Jasper Joppe Geers

Sometimes i wonder if the designers at TLC have the same joy and fun experience as we do when creating modulars. It feels to me that the AFOL's have all the freedom to do what we like, the only limitation seems to be the amount and sort of bricks. I think when you are a designer at TLC, you are much more limited by means of exactly that. Plus the set has to be available at a reasonable price. For me, a florist would be great, or a bakery, but the utmost challenge to me would be a genuine supermarket!

Wonderful creations! Keep up the good work!

Didn't feel like a Jamie design anyway... good Moc though!

If they come up with a set of letter bricks, can we have a genuine Cinema typeface please?... :)

Well done i'd say! Looking forward to any interior on the other floors!

Well, it isn't exactly an inside corner... basically it connects to the backside of the building, instead of the short facing walls... ;)

What about this: If jamie's hint would turn in the direction of something food, wouldn't it be a great idea to have some sort of homeless shelter? Keep in mind that every modular so far had it's own theme/story to it. The Green Grocer wasn't just a building, a lot of props and extra's provided the theme there. Same with the FB, TH, GE... A HS would make a lovely addition IMO...

Just thinking, wouldn't it be great to have a flower shop?

Well, just my two cents here, I think you should feel completely free about everythin you do with the bricks and plates. Print them, paint them, have fun! I sometimes thought about doing the road plates simply in cardboard. That way it would be much cheaper, and i would have much more freedom what to do with it. Cheers, JJ.

I must say, in the beginning i had the amount of bricks needed in stock. Since the last three Mocs i had to order more and more bricks in addition to the bricks i had. Only the last moc i did (the police office) was almost completely ordered from Bricklink...

Hi Phred, I created my own topic now: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=65060 Hope this is helpful! Cheers, JJ.

Layout Most of you have seen my buildings i reckon, but just to get indexed i decided to start this topic. I'm sorry to provide you with pics that are already known, but perhaps it is worth it to put everything chronologically, and tell you where it is today. It has begun a few years ago, 2007 i think, when i created the first buildings that turned out to become my collection of modulars, otherwise known as Muntstraat. I never meant to recreate something exisiting, or to use a real building as example, these creations came into view, mostly when i was working on something. It all started with this bus: When i created it, the Cafe Corner was just a few months previously released, and everybody got crazy about it. A new chapter in Lego history had begun. I was hooked on as well, but from the start i wanted to create something of my own invention. The first idea was a local newsprint office. Something old-style, a bit Amsterdammish. Here it is: And while working on that one, the idea to create a restaurant right next to it was already a complete plan. Basically it was just the common problem of collecting the right bricks i just needed to start: Next building had to become a bank. in the meantime, other sets came out like the GG and FB. I knew that if i was going to add road plates, it would make a lovely scene! The bank itself was done with some memories in my mind from a very small local bank we had in the 70's. It no longer exist, but sometimes i just wish it would. Here iit is: And this is a picture how my street looked thus far: I must say, at this time i still used Photobucket.com to upload the pictures. Very useful it was, and still is perhaps, but most people here used Flickr, so i wanted to use that as well. Just trying to get along! :) The space on my table begaon to increase, but i desperately wanted to create once again an old style building, with a bicycle repair shop in it. Even more than the newsprint agency, i wanted it to look very monumental. Very decorative, lots of detail: After that, it was time to come up with a corner building. Something that was needed very hard in my street: the Post office. By this time i got more and more into the use of minifigs as well. Not only the interiors had to be great, but it had to be completed with the minifigs and cars, bikes etc: When i was working on the Post Office there was already the idea for a candyshop. This time it had to be right, funny, and gorgeous from the start. I wanted it to be a bit Charles Dickens style, an odd colour perhaps, and it turned out to be this, Elladora's Sweetshop: The dark purple color was very useful of trying to be patient when collecting the bricks together. At that time, Dark Purple was not very common, and bricks were quite expensive on Bricklink. No matter, just be patient... And so, the street started to look like this: This last picture was taken by Vincent kessels, when my street was on display in the Thermen Museum in Heerlen. I never managed to take proper pictures when the whole thing was set in my room, so i have to be grateful to Vincent for this! And like an addiction, somehow it is very hard to stop creating. And so, when i got everything back at home, i wanted to do something that was done may times before, but never satisfying to me, a genuine police office. And like the previous buildings, i wanted it to be complete with everything you can think of: the police officers, bikes, interior. Somehow cars never worked for me to get them right, so i left that one out. But here it is, Muntstraat police HQ: To finalise my street, i had the idea of stained glass windows. Someting i knew that would look great on all of my buildings, and would give a nice detail to it! When doing the police office, i worked on a technique with acryllics and enamels to get a variety of colours that were transparent. I really had to nail the effect of stained glass both ways, that it had to look real without any light from inside, and a bit of a surprise when the light is turned on! Here is a lovely example of the extra work i did with the bike repair shop: And that's it! Of course there are a lot more pictures of every building in the creating process, many of them can be viewed on Photobucket.com and my Flickr map. Feel free to explore them, and send me a PM if you have any questions. http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/JJGeers/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/50639649@N04/sets/ Finally, i should tell you that i sold the whole collection about a half year ago. Some guy from Antwerpen was very keen to have it, and still treasures it with his kids. Thankfully the Muntstraat found a good home. And my table is empty now. If i ever start again? Who knows. There are many ideas that could be done brickwise, but i noticed that many other people create some great stuff as well! So great to visit EB these days... Cheers! JJ

