbers show so. It could also be the case of Brick Bank devaluing the "brand" and making the hype for Assembly Square less big (I'm talking general audiences, not die-hard fans who search over on Reddit for leaks! I count myself in that group too ). Brick Bank was a step down from Detective's Office, so the follow-up sold less. Lastly, Assembly Square is more expensive, so Lego wouldn't need all those extra thousands of people to sell the set to, because the others that bought it paid more. Offer and demand, boys... Let me do the math... Imagine 10% of the viewers bought the sets, that means: Brick Bank: 75.000 + 170.000 + 27.900 = 272.900 people x $170 = $46'3 million Assembly Square: 32.400 + 94.100 + 23.100 = 149.600 people x $280 = $41'8 million, quite close, in fact. I'm probably just going around the issue way too much. I'll just stop now. Let's stay whether we like or dislike the sets.
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    Surely not, that would be ridiculous. Look, while Assembly Square is, I think, a better modular than Brick Bank, many reviews and builds on YouTube show that BB is more popular. Look: Views BB AS Jangbricks: 757.000 324.000 Brick Builder: 1.700.000 941.000 Designer Video: 279.000 231.000 Must say, the thumbanil on BB's Lego offical video was rather terrible... With that said, it makes zero sense to make another Assembly Square. Furthermore, I think whatever they said, not many more big ideas can be put in a 48x32 baseplate. Another square? A public park? No. The first would be considered too similar to AS and a park would just be rather rubbish... Again, don't be surprised if the piece count is over 2600 bricks. I think it's just logical, it makes sense to make it go up slightly from the previous pre-Assembly Square modulars. Subject matter? Up to Lego, the masterminds behind Creator Expert have surely the weapon still loaded to surprise us yet.
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    Wow, I hope I'm not the only one, but really genuinely love a thousand times more the multi-business multi-building streets than the dull Neoclassical boxes. Maybe not, but it seems around here you guys adored the older modulars and... dislike the current ones...? Loss of height is totally fine for me too. At least they now fit in my shelves. Actually, I want to buy Assembly Square and I'm usure its blue spire will fit. Let's hope so! No Pet Shop design! Please no! I don't know if you've tried building your own double modulars, but they use up a ton of pieces that you just don't see: walls, extra roofs, extra furnishing. In a bigger room, if a blank space is left, it really doesn't matter, but in a Pet Shop-style building it looks terrible totally empty. I'm gonna be honest, I doubt they'll go back to the 2200-2400 realm, raising AS's piece count to 4002 also leaves a gateway for modulars to be around 2500-3000 pieces. I mean, when you've gotten used to the huge piece count AS has, then seeing 2000 is kind of... And that's it? Really? It's really a distractor to allow the "normal modulars" to be bigger. Again, my unlikely but hopeful bet: 2500+ pieces, brighly coloured walls - yellow or orange. Or even red!
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    Wow! How could have I even missed such wonderful news! It's true the old one was "dirtier" more brownish and this one is basically a Pearl Copper, much like Pealy/Warm Gold. Probably just as useful as the older Copper for what I'm aiming at, it's just the overally colour I'm looking for, not the slightly more serious or more cartoonish hue. Very very good point, imagine having all those blonde minifigures have same colour hair and face! Yes! Sand red, the old forgotten family member. Aside from Sand Purple, which I think just was in a Zam Wesell (Attack of the Clones) minifigures in 2004. Sand red would also be a solution to the problem one of the members in the thread had of not having enough reds. Again Salmon would greatly help to that too. Wonderful chart! Would also be interesting for knowing what an Earth Pink would look like. Not sure it would be any useful, but it's always fun guessing. What do you mean with the second part, though? Just because kids prefer less complex colours they know, Lego can't make others? I'm fairly sure when you ask kids what their favourite colours, they won't say "Sand Green", but that doesn't stop Lego from making those such wonderful colours. I would love to see both a lighter red, or Salmon and the Burnt Red you mentioned earlier.
