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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition! Tintin needs no introduction really. Created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (Hergé), Tintin is a reporter and adventurer who travels the world in search of adventure and stories. Over the course of the 20th century, Hergé drew a series of 24 comic books with Tintin as the protagonist. Two of the most fascinating are Objective: Moon (Objectif: Lune) and Explorers on the Moon (On a marché sur la Lune) which in the early 1950s showed what a Moon mission could look like, something that would not become a reality until some fifteen years later. One of the key elements of these albums was the rocket to the moon: the red-and-white V2-inspired machine is one that has captured the imagination of many (including me, of course ) Here's a little video of my rocket in motion: I tried to make the rocket itself move upwards, but I couldn't find a proper way of doing so without intersecting with the already moving clouds of smoke or destabilising the whole model. Truth be told, the clouds are pretty weak and as much as I would love to make instructions for the whole model, it's just way too flimsy for my lax standards to even approve. I'm planning though on making instructions for the rocket alone with a simple base, which is definitely secure enough. And pretty cheap too: I think it was somewhere along the 270-piece mark. This origniated from my father, who is huge Tintin fan. For his birthday earlier this March, I gifted him this kinetic sculpture of the famous rocket lifting off. The clouds of smoke move thanks to two simple camshafts, creating the illusion of the rocket really lifting off. Most are positioned parallel to one another except for the second-to-last row which is angled to give some more interest to the model. You can find a complete album on my Flickr and on my Instagram.

The cinema looks really awesome! It would be interesting to see how it’d translate to a full-scale modular

Superb build! The shapes of the three buildings combine very well. The colours also help sell the overall effect. The building on the left especially has colour and shape well resolved. And liking those binoculars as detail! . The middle black and grey building works fabulously to separate the other building. I should try to build a black building sometime. And, finally, the building over to the right constrasts well with the orange one on the left both in shapes and colours, creating a beautiful effect. But those minifig legs! Please! Anyway, great model. It really ticks all the boxes: colours, shapes and details. I especially like the way you’ve done the windows. Loving it!

Amazing job. It's one of those modulars that is a little bit deceptive. I honestly thought it was much bigger than it actually seems to be, like @snaillad Piazza Maria scale The colours work really well, the shapes work together nicely and I like how you've pulled off the bookshop entrance. I did something similar for one of my modulars a little while ago, but yours looks better.

Interesting! I'm really glad he got involved in the makings of LEGO Architecutre, it's pretty much one of the few themes the sets of which I look forward to seeing every year. I missed out on the architect-centered buildings of the beginning and sincerely doubt we're seeing another Robie House at this point I really like your website!

I strongly agree. For me, building 32-wides is really difficult. I remember when building my first modular MOC, Magic Shop, that I just didn't know how to fill the 32 studs on the ground level. More windows!? Arches!? . And mine was not as tall as TH or FB but thanks to its pointed tip and smaller windows on the top floors, I managed to make it seem bigger using forced perspective. That said, that was the first and last full flat façade modular. From then on, I either made the buildings have some variation (façades with protruding bits or curves) or straight out built two or more structures on each baseplate. Plus, completely on a personal note, the fact that a building occupies the full baseplate, takes away from us builders lots of tricks to make the buildings seem unique (eg. using a side façade to create extra depth, usign various buildings to complement one another...

I really like this. I was a bit skeptical when I saw your previous Corner Towe House, but I'm becoming quite a fan of your style.

The voting period has closed! What a last-minute turnaround! Final stats: 55 people have voted, leaving a total of 165 votes to the poll. Without futher ado... the best modular MOC of 2019 posted on Eurobricks is.... Bricks & Blooms by @Bricked1980 With a total of 17 votes, being one of their choices by 30.9% of the voters. Second place goes to the winner up until very few hours ago.... Clock Tower Square by @Giacinto Consiglio With a total of 15 votes, being one of their choices by 27.3% of the voters. Completing the podium, albeit at quite a distance from the top two entries.... Doughnut Shop by @ExeSandbox With a total of 9 votes, being one of their choices by 16.4% of the voters. Almost in the top 3 were... 4th: Modern Library by @lookl at 8 votes. Sharing 5th: A French Police Station by @jalemac34 and Brick Town Police Station by @Bricked1980 See the full results here! Congratulations to the winners and thank you for participating!

For the own creators to decide whether their model is a modular or not? That doesn't sound unreasonable at all. I don't know how to pin topics though. I'll look into it. Thanks for voting! Let's see tomorrow, when votes will close

28 responses so far! Clock Tower Square by @Giacinto Consiglio is number one two votes ahead of both Doughnut Shop by @ExeSandbox and A French Police Station by @jalemac34 ! Still up until Saturday to cast your votes.

This is in every single way astonishing. I have the feeling that saying too much about it would ruin it.

We were pretty darn aware of the misuse of the term "modular". If you had taken the time to read the first replies to this post, some of the other wonderful people of the forum mentioned that discerning what fits into the modular catoegory and what doesn't kind of was an arbitrary line to darw. We therefore chose to showcase all the buildings compatible with Lego modulars in terms of scale and less extensively, theme. Don't vote, fine, but mocking our work honestly downgrades yours. Cheers!

