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Having the picture be representative makes sense. And you're right, having the contents burst out isn't an ideal experience and may risk bending/scratching parts - I wasn't suggesting that extreme. In my experience most Lego boxes contain between 33-50% air. If they weren't interested in perceived value and just wanted to minimise shipping cost, they could reduce the size (or thickness) of the box by a quarter and still leave room for the parts to wiggle around comfortably.

Lego boxes have always been unnecessarily big - if anyone has, ahem, bought alternate brands, you'd be shocked at how compact the boxes can be if you go to the other extreme of compressing it as much as possible. It's all to do with perceived value. I'm sure Lego ships using sea freight, so the extra cost due to larger boxes is negligible. Even if you shop online and get it delivered, there's still perceived value in seeing an enormous box arrive at your doorstep in exchange for the $300 you paid. I'm surprised there's so much controversy over the color - I personally loved it. In fact I was slightly miffed at the color choice, because I'm building an olive green apartment complex with white, dark green, dark tan and tan accents myself. Olive green hasn't been used in a while - now my building will be less refreshing when it's done :( A 48-wide museum kind of makes sense - most museums are huge, but realistically all Lego modular buildings are compressed anyway. Relative to the Town Hall and Emporium it's about right. I think I would have preferred it to be a standalone building on 2 baseplates, with 8 studs empty on both sides for some landscaping, to make it look bigger. That way, it can be displayed as a standalone building, but can also be displayed in a row alongside other modulars - I don't see a problem with having a gap. My problem with it is that due to the size of the building vs the budget constraints the designer had, it looks like a relatively simple build. A lot of the build ends up being stacking of bricks, and that plain back wall sticks out. Even though the back isn't always visible, I would have preferred more detailing. Maybe a balcony or space viewing area? I still haven't bought the Jazz Club (base price point is a tad high and sale wasn't good enough where I am, I'm not a completionist), but I'll probably get the Museum. If I don't like it in the end it'll be a good olive parts pack.

Lego is ultimately a for-profit company, and is driven by business decisions. In interviews, designers have often said that they are given a theme, subject matter and budget to follow. In most cases, market research decides what kind of set people want and what they're willing to pay, and then the set is created around that. Call me skeptical, but I think it will take a bit of stagnation before the modular line is reinvented - just like Marvel movies, they'll keep milking it for a while until people stop buying it. Look at the City theme - how many years did it become a dumping ground of police cars and police stations before it got rejuvenated? That's also why I don't think a double modular will happen. Designers have said that the modular line should be something that people can look forward to yearly and still be relatively affordable. If anything, Lego may release a building outside of the annual modular release cycle which is compatible with modulars - think Sanctum Sanctorum and Daily Bugle. That gives people the option to enhance their city, while not feeling like Lego is deliberately forcing them to spend money to be a completionist. I've been uneasy at Lego's strategy for 2 reasons, one similar and one different. First, the adult-focused sets look more like intricate 3D jigsaw puzzles than a modular, rebuildable construction toy. This sounds to me like a decision made partially in a corporate boardroom: "If we have a paradigm shift and get people to consider these as display pieces, we can sell more product - consumers using the same pieces to build different things doesn't earn us any money". Second, I'm seeing a significantly wider range of colors and pieces in lego's inventory than ever. I appreciate the detail that the new pieces bring, but again I can't help but feel it goes against the philosophy of reusable, modular pieces. Sure, set designers will come up with a few clever ways to use certain parts, but it's significantly more restrictive than tiles, snot pieces, etc.

Not sure if this is the right forum for it, but it was the closest to the subject matter that I could find. I built a 16x16 vignette from Seinfeld - it's the iconic scene from the Soup Nazi episode! Sorry for the bad quality - not sure why this forum limits images to 30kb, which is ridiculously small... I have better quality photos (and multiple angles) posted on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsNGmNBJHNv/ If you're interested in vignettes from sitcoms in general, I'm doing an ongoing series of TV show vignettes - I've posted a few others on my Instagram account, and I have a few more in the pipeline!

Looks really good! How did you mod the assembly square? Did you just take one stud away from the alleyway between the sand blue and sand green buildings?

I personally didn't want a police station in my city but I liked the design of the 2021 modular (and managed to find it on sale for a great deal), so I modded two sets of it into a museum. Asian architecture would be interesting, but I doubt they would release that as part of the modular line. If I had to put money on it, I'd say that we might see more of those in the Ninjago, Monkie kid or Lunar New Year sets in future. I'd like to see a big modular building with the same footprint as the Grand Emporium (or even bigger), but that's unlikely for a few reasons: The building experience is repetitive. Old modular buildings had a lot of steps involving >30 headlight bricks, or >30 arches. Lego has tried to focus more on the build experience even for modulars now. This dilutes the focus of the line a bit, but that's a product strategy they've deliberately taken I guess. It'll cost more. The Jazz Club is already an uncomfortable price that I'm not sure if I want to pay retail for. As other folks have said, it might happen for a 20th anniversary set, but it's likely that a 20th anniversary set would include more buildings, rather than one bigger building. Because of that, the best we can reasonably expect is probably a building that looks easy to mod into a bigger building, like the 2021 Police Station modular was. If I remember correctly, the modulars have always followed a residential > commercial > government cycle, so if this continues to hold, the 2024 modular would be a government building. A post office would be nice, or maybe a school.