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    Let's not forget, it seems like very fall we remind this, but: Assembly Square's name was revealed by a post on Lego subreddit on September 29th. Speculation of plaza with inverted corners and trees until October 17th, offical press release. On the same October 17th, the leak with official images came some 2-3 hours before the official one. Next modular is getting closer and closer. This time around I have absolutely no solid guesses or anything. Only hoping it will be in some unused colours such as Cool or Flame Yellow, Orange or Spring Yellowish Green. Maybe they could experiment with making the façade be a mosaic, see the right building in my Sweets & Co. modular for an example. Middle one in my signature.
  9. paupadros
    Hmmm... Isn't it a bit too orange for what he meant? I imagined a red that just doesn't scream "Ferrari!" at your face like the current one does. Also, a dark mustard could be good. I already mentioned this, but I want to clarify: a sort of Dark Orange, but in yellow instead. I think it would be properly useful, as Dark Orange already is my go-to colour in terms of brown, over Reddish Brown. Of course if a colour just doesn't exist in Dark Orange, Reddish Brown has to do, but DO is that little bit lighter, that little bit more personal to me, maybe because it's the least used brown (aside from Dark Brown). I also mentioned a salmon-ish colour. An orange that slowly fades into pink, something really unique and beautiful I would say. I must agree on both Azures. Medium was taken from Duplo, if I'm not wrong and some four/five years ago Dark Azure was introduced. Out of the two, Medium Azure has too much of a cake look to me, Dark Azure is just so much better. But Medium Az. sometimes comes in very handy, eg. the globe in Big Bang Theory. I strongly disagree on Bright and Flame Yellow. While Bright is the classic that must be maintained, Flame is sometimes just a million times better. It is stronger, has more personality, looks less fagile... Aaand... a thing I forgot to mention that could also be interseting is returning the old Copper. I'm pretty sure Lego only makes shades of Gold and Silver right now, but sometimes both of these are just way too striking or fake to be used. For instance, I used Copper, thank God it's inside LDD for a wrought iron door portal on one of my modulars. It's a pretty necessary return in my opinion.
  10. paupadros
    Yeah, it could feel a little rude to say they're useless, but they're not "GO TO" colours when deciding for a main colour scheme for a model. At least not for me, and I do know many Friends sets use them very often. Well, to be honest, Elves is one of the themes that uses those usually fogotten colours and mixes them brilliantly, all the purples, pinks etcetera. For me, at least, I use them very rarely for what? Flowers, wall decor sometimes. That's about it. Bright Green on the other hand does feel a lot like Dark Green, but each feel a lot more unique than both Lavenders, to be honest. Something like this? A sort of burnt orange, but quasi-red? I'm all for that colour, Lego once did a colour Ryan Howerter nicknamed "Rust" but I think that is way too dark for what you mean. Maybe, a salmon-ish red could also be an good idea. For the years I've been building in Lego, I've figured there's just no way of making old Barroque or Neoclassical (mostly European) look decent in terms of colours. I've tried Tan, but it's just way too light. I've tried "Dark Tan" but it's way too dark. I've tried a combo of Medium Nougat, Light Bluish Grey, Dark Tan and a bit of Sand Blue but it looks odd. Aiming for something like this, but never looks right. And yes, I do know Nougat and Medium Nougat in LDD are just way too dark. I've always found annoying the fact that Olive Green and Dark Tan are practically indistinguishable. But I strongly disagree that Tan could be considered yellow. It's just not, maybe it's what it's closest to, but it's not yellow. In fact, Sand Yellow, aka. Dark Tan looks more like a dead brown than a yellow too. I do know it's "sand", but Sand Blue and Green are clearly blue and green. Sand Yellow isn't. We'll keep that in mind!
