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WTB: Modular Church set

tcleongtcleong Member Posts: 19
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I would like to get a modular church set which comes with instructions.

If you have one sale, please PM me your price.

Thanks.

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  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,554
    edited April 2013
    There isn't really any such thing as a modular church. The modular buildings are designed to fit together in a row. It is very rare for a church to be connected to other building like this. The church is usually built in grounds with space all around and so does not connect to other buildings.

    So what you are after is probably more like the Haunted House in style, a one off building at the same scale as the modulars. Lego don't make one, they don't do religious buildings.

    I suggest googling for images of lego churches, and follow the design techniques to build your own at the size you want.
  • tcleongtcleong Member Posts: 19
    Hi,

    Noted. I do understand Lego doesn't produce it.

    I am looking for someone who has a custom modular church which can be connected to the existing modulars.

    Buying instructions from eBay or BL and then source for parts is another option which I can also explore.

    Regards,



  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    As expected, you all ready know what's immediately (un)available in the modular line.

    Any thoughts on commissioning such a project?

    I happen to know someone who was commissioned to develop a small church set based on a specific church within a community (in large quantities). It turned out very well. He even built and printed the Instruction manual.

    If you're interested, please let me know and I can get you his contact information.

    ~PB
  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,554
    Google is your friend if you want to find instructions.

    For example ...
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Church-Cathedral-Instructions-4-LEGO-Modular-Building-10185-10182-10218-10211-/271127133972?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f206fbf14

    However, I don't think a church directly connected to other modulars will look realistic. You normally have a gap between the church and the neighbours.
  • tcleongtcleong Member Posts: 19
    I saw those before & others listed in eBay & BL.

    Got to explore more before committing to one.

  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    CCC said:


    However, I don't think a church directly connected to other modulars will look realistic. You normally have a gap between the church and the neighbours.

    I don't think he cares what you like. Let the guy get what he wants.
  • PaperballparkPaperballpark Member Posts: 4,270
    ^ wow someone got out of bed the wrong side this morning! He was simply offering advice, and you go and bluntly attack him.
    epyon396
  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    ^No, I got out of bed on the same side I always do. Otherwise the girlfriend and dog would get upset.
    kempo81FurrysaurusLegoboykiki180703SumoLego
  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,554
    Phonebooth said:

    CCC said:


    However, I don't think a church directly connected to other modulars will look realistic. You normally have a gap between the church and the neighbours.

    I don't think he cares what you like. Let the guy get what he wants.
    Churches in real life tend not to be connected to other buildings. Thus people designing lego versions will tend to make them non modular as they shouldn't connect to other buildings. So he probably won't find what he wants. If he wants modular, he can just buy instructions for any custom non-modular one and replace couple of bricks in the right place and stick technic pins in so that they can connect to the modulars. Job done - a modular church.

    Let's just hope that the congregation don't want any light to come in though, since if it is connected to other buildings on either side then windows along the side walls will be useless.

    Is that OK for you?
  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    edited April 2013
    @CCC - Is that OK for you?

    You.Just.Don't.Get.It.

    It doesn't matter to me whatsoever, as I'm not the one looking for a modular church. I simply tried to link the OP with what he is looking to purchase. He wants to purchase a modular Church building, not suffer through your personal opinions.

    It's.HIS.MONEY.
    kempo81kiki180703
  • samiam391samiam391 Member Posts: 4,505
    Phonebooth said:

    @CCC - Is that OK for you?

    You.Just.Don't.Get.It.

    It doesn't matter to me whatsoever, as I'm not the one looking for a modular church. I simply tried to link the OP with what he is looking to purchase. He wants to purchase a modular Church building, not suffer through your personal opinions.

    It's.HIS.MONEY.

    Not to try and get involved in this cute little scuffle, but is all this really necessary?

    If there is no such thing as an actual LEGO modular church, the only way he will construct one or have someone construct one is by advice and personal opinions of other people.

    I know you are trying to help/"protect" another member, like you always seem to try to do @PhoneBooth, however I think @tcleong can speak for himself. If he doesn't want opinions/help, than he'll tell us. In trying to say he doesn't want any help, you're actually doing what you are accusing CCC of :o)

    Back on topic....

    @tcleong- I'd also suggest googling LEGO churches to get ideas of what you may want. Maybe do a search of eBay.

    If you can't find anything, let me know, and I could try to construct something for you in LDD. I'm not the best builder, but I do love modular projects.

    However, there probably is someone who is better suited to this challenge, who I am sure will respond to this thread in due time. :o)
    Furrysaurus
  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,554
    edited April 2013
    Phonebooth said:

    @CCC - Is that OK for you?

    You.Just.Don't.Get.It.

    He wants to purchase a modular Church building, not suffer through your personal opinions.

    You're right. I don't get it.