What do you mean by modular cars?

I see, that makes sense. I agree that the BH needs some heightening. I'm planning on making the bottom floor taller by one brick, and adding one more middle floor. I was debating between doing both middle floors in tan VS light nougat, or just adding one floor in tan so there would be one tan and one light nougat floor. Might experiment with the colorful option.

Ah cool, I see it now - thanks!

I was just thinking that the boutique hotel would look great if it were taller, and I was debating between adding another floor, adding some height to each floor, or both. This is really helpful - it helps me to see how well adding layers of bricks to each floor would work! I personally want to follow the modular format of having a taller first floor, so i think I'm going to add one brick to the lobby (ground floor/first floor/zeroth floor depending on where you live), leaving the middle floor as it is, and then adding one brick to the top floor. I might do something to add an extra level to the dome too. Did you ever build this in person? Given how few sets the light nougat bricks come in, is cost an issue? I'm tempted to build another floor, but I'm not sure if I can get used to seeing that much light nougat...

The building looks great - very old-school city vibe (NYC, Chicago). If it were me, I would throw in some sand green masonry bricks or a few light bley plates here and there to show wear and tear and add to the grittiness of it, but I'm not sure if that's your thing. The car is really nice. How did you shape the rear wheel covering?

That's true, but they could always do what they did with the Bookshop set, and have part of the back wall be removable. I realize that you recolored the middle floor of the BH - did you not like the light nougat?

nice! Love the use of the hero factory armor pieces to make the trunk of the tree. How is it structured internally? ball joints stacked up with a technic axle in the middle?

Thanks! Added many more pictures on my instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/bricksgowhere/ ), but here's a small selection of them. Skeletons storming the Great Hall: Close-up shot of the clambering skeletons and the defence of the castle: And a shot of the interior - not the best, but I was working with the leftover pieces I had. There's a throne room with a banquet table, and above that, the king's office and bedroom:

Thanks! There's actually a few more Black Falcons in there than skeletons - it's just that the Black Falcons are scattered all around the build, and some aren't as visible because of the camera angle (i'll post more pics soon). I'd like to think the Falcons have a really good chance at fighting off the skeleton horde!

This has been done by other folks before, but here's my take on a mega Black Falcon castle. Aside from the extra Black Falcon minifigs and skeletons, everything in here was made only using the parts in 3 of the 3-in-1 Medieval Castle set. I tried to build in the same visual style as the original castle. I took elements of the A model (the entrance and the hut) and made them taller, and also incorporated parts of the B model as the watchtower in the background on the left. I also built my own Great Hall with a bigger tower for the king's residence, which is on the right. You can see more pictures of other angles and the interior on my instagram here (the last 2-3 posts): https://www.instagram.com/bricksgowhere/

There was a contest at my local lego store to build a 16x16 MOC to reflect a lego theme. I chose to build a tribute to my favorite theme, Adventurers. In this vignette, Baron von Barron flies to Egypt to steal the Re-Gou Ruby. Thanks to Pharoah Hotep's curse, the Baron crashes his plane right outside the temple. The Baron is undeterred and is about to enter the tomb, but Johnny Thunder arrives to save the day! Sorry for the shitty photo quality below - Eurobricks only allows 71kb image uploads (which is so 2000's lol). Better resolution pictures (and more angles) can be found on my insta post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfOQ2W_pO2-/

Thanks a bunch!

If you could post them, that would be awesome! I'll figure out how to download the custom parts. Thanks!

Is anyone still taking requests? Would love a digital model of 10273 Haunted House, either in LDD or studio.

Thanks! Yeah, the original set is a little drab-looking (industrial, bare concrete), so I took a little artistic liberty to brighten up the scene and add a few things like the radiator.

If you watch the show, I'm sure you'll recognise this scene...

Ah, that's interesting! I had some pieces with the thicker nubs (#60608, like yours) and some without (#3854) - I was using the one without, so clips didn't work. Thanks! If anyone else can figure out a connection point for the piece without the thicker nub (part #3854), let me know too!

I'm trying to build part of a shopping mall, and was trying to see if I can add something to represent an anti-theft device that some shops have at the entrance, like this: https://www.sensormatic.com/en_sg/-/media/project/sensormatic/solution-pages/detection-systems/barcode-boutique-brand-1243362-copy-2.ashx?h=446&w=790&la=en-SG&hash=5F8FE17A1E1CA28D17DEBE2ED3B565A784160C1F I thought this window frame seems to fit rather well, but in trying to figure out a way to mount it, I realised it doesn't seem to connect to any other pieces, which is odd for Lego. It's not a critical detail for my MOC, but this is more a matter of intellectual curiosity now. Most Lego pieces have multiple ways they can be used - skis as fan blades, treads as a way to mount curved bricks, etc - but this piece seems not to have any other connection point.

So I was trying to find a piece with the right textures for something that I'm making, and realised this window pane was perfect: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3854#T=S&O={"rpp":"100","iconly":0} Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to mount it in anything but the window frame it was designed for. The best option I have is to remove the black lever and stick the window pane in the base of this part, which kind of works but visibly stresses the base piece - the window pane is wider than the gap in the base. Does anyone have any other ides to mount this part? Much appreciated!