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I just bought this set with the Dragon Dance set. My parents will bring them to me in US from China. Because Spring Festival is coming, the price is increasing. I also bought a lighting set for it. This set reminds me of the Spring Festival Eve dinners I had with my grandparents when I was a little kid. I love it so much, especially those dishes.

I have all modular buildings from Cafe Corner to Assembly Square. After seeing this one, I decided to stop my collecting of modular buildings. The Downtown Dinner and Corner Garage are still great sets. I think they started a new period of modular buildings by having normal minifigures and different styles. The main reason is I am out of space. 12 large buildings are enough for me to enjoy. Thanks to LEGO, Assembly Square is a perfect end of my collection.

I agree there's not enough Christmas spirit in this set. At the first glance, I though it was a city set. I have all the other winter village sets. My winter village set up is already too big and I am not sure if I should continue collecting this line. Maybe I will wait one more year to see the next winter village set and decide.

This CMF collecting becomes too overwhelming to me. I have the Lego Team GB Olympics, German Soccer Team, and two series of Simpsons that I don't really like at all. I bought them just because they are part of CMF collection. So I told myself I need to focus on the traditional series and only buy other series if I am really interested in.

Thanks for another great review! I have all CMFs except Mr. Gold and two Batman series. I hate this distribution. It means I may need to pay $20 more for a complete set. I don't have time to feel and pick Percival in a store. As a both CMF and HP collector, I thought about buying two sets earlier. Now I think I won't.

Thanks! I followed that hashtag.

Excuse me, but where can I see photos of the Bricktober minifig pack?

I have all new advanced fairground sets, Ferris Wheel, Carousel, and Mixer. This one is much more bigger and expensive. I may have to skip it and stop collecting for fairground.

Thank you for your tips! Thanks everyone. It was super easy to check the open bag from 10257 because it mainly contains a few kinds of bricks of a large amount. It was relieved to find it was complete. I saw enough minifigure parts in other bags, too. As for 10255, it is not very easy because some kinds of bricks belong to more than one bags numbered 6. I don’t have time to check all bags numbered 6. I did see the AFOL, baby and that printed tile in other bags. When I put bags from 10257 back to the box, another bag was broken and bricks fell out. To my surprise, I found more tiny cracks on that bag. No wonder the first bag was open in the box. I have built more than 10 modular buildings and many other big sets. This never happened to me before. The bag from 10255 is open in the middle. It looks to me the bag wasn’t sealed well in the factory. The glue isn’t at the right place to stick two pieces of plastic together. I bought one set from Walmart. The other was from Amazon. Now I think none of these two bags was opened by humans. They were open in the box during handling and in different ways. I happened to buy these two sets with some defective bags. The chance is very small so I was worried at first.

I just opened two brand new set, 10257 Carousel Set and 10255 Assembly Square. Their boxes are in perfect shape and sealed well. Both of them have a plastic bag (numbered 5 and 6 respectively) already torn open. Many pieces came out and were scattered around in the box. Is this common nowadays? This never happened to me before, but the last time I built a large set was 3 years ago. I am worried that these sets may be incomplete. Thanks.

At first, I thought Lego started a new line. This building reminded me of Simpsons house and market. Then, to my surprise, I found this would be the new Modular Building?! I still can't believe it, especially because minifigures in this set have the regular face. I have all the modular buildings. Recently Lego collecting became a bit overwhelming for me. It is still an awesome set. But since this line starts a new period, maybe it is time for me to quit collecting Modular buildings.

Gorgeous! As a Chinese myself, this is amazing to me. Do you have any furniture or decoration inside the house?

Wo, normally the Idea set isn't appealing to me. This one is a must-buy as long as Lego keeps its color scheme!

This will be the most expensive Lego set I buy. I am not a big fan of it at the first glance. I like its interior more than exterior. I have all the modulars and going to buy no matter what.

Your review is very interesting and helpful even after I bought the whole set of 16. I have been collecting CMFs for years. I have all the complete traditional and licensed series. How far do you think this line will go? Now with more than 300 CMFs in hand, I feel the urge to stop right here. It's becoming more than I can enjoy and they take lots of space.

Coming to check whitefang's review and it looks like it is still not ready yet. I just placed my order for a complete set for series 16. I have all the CMFs. Series 16 is awesome. Now with about 300 CMFs in hand, I can't help but wondering how far this line will go. If it lasts for another 7 years, I may not have enough space or interest to keep collecting.

I will remove his wiki page then. Anyway, you can easily find his page by google his bricklink username and "U.S. Representative for Illinois". Public person should beware of his behavior.

My bricklink store's name is "Alice Brickland". Recently, a buyer left me negative feedback unreasonably. On June 11, he bought a small set from my store. I sent him invoice immediately mentioning I would ship through USPS first class. He paid on June 12. I shipped on June 14. The package was delivered on June 17. The tracking number can be found in paypal transaction history. However, on June 16, he left me a negative feedback saying " It took SO SO long to receive the set!" without any communication with me. I tried to contact him, but no response. Surprisingly, the buyer is U.S. Representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district. This is my first negative feedback received all in my life. I don't care much its negative impact to my BL account since I don't buy and sell on BL a lot recently. I have only been living in US for 6 years. I just feel hard to believe a person like this could represent U.S. Here is his wiki page: REMOVED Let me know if I should delete this link if it is against policy to post personal information. I think it should be alright for this case since he is a public person, like we can read and post Donald Trump's page freely.

I am going to buy two copies of them! My favorite is Alice and the cat.

I'll have to pass on this one. It has lots of similarities with Fire Brigade and I am not a fan of Ghostbusters. As a collector of all the modular buildings, the interiors have nothing to surprise me either. It's still a great building but just not for me. I'll only buy the car. The heroes will fight with the ghosts in my Haunted House. Lots of money saved!

Only minifigures look interesting to me. The machine and the mansion look like the cheap castle toy you can get for 10 dollars at Walmart. Maybe just because I was expecting the mansion like the haunted house. Or simply this line is more target at small Children.

I wonder the reason you are confident that sand green groove bricks will reappear. Since Green Grocer, Harry Potter and recently Haunted House retired, it looks like Lego managed to deplete all their stocks of sand green bricks and will not relaunch big sets in sand green in the near future.

I personally decided to pass this set. It's basically vehicles when folded and when not folded, they are too loose. The color is boring, a mixture of red, yellow and blue, just like bricks from my daughter's build&play boxes. I love Jamie's creations and the folding technique is awesome. If they release a small ferris wheel or even a roller coaster next year and make a new "park theme", I will definitely buy all of them like I did with winter villages series. This set alone will be too lonely to display by itself. With 150 dollars, I would rather buy a second horizon express also created by Jamie. :) Just my 2 cents.

Use software brickstore, import bricklink inventory set 10185, choose all the bricks, right click and update price! Not sure if regular green is available for all the bricks in sand green. You can easily check this in bricklink.

I would like to update with my brinklinked CC, MS and GG. The first floor of CC is fully furnitured. Among them, I think GG is the best, while it is also great to have the other two, so now I can have ALL of modulars!