With a new modular coming around the corner, I was wondering - after 17 years - how people rank the Modulars. So which one is your favorite?

If you have trouble remembering them all, you can see pictures of them individually here:

https://brickset.com/sets/subtheme-Modular-Buildings-Collection

(I couldn't find a picture that had the Museum as well, sorry!)

 

Edited October 18, 2024Oct 18 by Hive

10255 Assembly Square is my favorite. It was my first and it was also what brought me from the abyss of dark ages where I was since 1999 (or something like that).

As an civil structural engineer who earns a living drawing on a computer and simulating stuff digitaly, I was looking for a mental challengue with physicality, that I could mess around with my fingers. When my wife gave me the Assembly Square as an idea to solve this quest of mine, it was like opening doors to a new world. Thats why I married her, anyway :P

4 hours ago, hugore said:

10255 Assembly Square is my favorite. It was my first and it was also what brought me from the abyss of dark ages where I was since 1999 (or something like that).

As an civil structural engineer who earns a living drawing on a computer and simulating stuff digitaly, I was looking for a mental challengue with physicality, that I could mess around with my fingers. When my wife gave me the Assembly Square as an idea to solve this quest of mine, it was like opening doors to a new world. Thats why I married her, anyway :P

Good pick! I'm very fond of Assembly Square myself, as it was a wedding gift for my wife and me.

Detective Office has my vote. I love the play features and storyline presented. That, and I love film noir stories like The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Sunset Boulevard - even The Cheap Detective, so of course it gets my vote!

Edited October 18, 2024Oct 18 by Murdoch17

That’s a tough question.  I didn’t get the first 7, as they were released and mostly withdrawn during my dark ages.  Finished build, for me is a toss up between Assembly Square and Parisian Restaurant.  For the process of the build itself, I enjoyed Boutique hotel a lot, and Downtown Diner would be a close second.  The Museum would be up there too as I think thats an unusual one that invites us to add more to its interior.  

You know, I’ll always have a soft spot for the Parisian restaurant, given it was my first modular and my largest set for a bit

It's super close between Downtown Diner, which got me into modulars, Boutique Hotel, which I think is prettiest and was amazing to build, Brick Bank, because my children love to play with it, and Parisian Restaurant and Detective's Office, because they fulfill so many of the great modular qualities.

Corner Garage because I've been a car enthusiast since I played Gran Turismo 3 as a child. 

Very hard to decide which one.

My top ones would be:

Boutique Hotel - overall winner for me for the uniqueness in color palette, design, and functionality.

Town Hall - significance of the building

Palace Cinema - unique design

For me, it's the Brick Bank.
I own three modulars (the others being Parisian Restaurant and Detective's Office) and they're all great, of course, but I just love the architecture of the Brick Bank. The interior is very impressive as well, with the grand chandelier. But one of my favorite features is the money in one of the laundry machines at the laundromat  

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Mitch

1) Daily Bugle

2) Sanctum Sainctorum

3) Police Station

I refuse to elaborate.

Hmmmmm, tough to choose, for me it'll have to be what I own, so 1) Assembly Square 2) Detective's Office 3) Parisian Restaurant 4) Brick Bank and 5) Police Station

Diner is cool too

Well, there are kind of three generations. I'd say, Café Corner to Palace Cinema, Parisian Restaurant to Assembly Square. Post-Assembly Square. My favourite are the middle ones. Then the other two are somewhat indifferent to me. The first ones have the nostalgia factor and the new ones are more complete and detailled builds, but I feel they lack a bit of character. The only one I'd save from the newer batch is the Hotel.

For me, its the Downtown Diner. It broke the rules, so to speak. New minifig faces, cool building techniques, as well as more modern architecture.

 

Fire Brigade. That is the one that was most lucrative for me. It was readily available at a relatively low price just before Modular collecting really took off in numbers and prices still shot up despite it being discussed on reseller forums for about a year before retirement. It was £100 in Oct/Nov 2013 with a Christmas GWP with each one, then easy selling for £300 mid 2015.

Green Grocer was my first and holds a soft spot in my heart but Brick Bank, Boutique Hotel, Parisian Restaurant and Assembly Square are great! 

For me it is the Bookshop.  It was my first one and the one that got me back into Lego again.  A close second is the Downtown Diner (the second set I got) for me it has the best build experience and a lot of interesting designs in it.  The set that I still want to get one day is the Detective Office from what I've seen and heard about it.

I'm totally not into these modular buildings, but the Parisian Restaurant has the very interesting quality that it works just as well stand-alone.

Because of that, it is the only set of this series I have ever owned.

 

9 hours ago, Erik Leppen said:

I'm totally not into these modular buildings, but the Parisian Restaurant has the very interesting quality that it works just as well stand-alone.

Because of that, it is the only set of this series I have ever owned.

 

I bought the Parisian Restaurant (my personal favorite) as a one-off myself, originally planning to use it to moc a pirate era building. But then I fell for the concept and has bought everything since.

Pet Shop for me. Was my first and I have two of them.

 

 

 

I'd have to say either assembly square or the natural history museum. Assembly square is one of my favourite because even though it is only one modular it feels like a how city kinda. All the different buildings in the one modular are really cool. On the other hand I really like the Natural history museum I find it really nice with how open it is and how the the front looks with the 2 statues. I currently don't own the natural history museum but with how much I like it I would like to pick it up sooner or later!

Gotta be the Palace Cinema or Detective's office for me

2 hours ago, Thebrickfig said:

I'd have to say either assembly square or the natural history museum. Assembly square is one of my favourite because even though it is only one modular it feels like a how city kinda. All the different buildings in the one modular are really cool. On the other hand I really like the Natural history museum I find it really nice with how open it is and how the the front looks with the 2 statues. I currently don't own the natural history museum but with how much I like it I would like to pick it up sooner or later!

Unrelated but you've got a good PFP

14 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Gotta be the Palace Cinema or Detective's office for me

Unrelated but you've got a good PFP

Thanks! Also you’re right the palace cinema is amazing! Such a different modular than the others.

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4 hours ago, Thebrickfig said:

Thanks! Also you’re right the palace cinema is amazing! Such a different modular than the others.

I think it just feels so timeless in it's design, like it can be on a shelve with LEGO sets of any era and look great

A lot of Parisian Restaurant votes, but not so many comments :P

 

For me it's a toss up between that and the Boutique Hotel. As @jus1973 mentioned, the build of Boutique is the big appeal - the way those angles work out scratches a funny part of my brain. But for pure looks, PR steals it for me as #1.