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  1. HibiscusDrive
    Brickset review is finally up. They also explain they were late in getting the set sent to them.
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    I think we need to see more evidence of the series "falling in Lego's priority". Afterall, we're one year removed from a set that many ranked among the best ever. I certainly do have concerns, as we see more & more sets shrink. Look at some of the City sets like police & fire departments vs. 15-20 years ago. I don't really care about City sets, but they do show the direction Lego is going. Or the Holiday Main Street from a few years ago, that has spawned so many alt builds, including my own, the set's buildings are 6 deep. Shopping Street is small in terms of footprint used. Is this a new trend? Time will tell. Two things people commented on... one, I hate the Diner. It's one of 3 (soon to be 4) modulars I don't own. The architecture doesn't fit the aesthetic of the others at all. I also don't like 1950s-esque design in general. That said, the Diner is a fantastic representation of that era and they absolutely nailed it. So while I don't like it, I objectively respect how they accurately portrayed an era and its architecture, it just doesn't belong in the modular series with the rest, imo. My other complaint is people comparing sets to Rebrickable mocs like that's an insult. There are a LOT of fantastic MOCs out there that I feel hold their own with the modular building series.
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    Just an observation I made... The last few years Brickset has been quick to publish a review of the new modular, as well as how the new modular looks next to others. This year, nothing. And the set was unveiled 3+ weeks ago.
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    Nice work, Pauolo! Very creative and good luck!
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    Watch everyone flock to the idea that the winner will be what the new modular will be based on! For example, had the news kiosk that was gwp with Tudor Corner won the competition, everyone would think the coming modular was going to be a newspaper office. In reality, the Tudor Corner + haberdasher didn't have anything to do with the news kiosk.
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    I don't care for vehicle GWPs because they don't fit the scale of my town, but that's just me. And I do know they complete the set for other builders. I do get a lot of value out of GWP that I can use the parts for. A few I'm thinking of is the Botanical Garden gate, which gave me a lot of good pieces to add to my Botanical Garden's flower beds. The Jane Austen set and the Books Are My Passion (I think this one was a GWP) gave me a lot of good extra pieces for interiors, etc. Actually Botanical Garden Gate & Books Are My Passion came out together, and the potted plant in the BAMP set saved me as I needed those leaf pieces for my flower beds. The Jane Austen set has a bookshelf, piano, fireplace and a few good pieces that make good art for an art gallery. I have modded each and every modular set in some way. And a lot of times the GWP give extra pieces that I normally wouldn't just order from Bricklink.
  7. HibiscusDrive
    Awesome job; looks great! As you said, only someone extremely familiar with the original would notice the difference. But the thing to remember is how excited you are to have these two sets included in your display. If they're slightly modded, who cares? It's your display of a fun hobby.
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    I've been more thinking about the potential of a furniture workshop/store concept.... In the Tudor Corner, look how many different clock designs they put in there. Sure furniture is bigger, but some different chair designs, whether it's a kitchen chair or armchair. A new bed design, end table, etc. Items in progress, etc. Maybe the stairs go up to a record store, with a some 2x2 tiles to look like records. 2x2 & 2x3 tiles for posters on the wall. I personally turned my Book Shop set into a record store and did this with decorated tiles, and put decorated 2x2/2x3's on the side wall of the building to advertise not-real bands on the tiles. That little nook the stairs led up to I turned into a record-listening center the way some record stores let you do. We clearly don't know if the rumor of furniture store/record store is accurate, but if it is, I could see the above as having potential.
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    Of the 4 you don't have, Green Grocer is my favorite; I would get it. Maybe it was the interiors, but GG seems like that was the first to have the spirit of modulars today. Cafe Corner & Market Street were just large buildings, in a way we never saw before, but didn't have a pulse to them the way Green Grocer and all subsequent modulars have. And don't take that as me not liking Cafe Corner & Market Street; it's just that the interiors from GG > present really do something for me.
  11. HibiscusDrive
    I could totally see them making a furniture store, with all the creative ways they've made furniture over the years, and small furniture pieces uses a lot of small pieces, which seems to be the Lego M.O. these days. The only problem with it is, how do you fit all the furniture into a small space, a space made even smaller by a potential music shop. Here's an idea... what if it were a furniture shop, meaning a furniture workshop that built furniture? Then you wouldn't need all kinds of furniture pieces; you could just have a few that the carpenter was working on at the time.
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