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I really love the modular line and hope they continue churning out more and more until we can no longer breathe without fear of inhaling a Lego brick!

Slightly concerned about the colours though. One of the best things about the modular houses are that the colours are quite 'normal'. I think a yellow house would look far too garish and out of place with the CC and Green Grocer. I hope they mean the lighter yellow colour, which we need more of. The standard lego head colour is too bright and only really looks good as minifig skin - not the colour of a wall.

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I really love the modular line and hope they continue churning out more and more until we can no longer breathe without fear of inhaling a Lego brick!

Slightly concerned about the colours though. One of the best things about the modular houses are that the colours are quite 'normal'. I think a yellow house would look far too garish and out of place with the CC and Green Grocer. I hope they mean the lighter yellow colour, which we need more of. The standard lego head colour is too bright and only really looks good as minifig skin - not the colour of a wall.

I thought the same thing about using yellow as a main color for a modular building- TOO BRIGHT! Here's my take on it and it actually looks pretty neat if you use enough grey to break it up a little:

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nr.10211 the name is Grand Emporium

Can you say how many figs are in this set?Is there any car inspired by 30

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Maybe the 'yellow' that legomilk is refering to is actually tan? Cafe Corner didn't include too much tan, only the little tower is fully tan, so strictly we don't have a tan building yet.

This is possible. IIRC, in "LEGO Factory" Tan is called "Dark Yellow". Still, if they use regular LEGO, I'm sure it will be tastefully done.

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Indeed, I wouldn't be worried at all about the design. I haven't really seen a bad exclusive recently. But the point that you bring up about the yellows could be more serious, although the worries about color differences of the dark red in Fire Brigade also turned out to be premature.

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What is an Emparium/Emporium exactly?

Thank you for the news Legomilk. :thumbup::classic:

Did you give Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen a cookie on Legoworld? :tongue::grin::wink:

I have looked in the designers corner, but I have nothing seen about something like this.

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Ok, so I may be half right. Old school department store, like a Myers, David Jones or even ones that have closed down like Cox Foys or Birks (these were only in South Austraila. Yes, I'm a bit of retail history nut.

One thing, if this is a full blown department store it would have to have merchandise, plus it would have to be very very big to be called that.

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Yes, it's Emporium not Emparium - which is just a fancy way of saying 'store'.

An old-fashioned department store would be nice.

One thing, if this is a full blown department store it would have to have merchandise, plus it would have to be very very big to be called that.

At 2100+ pieces I imagine it will be in scale with the other modular sets of 3 or 2 floors - the size will probably be adjusted by adding extra middle floors.

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What is an Emparium/Emporium exactly?

It is a store/marketplace offering a wide variety of goods.

I only have the first two buildings that were released, so it looks like I'll have a lot of catching up to do! With the way that the modular sets seem to be improving set by set, I am very anxious to see this one. Why can't LEGO give everyone a one year break so we can restock our wallets?!

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Why can't LEGO give everyone a one year break so we can restock our wallets?!

Yeah, but can you imagine how much we'd whine then!!! Besides, who's to say that if the Modulars went on a hiatus, they would ever return? *shudder at the thought!*

As to the colours - why are you guys being so hard on bright colours used for modular houses? :cry_sad: I personally think that those can add a lot of depth of variety if used appropriately... Our Flower Shop was in yellow and I'd absolutely love to build a reddish (classic red, that is) modular house sometime later on!

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No, I think just a big department store. If you go to the Myers web site (Myers.com.au) , into their 'about us' pages you'll find an image of a 1930 Australian department store. Its big and oh yeah looks a little like CC with its tower on top.

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Hoorrayy! A new corner building to complete the street. The only negative aspect: I must save money to buy the Green Grocer before it is discontinued! I was very fortunate with Cafe Corner. I bought it some days before it wasn't available anymore. I didn't know that its production had been ceased. To make sure I get what I want, I'd like to buy the Green Grocer as quickly as I can. At least the Fire Brigade is nothing that has attracted my interest. I don't like it so much. I'm not going to buy it. I hope I won't change my mind as soon as it isn't available any more.

So I'm looking forward to seeing some real pictures of the set legomilk has announced! Thanks legomilk for that information!

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Yes, Danim, thats the picture I was talking about. I can remember going to that store to buy lego in the very late 70's, it met the wrecking ball and now the Myer Centre has taken its place, pitty it was a beautiful building.

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