  11. paupadros
    Good! Good modular! Good colour choices throughout, really good around the rooftop with the Unikitty tails and koi fish! I admire the bravery, I would've never tried to make a building just out of Earth Green, a very difficult task, but you've made it look phenomenal. Really good interior, especially good tearoom, with phenomenal custom printed tile, I assume. There is one thing that bugs me, though. I was looking around the building for a couple seconds, trying to figure out if it was a corner building or not. The turret just made me think there was something more that you just didn't show. I don't know, maybe I'm a bit consevative on that side, but I just dislike that aspect.
  12. paupadros
    I had no idea under which subforum put this, but I figured this was the closest to "Miscellaneous" or other geeky and weird stuff. Official Lego Colours Lego colours have been gradually increasing since the beginning of times, suddenly increased around the early 2000s, with the addition of the "sand" colours. Now, I've been wondering the current Lego palette has 57 colours: 38 solid, 14 transparent, technically 3 pearlascent/metal (Gold Ink and other shiny things don't count) and 1 glow in the dark colour. Now, I know many of us think the use of transparent pieces and chromed ones at some places is a little redundant and like using the solid ones instead. The solid colours are basically split into colour families, but I'll try to divide them even further: Blues: 8 (Earth, Sand, Bright/Classic, Aqua, Royal, Medium and both Azures) - more than enough to cover your needs, I think. Greens: 7 (Earth, Bright, Dark, Sand, Spring Yellowish, Lime and Olive) - Olive being the latest addiiton the line up, if I'm not mistaken. Purples and Pinks: 6 (Bright Pur., Light Pur., Magenta, Lavander, Medium Lav., Lilac) - Utterly redundant as some of them are practically useless and stupid. Browns/Tans/Earthy Thingys: 8 (Flesh, Nougat, Medium Nougat, Tan, Dark Tan, Dark Orange, Reddish Brown, Dark Brown) - some universal colours such as Tan but others just ugly like Nougat. Grey/Black/White: 4 (Light Bluish Grey, Dark Bluish Grey and Black) - Universal colours everybody uses and loves. Would be interesting returning other shades of grey, or making a lighter shade of grey, but bluish. Red: 2 (Bright and New Dark) - A very low number for such a universal colour, but it's true that it's the colour with less itinerance, meaning not many shades can be made out of it and still look different enough. Orange: 1 - Just orange. Yellows: 3 - Bright/Classic, Cool, Flame Yellowish Orange - a surprisingly low number for such a universal colour. My Own Ideas: Now you may have seen that towards the end, the numbers reduced drastically. But why? Why doesn't Lego make just more shades of yellow, red and orange? I've been playing around with the idea of a new shade of colour for quite a long time. Some time ago, Lego made a colour called "Curry" -or at least that's what Brickset called it-. Curry only appeared in a single Duplo piece in 2002 (https://brickset.com/parts/colour-Curry). Now, Curry looked a heck of a lot like Flame Orange, but that got me thinking. Why not make a "Mustard" colour? a colour darked than Flame Orange but much more orangy? Something like this. Or why not returning the glorious Dark Turquoise (https://brickset.com/parts/colour-Bright-Bluish-Green). One of the façades of one of my modular buildings uses this colour lightly to give it personality. There isn't a colour more perfect to me than that one. What do you think? Are some colours Lego makes just strange and useless? Is something really missing? Do you like my ideas? Comment!
  13. paupadros
    Beautiful trunk! So curvy and flexy! I'm not a massive fan of Dalí, only because he just didn't squeeze his potential to the max, you always felt he could do more but was too lazy to do so. And I live an hour away from where he lived! Gorgeous MOC!
  14. paupadros
    PR retiring already? It's way too good to be retired so early. In my opinion they could make an exception and have BB be the next to retire. You know... It's not even half as good.
  15. paupadros
    Believe me, I would nail it down to Assembly Square, Detective's Office and Parisian Restaurant. Brick Bank is definetly inferior to the other three.
