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I got a new one. Here it is in all its glory:

Mickey Mouse! But with better minifigs... And of course Avatar.

I made it red so that it looks like classic town... first red building I ever made, probably!

This looks like a truly awesome set - i have never seen an Indiana Jones movie and I don't care about the characters, but those minifigs are fantastic. And I disagree about the hairpiece - it is revolutionary. Never seen one that has the hair swung to the front over the shoulder before (and only the 2nd one in this color, I believe). I started a series of faire tale MOCs (just made Little Red thus far) and I will need the hairpiece for princesses! The rest of the parts are all great, too. I might actually get the entire set if that price tag of 40 dollars (35ish euros?) is correct.

Good review, it gives a very nice impression of the set. When I first saw images of this one, I thought I had no interest in getting it. It was mainly those colors that put me off. Now I see all the details and those accessories and I think it does look great despite the bright red walls... I am getting interested.

Thank you very much! The bus has open sides because the classic town bus station set 379 (from 1979) has open sides, too.. and the same goes for its predecessor 696 from 1976. Normally I would not make a bus for minifigs 4 wide nor would I give it open sides, but I did both things in this case in order to make it more classictownish. There is, indeed, a restroom in the school. You can find a detail shot on the Flickr page I linked to in my original post.

It's a great building, I like how its zig zags follow the curve in the road. And those old small doors work well for the balconies. The small car matches the classic town scene perfectly, only the - admittedly very beautiful - yellow car does not really fit in a layout that's supposed to be classic town, I think.

That's a great entry. When you see the picture the first thing you think is that you're looking at a very old set, the buildings follow that style very closely. Maybe there are newer parts but not at first glance, which means that it works the way it should.

My entry for the Classic Town Contest is a village school. The school has a playground and in the back there are two classrooms, a hall, a cafeteria, a kitchen and a toilet. The floors of the classrooms and the cafeteria can be taken out so that it is easier to put minfigs in and out. The MOMC has 14 children, 2 teachers, a bus driver, a crossing guard, a cook and a father. The vehicle is a school bus. A school, because that's the sort of building the official Lego cities are always missing. I tried to limit myself to colors and building techniques that were available around 1980, and most parts should be from around that time as well. The big change I made compared to the official Classic Town is children - Lego did not have children minfigs, so when I was little, I always made children the way I have done in this MOC. Simple! I have a whole photoset with detail views on Flickr so you can watch everything up close if you like. But the contest entry consists of these three small images:

I'm looking into Classic Town because I'm building something for the classic town contest at the moment. Which means setting aside everything I'm used to and trying to remember what those sets looked like when I was little... I do have mixed feelings about these sets. Actually, when I was little, I did not like them very much - I loved the minifigs and the roadplates (well, I had one) and the overall more realistic look, but on the other hand I hated the open back structures and I didn't like the new windows either. I thought the old, pre-minifig houses had a much better look. Right now I still think the new windows and doors were not very good and I'm still no big fan of open backs, but I do value how this line has been the start of all further development in parts and models. There has never been such an important redesign in Lego sets as in 1978, when along with the minifigs the whole minifig scale universe was born as well. Before 1978 the figures simply didn't match the buildings at all and there wasn't much unity. But it appears to me that Lego needed quite a few years to come with sets that actually look good. So I voted for the 'new factor' here.

'Eti' is pronounced like English 'eighty'. Actually, it's a corruption of my real life name Erik from when I was very small. English speaking people tend to think 'eti' is pronounced 'etty' but I would have written two T's if that were the case.

The open backs bothered me as a kid... Who wants to live in a house like that?

Gotta love pink! Very beautiful house. I'm a boy but I would like to live there!

Very interesting contest! Quite a challenge because I tend to make everything brown and pink with a touch of sand red, with some flesh minifigs and batman wings to round it off... I will try to build something more classic looking now! (It's good to say you're not that strict by the way... I wouldn't be happy running to the computer for every single part in order to look up if it existed before 1990!) I don't really like the classic town look by the way... I always liked the buildings from before 1978 better, when they still had four walls and nice windows. But I'll see if I can make something classictownish!

Oh, you can round it up to 93,4 if you like. Of down to 0,934. Or sideways to quarter nine-threes. Or Three nine-quarters. Or nine quarter-threes.

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Well yes, I hope my fool who climbs a ladder to search God is not offensive... it certainly is crazy to climb a ladder in order to actually reach God, whether you believe in him or not! Of course my God and angels are depictions of cliché images we all know, and they are definitely not intended to offend anyone (but well, if people take offence anyway I'm sorry... but you'll just have to look away I'm afraid!), and actually nobody thus far (including some christians) has taken offence.

He climbs up his ladder because he wants to offer his Creator a cup of tea. Unfortunately, he never seems to reach high enough. detail shots of the angels at MOCpages or Flickr

Which means that getting new sets from the UK is starting to be an option despite shipping costs (and I mean not from Lego.com but webshops or Bricklink of course)

Anybody taken a look at the private ads on 1000Steine today? It's brilliant!

Well, you do Richard Scarry, then! There's Fabuland figures enough to serve as his characters...

Never mind, it works now. How do I delete this post?

Thanks. It's not my first book based MOC though... the first MOC I made a few yrs ago was Gaston LaGaffe's car:

I recently finished one of my biggest Lego project thus far - a Lego version of Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. I made 20 scenes that each represent a scene from the book. You can watch the whole set of photos on Flickr. If you click on the first in the set, you can also browse through with the prev/next links. Or you watch them here - pictures link to Flickr, click to enlarge. On the Flickr photopage hit 'all sizes' over the picture to view full size[/i] I did not try to cover every page of the book. There are a few events I left out altogether (the rain, the underwater bit) because they would not be very interesting in Lego. On the photo pages I added some text excerpts to accompany the pictures. Please not that these are only excerpts, I did not copy all text of the book. Some final remarks: - In the book, the third train passenger is almost never visible. In my Lego version you'll only see him in the water, but he is in the train, too, behind the rear window. He has no arms because they wouldn't fit in that narrow train... - It is not easy to fit a train in a boat chimney. I had to do quite a big chimney, and I had to take some bits off the front of the train before I put it in. - This was very interesting to build. It looks so different from everything I normally do, I had to keep reminding myself it was Seuss so I should not do too many details... I hope the result has a bit of the same atmosphere as this book which I grew up with.

It's fantastisc! Already the outside, and then that brilliant interior, too. Love that priest's staff! (or is that what that 'stick' is called?) The only reason why it does not enterily fit in with the market village is the color - of course the church has to be gray (it's stone, I suppose!) but there should have been a bit more color in the details, maybe a brown or dark red roof for example. But it's a great MOC anyway