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Not to mention that if TLG don't like making fictional Nazis, there's no way they'd make a real Nazi.

The first thing I remember about Berlin, apart from the confusion of Tegel, is a ruin towering over the street: the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. The church was originally opened in 1906. It was bombed during the war, in 1943, and was something of a loose end for a decade. The architect and artist Egon Eiermann rebuilt the church from 1959 to 1963. He wanted to demolish the ruins of the bombed church, but he caved to public resistance and left the original tower standing. The tower has been preserved in its bombed state and Eiermann built a cluster of buildings around it, including a new chapel and a new bell tower. The façades of these new buildings consist of concrete lattices inset with stained glass panels. It's really something to see during the day but it is also lit up at night. In the preserved spire is a cross of nails from Coventry. The church, a beautiful and ugly trace of the war, is surrounded by consumer culture and the bustle of the city. It is flanked to the north by Budapester Straße and the Bikini Berlin mall. To the east is the Europa Center, famous for its giant spinning Mercedes-Benz logo that lights up in the night. An H&M and a Forever 21 sit to the south, just across Ku'damm and Tauentzienstraße, two of the famous shopping avenues of former West Berlin. To the west is the Waldorf Astoria hotel. To the north west, along Budapester Straße, is the Bahnhof Zoo, which was the only long-distance railway station in West Berlin. I know the church has five buildings, not three. But I decided after a month of fiddling with pieces that they would be intractable to build with any degree of accuracy at this scale, particularly the one next to the belfry. Also, having walked past the church around a hundred times, I had entirely forgotten about the small buildings so I don't think it is essential to include them. See a couple more pictures on flickr. All renders were done using the wonderful Bluerender software. Thanks for looking!

Is there any hope the Revan fig will ever be available outside the US?

Congrats mafia, and Actor Builder. I was convinced you were Town from day 4.

How do you know that?

It's pretty exciting watching what's going on with this new format of mind game. Go town scum Bob!

What a nice little scene! The dead AT-AT takes the cake - I can just visualize it falling just like the stop-motion prop from the movie.

Absolutely, I'm nostalgic. To be sure, there are plenty of old minifigures that weren't at all accurate or have been helped enormously by redesign. I'm very grateful for the most recent iteration of Luke's hair because the previous versions didn't work at all, and I really liked the introduction of flesh-colored figs. The original phase 1 clone trooper helmets weren't great. The original Jabba and Gamorreans are awful because they are just plain sand green. The first General Grievous was nice at the time but really doesn't stand up over time. Face prints on Ewoks are a great improvement. On the other hand, just because a fig is old doesn't mean it's dated. Stormtroopers, Vader; as others have said, Boba Fett. The print on Han from the original Sail Barge (I suppose it's 10 years old now, but bear with me) is incredibly simple but really represents Han very well. Perhaps Robianco is right that my opinion is shaped by the first versions of classic characters. On the other hand, I'd love to see a 2-wide version of R2-D2 because the existing figure is so badly out of scale with every other minifigure. Simple and old things aren't necessarily bad; likewise printing ever more detailed figures just because technology has become more precise and capable of supporting more colours isn't necessarily good. This is a very subjective thing, and what I've said is just my opinion. I know other people think different things. I would like to see figures of new characters rather than the most recent iteration of character X from scene Y. From what is said in the 2016 thread, it seems the new Death Star will contain figures of new characters, but I don't really understand other comments that the figures as a whole must need updating because the old Death Star is from 2008. And I totally understand that TLG update and remake figures for the value to collectors.

I get, but don't like, how TLG constantly update figs. They're minifigs, not action figures. The original Qui-Gon and Darth Maul from 1999 were perfect. The relentless addition of yet more detail to minifigures (across all themes) is just something that bothers me. LEGO is inherently a cartoon-y medium. Minifigs with appropriately abstract yet distinct prints are fine.

In the past, there have been Lamborghini sets with enough parts for you to choose to build the car in red or in yellow. I imagine that's what he means: that the Caterham set will let you choose between yellow and some other color. EDIT: Or, rather, that choice is what Artanis I wishes were the case.

As far as I'm concerned, Manchester is Mars. Welcome to EB, Kitty!

Are you just upset your own project is nowhere near on pace to get 10,000 votes over one year?

That's a lovely little model that really captures the essence of the Capitol. Well done.

