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These sound great. With only 55-75 pieces will the Creative Boxes cost about as much as a polybag?

Welcome to Eurobricks. In todays world you can get just about anything you want sent right to your door. If you want to hear a song, see a movie, or watch a long cancelled TV show you can stream it to your phone anywhere you happen to be. Older people remember a time when you had to have patience to get things. If you wanted to order something to your house you needed a paper catalog, you had to send a check, you would wait for over a month for it to arrive. And there was no up to the minute tracking. How does this relate to your question and be able to build other peoples MOCs? I see the problems you list as challenges. Every rewarding hobby takes time. You can spend lots of money and buy the first things you see, or if you're patient and willing to wait for deals, sales, thrift store finds etc. you can spend far less. Aquiring the bricks from sets is part of the fun, also you'll get pieces that bulk up your collection for your own MOCs. Most people into Lego don't like (or flat out refuse to) mix clone bricks into their builds The internet has improved the lives of Lego collectors. We can buy whatever we want, if we have the money. And if you remember what it was like before you certainly appreciate it. To people who grew up in the "get it right now" world it may be difficult to understand why they can't have certain things cheaply and easily. But that's just how the world is, you can't have everything you want but if you really want something you can work hard and get it. I'm sure that the clone brands could find many AFOLs who would design sets for them, if they paid them well. Clone brands with original ideas would be preferable to them stealing from Lego. But one of the reasons clone brands can sell for less than Lego is they have less overhead. If they are using stolen instructions they don't pay a designer. If they use stolen box art they don't pay graphic artists. They don't have to pay for the initial design of the moulds for the bricks. They don't have to do the quality control that goes into the design of new pieces. If they did all the things Lego does to put a set into the market the price of their sets will go up and the cost advantage they have over Lego will go away.

It may be time for all the Lepin lovers to start a new site to discuss these sets. Seriously, how do you feel ok about being on a Lego fan site praising a company that is enriching itself by stealing from the very company that you wish to build products from? Lego is not at fault for making cool stuff that is no longer available. It is your fault for not buying it when it was available, or it is your fault for not being into Lego when it was available. New stuff will come around that will be better than the old stuff, re-releases will happen. It doesn't matter if you get to build some set that you missed out on. Giving money to unethical criminals and then praising them for the how well they stole from Lego is straight up lame. Shame on you guys. Find a new place to discuss this stuff please because having you legitimize thieves in order to make yourselves feel better about being cheap and lazy is starting to feel detrimental to this site. Rant over. I don't really care what you do with your time and money, I should just stay out of the discussion but I really dislike idea theives and people who support them.

That is so cool! Great job.

This is exciting news! Here's my guess. A town square on a 32x32 plate, along with two buildings on 16x32 baseplates. The buildings could go on either side of the square for a standalone display or be put anywhere into a full modular city. I'm also convinced that we will be getting a Post Office, if not as part of this set then in the next few years.

You got the look just right. The display models inside and out look great. It is pretty much perfect. But I really expected one of the employees would be named Kevin.

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Will this company ever have an original idea that isn't copied directly from Lego? I find their business practices cheap and lazy. Who cares how inexpensive it is? Buying it is like buying items you know are stolen. And If you buy it you are encouraging them to rip off the hard work of the designers who work for Lego. If they want to sell bricks and peices, fine. We all know Lego didn't invent the interlocking brick system. But taking all the artwork and design and profiting from it is a really jerky/unethical thing to do.

This is great PaddyBricksplitter. I'm reminded of one of his one-liners, although I may be misquoting him. "Outside of a dog, Lego is the most fun to play with. Inside of a dog it's too dark to build."

Nice find. But unless the friends girls are taking up rallycar racing on frozen lakes, I suspect 10727 Emmas's Eiswagen will be an Ice cream truck.

There are many alternatives to those parts if you don't want to spend the money on them. Replacing the 1x8s with 1x4s is easy. Many of the 1x8s are in the back, so if it doesn't bother you too much you can do the whole back in grey. As for the 1x2s with a groove, you can try the masonry style 1x2s or just regular 1x2s. You should check out this thread devoted to bricklinking modular buildings. It's long but worth reading. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=90358&hl=%20bricklinking%20%20modulars%20%20sets&st=0

I voted none. I think we've seen enough Ideas sets now to know what type of idea gets made. For most of these it is easy to quickly see why Lego wouldn't make them. I would really like that Little House on the Pairie set though.

It looks like he's been punched in the face and then de-pantsed. This seems like a dark direction for Lego to take.

I'd be fine with Lepin if they were creating their own sets based off their own ideas. But copying a model and then selling it without giving credit or paying royalties or licensing fees is cheap, lazy, and theft. Apparently they can make parts that rival Lego quality, but they are way out of line when they steal the hard work of countless people and then profit off of it. Ultimately it is up to you wether or not to support thieves. Personally I'd rather not own something(no matter how badly I'd like to own it) than give money to thieves.

Great work. The scenes you've set up are a lot of fun. I think if you had a drive-thru lane between it and the Detective agency they would fit together just fine. But I'm guessing your last photo doesn't represent a permenant setup and is just included to give us a sense of scale. Thanks for doing that, I like seeing custom modulars next to the official ones, especially when the build isn't on standard 16 or 32 wide baseplate. It helps me envision buildings I'd like for my own set up.

Nicely done. That tail really suits the steampunk look.

^Another useful thread. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36535

Entry A - 2 points Entry B - 1 point

At the Mall of America today I saw the current pick-a-model. They also had 4 bins labled "Fan Favorites". They were 1x2 Sand Green plates, 1x1 Sand Green Bricks, 1x2 dark grey plates with a towball on the side(mixels), and md stone grey 2x2 plate with towball socket flattened Usually I carefully pack my cups, today I simply scooped in parts until the cups were full.

Here is my Local Landmark entry. I chose First Avenue, a nightclub in Minneapolis made famous by Prince's Purple Rain album/movie.

The Modular Standard is about 9 bricks per story. If you figure a story of a real world building to be about 10' tall then a foot is about 0.9 bricks. Using this unit converter by Sariel 0.9 bricks to a foot is 1:35 scale. At 1:35 scale the Brandenberg Gate would be 77 bricks tall and 234 studs wide. My math is rusty so I could be way off.

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I've checked a few of my local Target stores, none of them have the newest City sets. I was really hoping to find Fun at the Park, it would be about $30 with the RedCard. The sale runs until Saturday so hopefully they will get them in before then, although the 20% sale could be on in order to clear out the older stuff and they won't end up stocking the new sets until it's over.

I don't collect these, but I saw 4000023 Jiaxing Factory on eBay a few weeks ago. The listing used set number 4000025 in the title, but the box shows that it is actually 400023. I found 4000020 4000004 4000019 and 4000000 on Brickset. 4000020 is particularly pricey. 4000019 and 4000020 are apparently unavailable from Bricklink or eBay. When you get rare sets like this do you build or keep them in the box? ^Aanchir posted while I was adding links...

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