Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion

[Lion King]

On 9/18/2024 at 1:17 AM, Roebuck said:

10350 $230 3266 parts

This info was found on Discord channel, thanks to Roebuck.

We don’tknow if it’s true so just take it wiht grain of salt.

Meanwhile, I could not find htat info on other websites.

[street87]

I'm afraid we won't get a Post Office for this years Modular. I doubt that Lego will release another one in the same year, despite its a different theme. The two Modular buildings the comunity requested were Police Station and the Museum. And they are 3 years apart. If Lego keeps this, giving us what we want every 3 years, I'll be pretty dissapointed.

[B234]

Hello, maybe I am going to buy the Lego 71043 Hogwarts castle. Is it true there are 2 versions? Both have different kind of grey towers. Thank you.

 

[arnoldtblumberg]

6 hours ago, street87 said:

I'm afraid we won't get a Post Office for this years Modular. I doubt that Lego will release another one in the same year, despite its a different theme. The two Modular buildings the comunity requested were Police Station and the Museum. And they are 3 years apart. If Lego keeps this, giving us what we want every 3 years, I'll be pretty dissapointed.

To be fair, the "we" isn't totally across the board. There are plenty of us that never wanted a police station. A post office would be very nice (I modded my police station into a post office), and it feels like a hospital would be a good addition. But so far they seem to have a nice range of ideas over the history of the series.

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, B234 said:

Hello, maybe I am going to buy the Lego 71043 Hogwarts castle. Is it true there are 2 versions? Both have different kind of grey towers. Thank you.

 

I think you need to ask that quesiton in Wizarding World thread. Unless you’re looking for Univeristy just like @RichardGoring posted a previous page. 

By t he way, welcome to Eurobricks!

[B234]

54 minutes ago, Lion King said:

I think you need to ask that quesiton in Wizarding World thread. Unless you’re looking for Univeristy just like @RichardGoring posted a previous page. 

By t he way, welcome to Eurobricks!

👍

[lifeinplastic]

15 hours ago, arnoldtblumberg said:

To be fair, the "we" isn't totally across the board. There are plenty of us that never wanted a police station. A post office would be very nice (I modded my police station into a post office), and it feels like a hospital would be a good addition. But so far they seem to have a nice range of ideas over the history of the series.

Yes - likewise not all of us are clamouring for a Post Office. I really don't understand why it has so much appeal to be honest - Post Offices here aren't that exciting venues and most don't conform to a specific type of building. I don't therefore see what a Post Office could offer that would necessarily provide something we don't really have already in Lego. I certainly won't complain when a Modular Post Office is inevitably made - for me the modular line is all about what the building can offer (e.g. past modulars have provided either a good supply of bricks in a new or previously limited colour like the olive green of the Parisian Restaurant, or unique pieces like the mirror in the Detective's Office or some form of useful printed tiles). If a Post Office can offer this then that will be great but I'd rather have something we don't have - for example, an opticians would give us the chance of having a printed tile of a Snellen test. Part of the appeal of the Jazz Club for me was the double bass piece and the printed signage. Whatever we end up with, I hope there are some useful parts which make it worth spending a large amount of money on. In the early years of the modular it was a helpful way of increasing the amount of bricks in your collection that were of a more neutral colour to help build more realistic towns. Nowadays I have far more bricks and we can readily order bulk parts via Pick 'A' Brick so the modular buildings really need to have enough unique pieces (including minifigures) to make it worthwhile paying for as well as being an enjoyable building experience. 

[Hippocampe]

I totally agree with you:  while several post offices have a classic exterior design and represent an important amenity in any city, the playability aspect and interior decor ? Shelves, counter, boxes, letters…about the same as a library (although I love them in real life !) A hospital with all the medical instruments, a cafeteria, a pharmacy, an ER and OR and ICU, rooms, offices…so much to build and so many possible stories ! What about a school ? A gymnasium, a school class, a chem lab, a library, a small store to buy school supplies, a concierge office, a principal office, a geography class with globes and maps all over the walls… Or a media center with a television set on the lower floor - the cameras, rooms for make up and suites for the stars, news bulletin desk , a newspaper in another floor with all the presses, desks for journalists and on the top floor: a radio station… I’m dreaming !

[arnoldtblumberg]

1 hour ago, Hippocampe said:

I totally agree with you:  while several post offices have a classic exterior design and represent an important amenity in any city, the playability aspect and interior decor ? Shelves, counter, boxes, letters…about the same as a library (although I love them in real life !) A hospital with all the medical instruments, a cafeteria, a pharmacy, an ER and OR and ICU, rooms, offices…so much to build and so many possible stories ! What about a school ? A gymnasium, a school class, a chem lab, a library, a small store to buy school supplies, a concierge office, a principal office, a geography class with globes and maps all over the walls… Or a media center with a television set on the lower floor - the cameras, rooms for make up and suites for the stars, news bulletin desk , a newspaper in another floor with all the presses, desks for journalists and on the top floor: a radio station… I’m dreaming !

That all sounds awesome. :)

[Lion King]

11 hours ago, Hippocampe said:

I totally agree with you:  while several post offices have a classic exterior design and represent an important amenity in any city, the playability aspect and interior decor ? Shelves, counter, boxes, letters…about the same as a library (although I love them in real life !) A hospital with all the medical instruments, a cafeteria, a pharmacy, an ER and OR and ICU, rooms, offices…so much to build and so many possible stories ! What about a school ? A gymnasium, a school class, a chem lab, a library, a small store to buy school supplies, a concierge office, a principal office, a geography class with globes and maps all over the walls… Or a media center with a television set on the lower floor - the cameras, rooms for make up and suites for the stars, news bulletin desk , a newspaper in another floor with all the presses, desks for journalists and on the top floor: a radio station… I’m dreaming !

