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Thanks for the comments ! There is no inside yet. Better picture of the side. However in its setting this is mostly hidden. It just looks like a narrow alley.

My first MOC. After decades of training little rebels, the master has decided to turn his dojo into the city's noodle shop. [ original : http://www.brickshow.com/episode192-2504 ] Still working on interior. My favourite part of the build was the little alley I made. Thats the actual entrance to the shop. Though sometimes the master does greet his fan from the large front door. (Im not understanding how the photo uploader works ....) Lot of the parts are from this kit :

I can share my story. I've always wanted to get into trains and modelling, and just last year I got enough space to properly start the hobby. All my research was around 'real' model trains and buildings. I'm an urban nut, thats the setting I'm building. I searched for quite a long time on creating an urban setting through traditional modelling. I didn't want to build ye old west as I usually see in most model building magazines. I wanted it to be a crazy urban city with trains running all through it on multiple levels. I also wanted the setting to be alive, incorporate my hobby of playing with arduino boards. After humming and hawing for months, with nothing quite clicking, my brother casually mentioned Lego to me. ... LEGO ?? ... ... Yah Lego, apparently they have a train .... So I started searching and quickly fell into the rabbit hole ... Trains? trains that go. check Automation? Yep, incorporate Mindstorm & technic. Now for the buildings. Meandering around the lego.com website one day is what sealed the deal. I stumbled upon Modular Buildings and that was it. And of course its lego, I've already done slight mods on regular modulars, and made some custom buildings as well. So then, thus far Lego has been perfect. I love the fact I can spend $300 on something grand, and the next week spend 5 bucks on something just to add something small. Its fantastic at its basic level its literally building blocks. I love that it provides just enough automation tools to make things interesting. And lastly the community has been fantastic. I'm still new to it all, but my city has taken a bit of shape after less than a year.

Ah, thanks for the response. Well I guess I'll stick with my original plan of building the B Model of Technic 8053. 8053 B model

I'm hoping the 9391 Tracked Crane is a large crane like they use in ports. It would be a nice connection between the Maersk Lego Train and the Maersk Lego Cargo ship. Note the arm that can go up and down, and the ability to track the cargo along the horizontal plane.

I have the PetShop and Grand Emporium. I enjoyed building the Pet Shop more, mainly because it was two distinct buildings. I also love the way the townhouse turned out. Lego should have their Modular buildings in LDD, then if desired a fan could change its colours in LDD, and hit a button and order it. It would be a nice way to build an entire street. I'm a bit disappointed I just got into the hobby so I missed out on the Green Grocer and the Cafe corner, but everywhere I travel now I go into toy stores to see if by some fluke they have an old kit still on the shelf. Unlikely, but its fun. Kind of like searching for an old favourite book.

Interesting .... Imagine, like the Nintendo Mii, if you can design a Minifig that looks like you, then order it.

The date is very likely a default placeholder date. Lot of companies do that in their database when preparing a page for something new.

I hope its true ! Wouldn't this be somewhat unprecedented ? Two modular buildings in one year ? Great trend if true.

I just got into Lego Modular Buildings. I'm really enjoying them, thus far I have Pet Shop and the Grand Emporium. Of course now I'm hungry for more. From Wikipedia article on Modular Buildings it appears only one is released per year : Cafe Corner : April 2007 Market Street : 2007 (an anomaly) Green Grocer : 2008 Fire Brigade : 2009 (I'm not a fan of this one) Grand Emporium : March 2010 Pet Shop : May 2011 Hopefully sales have been great and Lego will release two sets a year instead of just one each spring. Personally I'd love to see a rerelease of Green Grocer, but since this is unlikely I'll have to try out a MOC. I really like the townhouse part of the Pet Shop, so for my first MOC I might just rebuild that but in a slightly different colour and other minor changes.