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    I guess I'll find out more when the new season starts in the U.S., but it looks like a 'HQ' set, like the 'Battle for Ninjago City' set, so it doesn't feel like the focus is on her. It's common for support characters to be only available in the HQ sets. Like Velma being only available in the largest Scooby-doo 'HQ' set. ...But it does look like there is a new Ninja that shares some common traits with Nya...
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    It really depends on how you approach the matter. If you are a crazy perfectionist, then you may spend more time designing and ordering parts than actually building. Then when are you ready to build, your creativity is overwhelmed by the great variety of parts you have access to. Alternatively, you can take one set and try to use the limited number of pieces to build as many things as you can. Look at the old 5867 Lego Creator Super Speedster set. The set is already a 3-in-1, but someone published a pair of books on how to use only the parts from that one set to make at least 20 more high quality vehicles! (See Amazing Vehicles and More Amazing Vehicles). I would sometimes dig into my kid's duplo bricks to build something relaxing. The limited variety of pieces means I spend more time building than digging around looking for the 'perfect' part.
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    I wonder if any of the 'mechs' in the new sets is an updated version of Nya's Samurai X Mech. Or will she never be in the spotlight again since the identity/gender of Samurai X was revealed?
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    Perhaps it works for both children and adults now. Children can enjoy the set as is. Working adults can buy multiple copies of the same set to modular up. Also perhaps LEGO is just responding to the more vocal portion of the market. I see many posts from people asking for schools, newspaper offices, police stations, libraries, banks, etc and these are functions mostly defined by what is happening inside the building... unless you want every modular to have a large cafe-corner-esk sign outside stating it's function. Some people may think the Town Hall is bland, but it can easily be re-purposed for much of the before-mentioned requests. I don't really see that many posts from people saying they want this or that specific type of architecture. If they build an example to show what they want, then they don't really need LEGO to design the same for them. And LEGO may face charges of 'coping'. If they are just waiting to see what cool architecture and building techniques LEGO comes out with, then their silent desire may not be reaching LEGO.
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    It's probably too violent, especially when the setting is a bit too close to real-life (military-wise). Of course, I don't even let my kids watch Star Wars Rebels because the killing of Storm Troopers is so casual in that show. Imagine Robin Hood massacring every time he stole for the poor.
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    These 8x8 designs are really nice. These may look nice next to the 8x8 vignettes of the Research Institute and *maybe* the Toy Workshop as well, though that is 8x6 I think.
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    My wife said it would be nice to have some sort of display for our family holiday party. My main collection is tied up in buildings and minifigures, and it's also lacking in terms of basic bricks. So I got into my kids' Duplo collection, which nicely lets me create a large display quickly and with fewer bricks. The biggest challenge is working with a limited selection of colors for each brick so to avoid the 'rainbow' effect. The end result has a nice charming blocky look that reminds me of Minecraft. Left side. Yes, there is a light behind the waterfall. Right side: The right tree is fallen on purpose. The trans-clear bricks on the trees are meant to be icicles. On the piano: Fitted together: The son is building a snowman while the dog frolics. My wife wasn't that convinced about that the thing looks like a snowman, but white bricks are limited. The head is an upside-down drawer. The legs is a sink. Grandpa and daughter are sledding, while grandma captures the moment. Mom and dad are tending the campsite. The 1x1 cyclinders and coal pieces are the only non-LEGO bricks (from a Thomas Megablocks set). That is a very serious fire. Those are skis next to the tent. The fallen tree forms a nice winter shelter for this baby bear. The waterfall lighting is from a LED headband flashlight. The fallen tree is created with pivot and turnstile bricks. The hill is made using pivot bricks. The back is not as pretty. Hope you like it.
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    Now you're going to inspire an article about LEGO and PETA.
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    This talk of streets brings up an interesting debate that I had in my own head recently of how to add roads, with each idea getting more and more expensive. If you have the space and want it done quick and cheaply, simply put road plates next to the buildings. As for the space between the sidewalk and the road, I would use that for parking. If you don't care about street parking and want the road right next to the sidewalk, you can push back the building baseplates by 6 studs and then slip the road baseplate under the sidewalk. If you have buildings on either side, things could get cramp, especially when everything is now harder to take apart. If you don't like the road baseplates, you could build your own. Cheapest would be to use 16 x 32 baseplates and use black tiles for the road and white tiles for the markings (32x32 if you want parking). Only bad thing is that now the road is at the same height as the the sidewalk, which doesn't look that nice. The solution is to raise the buildings and sidewalk by one plate. If you want to add cheese-slope ramps at the corners (for bikes, baby carriages, etc), then you need to raise it by two plates. If you want the roads to be modular and be able to connect with each other and with buildings using technic pins, then you need to raise everything up by at least a brick. At this height, now you can even use SNOT techniques for the roads, which are very nice for getting markings that are thin and detailed. If you keep descending into this madness, pretty soon you will have fully realized basements, subways systems, sewers, and mole people.
