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Hi guys, Earlier this year my wife and I "completed" our journey out of the dark ages (thanks again to this community for making that possible for a -relatively- reasonable amount). Having acquired all of the retired sets we wanted (within reason, sorry UCS Falcon and Grand Carousel), my wife mused that our city needed a zoo. I agreed, so I decided to make one. I posted a MOC a few months ago but this is my first end-to-end, all the bells and whistles effort at something special. It took about 10-12 weeks. I built it and my wife provided constant feedback, answering "what do you think of this?" and "how does this look?" over and over hahah. I also received input some friends, family, and even an esteemed member on here (shout out TheOrcKing for his feedback and, really, everything he does and contributes to this community). Anyway, I thought I'd share this one with you all, too... The concept is that it's a modular building that has modular exhibits, in that you can remove them from the building and place them side-by-side more like a traditional zoo. Depending on how you configure it, the play area becomes as large as 50" wide, but is easily stored and placed into your city on a single standard 10"x10" baseplate: Behind the facade, there are 7 exhibits and 1 food stand & lab. Here's a look at one of them (link to others below): And this is what it looks like as part of a Lego city street: There's a complete video overview here: https://youtu.be/3q6l0Ud5C3c And lots more pictures here (no pressure to vote, of course.... not that I'll stop you lol) https://ideas.lego.com/projects/145483 Thanks for looking! Thoughts?

Started this Friday night, just finished. I was always underwhelmed by pictures of this set. I was mistaken as it's quite impressive in person.

our first used Modular on local eBay, first purchased locally here in Brazil, at BRL 1300 (USD~385 -EUR~349) extremely well kept, first time no missing pieces at all (previous used set experiences always with missing pieces 75093, 79003, 7965, 8038, 4842, etc.), as you can see below seller placed back the pieces into the original numbered bags...

Built Big Ben and added lights from Brick Stuff. What a slick addition to the model - I added two white LEDs in the top of the tower, and two green LEDs behind the colonnade above the four sided clock. Next step is to illuminate the facade and light the Tower Bridge displayed next to it. For those builders and MOCers that have thought about diving into lighting, you will not be disappointed.

When face with this dilemma I typically custom build a box. I have had to do when selling a group of sets like the latest castle series. I do this when selling a single 10664 Creative Tower. Find a box with the right height and one of the dimensions and custom build the rest. In the U.S. we are charged shipping on dimensions and weight. So smaller is better as long as the set has a little room to breathe. just my 2 cents.

Amazon 75091 - Star Wars: Flash Speeder - $20.99 (30% off)

Finally got around to building (and photographing) 10197 Fire Brigade. It was the first modular I ever constructed. I enjoyed it, but, it wasn't as life changing as I expected. I'm in the process of tearing it down so I can sell it, lol. But I am looking forward to building others in the series.

TRU....Offer starts 7/01-

I'll be sure to post pictures when I crack open my Maersk Train and SSD this fall. I always planned on building the SSD from sealed box and my partner convinced me that the Maersk train would look great in our new city. What fun is LEGO investing if you can't indulge every once in a while? I've got quite a few others that were acquired for more than MSRP or have yet to be built and have since retired... No worries, they'll be built too! What's the point? Just slice open those boxes and build them! You won't regret it!

Didn't know the VA had licensing agreement with LEGO?

This is what it looked like Friday. I bricklinked it, could not bring myself to open a new one. I should have just bought a used one, would have cost the same as bricklinking.

The sand green elements for the July wall reset are 1x1 bricks and 1x2 plates.

Don't bricklink a Town Hall. Buying a used set will cost the same and probably be cheaper. I did a town hall, spent over $400 and didn't get a manual plus I'm still missing a few minifigures. Didn't do enough research before diving in.

Your 70x50x16 (cm) box isn't too big in terms of air space around the edges if you utilize air pillows. I would be more concerned about the height of the box. I would cut your box in half length wise. This would make your box height 8cm. After cutting the box length wise tape up the top and bottoms. Package your set in the bottom and add cushioning around the perimeter and perhaps some bubble wrap on top of the set. Then slip the top over the bottom. Bc the box top and bottom are the same size you'll need to pinch one of the corners on the bottom box to allow the top to slide over. Hope this helps pm me with questions.

Coupon code 66926. Free $15 Staples® Gift Card with your regular-priced packing and shipping supplies order of $50 or more. Would rather have a coupon than a gift card, but my low inventory of shipping boxes will push me to use this code.

Minor deal, but I'm seeing $2 back on $5 Toys and 10% back in points showing up at KMart.com. Maybe good for some small item purchases?

I dislike the prequels, but like this set and Captain Tarpals.

Bonsai by Full Plate

Aquamarine AQ-24 IMG_001 by Red Dragon Industries

Ferrari Testarossa 512 TR by Firas Abu-Jaber

Corner Grocer by Rob Bender

And remember: Excel (or any other spreadsheet) is your friend. Keep a list of all the pieces you need (extract from BL), and keep track of what you've purchased from where and how many (plus cost + shipping if you want to find out how much you saved versus just buying a used one). BTW, unless you're really strict on yourself, you might find you get close to what you would have paid if you bought a new one ... And the obligatory warnings: You will most likely run across incomplete orders (i.e. you ordered quantity X from a BL seller, but got X-1, or got a different part or something like that). Plan for this - unless the part is really expensive, just buy a few more than you need (if the seller has them available). And you will inevitably go hunting for that cat, or that lady minifig, or those sand green bricks with groove etc. Resist the temptation, you must.

Picked up a CL lot from RI for $550 the other day which had a complete Town Hall as the main selling point. So far sorting the 75+ lbs or so it has about 30% non lego. 100+ minifigures I'd guess. Lots of instructions too. I'm now pulling out a 6211 and a 7665. Here are some pictures. Top two are the ones they had built. The bulk is a horrible mess of pieces. I'll sell it off after cherry picking.

