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Now indeed yes, but when I posted my message that set wasn't listed on Bricklink, and it was not even released I guess (as its name mentions Bricktober 2017)

I don't see how that would not sell just because it is already built... except if you glued the parts, it is easy to "unbuild" it. And if you lack time, the one that buys it can do it himself. Worse case, you just sell it for a little cheaper (but I don't even think it would be the case), I don't see how the bin can be an option - seeing the value of Lego that's like throwing money directly to the bin.

@Ludo Thanks for the tip! I hadn't seen that function, it will be useful in the future :) About Brickmania, not this time, I had several things planned this weekend. I visit these usually once or twice per year.

Same here, the program has been really useful for me :) Only thing that I found missing (or maybe I didn't find it?) is the ability to define "walls" of the room in which we draw the layout (or at least marks based on cm measures rather than stud measures)

Indeed, on the site when visiting it from Belgium they also mention longer delays due to higher number of demands.

Good idea, that looks great Indeed the restaurant is better as corner like this than at the side of another building. In my case I've put it at the side of a rail track, but a fountain is probably better for terrace customers

Nice work, they look great :) (realistic)

And here are the "final" pictures: https://antp.be/lego/moc/apt2.php Only a few changes were done since the photos posted previously here. Of course this MOC will continue to evolve, there are some things to improve, and I'll have to continue to follow the changes made "in real life" in the apartment.

I dig up my old thread to post a video: I have two cats: one learned that it is dangerous to go there (and he is too clumsy to land on the table safely with all the Lego on it) so he stays on the ground, playing behind all the boxes; the other one is much more agile and goes on the tables all the time, despite I take her back to the ground each time. Here I rather filmed the walk; she knows she should not be there, that's why she meows all the time in the video: she does that each time she does something forbidden (which is quite useful when I don't see that she's trying to steal some food, for example )

I use 4-wide for cars, also because all my road plates are those from early 80s, too narrow for wider cars The 6-wide truck and buses already look a little oversized in these.

Now that I mostly finished my other big MOC, my apartment, I'll continue working for time to time on my city layout. I replaced the holiday home 6388 built in mirror by a slightly modified version of the beach house 4996, which is then well named. Main change is that I reduced the depth by 2 studs. I kept the bbq from the previous house. I liked that set back then (was hesitating when I dismantled it to my parts stock), now that I have a place to use it, it looks less out of place between the fishing store and the Ghostbusters HQ than the old 80s tiny house.

From Lego's PaB/B&P ? Usually it is somewhat related to the part size/complexity, but maybe the price also reflects the amount they have in stock: some colors may be in larger stock, then cheaper because they do not risk to have to re-produce it soon, or made in different factories depending on the color, then also having a different underlying cost.

Exactly. I sort mostly by color, then part family, then part (if I have many of a particular part in a color), but for some modified/specialized parts it is sometimes difficult if I put it with the drawers sorted by color, or in the cases sorted by part type :D Usually all what is technic (other than brick and plates), accessories, hinges, doors, windows, etc. all the non-brick or non-plate related is by type, in cases. And for most of the modified bricks/plates, as in many cases I have them in a lot of different colors, they go in the drawers sorted by color. When MOCing, it is often convenient to directly see what is available in the colors I'm using at the moment. However when the color is not important (hidden part) or less relevant (e.g. any non-bright color would fit) then I have to check in the drawers if several colors to see what I have that I could use.

Yes, from what I remember they were around that price (maybe the combination of wheel+tire, though). It is normal that some parts are more expensive than others: a big tire like that and the wheel containing some quantity of ABS is sold for much more than a simple small brick. Comparing the weight, the tire is maybe at the same cost than a small plate ;)

Good question, it is indeed visible on the photo of the set but the inventory is not published on Bricklink: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=2000413-1#T=S&O={"iconly":0}

I already had two tiles that kind of missing part + extra other part previously in big sets (once in one of the latest modulars) In one of the cases, it was an extra existing part like you, but in the other case the extra part was not even part of the set inventory! I wonder how it ended there. I suppose that such error is not detected by weight when the two parts have a similar weight. Lego should supply the missing part: I also had to request it once, as it was a part that I didn't have; the other time it was a so common part that I didn't even bother them with it.

For my apartment replica (cf signature) I used a double layer of 2x6 & 4x6 plates because when ordering parts that was the cheapest solution per stud. I did that for my previous (smaller) apartment (photos here), but for the current one which gives a size around 70x30 studs I used a few larger plates (6x8 and a few larger) in the middle, as the 70-studs long was a little too long compared to the width that was less than 30 studs at some places. I'd say that for a size closer to a square like what you have, it should work fine with a mix of 4xN and 2xN plates.

And here is the last big step, ending the upper floor, the shower & laundry room: The real one: I replaced red slopes by dark orange. I'm still hesitating for doing the slope on the whole width instead of having a cutout like here; I'll someday order parts for testing that. Mirrors (above the sink and for the small cabinet laying on the ground in the back) are cut from the sticker sheet of https://brickset.com/sets/41004-1/Rehearsal-Stage - stickers for 2x2 and 2x4 tiles exist in other sets, but I didn't want to get these at any cost. For the drying rack I have to find the "Bar Holder with Clip" in white instead of dark bluish gray, as well as a white bar-grille, that part was used in white only in one Mixel set whereas the older variant existed in two sets (one of which I have) but can't be used in this case :/ Or I'll have to find another way to represent that rack, as anyway I'm not really satisfied with it. There are still a few other details in the other rooms to finish with the next Bricklink orders, and then updates when I do changes in the real apartment (for example when I'll paint the entrance door in the next weeks, or the WC in the next months... when I'll decide on a color)

Something I forgot to post here : Last Christmas I received from my sister and her husband a small cup of bricks they got from the New York store's pick-a-brick (they went to New York for vacation a few weeks before), with one directive : "with the parts of the cup you can make a Statue of Liberty, but we don't give you instructions nor photo of the expected model; of course there are some extra parts to fill the cup"... So I made this: it was a little bigger than what they expected, i.e. : for reference, the "official" suggested model from Lego: It was a nice surprise, as we do not have all these sand green parts in European stores (the cup contents was a little of each of the parts used for the statue)

Still busy with the last room, but here is already a photo of the boiler: which looks like this:

But Vikings were sets from a few years ago, that's not really comparable. Maybe they started to include extras of some more fragile parts to avoid too many after-sales service costs or disappointment from the buyers. Extra parts are there to compensate the more automated process (and/or less control). If I remember well in the 80s only 1x1 round plates sometime came as extra (and just because they were as pair, on a sprue), but not all the other small parts like they do now.

Ghostbusters HQ too, if I remember well. I would guess that in the case of the pole (and the dragon wing mentioned above) the extra part is there because the part can break more easily (either in the box or when playing).

http://bricks.inmovi.es/movie_1399045_MacGyver.html In the latest episode of Modern Family, among some artsy hipsters that took over a garage in a previously-bad neighborhood, there is a Lego sculptor, and he does a portrait mosaic: http://bricks.inmovi.es/movie_1442437_Modern-Family.html

Thanks for the comments :) Yes, it is from Ikea ; I got it from the previous owner of the apartment. I don't think they still have it in their collection, it is not so recent.