Every building in my town has no back :-D

Me too :-D

4554 is a nice station, but it shares a complaint that I have about a lot of recent Lego buildings - no back.

RECENT???

It's since 80s that Lego buildings have no back!

After the introduction of minifigs, the buildings have been made without back to show interior details and to play with minifigs inside. So, this is part of Lego world. Cars with only one seat are part of Lego world too... for this reason I don't like 8-wide trucks. They are more detailed but too big, compared not only to other cars but also to trains, stations, buildings,... (the scale is a complex problem, because the minifig itself isn't well-scaled...)

Moreover, I build only buildings without back because they require less bricks... I think also TLG thinks the same way!

I agree almost completely with Mr. Grevious. These town sets look very good and are going in the right direction.

I haven't been collecting the town/city sets, but I start to regret it.

I even like some of them so much that I considered buying them for my kids (who have not been born yet...).

Okay, I'm obviously on my own regarding the backless buildings.

My interest is more in trains than town, so most of my buildings are intended to add realism to the train layout.

The creator houses are oversized for me to feet in my city, so I will downsize them too, and will have some additional parts to make other ones, yes!

The beauty of the Creator sets is that they give you the parts and you can let your imagination run riot. There are instructions for several models, but you don't have to follow them, and if you don't fancy one big house, you should be able to get two smaller houses out of the one set. Or better still, pool a few of them and build a whole street. I particularly like the new tan (or to use Lego's official name, "brick yellow") set as for me it's a more realistic colour for city houses (and the dark blue car is nice too). Maybe next year we'll get one in dark orange, which for me is the closest we have to red brick.

When it originally came out, I wasn't interested in it, because I was more of a Spacefan as a child, but I think that LEGO's Paradisa concept was going in the right direction. Yes, it had a lot of palm trees and pink building blocks, horses and water sports machines, but on the other hand it was all about -civilians-, such as caf

I agree. If there were a new Paradisa line, I would definitely buy. My (growing) town has, if I recall correctly, 2 women.