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The press release is now live.

Looks like someone at TLG wanted to go home early. The press release is live now.

TLG has just announced the new Modular Building on its Facebook page.

The latest addition to the Modular Buildings theme has just been announced by TLG. 10255 Assembly Square celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the theme and is loaded with references to earlier Modulars. The 4,002 piece set features a little square surrounded by buildings on a 32 x 48 stud footprint. Check out all the interior and exterior details and see if you can spot all the references to previous Modular Buildings in the Town forum. The set will be available on January 1, 2017 through LEGO Shop@Home.

Images of the new modular building are still under embargo for the next couple of hours. The official reveal is planned in 2 hours from this post (19:00 CET). Since it will be difficult to contain images or links to images (and I will not be available to moderate this thread at the moment), I will lock this topic until the official release in a couple of hours. Please come back in two hours time. Thanks for your understanding.

10255 Assembly Square 10255 Assembly Square Ages 16+. 4,002 pieces. US $279.99 - CA $329.99 - DE 239.99€ - UK £169.99 - DK 2099.00 DKK *Euro pricing varies by country. Please visit shop.LEGO.com for regional pricing. Celebrate ten years of Modular Building with the Assembly Square! Take a trip to the amazing Assembly Square, developed to celebrate ten years of LEGO® Modular Buildings, featuring a wealth of unsurpassed, intricate details and hidden surprises. Easy-to-remove building sections provide access to the highly detailed interior, comprising a ground level with a bakery, florist’s shop and café, a middle level with a music store, photo studio and dental office, and an upper-level dance studio and apartment with access to a rooftop terrace with barbecue. The exterior of the building features a detailed sidewalk with outdoor café furniture, fountain, streetlamps and a highly elaborate facade with beautifully detailed windows and doors, three buildable shop signs, spired tower and a decorative roofline. Collect and build an entire town with the LEGO Creator Expert Modular Building series 10243 Parisian Restaurant, 10246 Detective’s Office and 10251 Brick Bank. Includes eight minifigures and a baby figure. · Includes eight minifigures: a dentist, barista, baker, florist, music store assistant, dancer, photographer and a LEGO® fan, plus a baby figure. · The three-level Assembly Square features an authentic, elaborate facade with detailed windows and doors, three buildable shop signs, spired tower, decorative roofline and a rooftop terrace, plus a detailed tiled sidewalk with a fountain, outdoor café furniture and two streetlamps. The highly detailed interior includes a bakery, florist’s shop, café, music store, photo studio, dental office, apartment and a dance studio. · Ground level features a bakery with counter, cash register, shelves, opening oven, wedding cake and assorted buildable pastries and treats; a florist’s shop with counter, cash register, garden tools, flower arrangements, bouquets and a blue and yellow macaw parrot element; and a café with espresso machine, counter, bench seating and pie elements. · Middle level features a music store with a buildable drum set, two guitars and saxophone element; photo studio with buildable classic camera and adjustable tripod; and a dental office with buildable reclining chair, waiting area, telephone and a sink. · Upper level features a dance studio with buildable piano and reflective mirror element; an apartment with buildable foldout sofa bed, detailed kitchen, toilet, micro LEGO® train, modular buildings and Eiffel Tower, and access to a rooftop terrace with buildable barbecue, table and a neglected plant. · Accessory elements include a ballerina skirt, Chihuahua, pretzel, ornamental chicken and candy. Also includes a buildable telephone, grill, baby carriage and buildable lamps. · Remove the building sections to access the detailed interior. · Adjust the camera tripod and take photos all around the square. · Recline the dentist chair and reveal those pearly whites! · Open the oven door to remove your freshly-baked pastries. · Fold out the sofa bed and relax while you admire your modular buildings collection! · Celebrate Modular Buildings with this awesome 10th anniversary LEGO® Creator Expert set! · This set offers an age-appropriate build and play experience for ages 16+. · New decorated elements include a dentist torso, dentist window and 2x3 tile with the 10182 Café Corner box front. · Includes lots of curved and corner angle tiles, garage doors used as box windows and LEGO® Technic excavator scoops used as roofing elements. · Collect and build an entire town with the LEGO® Creator Expert Modular Building series 10243 Parisian Restaurant, 10246 Detective’s Office and 10251 Brick Bank. · Measures over 13” (35cm) high, 14” (38cm) wide and 9” (25cm) deep. Available for sale directly through LEGO® beginning January 1, 2017 via shop.LEGO.com, LEGO® Stores or via phone All images (including even higher resolution versions) are also available on flickr. References to Past Modular Buildings Designer video

