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Wow! Your details are outstanding! Very appealing to the eye. Way to go!

Yup, the easel is my favorite, too! Way to go!

Wow! Wonderful details everywhere...especially the floor tiles and the angled living room rug. Outstanding layout of rooms and furniture, and the exterior us so cheerful and happy! Congratulations!

Redhead, Great idea to take bags of unsorted bricks on your travels and then build something from the sorted bricks. Makes sorting more fun because you get to build afterwards. Let the fun begin! Eurotrash, You must be speaking for the geniuses lurking around here! Building the mini modular set with the directions required every brain cell I possess, so doing it without directions would be a mountainous challenge IMHO. But one that definitely would be worthwhile. Care to share pics of your mini mods? Thanks!

eiker, I hope it is a very large tent so we can throw all the loud snorers in there with you... before they disturb the peace! Can't have too many tired builders due to lack of sleep...hahaha!

Nice clean design with excellent details make this a house that catches ones eye! Flowerbeds liven it up, and furniture fits well. Like the look of all of your other buildings, too!

Glad to see the support for Town Hall! It is a fun build with wonderful colors and design. I will be picking up a spare one when It goes on sale. The modulars are an outstanding collection of real life buildings! It is interesting seeing the questions about part colors shown in the instruction books of some sets. The grays and blacks and transparent pieces give me the most trouble even when my laptop is open to brickset instructions. The end result is that I run out of the right color of parts early in some builds having to dismantle a part of the set already built. Aargh! Maybe they could place stars on transparent parts shown in the directions so I don't spend so much time searching for the wrong part among the hundreds nestled in my long cake pan where I pour the bags coming out of a new set box. Does anyone else have trouble identifying transparent parts in new set directions?

Winter Village sets are so much fun! And if you are patient, the overstock may be marked down in the New Year at the LEGO stoes and online at LEGO. A great time to purchase spare sets. The WV theme is attractive to me because it marks a happy and relaxed time of the year for many families and does not incorporate violence. This makes the sets compatible with city layouts. All in all a very nice set and theme. Thanks to Astrid for another cool design, and to GRogall for the early photos!

This is a fabulous article about life size buildings and structures that look like LEGO! What a cool idea! They definitely look much better than plain old gray concrete. Thanks!

Kristel, You got creative pretty fast from the looks of this post! Way to go, woman! Love the name of your sale! Those are wonderful builds, so the plans should sell well. Cheers!

Denes, This is a lovely mini modular! Wonderful design. I hope you do get to build it. (If you don't have enough bricks, please keep building things in LDD. Most of us don't have enough of the right bricks to build what we want to make, either. So please join the crowd.) So sorry to hear about your tough year; hope that your father recovers soon and that your find another job you like. Best wishes!

Wow...ALL: Thanks for the travel tips! Will try your recommendations. London City Airport, then Edinburgh (yup, I love the place AND my family is Scottish, Alasdair), and then back up those choices with Frankfurt, Copenhagen and whatever else pops up on the screen. Sometimes it is harder than the devil to get a short flight to an out of the way place; I take it as a personal challenge! The good news is that we have ten months to pull this off.

Metro ID , I am having the same problem finding flights to Billund. Hope to stop in London on the way (hubby has never visited the UK except its airports) and then fly on to Billund, but it looks as if we will also have to stop in Frankfurt, Copenhagen or some other distant place to get a flight to Billund. Aaaargh! TO YOU BRITS: Any info on taking a train across the Chunnel or other creative options to reach Billund? I also have experience with hot air balloons (not sure which way the predominant winds blow from London), gliders, small Cessnas, Honda motorcycles, bikes for two, and hypermiling Priuses. But it looks like an awful long way by land up to Billund. All I remember seeing on a very, long train ride through Denmark were green fields and more cows than people; it was entertaining the first time because I grew up in the desert. Maybe they should just move Denmark farther south for the rest of us? (Just kidding of course!)

Hi coffee and cake!Having been to L Malaysia, can you remember if they sell the clown fish polybag 20025 there in the shop normally? It looks like a wonderful little critter, and would be fun to pick up a bunch of these as gifts for other EBers and our friends. Could you find out for us if they have it in stock most of the time and what it cost? Then we can develop a scheme of how to buy them and get them back to Billund for EB 2014 or some other event like Brickworld 2014. One is listed on US eBay now at : http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1423.l2649 I think that this might have been available to celebrate the Park's opening. Has anyone seen it sold elsewhere? Also is there anything else about L Malaysia that you want to post that would help others visit there? Like how you got there from Singapore, I guess? Looks like you have to go through customs at the border in both directions. Is that really a pain in the neck? If any others know something about L Malaysia, please post it here so those of us with it on our bucket lists can smarten up about our dreams. Cheers! Kristel, I understand your dreams for your bucket list! Just to let you know, the PAB wall in our LEGO store in Raleigh is no big deal for special parts. It does have mostly run of the mill parts, which are fine if you need a lot. But most PAB walls are not that exciting. Maybe the Parks have much better PAB, but that is a discussion for elsewhere. Hope you make it to a Park soon. Is there a way you can travel on business or to visit relatives? Maybe there is someone in your family whom you really need to see who lives near a Park?!!!! It looks like EB 2015 is scheduled for L Windsor. And we know that EB 2014 is next May in Billund. Maybe you can barter for frequent flyer miles....guess it is time to get creative in travel, too! Good Luck!!!