Found these locally...

Saw this on ideas, It would be an awesome sister set to the haunted house. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/137916

Funny to see England bundled out of Euro 2016 as well.....

Yeah, they did. It just took them a couple years to announce it, and they're still back ordered on it. They still use printed catalogs, and you can only order by mail or phone. And i'm pretty sure there are more customers on the wait list, than there are actually still alive at the moment.

Bummer. They finally learned they could not make as much money with those discounts

The Minifigures subsection in the Dutch Lego LEGO Shop at Home: Series 15 is on sale with a 30% discount. There's no trace of the German Football team CMF (71014, officially retired) nor the Disney CMF (71012). I assume the Series 15 is on sale because there's still too much stock of it left, after people spent their money first on both 71012 and 71014 series. While Series 16 is coming in September which is a mere 2 months away already. Will the Disney CMF (series 1?) become available again? My gut feeling says no. But in this business I'm still quite inexperienced, so I could be wrong. We'll just have to wait and see....

Have sold out in lego shop on Scotland and they said they are not getting any more in

Patience my friend

As bad as Corbyn, that ain't good, at least half the pieces in the set will walk out in disgust at the instructions and the whole thing will fall apart.

Doooo it!

Disney minifigures (lots of them) at Lacey, WA Walmart

Like all the collectible minifigures, they're available for a limited time. They claimed in the beginning that minifigures released in every series are unique, so there should never be the same exact version of any of the characters released again.

classic space mech: heavy lifter by martin gee Neo Galaxy Explorer by The Solitary Dark HF-05 GravityGirl by Horcik Designs Explorien Starship by Jamie Stobbart Smith

Pictures they sent to me before I picked it up. Some Friends and Ninjago sets had only one bag opened in their box.

From the fantastic BrickWorld 2016 display by PennLUG and Texas Brick Railroad:

After spending a few minutes reading news & analysis about this topic: 1. The word Brexit sounds like a brand of laxative 2. If UK is out of EU, things are going to be worse before getting better 3. Boris Johnson kind of looks like Donald Trump

If Toywiz buys from you then you're selling too low.

Elken Watchtower

Yes, one of the more famous (for it's still-standing huge scale) in southern France called the Pont du Gard. I visited at a younger age and the monument has always stuck with me as defining the words impressive and awesome. This photo is from the perspective of my fourth photo. I have the model on the shelf displayed the other way round, such that the river is on the right. If you examine some other real-life photos, and then the model, you'll note some detailed accuracy (as much allowed for the scale anyway). Expensive due to my stubborn desire to have certain bricks in the right colours.... some of them turned out incredibly rare, I think I dropped $50 for 11 pieces somewhere along the line there.... Not sure what you mean by how long, so I'll answer in every way I can perceive the question... It took me about 1.5 months to gather the bricks from roughly 12 or 14 different orders. The total brick count sits at almost exactly 2100 pieces (I'm not sure the exact final count as a couple of unforeseen tweaks had to be made along the way... you can't test structural integrity in LDD unfortunately!). It took me approximately 3 6-hour sessions... I didn't have instructions, so hiding and revealing layers in the digital file ate some time despite all the bricks being pre-sorted (as orders came in). The build in dimensions is 67cm x 10cm x 22cm, or alternatively 84 studs x 12 studs x 24 bricks.

Posted a couple months back, this was my first real MOC I put together and ordered from scratch. Total cost came to around $500 CAD. But it's one of a kind and I'm very happy with that! Borrowed a friend's DLSR to take some proper "artistic" shots.

I purchased three Spider-man Daily Bugle sets without minifigs and used the pieces (plus other pieces in our bulk bin) to build this little modular hospital. I also order a set of doctor office stickers from Brick Builders Pro. If you noticed in the pictures, apparently my son seems to think that all our doctors are also the patients...haha.

Can I switch things up and share a positive experience? True story. I sold a complete set of Disney minifigs on eBay. I listed that they were still in the original bags, but I put a small cut in them to verify contents. Shortly after I received the money on PayPal, The buyer contacts me. The lady apologizes, but she claims I gave her two stitches. She's missing buzz light year. Which made sense to me, because I had recently went over my inventory of loose minifigs and was short a stitch. I go into customer-service panic-mode because of all the stories I've read here about buyers filing a complaint and getting their money back over the smallest inconsistency in their order. I'm a new seller and my feed back was only like 24, and more than half were from buying. So I immediately apologize for giving her stitches. But then she sends me a request: if she mails me one stitch back, will I please mail her the missing buzz light year. ?? She's asking ME to trade a stitch for a buzz? The buzz I rightfully owe her. She even says she's willing to wait until I get my stitch, before I give her a buzz. Now I'm getting paranoid, she's too nice. I am of course going to give her a buzz. And I'm certainly not going to wait until I receive a stitch. But What if she never sends a stitch and just wants a buzz for free? Who doesn't want a free buzz? What can I do?!? So I tell her I'm going to give her a buzz for free, gonna send it right away. I offer to send her $2 to pay for shipping my stitch back. She refuses. Doesn't want it. She compliments my package. Kids love the set. She just wants a buzz. Long story short, I roll her buzz with a pair of Washingtons. 'Cause I know she likes the way I pack it. And I got my stitch back and a great review on eBay. Disaster obverted. There are kind, generous people in the world.

Took the instructions from the Maersk train #10219 and Bricklink'd all in black, bought some waterslide decals from a local hobby shop and then modified it a bit to be a Norfolk Southern locomotive in our little city. Nothing special, but we added power functions and it runs great.