From the new "Honey, I shrunk the Hogwarts Express" set.

Got tired of Christmas sets. Santa needed a new ride and honestly, the stickers are more of a zen process for me. 

I had to build one of my Diners. They just look too cool. Its definitely among my favorite modulars so far.

I had to build one of my Diners. They just look too cool. Its definitely among my favorite modulars so far.
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Nice layout. It looks like the AT-AT is about to take out the popcorn vendor.

My son built 60080 Spaceport. Pretty cool set!

Built the corner garage on Monday/Tuesday and the Bookshop on Wednesday/Thursday.

I like both builds and really notice the improved techniques in the modular line, especially for similar areas to other modulars, or when comparing to city mini builds. As blasphemous as this is: Green Grocer needs an update.

The Garage feature is excellent (at least it's my son's favourite besides the fire truck) and is well designed. The rolling door is not for little hands though and the greebling was VERY annoying. I hope Lego figures out a way to take a similar set and make it a reverse corner in the future. I have 5 corner buildings which is enough.

The Bookshop was a very strong build and I love the colours, but would like to see a little more work on the walls of the shop itself.

The trees suck (and always have) and the corner garage tree looks stupid.

The Bookshop is the nicer finished product but suffers like Pet Shop and Detective's Office with a half building each. A full floor bookstore would have been really cool. I am very thankful that they are full size buildings unlike the DO and BB.

The best feature of both is that they don't have the stupid Diner staircase.

Parisian Restaurant and Green Grocer still rank 1 and 1A for me.

Bonus photo of the buildings around the tree this year with both Holiday trains (wall isn't done, but whatever). I hope to light them back up next year if my kid stops touches them .

On 12/19/2018 at 6:28 PM, brickvoyeur said:

He loves the show Dinosaur Train... so we did this. Now he won't stop singing the theme song.

 

On 12/9/2019 at 6:36 PM, brickvoyeur said:

A year later, a busier setup, and an additional messy kid. Baby #3 due in March, Boy #3. At this rate all those Elves sets I have set aside for "future girl" are going to end up on Amazon. Will give it another try in a few years.

 

Another year... another kid. Same train. Mrs. Brickvoyeur is building the gingerbread house, while I get to finish up the Bakery and Post Office. Doubtful the Fire Station or Market make an appearance this year. 

The Cottage will eventually find its way to me for under $100 like all the other old Winter Village sets have.

Edited December 12, 20205 yr by brickvoyeur

I am tired of building furniture in the harry potter Advent...

1 hour ago, $20 on joe vs dan said:

I am tired of building furniture in the harry potter Advent...

most of these really should have been a GWP for the Clock Tower set.

Loved the mini Hogwarts, Beaubaton carriage, and ship...the other builds should have been more like these

On 12/7/2020 at 10:46 AM, CosmicSpeed said:

Got tired of Christmas sets. Santa needed a new ride and honestly, the stickers are more of a zen process for me.

 

Damn that is one slick ride.

 

On 12/7/2020 at 10:44 PM, Jbad87 said:

I had to build one of my Diners. They just look too cool. Its definitely among my favorite modulars so far.

 

Nice layout not to mention that LEGO store all the way on the left there.

On 12/7/2020 at 10:44 PM, Jbad87 said:

I had to build one of my Diners. They just look too cool. Its definitely among my favorite modulars so far.

Really like your layout!

I just had to say it... I hope your train doesn’t derail at the back of the loop there...

Finished a 40289 last night. Nice little Harry Potter site.

Already lost the light purple hat and had to use one from the 1960s Batcave set. D’oh. That hat is only in 3 sets.

Those figures must be huuuuuuuge!!

Time to break out the train. No big Xmas dinner this year or dinner parties so the wife granted the kids the use of the dining room table.

Picked up a complete no instructions or box 10262 Aston Martin DB5 for $105 shipped from EBay the other day. Was still looking for one to build and they were out of stock everywhere, I guess I happened to come across the listing just at the right time. Officially it would have been $120 shipped but I used my $15 coupon from switching to Managed Payments to bring the price down further. $5 for a manual from Bricklink, and just missing 1 LBG plate 1x1 (I've got plenty of those).

While inventorying the set, I tried this for the first time. Probably also the last time

Finally cracked open the seals on the 10193 Medieval Market Village I bought on EBay several years ago. Built it and now working on "winterizing" the set so it can go under the tree.

 

As this was the first time I built a 10yr old set "fresh from the factory", a couple of observations:

- 2010 Reddish Brown SUCKS. Lots of cracking noises when placing bricks. One rounded window frame broke part of the bottom antistuds off (luckily these are plentiful available) - on first use ever!

- Numbered bags for large sets are such a help. I had to dump 1600+ bricks on a table and do a lot of searching, as this set has no numbered bags.

- Instructions really fail in color recognition. It was often hard to distinguish Black, DBG and LBG, as well as Tan vs Pearl Gold vs Pink, to the point that at the end I had to break down the chimney on the first house because I had used an LBG 1x4 plate instead of a DBG 1x4.

- The big tree build is finnicky. Especially when trying to add the white flowers/blossoms to the tree.

That said, the set is really solid and once I do my winterization I think it'll look great in my Winter Village.

6 minutes ago, Phil B said:

Finally cracked open the seals on the 10193 Medieval Market Village I bought on EBay several years ago. Built it and now working on "winterizing" the set so it can go under the tree.

 

As this was the first time I built a 10yr old set "fresh from the factory", a couple of observations:

- 2010 Reddish Brown SUCKS. Lots of cracking noises when placing bricks. One rounded window frame broke part of the bottom antistuds off (luckily these are plentiful available) - on first use ever!

- Numbered bags for large sets are such a help. I had to dump 1600+ bricks on a table and do a lot of searching, as this set has no numbered bags.

- Instructions really fail in color recognition. It was often hard to distinguish Black, DBG and LBG, as well as Tan vs Pearl Gold vs Pink, to the point that at the end I had to break down the chimney on the first house because I had used an LBG 1x4 plate instead of a DBG 1x4.

- The big tree build is finnicky. Especially when trying to add the white flowers/blossoms to the tree.

That said, the set is really solid and once I do my winterization I think it'll look great in my Winter Village.

LEGO needs to upgrade and re-lease this set as Harry Potter Hogsmeade (then no "winterizing" needed)

This beauty 

On 12/12/2020 at 8:36 AM, brickvoyeur said:

 

Another year... another kid. Same train. Mrs. Brickvoyeur is building the gingerbread house, while I get to finish up the Bakery and Post Office. Doubtful the Fire Station or Market make an appearance this year. 

The Cottage will eventually find its way to me for under $100 like all the other old Winter Village sets have.

This is as good as it's getting this year.

12 minutes ago, brickvoyeur said:

This is as good as it's getting this year.

I think this picture highlights how superior the Gingerbread House is to the other WV builds. All nice, but that one stands out.

Daddy-daughter Christmas builds complete. The ship was great! 😁

Still not crazy about the squinty look but overall a better model than the 2014 version.  

Edited December 30, 20204 yr by Mathew

Happy 2021 🥳

 

Finished building The Razor Crest today

Built the 75050 B-Wing version I bought used recently (no missing pieces for once and with the instructions!).  Since I think this set looks better upright, I built a display stand for it.  This set has been on my wish list for a while and was glad to find it locally for $50.