Hello Phred, would you by any chance add mine as well please? Thanks! street01 by Jasper Joppe Geers, on Flickr I never started a specific topic about my street, but the pictures in my map on Flickr will do. Cheers, JJ

And you're from Holland! Just take a good look around. I have to say in the south of the Netherlands (Where i live) there are many examples of those differences. Not the later architecture of course, but there's a lot of old houses who do have that difference in height. :)

I'll go with alasdair i think. If you need a large square, the cheapest way is to use a baseplate, with long brick beams built on it, perhaps technic ones pinned together. Think of how a roof in reality is done. And how floors are done for example in the modulars. Perhaps that will help! :) Cheers, JJ.

It seems to me so far that the elevator is quite the talking point? I'm sure that there are already many ideas among us how to do it in another way! And that's what is so great about these modulars IMHO. They're not just a building with interior, it is tha basis for many stories to play with, and lots of possibillities for change/improvement. Jamie has done onze again a great job with TH!!!!

Maybe not generally Grogall, I think Jamie would have had something particular in mind as an example.

I have a nasty feeling about that number of extra pieces... ... a bit like when we got the Taj Mahal. I wouldn't be surprised if the Town Hall comes with 100+ seats that you need to build first. Imagine Jamie Berard laughing his --ss off!

It seems to me that the guy is only using pictures that doesn't include a designers' signature or logo. Perhaps that could be one way of avoiding being 'used' by this guy?...

Without having read the whole topic here, just my two cents: I wonder how much help TLC gets from the community to come up with a genuine girls theme. To see those puppets is a bit of a dissappointment to be honest. It would work better i think if TLC would keep it minifig style. Overall the modular houses are the best bet so far when it comes to the boy/girl thing. As far as i noticed, both seem to love them. Perhaps TLC should find more ways to develop stories around them, create a neighbourhood... Kids do that. They give minifigs a name and create stories. Why not emphasize on that? Like i said, just my two cents... JJ.

I must say, i'm flabbergasted! Well done so far on the Sweet Shop! It is the first well executed copy i've seen from the original, If i'm right you've done some interior as well? The other buildings look familiar to me as well, some remind me of Marcos Bessa's work... I could be wrong here.. And, i'm not Jesse... :) Jasper Joppe it is... Cheers! JJ

Hey! Nice to see you're doing cars now! Never expected that... And of course: great work!... ... as expected ;) Cheers! JJ

I hope dearly that CC and GG would re-released one day. Or at least, bring out all the bricks needed...

Excellent work! This one would fit 100 % designwise with the other sets!

That is exactly what most business guys among us are doing, and i hate to see that others are 'suffering' from that. No offense to you however! :) I think releasing those sets again would control that again. Look What happened to those Maersk coloured bricks... at some point they went skyhigh with prices. Until TLC came with new Maersk sets. I know it sounds easy, but these bricks should be used to create lovely things, not make a profit...