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Sets like the Stranger Things house or Voltron are great for multi person builds since the bags and instructions are separated component.
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It's unfortunate that LEGO sets have such a long development cycle that the police station (if that's what it is) would have been decided before 2020, but they still would have had time to change or abandon it. I will be pretty disappointed if they just go for it anyway.
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Nov 25, 2020 01:39
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Hopper posted:That would be so tone deaf I can't imagine ... oh wait, this year's advent calendar is cops and robbers themed, too. It seems like every year the City advent calendar is cops and robbers themed? Anyway, yeah, a police station is an easy skip.
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In my experience, a multi-person build is always better when you are trading off rather than attempting to do things simultaneously. Some people don't enjoy building, but they do enjoy sorting the bags into the various types and colors. Or tackling a particular element, like doing an individual floor of a modular. I found the water stage of Ninjago City to be therapeutic and zen as opposed to monotonous. In fact, seeing NC Docks and its similar water feature in 2019 was pretty much what inspired me to start balling out and spending big bucks on new Lego sets as an adult. I can't overstate how excited I am for the new one. The sets of my childhood simply had "blue baseplate" for water, so seeing something like that was kind of mindblowing and a signal for how far Lego had evolved since then. Can't wait to see what else is coming! Colosseum is a no for me, but I echo everyone else regarding the bonsai tree.
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The_Doctor posted:It seems like every year the City advent calendar is cops and robbers themed? The last few years have been winter or Christmas themed builds plus a few other odds and ends.
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Nov 25, 2020 01:54
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Makes gardens of ninjago a much easier purchase at least.
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If it’s police station it will be my first skip since I started collecting modulars with the cinema.
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My wife enjoyed the holiday train so much she told me she went to eBay and bought Santa's workshop. Well gosh that's nice I thought. Except it turns out she paid $250. I found a knock-off for $25. Seems like a huge waste of money when she doesn't care about collecting or resale value. I do hate to support Chinese knockoffs. What do you all usually do when there's a retired set you want? Just buy all the legit pieces individually from bricklink? Does that end up being much cheaper than eBay prices?
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I don't have any interest in a police station as is, but I might get it if it could easily be reconfigured into a bar or coffee house or something. I'd like to do a modular scale moc building.
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davebo posted:My wife enjoyed the holiday train so much she told me she went to eBay and bought Santa's workshop. Well gosh that's nice I thought. Except it turns out she paid $250. I found a knock-off for $25. Seems like a huge waste of money when she doesn't care about collecting or resale value. I do hate to support Chinese knockoffs. What do you all usually do when there's a retired set you want? Just buy all the legit pieces individually from bricklink? Does that end up being much cheaper than eBay prices? For $250, I hope it was NIB, by the way!
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davebo posted:My wife enjoyed the holiday train so much she told me she went to eBay and bought Santa's workshop. Well gosh that's nice I thought. Except it turns out she paid $250. I found a knock-off for $25. Seems like a huge waste of money when she doesn't care about collecting or resale value. I do hate to support Chinese knockoffs. What do you all usually do when there's a retired set you want? Just buy all the legit pieces individually from bricklink? Does that end up being much cheaper than eBay prices? Buying individual pieces would be a nightmare. It is cheaper on bricklink. At least if you decide to sell it you can get the money back pretty easily.
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Lol at it being a police station. If it is I will probably pass as well. I used to be dead set on having all of them till I realized that’s crazy person thinking. There’s no way for me to display them all and I’ve been trying to thin my collection anyway. I actually sold my fire station because I decided I didn’t like the look of it, and I’m passing on the corner garage for the same reason. If anyone remembers I like market street and have it displayed. That means I like market street more than corner garage and firehouse.
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Nov 25, 2020 02:40
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 First year doing this for the holidays. Loving it already.
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Hopper posted:That would be so tone deaf I can't imagine ... oh wait, this year's advent calendar is cops and robbers themed, too. Right. Cops never do anything good. They are all universally terrible. The world would be a better place without cops. In addition, inspiring kids to be good cops some day is also horrible. And let’s not forget, Lego is a US company so it really should know better. Because the US is the whole world.
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Fair point, however, as a global company and especially a toy company you have certain responsibilities. I know we live in a capitalistic hellscape but I like to think there are still some people who care in these companies.