The day has come everyone! I've decided to keep it to "Best modular MOC posted on 2019 on EB" and have gone without the other proposed categories mainly because those required some kind of shortlist of nominees and choosing one myself would kind of be completely biased. So... I've put together a simple one-question Google poll (with images and all!) where you choose your three picks for the year (don't vote your own modulars please...). Let's see who wins! I think we should determine a strict deadline of when voting period ends (I propose Saturday 11th 2020) VOTE HERE!! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4R4PQfxnj99foksbtw3McgzqrlYl01a6NwNij2LOo6rt1eQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Translates very well to Lego. Builds like this make one really understand how far Lego has come. Superb!

Wow! Nice model. Literally first thing that came to mind were also @Giacinto Consiglio‘s designs. I personally never buy sets on day one, and this one won’t break the rule, but what a step up from CG! The teal townhouse is not entirely to my liking, but it feels whole, it feels detailled. The hole of the arches is a bit weird and could have been solved using different techniques to achieve that area. Some areas do feels a bit Friends and I’m not too fond of the roof texture. I really like how both buildings interact: sloping roofs, one set more forward, the curving staricase. I’ve spent a little while working out how to make buildings interacty and these really do. The bookstore is the better of the two though, without a doubt. The ground level is a 10/10. The rest works very nicely. Two buildings in that fashion next to one another would work wonders. I love it! Lego’s XXL is even better. Great job Wes on the design!

Amazingly beautiful. Look at that awesome SNOT and that super NPU.

That would be cool! You’ve said: Best first MOC MOC with best NPUs MOC with best colour scheme Most unusual-looking MOC I add: MOC you would buy MOC so real, you could almost picture in a real city MOC with best interiors

I believe it's already here! That's a fair point. I build both ways and building digitally practically limitless definitely takes a different approach than building with existing pieces. That said, I think it would be interesting to know which modular (singular) is the one members like most, regardless of it being a physical or a digital build. Of course, we could have three votes, one to determine the preferred physical build, on the determine the preferred digital build and one for both.

My first idea was no. Only true modular-compatible buildings allowed, but I guess it would be no harm to open it up to all the variances, as long as they don't differ too much from the core concept. Good point. But how could we do that automatically? The list that @koalayummies has put together is asonishing. I think that if at the end of December we opened it up for vote with all of those submitions, for now (having it automatic would be marvellous, of course) would work just fine. Another fair point. I was thinking, modulars from January 1st 2019 on up to, say, somewhere between December 20th - 25th 2019. I mean, it's 6 days before the end of the year. If we were to do this nest year, we sure would include any modular posted between the closing date for entries and the start of the year. I had started to put together the modulars in a Flickr group and was thinking about adding modulars that hadn't been posted here. Anyway, because most have been, any that haven't can be earsed from the group. Absolutely awesome job, @koalayummies!! I think selection you've chosen works well; they don't have to necessarily be modular-compatible, only in the modular style/scale. ==================================================== P.D. Do any of you guys know how to set up a post with a poll on top? And thanks for the support of this idea! I've invited all of the build in this list that have an account on Flickr in the following Flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/14656306@N20/

I think I might expand it to the whole Lego community and open it up for vote throughout. Could you please leave names of modulars who are worthy of this award?

The day has come everyone! I've decided to keep it to "Best modular MOC posted on 2019 on EB" and have gone without the other proposed categories mainly because those required some kind of shortlist of nominees and choosing one myself would kind of be completely biased. So... I've put together a simple one-question Google poll (with images and all!) where you choose your three picks for the year (don't vote your own modulars please...). Let's see who wins! I think we should determine a strict deadline of when voting period ends (I propose Saturday 11th 2020) VOTE HERE!! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4R4PQfxnj99foksbtw3McgzqrlYl01a6NwNij2LOo6rt1eQ/viewform?usp=sf_link ================================================================================================================================================================= Hello guys, I'd been thinking about doing a similar thing for last year but honestly... I kind of forgot about it and got reminded of it again in this February and it was kind of late for 2018, so let's do it for 2019! I wanted to organise some sort of public poll for Eurobricks users to vote their favourite modular MOCs posted here over the last year. For "modular" we understand the Café Corner standard (of course, expanded versions of the standard (such as AS) accepted) and in a somewhat similar fashion to the official Lego modulars. For instance, Ninjago City thematically would diverge too much from that). I don't quite know how to put it together, but this was my idea: 1. A submission phase up to mid-December. 2. All the entries go to a specific Flickr group for this contest (to have all the entries in a single place). 3. We organise a poll online to vote, say, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. 4. The winners announced at end of December/beginning of January. Two things I want to do but don't know/can't do myself: I know there are special topics that can have polls directly on their heading. I think it would be easier to have one of those when the contestant list is closed. I don't know how to make them; it would be great to get some help from someone who knows! It would be great to get badges next to the name tag for the three top winners. Again, don't know how it works. If the idea resonates, I think we can put together a nice little event to celebrate all the awesome work done here!! Hope you'll join/help!

I do agree on that. Nonetheless, architecturally-speaking LV is also kind of a bizarre choice for the Architecture line. They probably chose it because in the first years they had always one US skyline.

They did do a set of gambing heaven, the Las Vegas skyline.

Wow, very impressive.shaping. Hats off!

Library seems interesting. I guess everyone's preconceived image of a library is something slightly older than the proposals I made earlier this post. Two Lego MOCs that spring up in my mind as "library architecture" would be @Giacinto Consiglio's Hats Shop & Old Inn and @lookl Victor's Lab. @lookl also has a library of its own, but although it's an epic design, its doesn't match with my notions of "library architecture".