    He can try to purchase instructions for a modular church MOC, but it is unlikely that he can since churches in real life tend not to have the characteristics of the lego modular range, in that they are rarely joined to other buildings. So when people design them and make them available, they are unlikely to make them like the modulars, but more like the haunted house, which is not a modular. It is a stand alone. Most churches have windows down the sides for letting in light. Connecting a church that has been well-designed with side windows directly to another modular would block out all the light coming in through those windows and just look odd. So instead of searching for lego modular church designs, I would advise searching for lego churches, without the "modular" part. That one word makes quite a difference. If he wants a dark church to fit in a row, he can always block the windows in and replace bricks with pins.
  • kempo81kempo81 Member Posts: 961
    @samiam391

    "Not to try and get involved in this cute little scuffle, but is all this really necessary?"

    Then don't get involved...
    Phonebooth
  • tcleongtcleong Member Posts: 19
    Thanks for all the suggestions and advice. Will look forward to offers. Meanwhile, I will continue my search.

    Cheers!
  • samiam391samiam391 Member Posts: 4,505
    kempo81 said:

    @samiam391

    "Not to try and get involved in this cute little scuffle, but is all this really necessary?"

    Then don't get involved...

    @kempo81- Honestly, I really don't think I did. I merely tried to settle the dust. If you think I got involved, that is your opinion, but it wasn't my intention. :o)
    FurrysaurusSumoLego
  • JenniJenni Member Posts: 1,390
    @tcleong While modular style churches aren't terribly common in some countries they seem not unusual in France. I know I've seen a couple in downtown Toulouse. Here's a link to some pictures

    http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Midi_Pyrenees/Toulouse-85892/Things_To_Do-Toulouse-Churches_Others-BR-1.html

    All the ones I've seen seem to be of the local brick and have bells in the front wall.

    You've inspired me to try to create a modular church along the lines of the local ones but it's unlikely to happen soon and I don't use LDD but just build, so photos would be all I'd be able to help you with.

    Another way churches are built in downtown Toulouse is on the corner so that they have two adjacent walls facing the street. I think that you could make a more stereotypical church work like that.

    All this is useless if you really are only looking to buy custom instructions that include all the bricks necessary to build the church. As it's a french style of building maybe you should search ebay France, or ask on whatever forum french LEGO fans use. My french isn't nearly good enough to have looked into those things, but in case your french is worse even than mine "eglise" is church.

    Good luck!
    BrickDancer
  • Pitfall69Pitfall69 Member Posts: 11,454
    I lived in New York for 18 years. As you can see. This church is attacked to adjoining buildings.

    kempo81kiki180703
  • Pitfall69Pitfall69 Member Posts: 11,454
    ^St. Stephen’s Church, a Roman Catholic congregation in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. It was completed in 1854
  • Pitfall69Pitfall69 Member Posts: 11,454
    Ha. I just noticed I said "attacked" I love spell check
    kiki180703SumoLego
  • PaperballparkPaperballpark Member Posts: 4,270
    I think this is possibly a country-specific thing. In the UK, where @CCC and I are, you really don't get churches built right next to other buildings, certainly not architecturally interesting ones anyway.

    Obviously though, as shown above, other countries do.

    So it's all a big misunderstanding based on different cultures. Absolutely not worth having a go at each other about, especially as this forum is usually so nice and friendly. :)

    Now kiss ;)
    flowerpotgirlkiki180703
  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    ^I'd rather cut my $>*$! Off.
    kempo81kiki180703
  • PaperballparkPaperballpark Member Posts: 4,270
    haha!
  • paul_mertonpaul_merton Member Posts: 2,967
    edited April 2013
    Paperballpark said:

    I think this is possibly a country-specific thing. In the UK, where @CCC and I are, you really don't get churches built right next to other buildings, certainly not architecturally interesting ones anyway.

    Well, in Wiltshire...
    image
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  • PaperballparkPaperballpark Member Posts: 4,270
    And of course I stand corrected, although I would be amazed if that isn't the exception that proves the rule ;)
  • JenniJenni Member Posts: 1,390
    @paul_merton I love that one. I wonder what it looks like inside, it's not very deep.
  • CCCCCC Member Posts: 20,554
    I get when I'm not wanted. Adam, you've won.
  • caperberrycaperberry Member Posts: 2,226
    Paperballpark said:

    And of course I stand corrected, although I would be amazed if that isn't the exception that proves the rule ;)

    I think it's not so much culture as urban density.
    There's a beautiful Victorian church, All Saints Margaret Street, in London near Oxford St. It's jammed in between buildings but has quite an overpowering scale inside and beautiful Arts and Crafts decoration. Very controversial at the time, which was the height of the Gothic Revival, and critics claimed it looked like a hospital!
    Worth a look if you like church architecture. I'm inspired to attempt it in Lego now!
  • Pitfall69Pitfall69 Member Posts: 11,454
    Well, good luck in your endeavor.

    BTW, everyone offers their opinion...ahem....advice whether you want it or not. It is the way of the Brickset Forum ;)
    SumoLego
  • TheLoneTensorTheLoneTensor Member Posts: 3,937
    See what happens when you bring religion into anything? :)
    LegobrandonCPSumoLegoAngel_Chmnicoll
  • mdellemanmdelleman Member Posts: 274
    Hahah. Start to finish was good for a laugh.
    Pitfall69
  • AFFOL_Shellz_BellzAFFOL_Shellz_Bellz Member Posts: 1,263
    Churches show up in strip malls here in California. They are fledgling churches no doubt, but they are in deed churches. They certainly don't look like traditional churches, with steeples or stained glass windows, but how we each make our town, village or city is personal choice.
  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    CCC said:

    I get when I'm not wanted. Adam, you've won.

