The Jersey Brick Guy

Why not have more types of specialty rooms such as a dentist area or an x-ray department. You already have the x-ray tiles after all. Just an idea!

Thanks TomLego! At this point, the thrill of looking for a bricklink store that has the most pieces I need is eating up a lot of down time while it's the slow season at my office. Just today I was able to find 2 stores that had a total of 110 pieces that I needed between them. Total spent was about $80.00, but that was going to be expected with some of the Black Door Frame 1x4x6 Type 1's (they seem to average around $2.00 each), and 56 of the Sand Green Brick, Modified 1x2 with Grooves (those cost $44.80 alone). I still have to get the 1x8 Sand Green Bricks, the Dark Blue arches and the Light Bluish Gray Doors which seem to be the big cost items left. Everything else is like 1 of this, or 2 of that. Really random odds and ends at this point that is going to cost more in shipping. One thing I do want to rant about is the price for the Cherries/Limes!! The cheapest I have found them for is $0.13 each!!!! That's borderline highway robbery for such a small piece! I am happy that I have all the Medium Blue, Dark Red and Dark Green pieces purchased. Having growing up with the standard lego colors, I must admit that I love these colors! They allow you to do so much with them! Regardless, time to take a break from bricklink until my 3 orders arrive. I don't like to have to many orders outstanding at a time. Cheers!

Looks awesome. I see you left the back open, possibly room to grow?

The lego shop at home store here in the US always seems to be out of them. According to the site, they won't have any for a few more weeks at this point.

I like how you have added more depth by placing the buildings all over the place. It makes the city seem much larger, and also allows for more cars on the road this way! Question though, why don't you have the sidewalks going to the road plates? Now to me, and this is just my humble opinion, it looks a bit off that the sidewalks are so far removed from the sides of the streets. Do you have plans for these areas? Love the city!

Thank you for the welcome! I have already been checking out the different sets instructions. I have to admit that the embassy set really has my eye for something fun to do outside of the official sets. I'd also like to do some more townhouses, maybe use the model from the one with the pet shop but with different colors. Does anyone know if they have a part breakdown for just the townhouse? I'd hate to go through it page by page to find out someone else already did it. Thanks! After reading what you said, I went back through my previous orders on bricklink and came up with the proper total being (as of 6/18) $901.89. I am happy to report that I am only missing 349 pieces now. (10182-1 | 103 Pieces) (10185-1 | 183 Pieces) (10190-1 | 63 Pieces) My previous total had included some earlier orders on random pieces that I bought to complete some that had gone missing with some of my sets growing up and also 3 of the first Christmas Village sets that I fell in love with when I saw them. (Those were pricey for sure.) The $901.89 also includes all the shipping costs. The real expensive parts that I have left now are the Dark Blue arches (6), the light bluish gray glass doors (3), Sand Green 1x8 Brick (50) and the Sand Green 1x2 Modified with Groove Bricks (56). Everything else is really just more odds and ends than anything else. I've been trying to buy in bulk as much as possible to save on the shipping and have been trying to keep the orders to $50 a shot. I know those arches are going to cost me $84.00 without shipping, and the sand green stuff around $70.00 or so. I also saw the light bluish gray doors going for $40.00 each, which is just outrageous. In hindsight, I am happy that I am doing it this way, while it's taking a bit longer and I have nothing to show for them yet, I feel the price savings will take care of it. I have got some decent deals on some pieces, and I know I overpaid a bit for some, but the ability to buy 300+ pieces at once was worth the extra $5.00 for me. Thank you! I have been playing paintball for the last 16 years. With that sport, I am used to paying $50.00 - $80.00 PER case of paintballs and spending $1200 - $1500 on paintball markers, so this has been relative cheap compared to it. Couple those prices with the cost of travel, hotel, beer/food on the road, and I was doing $300 - $400 a weekend! (And I was playing at least 15 times a year.) I do live in the US, so the shipping has been cheaper for me, and I've tried to stay within the US with my orders, but sometimes there are just better deals across the ocean. Lego surely has hit a huge market with these things, since returning I have purchased almost all the 2012 and 2013 Superhero sets (with a few of the cheaper ones left to buy.) Cheers everyone!

This is just awesome! Any chance of adding a police department to the building and making it a one stop shop for everything emergency?

Hey everyone, This is my 2nd post on eurobricks after being a long time lurker of the forum along with a bunch of other lego sites. So hello to one and all! With that being said, I am in the process of bricklinking parts for the Cafe Corner, Green Grocer and Market Street at the same time! A little background on myself, my professional field is government/politics, so when I found out (by chance) about the Modular Town Hall this past December, I HAD to have it and decided that it was enough to get me out of my Dark Ages that lasted about 15 years. Fast forward to January of 2013 when Amazon had a great deal on the Town Hall, Fire Brigade and the Grand Emporium. Needless to say, I bought them all and I was hooked! Since then, the wife got me the Pet Shop for my birthday and I have been waiting on the Palace Theater as it's brand new. Anyways... To keep track of what I was buying, and to help save on shipping and the like, I created an excel spreadsheet of the 3 sets pieces and have been buying the same pieces for all 3 sets at the same time. Some of the bricklink stores offer discounts when you buy piece X in bulk. (As we all know.) To further keep track, I have all 3 of the buildings separated by colors in containers to help keep everything organized while I continue to assemble the pieces need to complete the modular series up to this years model. I started bricklinking the parts around February of this year and I am currently 505 pieces away from having everything (including the extra pieces) and ready to start. While the cost has been very high, and trust me when I say I appreciate some of the short cuts I have been seeing others make, I am a completist when it comes to these and prepared myself to spend the cash. All in all, I have prob spent around 1500 bucks or so to get to where I am with another 500 bucks (at least) to finish. I still need to get those wonderfully expensive Dark Blue Archs, 1x4 Dark Blue Bricks and a bunch of the Sand Green parts, which will set me back about 250 alone. Anyways, I am looking forward to contributing with everyone! Cheers!

This is pretty cool. The town's could always use some more female lego people. In addition there is some cool ideas with these sets. Makes me want to add to my museum set.