Hey everyone, I'm new to the forum, got back into LEGO collecting back when Cafe Corner first came out, though I grew up on them. The new Green Grocer set looks fantastic, I cant wait to see it.
I wanted to throw in my two cents worth about Market Street, Cafe Corner and Green Grocer.
Looking at Green Grocer got me wondering "Well, is Market Street really "part" of this line?".
Where they're different:
Architectually, Green Grocer and Cafe Corner are the same, but Market Street doesn't quite fit the same style. Green Grocer and Cafe Corner are heavily old European, but Market Street seems to have a flair of other styles in it
As stated above, Market Street is part of the Lego Factory line, the others arent
Market Street doesn't fit with the now established alliterative naming (C.C., G.G.)
Cafe Corner (and assumadly Green Grocer) can be split apart at the floors, and you can add more floors, but are they truly "modular" like Market Street? Market Street you can rearrange the order of the floors, or stack them to make two seperate buildings. You can add floors to Cafe Corner, but ultimately the top level always has to be a top level, floor level always has to be a floor level, and the middle levels, however many you add, stay middle levels.
The side and back walls on Cafe Corner and Green Grocer are solidly colored. Market Street has different colored (and textured) bricks mixed in to the walls.
Where they're similar:
Compatible sidewalks (I can only assume Green Grocer will have that too)
Pegged to connect to one another
Of course, maybe it's just the obsessive compulsive disorder in me and I'm overthinking it. I dont know, I think that especially after Green Grocer is added in, Market Street is just different enough to be a little bit of distraction from the theme. Dont get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE the Market Street set!
So, hope that didnt step on toes, I just thought it was interesting how these buildings are different, yet similar.
