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WOW! Details are the killer here, and it is so well done. The fountains, lake and trees are to die for; the buildings are perfect! What an incredible model of a lovely park with such a long and famous Danish history. Congrats to the team of builders! (And that IS A LOT OF BRICKS for sure. Glad they make some of them in Denmark!)

Wadjda score by Max Ritter. Also WInter's Tale, Walter Mitty, Monuments Men and LEGO Movie scores!

Writing through the tears, it is impossible to understand what your family is going through. The loss of two young daughters at the same time is just too hard to comprehend. As a parent, this is our most dreaded news. May your family somehow find peace and know that others are there to help when you need it. God Bless!

Cool design and use of locking keys is quite creative. Fun to look at with the ball shape. Any idea how many pieces? It would be fun to do this in dark orange and maybe light yellow if one could find the pieces. Congrats on a fine build!

Yup, the sorting kills me, too! Keeps me out of my LEGO room for days at a time. I will pull one set out and play with it at the kitchen table instead of organizing and sorting everything so I can work on the table in there. Why is it so hard to sort LEGO? Most of my parts are in large bins sorted by color and only about 10 percent are lying loose in builds in various stages of completion and driving me nuts. The more I try to put them away, the more they spread. I try to make a little progress every week by sorting for an hour or two. Or putting one more modular on the shelf, etc. Am finding all kinds of parts I did not know were in my collection. And it would be terrible to order what is already here. One big lesson, when storing a build, do not take it apart for any reason. You will probably never get it back together is my experience with the modulars and other large buildings. The parts tend to disappear, and it is torture to reverse build the top floor. Don't ask why, okay!

The Citroen Deux Chevaux and Smart Car are cute on the bricked street. (Now if they can just get rid of those rough cobblestones that make travel tough, that would make llikfe easier. But drats Beligum would lose much of its character without those early Roman style of huge cobblestones.) The new town square is a lively addition. Is your table about to collapse from the horrendous weight of so many bricks? Congratulations on a fine city street!

I adore this style! Please keep on building! We need more modern modular buildings using lots of glass, but NOT looking cold. And you have managed this quite well. Most modulars by LEGO seem to be stuck in the last two centuries, and this is where your build and many of the Architecture sets really shine. Three floors make the scale look very appropriate for a modular. And in most cities the modern buildings pop up right between the old ones. I am not a fan of buildings over three stories because they lose their human scale and block too much sun for neighbors. Congrats on a very creative and enlightening build.

Fantastic layout and design! Nice water buffalo fits right in. The good news is that we don't have to bend over and plant and then later harvest the rice. Extremely well done, and we, too, are all hoping that you don't run out of parts!

Ditto what Andy D just said. The Raleigh store has excellent service when I visit about once a month. They can answer most of my questions and are quite helpful. Good management within each store does make a huge difference. I avoid stores with consistently bad service unless there is no other alternative.

I love your Year of the Horse build! What a great way to start the Chinese New Year! Hope they bring out the Horse set in the US also so we get a chance to get it!

Wow! Very nice MOC's! Did you use the Architecture Studio book to help you build parts of them?

Wow! A fantastic use of old bricks! Many of us have been wondering what to do with our old bricks, and you have met that challenge quite well! The spacemen must be looking at the rental apartment for an old folks home if they were orbiting in the 80's! Yours are in much better condition than ours. The photos of your Hat Shop on Modular Street look great as well. It all fits together nicely! Congrats on a fine build!

Sorry about your Toyota closing news; I had read about that last week. With Ford and GM shutting plants, that has to hurt so many Aussies. Terrible timing for sure. I think that there will be a Toyota dealer for many years in New Mannum because they make such reliable cars compared to many other brands. We drove our Priuses up steep snowy/icy hills littered with stalled cars of all other brands this afternoon coming home during our blizzard. And they are not even four wheel drive. Plus we know how to drive in this weather unlike most Southerners. Every Toyota we have owned has been a wonderful car. Can't say that about other brands. So it is a good bet that your dealer will survive…let's hope so! It is neat comparing photos of the real town with your MOC town. Your stores and lay out look so realistic. The Aussie pubs I visited in the 70's were full of families in the afternoon sharing the latest news and a bit of food and drink. I have never seen entire families in pubs anywhere. It has probably changed with video games, TV and tablets/computers everywhere now, but back then, that was the high point of the day for many families it seemed. So a pub seems to be needed to help fill in the social life for many. Keep up the fine work!

