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Wow! This gave me butterflies just looking at it! So nice! Love: The Skylight The Stairs (entrance and enterior) The lobby The overall concept is brilliant!

The public transport center really saved the year for me! I bought two at the recent TRU BOGO50. Though I don't love any one truck set, I am super happy about the variety this year. Now if we can get a truck stop, those poor truckers can stop and grab a bite to eat

Love the Gyro Shop! The corner building is a great build too. The garage is a nice touch. In my humble opinion, the large dish on the roof is a bit distracting, you could make it a bit smaller (unless that is the concept, like a radio or TV station). Very nice job overall!

2 Points Designer: Bojan Pavsic EntryID: 146 Name: Circus Arena Very nice use of angles and space(difficult in LDD). And the colors are nicely proportioned around the red. 1 Point Designer: Carbohydrates EntryID: 105 Name: Wild West doctor's office The color struck me first but I like the execution of concept in the compact design (I voted for this because i would buy this if it were production) WOW! So many other great entries, there are certainly a lot of very Talented designers!

Thanks again guys. I modified the design due to the modular sections not being solidly modular. If I were a Lego Product Designer, this newer version would be the production version ready to be released! Here are the new pictures:

Amazing! A wealth of great ideas and applications. The Columns are my favorite.

Adorable! I am very excited about sets like this. The cupcake pan is a great idea; can't wait to see the other ideas as well.

Very Nice! I love all the tan pieces, very useful for town builders. The narrow design and extreme length would make this a great piece for a shelf display. I like the use of tan corner parts and lots of light blue cones. Depending on the price point it seems like a great parts set.

Class: LDD + Real Bricks Pieces: 2426 The Anastasia Astoria International Hotel

You're right. The senate building is a must. I'm not sure how big is should be in scale to something like this but I believe the dome shape can be pulled off with some plates. I foresee a LOT of plates though! Thanks again for the suggestion.

I think booking is a great idea. However, place a time limit on the booking. If you book a set you should have up to 10 days (or whatever) to deliver. Place a date on the set that is booked. If it is not posted by the due date then it will be unbooked and someone else can take it. You can place booking limits (e.g. book up to 3 sets, if you miss a certain amount of due dates then you should not be able to rebook that item, this will help those that are considering building a set but have missed out because someone booked and didn't deliver. I don't see delivery being a problem given that the community has been really generous with design contributions.

Thanks for the feedback. @Corydoras, my moc is a scene from the "downtown" district. From my research, The senate building is in a different area of the planet where the architecture seem more "roman", and aero (if that makes sense). If I pull this off, I would definitely attempt a microscale diorama of the senate section. here is a link of the senate section I was going for the Neo-Metropolis section of Coruscant

I use LDD almost daily and I've been tinkering with this design of a micro scale Coruscant for sometime. It is almost complete and should clear about 5000 pieces once it is finished. It is modular (the buildings sit on top of smooth plate "plaques" that hold the buildings up write in place) and the base is several 32 x 32 plates that connect in a grid with technique pieces. It is still a Work In Progress but with all the LDD hype that has hit Eurobricks as of late, I felt this would be a nice piece of inspiration for those that are still tinkering with the possibility of LDD as a design tool. I'll post the finished LDD file at a later date. If I get the guts (and the cash) I will also build as a display vignette. Thanks and I hope you are inspired! (EDIT) Here are additional pictures

Love your work man! This is great fantasy stuff with wonderful color use.

1. I buy for the set to collect and try to buy extra for the parts pack 2. I collect the whole series because of the quality of detail and progression with each design. 3. Coliseum would be great 4. Sports Stadiums for minifigures with soccer, tennis or rock concerts in mind 5. More Architectural colors in common bricks, plates, tiles and slopes, Sand Red, Dark Orange, light yellow, made available on PAB or in Bulk Sets.

If you are committed to your city, you really have no choice but to buy them. They are pricey but almost totally essential to a city. If you join Lego VIP, you earn points for every $100 you spend. You get $5 for ever $100 so if you buy a lot of Lego then you could get "free" road plates with every $300 you spend. I believe that only Lego.com com sells these so you are pretty much stuck buying these from them. What I do to water down the cost is add a set of each type of plate pack to each order I make from Lego.com. Basically an additional $30...YIKES! But it helps spread the cost out over each order. I actually bought tons of the straight/cross pack and I regret now not having enough t/curve plates to turn the city at dead ends and break up the monotony of a grid city. An investment of $300 will get your city fully equipped for daily life (that's about 20 packs, get 12 straight/cross and 8 t/curve for a cost that is basically the cost of two Green Grocer for a total of 40 plate!. Add in your common Lego Production Town Buildings or buy some additional 10 x 10 green plates and you fill a 12 x 12 sq.ft room. You will never need any more road plates again in life! trust me! P.S. don't underestimate the cross plate, use it at each end of a stretch of two straight plates that are facing end to end and you have a common size city block two base plates wide at each intersection!

superkalle you are the best! I'll be in touch with you soon!

One of the best City Buildings I've ever seen! Congratulations on such splendid ideas (the details of the 6 wide windows are the best!)

Apparently, they make these in an ivory color too.

I'm really digging this train! I would love to build something like this! Very inspiring

Lady in Red: How much for the plates? Lady in Grey: $149. But, if you buy it now I'll throw in this entire building for only a $1 more!

Looks good so far. Special green parts are nice (new domes and new colors). I hope this is still prelim as I can’t get over blandness of the upper level. A lot of the building is very repetitive in parts but that’s how the company gets the economies of scale to keep the price down. I imagine TLC put more money into size rather than details (requires having many “Lot” types like Green Grocer and can be costly). As always I’ll be buying these for the parts! (best piece to price ratio is in Creator sets like these!)

Sure! I'll create a new topic outside of this one.

My thoughts exactly 'TheBrickster', Brightly Colored towns, with shiny walls and colorful roofs... I don't think there is a toy in the world that lets you paint the walls red or the roof blue. Shutters and window panes that opened where such a beautiful functional feature that no town set seemed good without them. As a kid, most of us probably tried to make a replica of our own house with bedrooms and all. Having more than one city set made the town seem alive with little police and firefighters it was so much fun playing swat and rescue even during a time when He-Man and Transformers ruled. I remember when I got my hands on my first train set back in the 80's the town really came to life. A running train had to have a station. The station employees had to have customers, the customers had to have city services, roads, police, emergency. They need food and repair shops. My bright and shiny little town knew no limits. I hit the dark ages in the 90's and came out of it when Santa Fe Super Chief hit the shelves. With better bricks and more "realistic" features I had to re-invest in the memories of my little town. My town started off small as I purchased production sets but as I added details like street lights and fire hydrants, i really wanted to take it to the next level because you really could get a very reallistic and happy looking city. Seeing smiling yellow faces in a brightly colored city really makes me happy! I guess I just answered this, what city can you be happier than in your own Lego City? My City

I agree the trains are very expensive but I also recall this as the status quo since the 80's. But in the states, it seems especially this year, that parents see the value of a Lego set. The weekend before Christmas, all 3 of my local TRU's were bare bones on Lego City Sets (Many Star Wars were still on the shelf). The trick for getting expensive sets is to wait for the "Buy one Get one 50% off". This usually occurs at the end of Spring and in November for the U.S. I got the first Passenger Train and a Pirate ship for $150. If you can be patient then these types of sales will build your collection at a reasonable cost.