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Thanks a lot to the EB staff for the organisation of this nice contest and for the amazing prices as well! It was as pleasant to enter this contest than seeing all the great works frome all the other members. I can't conclude without congratulating the 3 winners, who had built amazing building, you deserve your victories!

So many great entries, the choice wasn't that easy! 1. French Mansion by castor-troy 1 2. Hats & Clocks by cimddwc 1 26. Girls' Street by psyche 1 27. Terrace Apartments / Barbershop by Myko 1 29. The Tan Townhouse by Kristel 1

Good entries for this category! This category seems the hardest one for me : it's not that easy to make a nice looking building in such a small scale, even more when we don't have an "original" version like the official mini modulars. 1. The Antique Shoppe by George G. 1 7. Living House with Garage by Kit Fisto 1 10. 50's Style Bank by CarsonBrick 1 12. "King's Corner" by moctown 1 13. Rhodes Biology Lab (Under Construction) by Inconspicuous 1

Very nices entries! My vote goes to : 16. Sid Sidious 1, even if I wouldn't like to have such a site above my home! 5. caparica 1 nice little park 10. LegoJalex 2, what a great recycling station, very well done!

Thanks for the last comments! Can't wait to see all the entries!

Thanks a lot for all the great comments, they made my day! Thanks a lot for having blogged my modular. This contest is an awfull source for your nice blog (that I look at every week!). The choice of the color theme of a builidng is very important for me. Before starting to build a house, I imagine it in its general look and proportions and also in its colours. With this one, I have it in my mind since the begining of this year, after spending some time walking down the street of my town. I have some real buildings I really like to make in LEGO, but I have to find how to make them in bricks, capturing the essential of their feeling. And for this old manufactory, I took some inspiration with those two buildings : building on the right, with the asymetric aspect, which gives a nice touch IMO. The factory of Émile Gallé, an artiste from Nancy who had made some very nice "art nouveau" glasses work. The garage doors has come naturally to put some glasses to those large windows. The glass above was not that easy to do as well. I have taken some inspirations from a Castor_troy moc : But I wanted a steel structure to support the glass. I have made many tries without good result. It's not that easy to make some neat structures, but finally I have found how to do, and with this art nouveau style! Maybe the interiors are just too minimal compared to other entries, but I try to limit them, like in the other official modulars. Thanks a lot Doctor Holodoc! I'm glad if I don't have disapointed you, it's my personnal victory! And it's a little off topic, I have just noticed the minifig head in my tags. I don't know who gives it to me, but thanks for that!

B-OM-25C Hey ! I’m glad to present you my entry for the Modular Madness Contest (category 3). This is an old manufacture from art nouveau area, in which we worked the glass in all its glory. This is why there are some large windows to let the light entered inside and help the workers to see the colors of their works the best. But now, those buildings have found a second life with some reconversion. For my modular, we have a perfume shop on the ground floor and a comfortable apartment above. I really try to keep the official modular spirit in term of size, building technics used, minifigures choice, and in inside details : not so many with stud floors. Nothing more to say, so enjoy the pictures : More pictures in my BS gallery.

You're Richter, they are 1x1trans withe plates. Firstly, I have used some 1x1 trans bricks but the result wasn't so great. The plates add a nice effect. And thanks for the nice coments.

Great prices! Thanks EB for them! It seems that we already have very nice buildings. The competition is already hight! Can't wait to see all the entries!

Thanks for this review Redhead1982! I agree with you with the fact that only some recoloured parts are interesting in this set. The kitchen accessories are nice in red. And the azure bick rocks a lot! But you're right in saying that those classic bikes don't feet very well with those minidolls. But personnaly, that doesn't bother me that much, it permits us to have our classic bikes in a new and nice colour! It's better for me that a new bick mold! The design of this camper is not tha bad in general, but its major problem, for me, is the colours. When I look at this set, I just see some white, pink and lime bricks put together in a total awfull mess! Just look at the roof, it seems not finished, but more in the middle of the design process, when the colours sections are not totally stoped. The final result appears botched to me...

Thanks once again for this review Whitefang! And you have a hight sens of observation, with the licence plate!

Thanks for this great review Rufus! You have made me post for the first time in the SW forum! I'm not a huge fan of SW in general and in LEGO sets. So I will not spend a lot of money in huge UCS ships, even if I found them very well done and detailed. My jugement is a little different with this R2-D2 : it's an iconic astromec, which has entered in the classic culture, everybody knows it. It looks like a very nice and friendly robot, a kind of mechanic dog. TLC has made a very nice job with it. It's immediatly recognizable. If R2-D2 is made of simple shapes (cylinder and sphere), they are not so easy to make with more squarish bricks. If the final look is not that curvy, it is very well done, and as you said, makes it automaticcaly recognizable as a LEGO set. The action features add a lot to this set IMO, because you could play with your sculpture, and not only look at! I really things that this set has a hight "sex-appeal" potential on a very wide range of people! Back to the review aspect now. Thanks to have take the time to share with us the building steps like you have made. Reading your review is like we have built it in part! I have shared with you your different interogations, with all those coloured bricks and so on. Judging on your (nice) pictures, the only things that I find strange is the use of the brown colours for the flexi-cable. I find them a little too visible, and maybe a light grey would have been more discrete...

