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    It's apparently an official image. I trust r/Legoleak where the leaks are double-checked before being posted. It's also just way too well detailled to be a fake. 4002025 certainly is original in the way the double 16x32 baseplates are used. But the building techniques used in that leaked image of 11371 are more complex.
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    I understand the confusion. Iirc both BH and JC were on backorder at some point during this past week too, but they're definitely going out of production at the end of the month.
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    It means this set is out of stock, but will be resupplied by the factory later on. The museum is not set for retirement until next year I think. My experience of the reselling market is limited. I noticed that it took some time for similar rare parts to drop in price on Bricklink (I'm thinking the dark blue pillars from CC that came back into production last year). Meanwhile I didn't wait and ordered off-brand versions of those sand green parts last year. Good quality, but slightly off-color. I'll place an order on PAB once they're available to have the genuine article.
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    Looking at the reveal picture again, that name certainly fits the looks. Those buildings look at home in a busy shopping district. They certainly remind me of some shopping streets in France.
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    I agree, the color palette seems a bit wild to me. And yeah, the narrow street's angle is pretty good. It reminds me of streets downtown where I live, a feature of European cities I like a lot. I can see how the music shop's building is similar to the Boutique Hotel. The art nouveau style, the angle, the rounded end with the dome and even the two flags on the first floor are all clear references. Yet, with this palette and a few changes, it looks more like a building I'd see in France (although a bit squished here), while the Boutique Hotel has more Spanish vibes. I do like the large window on the first floor a lot too! I've seen that kind of window on a lot of shops in old buildings. I'm a bit disappointed that we're having a second shop for musical instruments after AS. Yet, from the looks of it, it feels like the designers had a field day making brick-built instruments (and furnitures). It's something they've done with the clocks in the Tudor Corner and with the plants in the Botanical Garden Ideas set. I'm going to guess the trombone in the Star Trek Enterprise set is a product of that same brainstorming session. As someone else noted, the two kids seem to be part of a band. That's a cool detail for minifigs in this modular's theme. The ice creams they're eating hints at an ice cream parlor nearby. Maybe at the end of the narrow street? Or a reference to the ice cream stand in GE. Regarding the windows on the ground floor of the music shop, I'm not sure if they're made of new tall window frames with printed windows, or printed 1x2x5 tall bricks. Either way is pretty cool. I love that we're getting a new pigeon color for this set (I missed buying some grey ones in PAB, they're out of stock in Europe for now). I also just noticed something that people who may want to part out GG will be happy about. They're bringing back the modified 1x2 brick with groove in sand green. A few other parts of older modulars in rare colors have been showing up again lately too. Lastly, I'm really curious about what the tie-in GWP will be. I'm hoping Lego will keep it vaguely related to the main set like they did with the previous 4, instead of being a DLC that was cut out of it... Ngl, I'm not liking that new trend Lego is following with on-launch GWP that connects to the main set (the Gringotts UCS, the Death Star UCS and the Icons aquarium).
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    And here's the actual first official image: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fvnpdgbd2kt4g1.jpeg
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    If the best is kept last, I hope it won't disappoint. Because it surely is the last reveal for January 1st releases up to March.
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    There was a modular hospital that was submitted on Ideas and didn't pass the review, and it was only using a 32x32 baseplate: https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/df846461-bcd0-4c22-b56e-03653fc472a1 I would definitely love a hospital on a 1.5 baseplate, just for the sake of representing all the jobs inside.
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    Someone just shared a link to the modular 2025 Lego employee gift on the official builder app: https://www.reddit.com/r/legomodular/s/3J1SIKMwBJ What's interesting is that it's actually built on two 16x32 baseplates that are linked differently than Market Street, Pet Shop and Bookshop. Since the back of this winter modular has a lot of details, I guess it's a good way to display it too.
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    There's all kinds of opinions on that tbh. I've seen some find public service buildings boring (post offices, schools) or even grim (police stations, hospitals). I feel the modulars' designers have had to balance a lot between originality and the mundane in recent years. There's more than one type of modular fans, that's for sure. I, for one, wish Lego would abandon making super hero-themed modulars. Especially if it means that some concept like a newspaper office can't be used for a modular if the same concept already exists in a currently sold Marvel/DC modular. I have a feeling it will be the same as with the clocks in the Tudor Corner: various mini builds that you can take and place elsewhere.
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    "Shopping Street" was somehow confirmed as the modular's name. The previous leak of music/furniture shop still stands.
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    Hopefully it won't be in the middle of December... Compared to previous years, leakers have been tight-lipped on this one, besides the initial leak in September. Tudor Corner's leaks were all over the place though.
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    I remember checking this remake. Yes, this kind of covered alleyway is what I had in mind. It's well executed here too, especially if it can be removed effortlessly. I've been looking up this MOC as well for inspiration. I think it enhances well the original model without changing too many of its initial concepts. But I did keep a bakery on the first floor in my MS remake, since for me AS has a cake shop. I do like that both of those MOC understood that the smaller building was a covered market. I've yet to fully fledge it on my remake of the set though.
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    Hello, this is my first time posting on Eurobricks, although I've been visiting the forum when I started completing my collection of modulars. I wanted to say, regarding the potential of a modular with an alleyway, here's a concept I've yet to see a MOC of: a straight modular with a shopping street in the middle and a glass roof on top, the kind you'd see in Paris for example. Think something like the recent Sherlock Holmes book nook, but with a front street side to align with other modulars and a glass roof on top of the alleyway. The main problem with this concept is that a lot of the details of the shopping street (the shops' façades in the alleyway for example) might be lost from view. Unless the modular sits on two 16x32 baseplates with the shopping street in the middle, and thus can be split and aligned differently.
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