    What's weird, Martin, is I don't feel like I won anything.
  • sklambsklamb Member Posts: 516

    Apparently there *is* a Lego Certified mini-model of Durham Cathedral at the moment, available from at least one source on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/301788583726

    Not a size to fit with the modulars, but I'd sure like a copy of the instructions....

    goshe7
  • SumoLegoSumoLego Member Posts: 15,235
    Why can't we be friends... why can't we be friends...

    I'm sending @Pitfall69's attack church to settle this.
  • sklambsklamb Member Posts: 516
    Maybe I should have put this comment in a different thread? This one did seem to be rather...contentious; the one about the Lego Exeter project was merely world-weary.
  • MattsWhatMattsWhat Member Posts: 1,643
    I love rekindling fights from 2.5 years ago. It's long enough for people to get upset all over again. And the op to have given up on getting a modular church (attached or otherwise). Strange no one mentioned MS. Markets are not normally attached to other buildings... 
  • SumoLegoSumoLego Member Posts: 15,235
    ^ Now you've started it.

    I'm not sure if they actually built it...


  • sklambsklamb Member Posts: 516
    Frankly, most of the Town Halls I've seen occupy an entire block. So do many of the firehouses. Admittedly, I don't live in New York City, but still....
  • PeteMPeteM Member Posts: 447
    edited November 2015
    Another exception - the Lord Mayor's Chapel in Bristol, bounded on either side by various buildings over the past 800 years...

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/St_Mark's,_Bristol_(April_2011).jpg/381px-St_Mark's,_Bristol_(April_2011).jpg
  • SumoLegoSumoLego Member Posts: 15,235
    ^ Is that a Plopp photobomb?



    @paul_merton; @Renegade007cjh; @MattsWhat; @Bumblepants; @bendybadger

    Ploppopcolypse!
    BumblepantsMattsWhatkiki180703bendybadgerPeteM
  • ShibShib Member Posts: 5,477
    To the left? Sorry to disappoint but that would have been a shop called Fopp...think the chain went bust a few years ago and unfortunately nothing to do with the forums new favourite chocolate bar...
  • sklambsklamb Member Posts: 516
    Reminds me of some of the grafitti from TMNT sets...or from Jokerland. I'm starting to get a really strange MOC-modular sequence forming in my brain!
  • paul_mertonpaul_merton Member Posts: 2,967
    I didn't realise I'd started "a thing" by posting plopp on the forum! :)
    BumblepantsShibSumoLego
  • TigerMothTigerMoth Member Posts: 2,343
    Shib said:
    To the left? Sorry to disappoint but that would have been a shop called Fopp...think the chain went bust a few years ago and unfortunately nothing to do with the forums new favourite chocolate bar...
    There are eight Fopp stores left: Covent Garden, Edinburgh, Glasgow (2), Manchester, Cambridge, Nottingham and the one in the photograph in Bristol.
  • TheBernicianTheBernician Member Posts: 7
    Slightly off topic but related to the whole church/cathedral scene. Here is a newspaper article on the new modular size Durham Cathedral which goes on sale shortly. Pre-orders are being taken at the Cathedral shop.
    http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14097569.Get_your_own_Lego_Durham_Cathedral/


  • DeMontesDeMontes Member Posts: 745
    the first comment under the Durham Cathedral sales pitch is quite an entertaining read...


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  • legogallegogal Member Posts: 754
    @DeMontes Wow! Is it a bit odd that a church/non-profit offers a LEGO model that costs 200 UK pounds? That must be well over 300USD, which is a lot of money. Some valid points in that comment. I am sure that stalwarts will want a copy, but I doubt many children would put this on their Christmas wish lists. And I do feel for independent toy shops who can no longer compete with so many big organizations selling toys all over these days. (But each to his own as no one is forcing anyone to buy it and this is not the place for debating the merits of any church or religion.) 
  • TigerMothTigerMoth Member Posts: 2,343
    This isn't exactly a toy though, is it?

    Perhaps you've missed the back-story. This is part of a multi-million pound project to open up parts of the cathedral site (don't think "church"; think "community") for visitors. The set is just a fund-raising exercise where you happen to get something as well - another is where you can "buy" bricks for the much larger model on display there. Any work on buildings this old (some date back almost 1000 years) gets very, very expensive.
  • William_TownsleyWilliam_Townsley Member Posts: 880
    If anyone buys this can the scan the instructions and upload them. I'm not spending £199 for a 1880peice set 
  • mountebankmountebank Member Posts: 1,237
    edited November 2015
    I agree with @TigerMoth, this isn't about an enterprise fulfilling a market demand for church sets, it has to be seen in context.

    It actually put me in mind of this:

    https://www.guildford-cathedral.org/learn/history/brick-givers
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