when i typed iconic, i mean it has to be well known, maybe continues to age well, considered impressive, maybe "break-thru" when introduced, etc...

 

my 10 in no particular order...

 

10181 Eiffel Tower - height

375 Yellow Castle - first castle

6080 King's Castle - from 1984. took 375 and improved upon it

10179 UCS Mill. Falcon - large and accurate.

10181 Death Star - playability and size

10189 Taj Mahal - total size

6390 Main Street - decent set when released in 1980

497 Galaxy Explorer - early space (guess here as i didn't collect space)

10182 Cafe Corner Street - 1st modular

700/1 Gift Package (1st locking brick set? 1949 to 1965 with some changes during that span)

 

i'm on the fence about...

4558 Metroliner (1st 9v train?).

Lego's first two Pirate ships ever from1989 (6274 Caribbean Clipper & 6285 Black Seas Barracuda)

10196 Grand Carousal - looks awesome and has PF built in

On 1/29/2014 at 4:30 PM, spener90 said:

My list:

 

1. Tower Bridge

2. Cafe Corner

3. UCS Millennium Falcon

4. Green Grocer

5. Winter Village Cottage

6. QAR/Black Pearl

7.Tower of Orthanc

8. 3739 Blacksmith Shop

9. An Unexpected Gathering (My current favorite set)

10. Diagon Alley

Of all the early Modular Building sets that are now expensive on the secondary market, Green Grocer is by far the coolest.

I don't have it, so maybe that adds to the appeal for me.  And it hardly has any interior at all! 

But it has a quaint charm to its overall design and  I love the green color.

 

13 hours ago, Kruppstahl said:

Of all the early Modular Building sets that are now expensive on the secondary market, Green Grocer is by far the coolest.

I don't have it, so maybe that adds to the appeal for me.  And it hardly has any interior at all! 

But it has a quaint charm to its overall design and  I love the green color.

 

Thank you for finding my old list! Interesting to see how things changed over time, even though there are a lot of sets which remained in my top 10 list actually.

Also, The Green Grocer was really the big kick off of the Modular Buildings for a lot of people. The first 2 had quite a lot of detail, but the Grocer added such a new dynamic to the theme, I feel that is where it began to really kick off.