After hearing the description from the LEGO employee posted earlier in this topic, I also envisioned something like @paupadros posted: a semi-enclosed square/open space, surrounded by buildings. The only way to make this compatible with the modular line so far and keep the price within the price of two modulars, is to move the inverted corner buildings all the way back into the corners of the baseplate. Another option would be @Adeel Zubair's sketch, but that doesn't really scream "square" to me. The big risk is indeed that the modulars become even less grand than the latest modular's we've seen, so I hope they at least include three 32 x 32 baseplates, but I doubt it... I further expect the floors to be modular as well, so they can be rearranged and you can make different buildings by mixing and matching.

People, please go easy on the quote button please. It's not making the topic easier to read.

Weird... I manually set your post count to 102 (the number of posts I could find for you) and your rank to Citizen accordingly. Let's see what happens when you try to post again.

I fixed the frontpage post concerned. The issues on some mobile devices (having to scroll to the right for the "hamburger" menu) are due to the Google ads at the bottom of the page not scaling properly on all devices/browsers. We're looking into this.

Is it really too much trouble to look at the recent threads in the Town forum and see what's been posted before making your first post?

TLG has been pretty consistently using flesh only for themes/sets where real people are represented, so I'd assume they'll use "normal" yellow figures. Also, some previous non-licensed Ideas sets have used "yellowies" (or should we call them "yellies" ).

It's kind of hard to have a clear rule about it (although we are working on a guideline), but let me put it this way: I agree with the statement above and I have no problems with what you just wrote in your post.

Old Fishing Store! Check out the video in which the Ideas team announce this new set which will come out in 2017 and discuss in the Town forum.

As I said in the Modular discussion thread, let's not give companies that rip off TLG or AFOLs any further free publicity. Thanks.

Let's not get this thread further off-topic please. Also, considering Lepin are simply stealing TLG's designs (and AFOL's designs it seems), I don't think it is right to basically give them free publicity here. So, please no more discussion about Lepin's or any other clone brand's products. I think it's good to let this thread rest for a while until any real news on the next modular comes out. I considered locking it for the moment at several points, but I'd rather keep it open. If the discussion goes too far off-topic though, you'll leave me no choice. Thank you for your understanding.

Thanks for pointing that out. PM permissions have been fixed. New members can't send PMs, Vassals, Citizens and Knights can send PMs to one person at a time, Counts can add a maximum of 2 recipients, Dukes 3 and Grand Dukes and Archdukes 4.

Maybe people finally got the message that it's pretty pointless to keep posting in a topic when there's nothing new to discuss. As always, a thread for the new modular will be created once we have an official press release.

Thank you. That's a good tip indeed. I have been struggling with making a frontpage image clickable. However, please note that changing the embedded image size does not actually make oversized images smaller, because it will still load the oversized image. Instead, upload a smaller image (or use a smaller image size that sites like flickr serve) and embed this smaller image.

It could be the Google ad programme serving ads that redirect you away from EB. They're typically quick to remove these kind of ads. If it persists, try to note which kind of ads are redirecting you, so Sinner can try to look into the Google ad settings (although it is typically hard to track down which ads are causing it and -like I said- Google are likely to remove these kind of ads).

Some of the issues you dislike about the new editor (like not having a separate reply screen) obviously are inherent to the new software and cannot be altered. I have added a button that removes all formatting (Tx) and a button that allows you to include spoilers to the standard toolbar. These buttons may not show up on smaller screens because of their limited screen width.

No idea if we had an undo button before, but Ctrl-Z does the job just fine.

LEGO Ambassador Anio put 12,500 bricks into this microscale rendition of the railway station of the French city of Limoges. Check out this MOC and more of his recent creations in the Special Themes forum.

Olivia's house was part of the first wave in 2012, Emma's came out in 2015 and now Stephanie's is due for 2017. Expect Andrea's and Mia's in 2019 and 2021.

This is directly accessible via the "Posted x minutes/hours ago" link in the top-left corner of a message or the share icon on the top-right. You can right-click either of these links and copy the URL to go directly to a post.