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Haha! Raise the roof! Lasse D, this is absolutely brilliant! The video is hilarious, and the house itself is an incredible piece of work!

Perhaps the 7641 "City Life" set is something akin to the old Main Street or Town Square set? It would make sense for it just to be called "City Life," as something like "Apartment Complex, Ambiguous Store, and Restaurant" (for example) would be quite a cumbersome name. I suppose that's partly wishful thinking on my part, but with the incredible direction LEGO has been taking lately, it wouldn't surprise me.

Found my camera, so here is a photographic example:

Card--I live only about an hour south of you, so I'll have to check out my local TRU and see if they're there yet.

I agree, floor tiling would be a very good idea. However, I don't currently have enough tiles, and am very low on money. But I'm certainly going to be renovating these buildings once resources become available.

That might be better; however, it would also look rather big, so I figured I'd just go with the "donut" type of spare, which is smaller anyway, and only meant as a temporary replacement. I never had a flat on my Jeep, so I'm not really sure if they carry a donut or a full-sized spare wheel, so I just assumed donut for the aesthetics.

You do have a point there; I hadn't thought of that. I suppose I just like the cars that are out now so much that this precursor still seemed very crude.

You know, Hinckley, I have long thought that Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" would be an amazing inspiration for a LEGO city, but wondered if the Art Deco look could successfully be pulled off. I don't wonder any more--your theatre's design is flawless!

I still don't really like the way the squad car looks, but I do like the police officer's torso

Thanks! No, I'm not French, but I do speak the language relatively well. Thus, a few of the surnames of the Brickenridge residents are French words, or some variation thereof.

So, I've given separate threads to some MOCs from my growing LEGO city, Brickenridge (though loosely inspired by my city in design, it's a play on the name of a town that's a few hours away from me, Breckenridge). The MOCs I showed there (the Jeep, the fountain, the Post Office/truck) all seemed to deserve their own threads, since they were so different. However, these three are just buildings--nothing remarkable, but I still thought I'd share. I try to make the buildings look like they fit alongside official LEGO sets, even if they couldn't be sets themselves. Oh, and apologies for the boring background--I seem to have lost my LEGO Studios backdrops. First we have the house of the Gris family. Just your average one-story house, really. Here is Mr Bill Gris, about to cook something on the oven/stove Now we move on to Price's Bistro, a small restaurant that has been rated Best in Brickenridge for two years now. The interior that is open to the public has only a host stand, for the tables are all out on the balcony. We see the owner and Maître d', Mr Anton Price, standing at the ready. And here is chef Jeff Barbrun in the kitchen (I used the fleshie hands to simulate thin latex gloves) Finally, we have the O'gel music store. On the ground floor one can see a shelf of LPs, as well as the store's anti-theft detector by the door. The clerk looks a little zombie-esque, but he has better benefits than many of the workers in other stores, so he doesn't complain. The second floor contains the office of the owner, reformed criminal Alexei Ogilvy. And on the roof . . . well, we've been assured that those are just mechanisms to help with the heating. A close-up of Ogilvy's chair:

Beautiful! It really does manage to fit into the town setting, yet it is so detailed.

Wow! Thanks, TheBrickster--I'm honored!

And the Jeep after Captain green hair's suggestions: It looks much better, I think. Oh, and Lord Santos--yellow would indeed be a good color, but I already have two yellow civilian cars. Plus, my old Jeep Wrangler was red, so the LEGO version has sentimental value However, I would like to add a top (I assume that's what you meant when you said protection?), or at least a roll bar, but I'm not sure if I could do that convincingly. I'll certainly try, though.

I pressed the tiles down upon each other, but not completely. It was rather difficult with more than two tiles, but I was able to get it done with a lot of pushing from the sides, rather than the top.

How would I go about doing that?

Captain green hair-- The height and placement bothered me a bit, too . . . not sure why I didn't think about using the jumper plate. That would actually solve the other problem, as well, since more centered wheels wouldn't hit against the front or back if they were too high.

Thanks, everyone! I'm glad to hear your input. I tried to loosely model it off of the post office in my town, which is small and very neat, so I'm glad I was successful in that. CopMike, the silvery thing is actually just the reflection of the natural light source. I didn't notice it until you pointed it out, actually, but it certainly gives it an interesting look!

All right, this is the last MOC/mod I'll post today, I promise--I'm just glad to have finally found my camera. I'll start with the mail delivery truck. While I like the design of LEGO's official set, it was just an entirely different sort of mail van than what I'm used to. So, I decided to make one that bore a resemblance to the kind of truck the USPS uses (sorry for the pictures . . . if I had road plates, I would have used those, but alas, not yet). (Also, do keep in mind that I'm fresh out of my dark ages, so I may be a bit rusty or unoriginal as far as design goes) (note the lack of a door on the right side, for easy entrance and exit) Now, I decided that, if there's a postal service, there should be a post office (especially since I now had two mail carrier torsos, as I had already applied the stickers to the yellow van, and wanted a fresh set). So, I built one. The outside is very unremarkable; just a boxy building: The interior, however, is what I'm proud of. Here we can see the fine selection of stationery, larger envelopes, and boxes for sale: Community bulletin board and security camera: PO mailboxes for rent: Our friendly clerk, Mr. Basil Dove. His desk includes a scale for weighing packages in order to determine their postage. The part of the scale where the boxes are placed is supported by a 1x1 round tile to make it look like it could sink under weight. And the layout of the entire thing:

The upgrade looks like a bit like a "naked" bike--I dig the look. The binoculars are an interesting choice.

I really liked the dark green Jeep that was offered with the BrickMaster sample (even though I never got it). I thought that, with a few modifications, it could be made to look more like a modern-day Jeep Wrangler. The following are my efforts at doing so. Not many changes to the front, apart from the different windscreen. I tried to make the back look less like the back of a pickup truck, and I gave it larger wheels Finally, a close-up of the back, which includes a spare, in true Jeep fashion:

Wow. I always thought this set looked rather ridiculous . . . you have shown me the light!

Thanks for the comments! I'm glad you like it. It probably could be simpler; just not with the pieces I had And TheBrickster, that's a great idea. I was fiddling around with the idea of a park (as evidenced by the bench in the background that didn't turn out nearly as well as I had hoped it would), but was unsure how to expand it. I need to look into getting some cypress trees, as all I have are the pines/firs.

B-V-10B All right, so I'm just starting to build some MOCs that I'm comfortable with sharing. The first one is a small fountain: Comments, constructive criticism, and thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks, guys--glad you like the idea!