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  1. Pauolo
    Yeah, those 3 PAB modulars are really just street fillers. I've seen MOCers being creative with half baseplates, like using them for city gardens or small power stations. But, as nice as fuller buildings on a half-baseplate modulars are (Market Street, the Pet Shop and the Bookshop), I can easily see why the current Lego designers do not make any. They need all the space they can get out of a 32x32 baseplate for those new angle technics, or just to have enough width for the central building of a modular (like the Police Station and Jazz Club for example).
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    Well, they did make a Christmas-themed one, but only for employees. Also it's smaller than the Bookshop and Pet Shop modulars, but more in scale with regular Winter Village sets. A lot of stickers too, with reproductions of boxes from legacy sets. Btw, since they released 60506 Classic Beach Tram, I wish Lego would make a tram station or bus stop as or integrated in a modular. So far, public transportation was not represented in the modular collection (not sure the vintage taxi GWP counts as such). Another concept I'd like to see is a construction site like the BDP set, where the many jobs of construction workers would be represented. Similar to that concept, house/building renovation work: https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/97df3bc8-a062-4d4d-9302-3fbd9f635148
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    I never heard anything about such policy. But maybe this is related to Lego wanting to stop using baseplates, which are necessary for modulars. I think this is evidenced by Ideas' Italian Riviera's original submission making use of a baseplate, but the final product not using any. And it has buildings with four walls instead of being open in the back.
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    If that AI was scrubbing data from reddit, then yeah hospital as a wish pops up often there. Post office less, I think most consider it boring. I believe a post office has more chances to appear as a side building instead of as a modular's main building.
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    I think you're talking about the two sand green parts that were used for Green Grocer and went out of production for almost two decades. These became quite expensive because of their rarity, and the amount of each required for building GG. It was a surprise that Lego brought these two parts at all for Shopping Street, because there would probably be no use of them outside this modular. It would be more expensive in terms of production load than cost, I think. But then, there's so many factories around the world I guess it's no longer an issue.
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    Sand green parts are not more expensive than other plain colors, at least not on Pick a Brick. The minifigs however can drive the set's price up, especially if they have exclusive printed parts. I think the Chinese festival sets are kept apart from Icons for marketing reasons. The theme started up as a Chinese market exclusive when Lego was expanding operations over there. That aside, I wish for more themed-sets of other festival in other countries. Holi and India-themed sets would be interesting.
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    The price that was leaked was only 10€ below than Sherlock Holmes booknook's. Also, it was leaked alongside a confirmed unlicensed booknook, which makes me guess this haunted house is one too. But then, they do make a lot of unlicensed display sets nowadays, so it could be anything. The Kingfisher, the series of gardens of the world, the recent "French café" façade that seems to be part of a series too. The one thing that is strange, is that usually these kind of seasonal sets are not sold as part of Icons / 18+ (with the exception of the fairgrounds one). Although you can argue that Botanicals got a Poinsettia and a Christmas wreath sets.
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    I think that set is going to be a booknook, or micro-scaled. It's listed as having only 1420 parts, which brings it to scale with the Sherlock Holmes booknook.
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    I don't think either Ideas nor BDP require for runner-ups to make instructions for their set propositions. But sure, if those runner-ups could still profit from Rebrickable by selling their instructions there, why not? There are several issues though: some do submit again their propositions for a second round of review. I don't think either Lego or Bricklink would approve of a runner-up who is already making profit from their submission. Second, some off-brand manufacturers do sell sets based on Rebrickable MOCs without consent of nor paying the makers of these plans. So I can understand if those who failed to get their set approved don't want to make their instructions available to the public, even for a price. Granted though, some initial Ideas submissions do get sold as sets by off-brand manufacturers, despite these submissions leading to released sets. I think I saw that both for the Botanical Gardens and the Orient Express. Exactly, but I'll push this further. BDP caters to a niche audience, while Lego is running a business. Yeah sure, sometimes you have Ideas sets that feel like they're set to fail to meet large sales numbers. On the other hand, you have so many licensed Ideas sets that Lego knows are going to sell even to buyers who are not into building bricks, but are very much into movies, TV series, etc... That's also why there are so many BDP submissions of classic Castle/Pirate/Space sets, because Lego won't approve them as Ideas submissions. They're too niche, or Lego designers would rather make such sets themselves once per year.
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    For sure, most if not all of the ones hikouki showed are cool. I also would not dream of making some of those myself. But yeah, it does feel like a hopeless battle for a lot of them. I'm also guessing there's more chance in getting your BDP submission accepted than with Ideas, which gets more and more sets in the same review phases for not so much selected ones by the Lego group. And too many licensed submissions to my own taste... This, exactly. And they have done general hospitals in the past for the City theme. Just not as often as the countless police stations and fire brigades.
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    I guess it's that time of the year where the contestants for BDP flood and spam r/legomodular... I understand why though, there's so many submissions each year very few voters will go through the whole list to leave a like. I'm just not a fan of how Bricklink manages the event, for a limited run of sets that are even more overpriced than Ideas sets.
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    Btw, for those interested in building the Green Grocer, the 1x8 sand green brick and 1x2 sand green brick with grove have been added to Lego's Pick-a-Brick as of this month. That said, there's already a shortage of 1x8 brick both for Europe and US PaB. @Pirate_King_1982 I'm guessing you prefer modulars with US architecture style?
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    I think they meant they were all released within 4-5 years.
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    I'm also put off my most sets that are not from the modular series, yet made modular-compatible. I wouldn't say it's because I'm a purist, but I find those I don't like either too low or too heavy on details, too modern-era looking, too grim or dull on color palettes or just not the right scale. On the other hand, there's a lot of minifig-scaled Ideas sets I like because I feel they were designed with the same standards as modulars, just not made modular-compatible. The Botanical Garden is a good example of that, with plenty of exquisite plant builds and hidden details. Also regarding the Ninjago modulars, I don't have them but I like the overall cyberpunk vibes they have, with a city built on several levels and chaotic esthetics. And they're well-detailled too.
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    Speaking of the new beach tram City set, here it is officially revealed: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/classic-beach-streetcar-60506 I don't have enough space to lay out my collection of sets in one big city display, but this would nicely fit near the Boutique Hotel, the Italian Riviera or the Old Fishing Store. This also makes me wish for some art deco-styled modular with Miami vibes... I'm also tempted in getting this one: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/vintage-steam-train-60511 I would most likely modify it to better proportions though. In a way that it would not look at odds with the Orient Express the Emerald Night.
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