  16. paupadros
    Assembly Square is one big chunky masterpiece. It has some flaws here and there, but that doesn't stop it from being mindblowing. Parisian Restaurant, Detective's Office and Brick Bank are also great sets, but work better next to one another. Out of the three, Brick Bank is definetly the worst. A bit boring IMO and exterior detail on PR is better and interior detail on DO is better than BB.
  17. paupadros
    Very very very good.Brick Bank has always looked too wide for what it is, you've made both this and the Laundromat a million times better. Congrats!
  18. paupadros
    Thanks a lot! Sweets & Co really shows that it's not compulsory or obligatory for a building to be based on a single colour. In fact, the mosaic face on the right building gives it different personalities depending on how you look at it. Also, you wouldn't say it is white, right? It is mostly white, but not exactly! It has a tint of other colours. About Casa Batlló, it's extremely tough to build its walls. They're phenomenal pieces of art in real life, but even the most colourful print doesn't do it justice. And you'd say the closest colour to the wall in Lego is either white, tan or dark tan, but none look that brilliant. I still like that roof a lot, it's very nice. Glad you like it.
  19. paupadros
    Exactly what I feel. Interior is nice and definetly interesting, but I don't decide which modular to buy relying on it. I don't particularly adore BB, but I appreciate some of the neoclassical elements on it. Funnily enough, Lego has 8 shades of blue, 7 shades of green, 6 shades of pink/purple but just 3 of yellow (not counting Sand Yellow which is in my mind Dark Tan and not yellow): Cool Yellow - ultra pale, Bright Yellow - the yellow we're all used that has been around for decades and Flame Yellow - a stronger shade. All yellow flower studs are this colour. I've been playing around for years with the idea of bringing another yellow into the System. Last colours created by Lego were both "Azures", Olive Green and pretty sure Medium Nougat. A Mustard yellow I feel would be perfect, unique enough to build with, but blendable with "Earthy" tones like Medium Nougat or the "Tan" family. In fact, Lego had some 12 years ago a Curry colour, but only on a single Duplo brick. About that only much much more browny and orangy.
  20. paupadros
    That tower... Just amazing. Speechless. You know when you are also into modulars but then someone else just makes something a billion times better than yours. Healthy envy! I never thought dark red and tan would work so well together. On the right side of the building you just nailed it. The left is not my piece of cake. It's good as well, but just not my style. Phenomenal modular! Eager for more
  21. paupadros
    True, but what I meant by Italian is not its neoclassical and barrocco palaces. Fun fact, in my room I have a poster of Palladio's "Villa Capra" aka "La Rotonda". It's not that I dislike the style, but I feel Lego is more suited for bright coloured buildings. For Italian I meant houses with brightly coloured shutters and wires badly hung from everywhere. Well, there's buildings like that all throughout France and Switzerland too, but you get what I mean. Now that I think about it, Lego's never made yellow nor an orange building. Just throwing ideas to the bowl!
  22. paupadros
    Thanks Bricksmith! Magic Shop is the most "classy" to say it some way. The others are a bit more daring, a bit less Lego-ish to say it some way, but still fun. My favourite definetly is Sweets & Co for the moment being. Byw, wonderful train you do in your Flickr. Can't resist adoring that Flying Scotsman, always reminds me of Train Simulator 2002, I think it was.
  23. paupadros
    Instead of interior content, I think the team behind them focus more on making the exeriors unique to each. Having said that: American: GG, FB, GE, TH, PC, DO, BB, blue building on AS? European: CC (hmm... not sure where from) MS (Dutch), PS (Brit? I've always thought they look quite like the terraced houses in London), PR (French), AS (French... ish square and maybe buildings). Still no Italian buildings to be found. Italian buildings are rather easy to build in Lego too. Bright coloured wall and shutters (a thing which btw no modular to date has). An even better point is there's been no yellow building in ten years. And interior... they can throw whatever they want in there.
  24. paupadros
    Oh, it's true I haven't done any pics for its interior. It's not that mindblowing though...
  25. paupadros
    Quite a quirky little modular! Has rather nice personality
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