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  1. Pauolo
    More likely than not it will only scale with the rest of the superhero modulars. The designers are saving on budget by cutting corners on the building itself. Which I'm sure won't keep Lego from pricing that set 400-500 bucks, especially regarding the recent price rise across all themes. There's so much fun mini-builds that could come out of that, especially if they keep to the same 30s to 60s period era as the rest of the collection. Like, huge printing machines, pneumatic tube mail system across the building, etc...
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    A big leak for 2027-2028 sets was revealed and confirmed that the next modular is going to be the clock tower. Also, it confirmed that the next Marvel/DC Comics modular is going to be Superman's Daily Planet, which was hinted at in last year Arkham Asylum set. Honestly, good for comics fans, but I dread that it will be another excuse for Lego to not make a better newspaper office building as part of the main modular collection for the next 3-4 years... Just as it was the case with the Daily Bugle.
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    Just thinking back on a different subject. I saw someone mention again the idea that Lego could remake past modulars, even change the color palette for the sake of novelty. I think Lego adressed that with Shopping Street. Iirc, the lead designer said in an interview that they consciously used sand green 1x8 bricks and 1x2 bricks with a groove because they were rare parts necessary for the Green Grocer. Similarly last year, we got the 2x2x2 pyramid brick produced again in black (for the Town Hall) and the garage panels in red (for the Fire Brigade), and those were fairly rare and expensive parts up until 2025. The point I'm making is, while there could be remakes of modulars at some point, Lego are regularly reintroducing parts that have not been in production for a while. Meaning, even if you can't buy expensive retired sets, you can still order most of the parts from PAB. It still costs a more buying parts individually though than sets...
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    Honestly, that MOC is really good. If the Lego designers can play as well on perspective to highlight the clocktower's height, it's going to be great. Btw, I hope they go for an "old town" style again for this set. I think that would make a nice combo with the Tudor Corner.
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    An anniversary set isn't just about the references to past sets, they're also milestones for the collection. The 3 previous ones were groundbreaking in their own ways (height, width, angled walls technique). And thematically, they were imposing too. I can see the clocktower ticking that last box, but not the buildings surrounding it. That's why I called the hardware store and deli a bit too mundane for an anniversary set.
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    The leakers usually get the shape and general details well. As for what's inside, it's up to their understanding of it and maybe how others translate their leaks. The Tudor Corner certainly left them guessing wildly for months, and they never disclosed the haberdashery shop. Ngl though, as fun as getting a clocktower is (although there's already on top of the Town Hall), what's inside the other buildings sounds way too mundane for a 20th anniversary set. The deli is redundant with Green Grocer. I guess the hardware store follows a trend of crafts shops (tailor, haberdashery, clockmaker, carpenter) which I find nice, but I can't see that as celebratory in any way. Hopefully the clocktower is as tall as Town Hall's to make it a nice centerpiece for a row of modulars. And I really hope the leakers got the deli wrong and it turns out to be a small post office.
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    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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    Seems like you were right about the new series. It's going to be the first set of a new "Midnight Valley Collection" series. But a small one in scale: 1440 parts with only 3 minifigs for a pricetag of 110$/€. I'm sure there will be modular-scaled MOC of it pretty soon after its release.
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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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    On the topic of real-world locations being translated in detailled sets, Ideas is going to have a Amsterdam-based set, representing the famous canal houses: https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/eded93d1-fb3f-44d0-bd7b-068734fadf91 If it stays on scale with the Italian Riviera and with the same attention to details, I'll have to find space for it on my shelves... And it'll be an opportunity to mod Market Street to make it fit with it. That said, if LEGO is pushing for these kind of Ideas sets, I'm sure a Lisbon vista is going to make it eventually.
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    So more like the Ideas set Italian Riviera? It doesn't bother with the constraints of the modulars' design guidelines for a more authentic look. Still, main modulars are always a mix of inspirations of real-world buildings and architecture. And even architecture isn't restricted to specific locations.
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    Ngl, the 20th anniversary modular being the tallest one to date wouldn't make for an exciting selling point. Especially after the Lego superhero designers made the Daily Bugle and Avengers Tower stand out among all modulars. But then, I can't imagine what the designers could explore next that wouldn't feel like a repetition of previous techniques and ideas. I'd love to see this as well, or some kind of covered market. But it would be hard to make it into an appealing display set if the enclosed street is the main focus. Or maybe, have it open in the middle to be displayed in a different way and still show the shops inside.
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