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@wardm: Also, not to promote a rival website, but this forum is about as close as you will get to lots of tips on modular building:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showforum=9
I just recently got back into Lego and got a couple of the modular buildings to try out during the double points promo period - the detective's office and the bank. I thought they looked cool from the pics and everyone raves about them so I went for it.
Well, yesterday we started working on the detective's office. It is amazing and so much fun to build. I am completely addicted and I'm only two-thirds through the build. Now I wish I had bought more!
They actually seem a pretty good value at retail but still are pricey. I was okay with the effectively 10% discount I got buying them during double points. (Also with no sales tax charged b/c shipping to a state without a Lego store, and I used ebates which was up to 4%.)
I'm looking for any other tips to getting them at a good price in the U.S. now that double points are over. (I wish it had lasted until the end of the month.)
Do they ever go on sale anywhere?
Now I've got the Parisian Restaurant, Brick Bank and Cafe Corner...
so......
*get ready to open said can*
do we count ghostbusters HQ as a modular?
*and opens said can*
There are similar questions that might open a can of worms, but not that one.
The one specification it fails at is that it does not consistently stick to using the generic smiley-face minifigure heads, but I'd file that under "early installment weirdness" — as only the second modular building, it was not around long enough for all those specifications to really be codified, and it was also a bit of an outlier since it was a fan-created model as part of the Factory brand.
Jamie certainly considers it a modular building, judging both from his own comments and its inclusion in the Mini-Modulars set.
Contrast with the Firehouse Headquarters. Its floors are not designed to be separated, let alone duplicated, and it has no place to connect to other modulars, so not only is it not a part of the Modular Buildings series, it is not "modular" by any definition. And if that weren't enough, its sidewalks are not specifically designed to line up.
With that final goal, I would say they all fit into a City scene quite nicely, with the tall buildings being the commercial area of the city and the single/double storey houses being allocated to the residential area. The funfair models like Grand Carousel, Ferris Wheel and Fairground Mixer can form part of a garden park as a link between the 2 areas.
Also, if you look at the 2009 catalogues for when Fire Brigade was released, they mention combining it with Cafe Corner and Green Grocer but, again, not Market Street. It's a bit awkward because none of the modulars, nor any other exclusives, are in the old-style, small-format catalogues which were more commonly available, but they are in the larger ones. And not just a single catalogue either.
Quite simply, it was marketed differently. Cafe Corner was, particularly at that time, impressive. Market Street came along six months later with the message "this is what customers can do; what about you?", although that was a bit of a con. The idea was that people would design a whole range of similar models through LEGO Factory and that other people would order them. Cafe Corner was too big, and something of that size was noticeable expensive if ordered that way. Soon afterwards, LEGO Factory died, and that was the end of that.
And look at it another way. Some people have bought random modulars as it suited them. However, there are many people who bought Cafe Corner, Green Grocer and then all the subsequent modulars - not retrospectively on the secondary market, but at the time they were in stores. If there's one building that people actively chose not to buy when it was readily available, it's usually Market Street. It was because they perceived that it was different - at the time, not subsequently and then looking back.
Take it or leave it. People can collect what they like. There may be other reasons why people didn't buy it (it's smaller, not to the same standard, they simply didn't like it, etc, etc), but if you want to ask why some people don't consider it is a modular, it's because it was marketed in a totally different way.
Insert "Is the Market Street a Modular?" in the appropriate place.
dose Market Street have the Technic pins to link to other Modular's?
if yes then it is a Modular, if no then it is not a Modular.
this is my view.
and this is what i think about GBHQ. it's got no Technic pins to link to other sets.
so it is not a Modular.
saying that, it dose look good in a Modular city.
But.... let's beat this dead horse. Again.
I for one, like the friction pin discussion from six months ago. I like the idea of Smaug's headless torso meeting some of the criteria to be considered a modular.
(Shrug) I bought Market Street as soon as it came out. I loved Café Corner, I had no idea whether there would be another similar-type building produced in the future, and I wanted to have at least a semblance of an urban street by connecting another building to Café Corner. To me, Market Street is every bit a modular just like all the others.
I would like to suggest a bakery on this go-round. (As my bold train station prediction went nowhere.)
I'm in the middle of MOC'ing a modular police station AND train station...I'm hoping for Hospital then.
Perhaps a little more seriously a library/museum combo although I think such a building would look great and somewhat go together I'm not sure where the play function would be there. Maybe to boring for some.
(Now I just have to figure out how to mod the FB into a three-bay firehouse.)
I guess you're right. I'm about half way through the police station and just started the train station, and I already envision several Bricklink orders I'll need to make. And I'm sure whatever I cobble together will look like crap compared to what Jamie or whoever can design.
In Spring 2007 catalog, CC was first introduced and described as a modular construction set.
In Summer 2007 catalog, MS appeared on the opposite page of CC, and described as a modular construction set designed by a LEGO fan (Factory theme). Also, a picture is shown showing both CC and MS combined with a caption, "Combine Cafe Corner and Market Street for an amazing street layout!" Also, in the MS description, it states, "The modular construction allows you to put it together in different ways and to enlarge the LEGO neighborhood as your collection grow!"
In Early Spring 2008 catalog, GG first appeared and showed a street layout picture with CC, MS and CG combined. MS last appearance was in the the January 2009 catalog.
In the Summer 2009 catalog, only CC and GG appeared with no combined street layout picture.
In Fall 2009 catalog, FB was introduced and a street layout picture showing CC, GG and FB - with no MS.
MS has allows been part of the modular building line even though it was first introduced under the Factory theme. If it wasn't for the wording and pictures showing both CC and MS together when MS was first introduced, then I might of thought differently.
You said you didn't understand why there are people who don't consider Market Street to be one of the series of modular buildings. I explained that to you and you still don't understand because you don't want listen and learn; you want to argue. I'm not interested in that because it's been done dozens of times before - and there's also never a consensus.
You wanting to argue does not change the reasons why many people hold the view that they do. In trying to understand a different viewpoint, your opinions are irrelevant because they do not in any way facilitate your understanding of different ones. If anything, they are likely to impede it.
I don't actually know how TLG think about that (play value in modulars) - is it meaningful that the Palace Cinema comes with a limo, or did it arise from the fact that they decided to create a sense of occasion around the building by having it host a film premiere? Do any other modulars come with vehicles?
The other thing about a modular hospital is that on that scale, they could budget for more accessories - imagine an operating theatre with lots of surgical instruments, and detailed builds for the lighting, anaesthetic machines, table etc... you could also do a physiotherapy room, to give the minfigs a reason to be up and about and not only in bed. (Obviously if this happens, Bricksetters everywhere would insert a custom minifig in homage to @Legoboy...)
FB came with an old fashioned fire truck. I think the problem lies, would they make it old-tymey - which would go with most of the other modulars released so far - or make a more modern hospital with a modern ambulance. One other issue I could see is, how often are hospitals integrated into a neighborhood city block, the way fire and police stations are? Usually, a hospital takes up quite a lot of space, with dedicated parking a necessity. Maybe they could do a stand alone building, similar to how the GBFH was done.