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This is absolutely gorgeous! I especially love the use of vigas and rotated blue squares on the exterior - little details like that make it feel like a real Mexican restaurant. Maybe you could hang the Maraca Man's sombrero and poncho on the interior wall as decoration?

Great review! I can't wait to get a few of these - as soon as I saw the lumberjack I knew I'd have to get it, and I might be one of the (very) few who's excited about the aerobics instructor as well. Actually, this might be the first series in which I want all of them - so many beautiful designs and useful parts! Also: is the lumberjack's hat red or dark red? It looks darker in comparison to the baseball player, though that may just be the lighting.

I would love to see these in really bright unconventional color combos too - like maybe pink with light blue or purple with lime! Don't know how easily you could get the bricks you need in those colors though...

Nice! I would also recommend thinning the roof and floor slabs as much as possible. And here are some images of the interior you can use for reference for more furniture.

It's certainly a good start! I think some of the elements are a little bulky in the original scale, so you might consider playing with the proportions more instead of doubling everything up - the columns could stay at 1x1 and you could double the number of stairs rather than the size of them to make this look closer to the actual house. Hope to see more pics as you flesh out he interior too!

Very nice work! The earth-blue and white striping looks especially sleek. Any other colors planned?

When one considers the absolutely necessary essentials for any city, a LEGO store is obviously near the top of the list, ranking just below a hospital and maybe a grocer. So with that in mind I built this today, using only pieces from 4996 Beach House (apologies for the poor photography): The red tile is obviously just a placeholder until I can get one of these beauties. Also note the display sets in the windows, microscale renditions of Lighthouse Island and a Ninjago castle. A look inside - roof hinges open from the front for access. Here we can see the shelves, two-tiered display table, and Pick-A-Brick bins. The stock is a little sparse at the moment; maybe they're still waiting on a delivery? The opposite corner, showing checkout counter and doorway to the back. Isn't that nice, the employees have an open-air stock/break room... or maybe the contractor just skimped on the budget because he didn't have enough bricks to enclose the space.

These are fantastic! It's really impressive how you can suggest so many different details with the same basic parts - like how you made the "tooth" pieces into feet, shoulders, tongues, horns, tails, ears, and whiskers! I think the beaver and the bear are my personal favorites, but that's just because you haven't built a corgi yet

This may be the greatest MOC I have ever seen. EVER. I look forward to the inevitable banana stand.

Here's a recent flying machine I came up with while trying to build in a sort of steampunk theme despite knowing next to nothing about the genre. Oh well. I'm counting it as a Pirate MOC since it's made entirely out of parts from this set. No one man should have all that firepower. Actually it seems to run on crystallic fusion rather than steam. I welcome your feedback, especially with regards to my dire photography skills!

I only have four so far, so I'm not sure I can really be considered a collector, but I just really like the opportunity to get figures and accessories that would probably never show up in a regular set. For those of us who are mainly City builders, the collectible figs help fill out the population with more than just cops, prisoners, and firefighters.

I would really love to see more musicians, especially a marching band fig with a printed shako hat in a new color and a new instrument - maybe a trombone?

I made this over a year ago, inspired by the Architecture sets and the way they capture the essence of a building in the smallest possible scale. I tried to do the same for what I think is one of the most interesting buildings in Cincinnati, the Contemporary Arts Center. For reference, here's a picture of the real thing (image courtesy of npr.org): ...and here's my tiny little MOC: At such a small scale, I had to make it much more rectilinear than the real thing, and I wasn't able to incorporate the "urban carpet" (the sidewalk curving up into the north wall), but I think it went pretty well considering I had been out of practice with MOCing for about a decade at that point. And I can always try it at a larger scale when I've accumulated enough bricks.

Hi! I am 24 and live in Cincinnati, and after having spent pretty much my entire childhood surrounded by LEGO, I've been gradually getting back into it and building a new collection (as much as my part-time retail income can reasonably sustain). I went to school for architecture (an interest that was brought on by LEGO in the first place), so naturally it was the Architecture line that brought me back into the fold, with my first new purchase being Fallingwater about two years ago. I don't yet have the money or space for the kind of collection I'd like to eventually obtain, but so far I have: Fallingwater (since modified slightly for a more true-to-form color scheme) Sears Tower Empire State Building Farnsworth House a small-scale MOC of the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art Beach House Apple Tree House Brickmaster Pirates book/set and the Punk Rocker and Artist Collectible Minifigures I have a master plan in mind for an eventual MOC town I'd like to build, but due to the aforementioned part-time retail income that is probably a few years off. I am very much looking forward to lusting after all the new sets and MOCs I'll see here though!