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  1. Still Raindrop
    Mine came with the new skis, too--fortunately I had some of the old style from the Winter Village Toy Shop. I agree, the old ones look better.
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    I feel like they dropped the ball with Avatar: The Last Airbender. Granted, this was ten years ago (and I would be kicking myself even harder for missing those sets...and paying exorbitant amounts for an Uncle Iroh minifigure), but two sets just wasn't enough. Nor did the existing sets truly capture the show well. Part of the problem, I think, is Lego of ten years ago. If the show had started, say, three years ago instead of ten, then I think Lego would have been better prepared--the set designs would have been better, we might have gotten an Appa build or bigfig, and the minifigures would have been better. Look at the hairpieces we have now, for example--Zuko from book one could have Aurra Sing's ponytail, while they could have molded something more fitting for Katara. Minifigure design is so much more advanced now, they could really do the characters justice. What's more, there are a ton of vehicles they could have made, in addition to locations. Fire Nation tanks, war balloons, Hakoda's ship, the submarines, sandbenders' desert sailers, Ba Sing Se trams, etc. I guess they probably don't have the license any more--and even if they did, Avatar is kind on old news now. Still, an Iroh minifigure would be so great.
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    If it were a Johnny Thunder set, I'd buy one. Or two. Or maybe three.
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    PS is the only other modular I have, but the "Al's Pets" thing bothers me, too. Currently, I have my Chinese restaurant MOC, which I'll share here when I'm moved into my new place (probably--although nobody seems to like two-story buildings, and my restaurant/tea shop is one of them!), next to Al's, so the lettering doesn't run together. I guess I understand more about the height difference. I've just seen more mods that have made it the same height as everything else. But I suppose if you upscale your other modulars, a two-story building could be seen as too small. Works just fine for my town, though.
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    Do most people here live in towns where the buildings are all uniform height? Or is it just something you like aesthetically in your Lego street? That's one of the most common complaints I see about the DO, and I guess I just don't understand. Of course, where I live, the buildings are of varied height, and you can find a two-story building connected to a three- or four-story building easily.
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    I though Square Foot was the only one I was going to pick up, but I think that the spectre shows promise. The ghost of a US Civil War general roams my Lego town, and the head might actually be perfect for that. It looks silly at first, but when you add a beard or moustache piece? It could look downright spooky.
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    Oh, I dunno, I think the multiple whining posts we'll get in the meantime will make the time go faster. In all seriousness, though, I don't think that it will be similar to the DO in style. Lego has been good wth varying the styles lately: the PC was a good Chinese-style theater like the ones found in Southern California, the PR was obviously very Parisian, and the DO was similar to buildings in old detective movies (the location is less certain, but it's the kind of buildings found in many American cities). I wonder what will inspire the next one.
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    I just can't get over how uncharacteristically minimalistic the Bigfoot is with printing.
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    This is fantastic! I've been wanting to do something similar for a while now, but have always had a hard time with making the scale work--these will be a huge help and inspiration!
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    I really wish that the Bigfoot had more torso and leg printing (like the Yeti). Not sure about that hand color, either. I'll still get two, but I'm a little less excited than I was.
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    I just wish that the vehicles were done a little differently. They still often use the wheels that stick out too much for small cars, for example. The colors are also frustrating, since most cars are red, yellow, or white, and the base pieces are usually dark bluish gray. Even when they make the occasional differently-colored car, like they did this year, they tend to use things like white roofs still. So, I suppose all that is to say that it's not the fact that there are lots of vehicles that bothers me--it's that, for cars at least, things get repetitive. I kind of like that Creator is the main source of new buildings, actually, so I don't mind as much that City is mostly vehicles. (I also wouldn't say no to a theme of minifigure-scaled classic cars).
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    Mine is similar. For about half a year before I got engaged, I bought a lot of LEGO (exiting my dark ages plus disposable income galore). I spent well over $1,000 on Lego...but the biggest sets I bought were a police station and the Agents volcano base. I don't know why I didn't get any of the early modulars or other large exclusives, but I regret that. Fortunately, I have a better job now, so I can actually buy Lego from time to time.
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    Kuffs has police hats for eyelids--that's fantastic!
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    If it is an arcade, I'd hope that we would get plenty of coin pieces (although printed 1x1 round tiles, like those in Friends, would also be good. I just don't want blank 1x1 round tiles).