Great review Pandora! Seeing your set all new without any dust makes me envious! But I will not complain that much, because I'm a happy owner of this set, even if the pieces are not that news and not that clean. Even if it was a more girly line, my parents didn't persuade me not to have this set. I likes the introdutions of new colours for this time, and also those new girl faces! They were too rare at this time! It was nice to have a set based on beach, the basepate is just awsome for that! If I know this set, I'm very intrigued by those 1x1 round plates which come in pairs!!! I have bought this set in particular the year it was released and I didn't have those pairs of round plates! Until today, I didn't know that TLC has made that! And as far as I can remember, I never had those pairs in any set, in about 25 years of LEGO experience! If somebody has some explanation about that, it would be nice...

Great review again Whitefang! I'm not that much into space, but this Alien conquest line was a very nice surprise for me last year! TLC brings us some very nice head for the ADUs. Some of them, like with this set, are unique and very well done. Unfortunatelly, I don't have them all... Why TLC doesn't used those nice heads in the city line, instead of putting always the same heads for more than 3 years now?! I don't find the ADU vehicules that really great in terme of colour scheme and design. They look too blocky for me. The hight point of this line are the aliens and their UFO. Those green aliens are the best alien LEGO ever made. Just have a look at Space police from 2008/09, the aliens don't look very nice for me. But those one are just so !

Thanks for the review WhiteFang! Your pictures are always nice to look at. And your review always pleasant to read. This fig looks very nice in fact, and this spinner is a very good and cheap way to have this fig. Even if I am not a Ninjago fan, I reallly like some of the figures, and this one in particular. I really like the headgear, with the red mask. And the face is always good, adding some interesting femal expressions!

Thanks for the great review and nice pictures! Even if this hospital is not perfect, I find it a way better to the previous version, ugly perched on its baseplate... The design, even if it is quite simple, is nice, sleak and modern, with this red frame in the front. It gives it a real contemporary look. So I agree with the fact it's too small, wihout a lot of space inside. But for a set targeted to children, I think that it really makes it! I don't think that children need and want to have a hospital to the same size than the police station. Despite this, I will pass on this set, which doesn't offered me some interesting parts. The only thing that could make me buying one copy is the doctor. But with this printing problem (TLC doesn't get to print white on blue parts, really?). My wallet is happy, it can spend some money on other more interesting sets for parts!

The Renault Avantime is my favourite car! The first time I saw it at the "mondiale de l'automobile", Paris, 2000, I literraly fell in love with it! If you like Citroën, and you want a toyish car, have a look at mine, in the same colours (which add a lot to the big toy aspect!) : the C3 Picasso : We have the Lime LEGO colour to make it...

I take this for a compliment! But I know that we will see some nice modulars, there are some very talented builders in this forum. Can't wait seeing the entries!

Nice contest! That will force me to finish my latest modular building! I'm in!

Thanks everybody for the nice comments! I'm glad that you like my street and glad also that you find that all those modulars, officials or not, go well together! I have heared your message. I'm working on a 32 studs long modular building, but after that, I think that I will try to make an all new iner corner house. With this kind of building, there is just a few part of the building that it is visible, but it adds a nice way to compose a street. I need to look around me for some inspirations. But it will be after my curent bulding work...

Layout 2011 the rebirth, in modular size : It’s time for a new chapter of my city story ! Seeing the pet shop modular set gives me the desire to rebuild my café corner to its original size, and occasionally, all my official modular buildings. So after a long time of hesitation, I decided to destroy my layout, the rebirth was launched… I was a little afraid of destroying all that work, but in the same time, that gave me some motivation to continue to build something news. So after checking the pieces for all the official modular buildings (the pars list is very useful in that case!) I could start to build my own modular buildings : - My yellow house - My brown and grey houses - My modern and art nouveau houses - My irish pub And after that, I just start to put some interiors: - Inside my café corner - Inside my pub So, even if anything is really finished, I decided to take some pictures, as a check point of my work. Some general view here : A detail on my pavement : And my two kind of trees : You can see more pics here, in my BS gallery. I have a lot of work with the roads, I just need a lot of 1x2 and 2x2 dark grey tiles and some straight roads to complete my street diorama. And I have some other ideas to expend this layout. I have already work on a corner building, which will looks like this :

Thanks for the great comments! It was funny to make this little gif to share how I made this espresso machine.

More pics of my expresso machine : If you want to see the building steps, just look here (when moderated). And with those pics, I have made a small animation : Enjoy!

I think it's nice to show how the special parts are made, it can help others.

Yes I could, I just need to take some pictures of it. I hope to have some sun this week end for that. Glad that simple construction appeals a lot!