Lego Modular State Capital

I was about to call it a day when I came across this on Flickr. So of course I had to share it here. It’s by lgorlando, it’s great, and I’m too sleepy to be descriptive. So in the man’s own words:

“A third rendition of my Park Avenue and Palace Grand with tan as the primary color. Someone told me the Palace Grand looked like a “government building” and I wondered what that would look like.”

Yeah, still no pics of his fabled city layout. I’m waiting too.

My modular corner cinema

Update again: See my modular town hall (also from 10184) pics here.

Update again: See my modular white building pics here. 🙂

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Update: My cinema has been blogged in Classic-Town! Yippee! Click here to see the post. 😀

I’d also posted in EB about my cinema and after reading all the kind comments, feel so inspired to build some more. 🙂

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Readers would have seen from earlier posts (here for my modular street and here for research) that I’d been fiddling around with a modular corner cinema modified with parts from the Town Plan. 

Well, I finally put in the last 4 pieces (the technic blocks with hole that came with my S@H PAB selection) today and since I’m kinda sick of playing around with the cinema, I thought to take some pics over the long weekend and share here – sorta an official closure. 😛

Front and side views:

First floor interior, front door, ticket booth and popcorn corner:

2nd floor interior, entrance and cinema room:

Back view (really ugly!):

Ok, not perfect… but I’m lazy to fix the flaws. Stuff I’m pleased with are the popcorn corner, ticket counters (I like the TV screens 🙂 ) and Yeti display (like those movie displays at cinemas). 

Stuff I don’t like so much… (wow, such a long list!) Stairs ain’t so great, the screen and chairs look kinda sad and the back is really ugly (luckily not visible in my usual display!).  Plus I don’t have enough white plates for the flooring and roof so it’s really patch-worky looking – the red plates are totally based on whatever plates I have on hand) and the white tiles are leftovers from the winter scene I did last December (I think either blue or red tiles would look more authentic for carpeting).

As a last view, my current modular street:

 

Update: Got the cinema from Town Plan to do a side-by-side comparison with my modular:

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So what’s next? I’m thinking to modularise either the Pizza store from City Corner (7641), or the Police Headquarters (7744) or the Hospital (7892).  What do you think?

Am leaning towards Pizza store, mainly cos I have lots of red bricks on hand from all the basic brick sets I’ve been swiping.  Plus it’s an easy one.  The Police HQ and Hospital will probably have to be a full plate thing rather than the half plate for Pizza store, so those are also gonna take a while to build up.

Decisions, decisions…

Some MOCs that caught my eye…

Just one quick pic of each creation. Do go to the Flickr pages to see more and leave comments/compliments for the creators. 🙂

First a subversive trailer park creation.  Lego town/city creations are usually fairly happy suburban scenes, so it’s quite refreshing to see a trailer house by by Doctor Mobius.  My fav bit is the car on blocks.

Next, a San Francisco cable car by Tom Bricks.  I haven’t been to SF so no idea if it looks authentic but it sure will look good in any table town creation.

Last, we have Dawn Feather Keep by LegoLord.  The lovely lush greenery and a meandering stream caught my eye.

Magic House of the Grand Leguini

Thought I’d better post this before another backlog builds up… by valgarise. I like the windows.  More pics in flickr as usual.

P.S. Sorry about not responding to comments recently.  I’ll start playing with the WordPress iPhone app tmr morning if I’m not too sleepy on the way to work. (^_^”)

Costume Corner with Series 1 minifigs

Brent Waller has created a costume corner shop for his collectible minifig series 1 (8683).  I think it’s a great way to integrate the collectible minifig series into everyday city life, what do you think?  

Really like the detailed interiors.  More in his flickr account.

Lgorlando’s former City teaser

According to lgorlando, this is his former city set-up and it already blows me away.  I hope he shares his current city set-up soon.

Dark red modular love

I really like the lighted modular building displayed in Brickworld 2010 for World of Lights by ToT-LUG.  Building lit up using the E-Lite Standard from LifeLites. Side by side pics for comparison in normal lighting.