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    I was fortunate--my dark ages were very short. They started in 2004, when I was 15. When I was in my first year of college, I saw set 7648: Mobile Mining Unit, and picked that up. The rest, as they say, is history.
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    Bigfoot is the one that has my interest. If he looks good, I'll be buying at least two.
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    Great question--sorry I'm late in answering it! My hairstyle is best represented by my sigfig (on the left). However, it's the color I've been uncertain about. My hair is blond, but with a reddish tint* that neither tan nor dark tan (the two top contenders) have, so I've been going back and forth (I've currently settled on tan--though I'm sure I'll change it again soon). *basically, I have the same hair color as Wash from Firefly, or Ed Begley Jr
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    Me too! Looking at the two of them, Onua 2015 looks much more expressive. I can see him as a biomechanical earth being, whereas the 2008 version...not so much.
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    A bank or a pharmacy could be good, but I don't think I'd be too fond of the others--mainly because Walmart, Target, and dollar stores tend to be very drab visually--they're usually just nondescript blocks. While I don't think all modulars need to be extreme examples of architectural beauty, something like that wouldn't be worth the money for me--especially since one could make something similar with a pile of grey bricks, a few doors and windows, and a very minimum of specialized pieces.
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    I seriously doubt the veracity of these "leaks;" furthermore, I'd be disappointed if the next wave was ghost-themed. One wave of undead warriors is enough for me--and if Lego is trying to recapture some of the feel of early Bionicle, several horror-themed waves doesn't seem to make sense to me. It would be a pretty stark contrast to the tribal, mystical/mechanical feel that the first few years of G1 had. I know that they're not trying to replicate it exactly, of course, but several waves of ghosts and skeletons would be even more unlike those first three years than the later years were (stylistically, at the very least).
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    Point taken--although I still like to think of the entire "So" album as a dark spot in an otherwise brilliant career, with "Sledgehammer" and "Don't Give Up" as the lowest points. It's hard to match something like Supper's Ready, of course, but I've found that both his pre-So work and his post-So work (including his work with WOMAD) are incredible, deep, and very artistic ("Us" and "Up" are still two of my favorite albums). But now I'm the one digressing.... Anyway, I agree that Lego seems to always surprise us when it comes to modulars. It's pretty nice, I think, not to know quite what to expect. I mean, I assume that the next one will have an interior of some sort, but I also know that each modular has been unique and distinctive enough that it could be almost anything.
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    June 26

    Still Raindrop replied to Corioso's topic in LEGO Town

    Great MOC for a wonderful, historic day! I showed it to my best friend, who is gay, and he says it's amazing!
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    I'm cool with disagreement, of course--and I can see why people wouldn't like interiors (although I have my own reasons for really loving them), and why the size variations might be frustrating for some. It's when current modulars are called "childish" (or some variety thereof) that I roll my eyes--it reminds me of people who use the word "<insert that tiresome argument>" to refer to any set they don't like, despite its having a pretty agreed-upon meaning. But then, I probably shouldn't care--after all, Lego is a toy. To each his own. And then Peter Gabriel came along and proved that music videos could be works of art! Anyway, I agree that a single-theme corner building would be best for the next one. I liked the Detective's Office, but I don't think every modular should be like that. A post office could be great, or a bank. I have my doubts that a hospital could work on a modular scale; most hospitals would have to be much larger, and I think any modular attempt would be disappointing. A doctor's office, or perhaps a dentist's, is something I think could be done well, though.
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    Oh, I disagree. I know from your several posts on this same topic that you hate things like story and interior design being in your modulars, but I'm an adult and I like those elements quite a bit--as do most of the other adults I've talked to. In fact, most modular MOCs I see include an interior, and many include story. Official modular buildings still have lots of pieces, use advanced techniques, cost lots of money, etc.--things that make them less appealing to children. Sure, as a kid I probably could have built the Detective's Office--but I also could have built the Cafe Corner. Modulars were always geared more towards adults, but that doesn't mean that there's no room for fun--especially when the medium is still a toy. So maybe they're not as suitable to you--but that doesn't mean they're not designed with adults in mind, or that they're childish now.
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    I thought the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" series had only Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby as protagonists, and later shows from the 70s and 80s introduced other characters. I'm not as up on Scooby-Doo as I could be, so I imagine I could be wrong.
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