Whoa! Each floor has its own character, and the clear pieces really open up the entire build. Great that your kids helped out! What a fun build and thanks to Target with its sale. It is amazing how much a twenty to thirty per cent discount can increase the size of a small set building!

I have cut open many plastic bags in sets and don't feel that those parts represent the end of the world for LEGO. The Friends' figs all come in bags and are just lovely! My concerns about LEGO part quality extend to plants in all countries, and having opened over 100 sets in the past year (not including minifig only sets), the China made parts don't scream low quality to me. There could be some lines I don't buy that may have lower quality, but Chinese made LEGO parts have not yet caused me to lose any sleep. And anger is just a waste of ones limited time and energy. Maybe we should consider using the term "dislike" more often than the word, hate. TLG has to make business decisions that we may not agree with or understand. This should not ruin our lives or fill us with hatred.

As you age, your vision up close tends to worsen. This requires extremely good lighting to do anything with LEGO. The problem with telling colors apart becomes much more difficult both with real bricks and especially with instructions. This contributes to our making umpteen errors every time we build something from an instruction booklet. So then we have to go back with the parts that are left over, take the thing apart, and try a different color to see if it all works out. So I rarely call LEGO for missing parts because usually they were put in the wrong place. I also learned not to throw away the parts bags until after the set is built because so often there are a few parts that amazingly jumped in the trash as we emptied the bags. LEGO definitely will have to improve the color differences in the instructions for the blacks, grays, browns, and all translucent parts because those are already the most difficult for us to see. Will be interesting to see how they do it, but it is well past the time for this to happen.

Nice legs! Crabs are a real challenge, and this is a great one!

Very clever and uplifting design! Way to go, fenz family!

Sold! Love your big black brick idea!

Hilarious and very entertaining! Sign me up for a LEGO bag please....smashing the magnet was also very cool. Don't we all want to pull those buggers apart?

During this long, miserable winter in the US, most of us would cherish a seat on that raft. A refreshing design with more cute animal pals. Long live Friends!

I picked up an extra Robie House today at our local TRU, and like all of the others I have seen, the box was smashed up a bit. The boxes look the same at our Barnes & Noble, too. Must have been a major screw up at TLG shipping a set that seemed to arrive in damaged boxes most of the time. Maybe the Mob "got the contract" to deliver these after they fell out the back of an open truck on Interstate 95. Anyway I only need the parts as I built the model last week. Now I want to try making some other FLW houses similar to Robie. When I opened the damaged box today, everything was there, but the top edge of the instruction book has a small crease and is not perfect. So although this comes straight out of a box and has not been opened, the book cannot be considered mint and new. On BL the lowest US price is 18.00 for a new one, and am asking 10.00 for this one. I hope that someone can use this book to build Robie House with their own or bricklinked parts because it is a lovely set. A word of caution: the base is not strong enough to keep the ground floor tiles level. So make the base solid when you build it by adding any color plates in the spaces without plates on the bottom. This should strengthen the base. I am including the Robie House name tile as well. Shipping is by USPS parcel post $4 in a plain mailer with packing tape around the edges. Please remember that this is not in new condition even though it just came out of the box. If you want a new one, go to BL, okay! Payment only by paypal. PM if you want this lovely book. If you want insurance, please buy off BL as that will require me to make a trip to the Post Office. I would rather have two teeth pulled without anesthesia. I have never sold any LEGO, so there is no feedback on me as a seller. As a buyer, I have a ton of BL (as grayfish) and eBay feedback, all positive. Cheers!

It sounds like one very cool score from the iTunes samples and at 7.99US is not a bad deal. May still wait til Feb 11th to get the Amazon CD for 10US because it is easier to load and play on all the devices in our house and has higher audio quality than the mp3. Mark Mothersbaugh (previously of the band, Devo,) is quite an accomplished composer with many film scores and video game soundtracks under his belt. Glad they chose him to compose the score.

Oh my god! You chose dark orange over that horrible red color it came in! What a fantastic choice! It looks so much better without red walls, and if you can somehow mix up dark red and maybe dark gray tiles for the roof, that might work, too. I detest red walls and roofs and usually refulse to buy anything with them unless I have enough in another non-red color to replace them. I think that the original house set looked really awful as to color choice, so you definitely made some great decisions here. And the exterior really rocks. Congrats on such a fine build! I am think that a tan and dark orange combo with some shade of gray could also work. Way to go!

Whoa, nice cemetery! Is is okay if I wait a few more decades to pay a personal visit?