It absolutely is cut off, but TLG has to make various considerations when it comes to price, size, etc. as others said, the White House is missing the wings. Also, Fallingwater is missing the guest house, the Louvre is missing most of the Louvre, Buckingham Palace is cut off, too. imo the view of the Capitol from the Mall is much more iconic than the view from First Street. As for my opinion of the models - Buckingham palace is all right. But the dome of the Capitol is awful. I appreciate scale considerations when it comes to Architecture models, but the 1x1 round columns above the quarter-circle railings are too bulky and the dome itself lacks the fluting it has in real life. Again, the designers made a choice, but to me the dome is iconic and the LEGO representation is just wrong. The version of the Capitol posted by Sparkart in the 2016 thread lacks the fluting on the dome but it's a small enough model that just having a dome is the important thing. The official set gets off to a great start at the bottom of the dome but it gets worse as it goes up.

Robianco has already said that the quality of a build counts, but "the most bestest ever build of a Star Wars vehicle that TLG has already made several times before" is not a good Ideas project. For me, the best projects are things like Birds and the Maze (even though I myself don't like the Maze) - they are original ideas that TLG *does* need to gauge interest in. They're small and relatable - my mother, hardly an AFOL, bought Birds for herself and she loves them. On the other hand, TLG don't need 10,000 people to say they'd like a new Falcon, AT-AT, Sandcrawler, etc. because a) of course they would and b) it's believed Disney dictates to a large extent what is and what is not made as a SW set. Also, just because something is a good MOC doesn't mean it would be a good set. Even if it had no illegal connections per se, it may be delicate or have parts that are no longer in production. This was the case with the Exo-Suit, as you've pointed out, and it required significant reworking to be made a set. These are some of the strengths of the Caterham project. Although it proposed another license for TLG to get, the Seven is a relatively obscure car that TLG probably did need market support for. Also, Carl Greatrix rebuilt his MOC in a way that could be presented as an actual set, and preliminary images indicate that he managed in this way to direct the development of the actual set. But, apparently, he's deluded for posting a model expecting it to be made into a set.

Glow in the dark isn't exactly a typical prototype color - do you know anything about where it came from and what it was meant to be used for?

The Exo-Suit had certain advantages such as originality and already being a favorite of AFOLs (and TFOLs) everywhere. I'd contend that posting a project merely for views, and not expecting it to pass review, clogs up the ideas pipeline just as badly as "let's stack a few bricks together and put it in front of the weird CGI dunes on LDD" sort of project. There are various media like Flickr, Rebrick (sponsored by TLG!!!) and blogs such as TBB that are perfect for getting views and stroking your ego. edit: before anybody asks, I do think you're just getting your jollies by being unnecessarily elitist

alex54 - I've been a fan of this project since before I joined this board. It's nice to see updates to your project. Your art deco version of the Palace Cinema is great - I love the blue panels on the walls and the rounded elements on the roof. I look forward to the street and other developments.

Lightningtiger is not a bot; he's a user here who has an ongoing Aussie-style town project that he occasionally posts updates on. I hardly know what the point is of going to a website specifically to be upset by kids uploading typical "my first MOC" projects. Wouldn't it just be easier to support the projects you like rather than posting a running commentary about things that don't affect you at all, especially when that commentary will have no effect on the people who post low-quality projects? It's also posted in the project guidelines that Ideas projects that are similar to LEGO products probably won't pass review, and projects based on active LEGO licenses probably won't pass review, so I don't know what anyone would hope to achieve by posting a UCS AT-ST project.

Wow, that guy really hates McMansions! Thanks for the interesting read. There's one going up in my neighborhood, and the worst thing about it is the stone facing on the walls of the ground floor. All the stones are different sizes, colours, shapes, etc. and they're connected by wide strips of grout. Whenever I see it, I wonder who the builders are trying to kid - it's perfectly obvious that the house is not made from stone, and something like siding or brick would be much more in keeping with the rest of the neighborhood.

Yes, you're absolutely right.

At least in LDD, the colour we know as "green" is called "bright green", so there may just be some confusion with terminology.

She's a beaut! The mosaic on the side wall is nice, but the undulating walls with the profile and headlight bricks to give some texture are lovely. I like how plain and elegant the roof is, too - it only needs the tan 1x1 round plates as decoration but they work very well. Despite the building's unusual appearance, it works well with other modulars in context. Great job.

Bye, 1974! Good luck with the future. I've always been interested in the things that you post.

hmmm... it's weird that the camera should have been changed. I wonder what I did? While I try to work that out, thank you SylvainLS for changing the camera for me.