Rick Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 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® beginningJanuary 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 Spoiler 10182 Café Corner - Café on corner of plaza w/coffee mug sign - Yellow and white striped awnings - Micro version of CC on apartment shelf - Printed tile to represent CC Box - Corner door built using turntables - Cherries in trash - Green Baseplates 10190 Market Street - Micro version of MS on apartment shelf - Bakery is linked to croissant sign from MS 10185 Green Grocer - Micro version of GG on apartment shelf - Rooftop BBQ - Sand Green color of mid-building - Updated baby pram (now including baby!) 10197 Fire Brigade - Rooftop door access - Kitchen in apartment 10211 Grand Emporium - Detailing around roof above Dance Studio - Wedding cake to go with wedding outfits in GE Window 10218 Pet Shop - Parrot in flower shop & Chihuahua - Sand Blue color of Music/Dance Studios - Windows for Music/Dance Studios shared with PS 10224 Town Hall - Tower roof style shared with TH - Wedding cake for married couple in TH - Flower shop for married couple in TH 10232 Palace Cinema - Center of pattern in front of Cafe shared with PC - Vertical line wall texture from PC is used for interior of Music/Dance studios 10243 Parisian Restaurant - Black roof of middle building in similar style to PR - White Croissants in Bakery - Fold out sofa similar to fold down bed - Greenery on pergola between café and flower shop 10264 Detective’s Office - Mirror - Candy/cookie source is Pastry Shop - Nougat color of Dentist office 10251 Brick Bank - Portrait of Bank Manager in photo studio - Trans-Green and clear glass in Flower Shop Designer video Quote
Rick Posted October 17, 2016 Author Posted October 17, 2016 TLG has just announced the new Modular Building on its Facebook page. Quote
spanky Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 we get some sand green, but still looks like no 1x8 bricks Quote
Kapowza Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 I love the way they've done the photographers background Quote
Herky Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) I like it, much better than DO to me which is a bit similar, and better than bank, interesting the back shows it next to those two but none of the others, I feel it is still a bit short, but there is tons of detail to make up the piece count. Pricey but 4000 pieces make it on par with Big Ben, lots of new stuff to be excited about, great little fountain in the middle. Time to start saving Edited October 17, 2016 by Herky Quote
lomis Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 There's so much going on... it's amazing. This is a day one buy for sure!!! Quote
wooootles Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 Wow, what a crazy design!!! 4000 pieces! (Nearly the same price/piece ratio as the OG Cafe Corner) I can see people wanting to mod these 3 buildings into proper 32x32 modulars. But I would imagine it would be harder to buy 2 right off the bat (would be a month's rent in some places). I should save money for one (or three) Quote
AFOLguy1970 Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 Lots of nice details, parts, and a fairly large set. I am not crazy about the apparent inability to separate the two structures on the right in the spirit of Pet Shop. Will probably try to save up for it sometime in 2017, but not in a big hurry. It looks like they revisited concepts from each of the prior modulars. I guess Jamie answered an ages old question--indeed Market Street is part of the series (runs for cover) Quote
nikhkin Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 I think it looks awesome. Although those comments from "Lego store employees" that it is truly modular are clearly nonsense. I'm impressed at how much they've squeezed in. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is that the florist building looks a bit small. Quote
Herky Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 Just now, AFOLguy1970 said: Lots of nice details, parts, and a fairly large set. I am not crazy about the apparent inability to separate the two structures on the right in the spirit of Pet Shop. Will probably try to save up for it sometime in 2017, but not in a big hurry. It looks like they revisited concepts from each of the prior modulars. I guess Jamie answered an ages old question--indeed Market Street is part of the series (runs for cover) Yes, clears that up and adds a pricey set for me to look for if I want to complete the whole set, glad that is put to rest now. Seems to have been a question forever. Quote
lomis Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) What's up with the Designer video? It cuts out for me before he is even finished speaking. Never mind. I found the full video at Edited October 17, 2016 by lomis Added YouTube video Quote
nikhkin Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 Just now, lomis said: What's up with the Designer video? It cuts out for me before he is even finished speaking. I think someone ripped it from elsewhere and uploaded it to Flickr. It isn't the original Quote
Boettner Builds Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) The video is incomplete :( nevermind, Lomis found the full one! Thanks! at the end of the video, when Jamie "hugs" this new one, you can really see how big this is!! :) Edited October 17, 2016 by redtrooper27 Quote
LegoSjaak Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 This is all i wanted... really so great!! I'm really very happy to see it is such a wonderful set! Quote
Florian_Wayne Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 Nice to see a German bakery with Brezel and Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte :) Greetings from Germany ;) Quote
Tariq j Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 I think it looks great, the number of references is amazing and there's lots going on and nothing is left empty. Quote
Boettner Builds Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, LegoSjaak said: This is all i wanted... really so great!! I'm really very happy to see it is such a wonderful set! It truly is!! :) now we all wait to see your photoshopped and real life XL versions!!! ;) Quote
wooootles Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 Just now, Herky said: Yes, clears that up and adds a pricey set for me to look for if I want to complete the whole set, glad that is put to rest now. Seems to have been a question forever. I thought that question was already answered when they released the mini-modulars set Quote
Brickmaestro Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 This verifies some of the earlier comments about this potentially being an "inverted" corner as that is essentially what is done with the large building on the right (bakery and florist shop create inverted corner). Quote
badbob001 Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) I think people have been wanting a wall of shops and this certainly delivers that. I'm glad they still have stairs to every floor and not rely on teleportation, but all the shops do have to share stairs and doors. It does seem very cramp and I'm afraid I'm going to destroy something whenever I need to reach in. Someone get with the photoshop so we can figure out which modulars looks best connected to this. Edited October 17, 2016 by badbob001 Quote
Rick Posted October 17, 2016 Author Posted October 17, 2016 24 minutes ago, lomis said: What's up with the Designer video? It cuts out for me before he is even finished speaking. 23 minutes ago, nikhkin said: I think someone ripped it from elsewhere and uploaded it to Flickr. It isn't the original It is the original video, but apparently Flickr has a three minute limit for videos. I replaced the video with the one TLG's YouTube channel. Quote
gylman Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 Jaime Berard is by far, in my opinion, the best LEGO designer. Everything he touches looks great (COUGH Emerald Night COUGH). Of course I will buy it, in duplicate at least. That said, I think this building doesn't really add much to the overall theme. I think they are running out of ideas (though I've seen pretty original ideas from AFOLs). This might be the swansong of the Cafe Corner series. It would not surprise me if they announce the end of the series after this set. Quote
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