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    I'm curious why you would pick this building? The outside looks rather plain except for the guitar-sign: Certainly the inside could be very interesting, but I don't think you're interested in that.
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    This looks pretty good. I would much prefer that the K and E letters were closer together so it doesn't look like BIK ES.
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    That's right! He's allergic to flowers! No wonder the lady in red has planted them near his window. And the flower-cart would be perfect to hide the sweets in.
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    I think the city theme had some small banks and vaults in relation to the Police theme. A bank would present so many PLAY FEATURES features involving all the various methods for thieves to break in. Through the skylight Mission Impossible style. Underground tunnel. Blasting through a sidewall. Hiding in a delivery box. Hiding in a portable ATM. Pretending to be an old lady checking on her precious knick-knacks in the safe deposit room. Maybe a bank is not such a good idea.
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    Perhaps the lady in red is part of the smuggling gang. The detective is busy buying flowers for her and doesn't notice the barrel of sweets being delivered. And regarding that secret letter from her that says on the outside 'Don't open until Friday. xxxooo'... it opens to say: "Sucker!" Also note that in one of the box photos, the lady is on the roof and holding the rolling pin... all while the detective is on the roof as well. Looks like someone is going to take a sudden nap.
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    I totally understand your situation. Before I start building a set, I must already have a place in mind to store it. I had a few modular buildings unopened until I had a cabinet ready for them. I've seen many photos of people's buildings on the kitchen counter or dining table and my first thoughts are: Bachelor or Evil-eye from spouse until 'toys' are removed
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    I had the same thought. He would go well with the Series 8 football player.
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    Surely someone that attended the recent VIP event must have had a very close look at the set.
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    What makes me giddy is that you can buy ten of these so you stack all the seconds floors to basically make a vertical mall of toilets. If you like, you can keep going until you have a separate toilet for each minifigure. And the town will be christened Urinetown.
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    The importance of the stairs is that it allows you buy another PC set and stack the additional second floor over the original to create a third floor. And you can keep going up if you like. This key design element has been a feature of all the modular buildings so far. If the PC had a third floor like some of the other modulars, then roof access is optional. The FB also only has two floors and has roof access for the same reason.
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    I think I read way back in this thread, when the Detective Agency was still a rumor, that a distributor/dealer site had an upcoming large Creator set listed at the same price as the PR. If this is the same price as the PR, despite fewer pieces, I would gladly pay the difference if all the pieces are printed. Lets hope that having stickers in the PC was a one-time anomaly and not the start of a trend.
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    Wait, I haven't seen this before. Picture? CC: link PR: link
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    I don't see any unusual bricks above the row of these (this photo was posted a few pages back):
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    Oops. I forgot Astrid designed the Town Hall. Has anyone had fleeting thoughts of 'shipping' Jamie and Astrid together and then wonder the type of Modular buildings they would make together?
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    It turns out I'm wrong about the plunger. It's actually a red mixing bowl. But if I'm originally right, then ewwwww. Apparently, the color red may once again indicate an important item in a lego set. Lets see which red items are actually helpful clues: Red Pool sign. Red window above pool hall door. Red newspaper dispenser. (Likely) Red cap. (Likely) Lady in red dress. (Likely) Red mixing bowl. (Less likely) Red on barber shop. Designer Jamie Berard has been known to put little hidden details that you will only notice when building it. Like the restaurant name embedded in the sidewalk tile of the Cafe Corner and the Parisian Restaurant. Or the bat in the Town Hall bell tower. Or the rat hole in the Green Grocer. I suspect there will be a hidden surprise in this set. Maybe something in the water tower? Also, in the latest US Lego Club magazine, there is a page saying that Mrs. Claus baked 12 cookies but is missing some. I only found 6 on the page... so perhaps the remaining 6 ended up in this set? Wow, I didn't think the cookie-trafficking market was global. Maybe the lady in red is Santa's grand daughter!
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    It's in the newest article on Brickset. It's the same picture as posted before, but if you follow it to flickr, it has a much higher original resolution. 10246 Detective's Office by Brickset, on Flickr It would be funny if the detective, in search of the missing cookies, follows the cat to find.... a red fish.
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