I agree with CopMike...haven't we beat this topic to death several times over? Reminds me of when a client hospital had a fire that burned up an already dead patient who had previously died three times the day of the fire...having been resuscitated three times that day. Enough. When I lived in Alaska for 12 years, prices were much higher (for almost everything) than in the Lower 48 states....I got used to it and either spent time figuring out how to buy things more cheaply or did without an item. Ditto while living in Hawaii, Micronesia and Saudi Arabia. It all comes down to the fact that life ain't fair. But we are some of the chosen few who do have collections of LEGO while most of the world does not. That does not sound fair to them, does it? Let's move on to topics that can make a difference in our lives....like how to build a round MOC. Thanks!

Is there a sign up at the Discovery Centers saying that adults without children cannot enter the area that charges admission? I did not see this in the Berlin DC, but then I did not attempt to pay admission and enter as a sole adult. Has someone on EB been turned away from a DC when they were not with a child?

Good luck with the name game. You will come up with something eventually. (Yup, boy or girl child...I keep my LEGO stored up high. My son liked to chew on things until he was about 18...so I always made sure there was a generous supply of new rubber bands lying around when he was old enough to not swallow them. That meant that fewer of his LEGO were destroyed by chewing.)

So you are shifting from "maybe" towards "very tempted?" And you don't even have to climb a steep mountain (if Denmark is as flat as it was thirty years ago during my last visit) to get there? Sounds like it is time to start serious physical training with only ten months remaining. But please note that there is no way in heck you will be able to hike or ride your bike home and carry all the bricks you will buy at EB2014.

Wow! A fantastic listing on US eBay at: http://www.ebay.com/...=item3a829ca577 Ladies and gents, start your engines! (I would imagine that sniping could work if you go high enough, but Oh, Lawdy! I won't be sniping this one.)

Hahahaha! Only about 800 other EBers would like to be able to casually "drop in" to EB 2014 in Billund! Let's hope that they don't read about your "maybe"....! See you there...maybe?

Sandro, This is astounding! Each building looks wonderful! And the trees with touches of snow look so realistic. I want to visit this visit in real life! And spend a few days walking around enjoying the scenery. Congratulation on your winter village....very well done!

MAYBE???? !!!!

The hot dog cart freebie for July is really sweet! And quite appropriate for the US market because we tend to grill burgers and hot dogs on the Fourth and other summer weekends? I have four already and had considered giving them as gifts, but none of my friends appreciate something this neat. So I am keeping them for moi! We saw the Friends' bike for sale at Gunzburg for 3E, was it? So free is a much better price! These giveaways usually ring up for 4.99US at the register before they cancel out the charge. The question is how much does a wonderful freebie like this one increase sales? My hunch is that it makes a tremendous difference. It certainly does for me; it is easy to time my LEGO store purchases because it is only 20 minutes by car with plenty of free parking at the mall, and I want to see the actual boxes before buying a set. And many sets are LEGO exclusives not available in other stores. Also there often are damaged box sets marked down ten per cent in the store. These work for me because I do not collect the boxes and don't like paying for so much empty space in the boxes. So LEGO achieves brilliant marketing results when they offer a promo giveaway that many of us crave. AND they don't have to lower their prices to achieve this....WOW! And I get to use my five dollars or so credit from VIP points earned on the previous visit. A marketer's dream for a very small cost!

Nice town lay out! The ration is my favorite building due to its design. I might try a different shutter coloe...black instead of green on the station. (Or a dark green or dark blue. Can't remember shutter color options.) The variety of stores is nice providing many things to do in town. Is there a park with benches for seniors and play areas for children? Any dogs you want to add to the build? Thanks for sharing your village with us!

Heading out the door for a long trip? Don't forget to pick up a mini-modular set 10230 before you leave town. When you have half an hour or more of down time, open one of the five numbered bags and build a mini-modular of your choice. At a table in the lounge or beside the pool under a shady arbor, you can build away....binge on all five builds or take it easy with one a day. It is legal and fat free and ENTERTAINING! And should not expose you to: -typhoid-watch out for the ice in those drinks -malaria-ditto those pesky mosquitoes -rabies-keep an eye on Mr. Fox or Ms. Raccoon nearby -hepatitis A or B or C-food again.... -sunstroke-keep those liquids going down the hatch -drowning in the rip tide-hold on to your table! - Returning to your hotel room and seeing the minis will make you smile. You can email your friends and families photos of what you have been doing while away. Pack away your builds in sandwich bags for your return home. And life is so easy! For a few photos of how this works, try this in your browser: http://www.flickr.co...s/75868658@N06/ (MOD's PS: This is not a set review...it is about entertaining yourself on the road. Please post it wherever it best fits. Thanks!)