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I seem to remember global protests? I don't think recognizing policing has reached a crisis point in more ways than one during the past year is confined to the United States by any means, there were numerous high-profile incidents of police brutality against marginalized communities in other countries during that period as well. And while I understand there's a certain moral role we're supposed to vie for represented in the police officer, they have repeatedly failed as an institution to reach that standard. While massive protests over the death of George Floyd were erupting, I was treated to the information that the police in my hometown had caused the death of a Black man and tried to cover it up for MONTHS. So that's my community; the people my children are supposed to want to become like when they grow up are all complicit in a cover-up of assault and murder. By dint of wearing the uniform. I'm sorry to get like this in a LEGO thread of all things but taking a year off from cops isn't a big ask when questions of authoritarian overreach hang heavy in air already virulent with a global pandemic
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Was there a new modular announcement?
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Darth TNT posted:Right. Cops never do anything good. They are all universally terrible. The world would be a better place without cops. If you don't think Lego is constantly looking at the US you are seriously mistaken. Most of their products are based on US IPs. And even the stuff that isn't is often based on US stuff. Palace Cinema, Diner are both obviously based on US architecture. The list really goes on and on the more you want to look. If a modular police station is really coming up it is incredibly tone deaf of them and will likely get a lot of pushback. It's the sort of thing that might only last a year before they pull it from shelves. And yes, cops are universally terrible. And the world would be a better place without cops. You got some things correct in your horrible post.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Was there a new modular announcement? Later this week. Some of the tags on the video suggested it'll be a police station.
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Didn't Lego pull all police related sets for a month earlier this year?
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Reminder that sets, themes etc. are decided far in advance and aren't a direct response to whatever is happening culturally in the US or abroad 
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Darth TNT posted:Right. Cops never do anything good. They are all universally terrible. The world would be a better place without cops.
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LEGO Cops: lurking, in the carpet, waiting to shoot you Thanks for bringing politics to the Lego thred.
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Why not a community mental health centre modular? Just a bunch of regular people getting help.
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Setting aside the fact that ACAB a police station is just loving boring. Give us an arcade, a record store, a bar - something fun.
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Spookydonut posted:Why not a community mental health centre modular? Just a bunch of regular people getting help. Honestly a modular hospital/medical centre would be nice.
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Honestly it's pretty hosed up when you look at the City sets for the past however many years and the majority of them are police themed so that they can fit in a cops vs robbers thing that appeals to market research for little boys. I don't think that's LEGO establishing that trend, but it's pretty depressing to look at the City line versus the Friends line over the past, say, five years, and see how much more effort has been made on the Friends side to diversify what the sets are about. I really appreciate that the LEGO marketed to girls includes things like doctors and DJs (and dives!) and other types of careers and interests.
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insert mention of that article about how lego cities must be 90% police stations and prisons here
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Feenix posted:
That looks really awesome! Did you use a lighting kit or made it yourself?
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They grow up so fast.  
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Is... is that his mom?
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I assume he’s just got together with someone a lot like his mother.
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She’s immortal.
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Clearly it's a modern retelling of the King of Thebes
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Wasn't there like, a mini cop station in an older modular? But I guess there hasn't really been a modular with a police station façade. Modulars are rarely ever just a single thing as well, so I'm kinda curious to see what exactly it looks like & has going on. I've linked it before, but I kinda liked this idea for a police modular and I'll be disappointed if the real one doesn't have a donut shop or stand.
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The_Doctor posted:I assume he’s just got together with someone a lot like his mother. Yeah, it happens....sigh...(checks when next therapy is scheduled).
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Lizard Combatant posted:Clearly it's a modern retelling of the King of Thebes His beard isn’t bedewed with eyeball. Well, yet, I guess.
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Dogen posted:His beard isn’t bedewed with eyeball. Well, yet, I guess.  Never honour the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.
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I haven't really ever followed lego closely so I wasn't aware of the modular city sets, it's a cool idea and I'm surprised they haven't expanded the concept to like Christmas themed town sets or Halloween themed ones that that could release annually like other companies already do with miniature towns. I'd buy the hell out of a Halloween town that could grow each year.
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They do release a Christmas themed set each year though. But it's not modular if that's what you mean.
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