Sometimes, post offices offer warning pares for gifts if people need to mail gifts over to thier loved ones. Like birthday or Christmas.  It would be interesting how they use some pars as bubble wraps in lego form!

[Roebuck]

https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-modular-building-2025-prediction/

[Lion King]

His prediciton is pretty interesting but i will not quote on it .

[FrkW]

I'd love a  residential building, especially if it comes with a small shop. Birch Books is one of my favourites, and he's right that there's a distinct lack of housing in the city, especially the last couple of years. 

[Mellish]

Well a post office might only have one use, but it is quite common, at least in my part of the UK, to have a post office within other shops, often a hardware store. 
 

so like some that have posted, I was never that keen on having a post office, but as my Lego town has developed it is now the building that is missing. 
 

Like I posted a year ago, this is what I would be keen on. 

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I really like the designer programme, hardware store and it’s cluttered inside, I can see this possible in an official Lego set as similar to what was in the Old Fish Store ideas set. Also great for adding too with other parts you have that don’t have a home. 
 

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-2/656/Hardware-Store-and-Apartment-Renovation

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The Jazz club was not for me due to the bright red colour, and the museum was too big for my set up. So it has been 3 years since I last purchased a modular. I am hoping for a corner module that is cute and small towny, like birch books (my favourite).

The residential rumour is interesting, do others see this as a full use of a corner modular? I can’t personally .

[RichardGoring]

The modular GWP description has leaked and suggests it's a newsstand. No there's a fan mock up on Reddit, based on the description. Could point towards a Post Office or Newspaper building, but it's also generic enough to go with anything. I wouldn't link the Museum's GWP to the Museum, as a hot dog van is also pretty generic.

[Lion King]

19 minutes ago, RichardGoring said:

The modular GWP description has leaked and suggests it's a newsstand. No there's a fan mock up on Reddit, based on the description. Could point towards a Post Office or Newspaper building, but it's also generic enough to go with anything. I wouldn't link the Museum's GWP to the Museum, as a hot dog van is also pretty generic.

Interesting…. We ahve newspaper stand in Police Sttion.

[BrickFit26]

Interesting analysis by jayabrickblog. I've long wanted a residential modular to house the minifgures that are apart of the line.

[hikouki]

Residential corner building?

Maybe it will have a post office or magazine shop in the ground floor?

What are the top three businesses/ services that are missing in this town? Clinic? Post Office? School?

[Agent 86]

An apartment building would be great. I’m guessing … 4 to 6 apartments at most? Depending upon whether the ground floor is dedicated to one or more shops. 

[Lion King]

If it is an apartment building, I kinda hope. It would have a breezeway that leads to alley.

[jus1973]

The newsstand GWP is an odd one, as most of the others have been either vehicles or at least mobile in some way.  A newsstand is, as far as I can tell, a fixed object.  Since we have had one in the police station, I’m not sure I’m too bothered about acquiring it.  I missed the food truck with the museum, and that I did want.  

As for the building itself, then I think we’re all expecting it to be a corner, if the pattern continues.  I’m not fussed about a post office, but would love a small corner grocery store.  The sort of place that you’d find at the end of a traditional UK Victorian or Edwardian terrace.  You could have residential upstairs which would add to our limited housing stock.  

Let’s be honest though, most of us will by it, regardless of what it is.

[Lion King]

2 hours ago, jus1973 said:

The newsstand GWP is an odd one, as most of the others have been either vehicles or at least mobile in some way.  A newsstand is, as far as I can tell, a fixed object.  Since we have had one in the police station, I’m not sure I’m too bothered about acquiring it.  I missed the food truck with the museum, and that I did want.  

As for the building itself, then I think we’re all expecting it to be a corner, if the pattern continues.  I’m not fussed about a post office, but would love a small corner grocery store.  The sort of place that you’d find at the end of a traditional UK Victorian or Edwardian terrace.  You could have residential upstairs which would add to our limited housing stock.  

Let’s be honest though, most of us will by it, regardless of what it is.

I’m not surprised if modular GWP is simply a newsstand.  Several pages ago, everyone sepculated that  natural history museum could have olive car, school bus. But some of us wished for flower cart or window cleaner’s lift/ladder instead of vehicles. I don’t think it’s odd to me.  It’s just nice to have modular add-ons. 

[RichardGoring]

The thing about modular add-ons that are structures is where to put them? Will that mean they have a large space on the actual modular to accept it (which could lead to a Ninjago City Markets issue of a large blank space that's quite disappointing)? Or does it float free, and you them have to mock up something to hold it and make it fit on the modular street, which is then a lot more pieces?

No real preference either way, and I'm sure it will be good. Just pondering the considerations/draw backs of a structure compared to something that can be very standalone.

[crowe-k]

On 9/22/2024 at 2:54 PM, Mellish said:

Well a post office might only have one use, but it is quite common, at least in my part of the UK, to have a post office within other shops, often a hardware store. 
 

so like some that have posted, I was never that keen on having a post office, but as my Lego town has developed it is now the building that is missing. 
 

Like I posted a year ago, this is what I would be keen on. 

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I really like the designer programme, hardware store and it’s cluttered inside, I can see this possible in an official Lego set as similar to what was in the Old Fish Store ideas set. Also great for adding too with other parts you have that don’t have a home. 
 

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-2/656/Hardware-Store-and-Apartment-Renovation

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The Jazz club was not for me due to the bright red colour, and the museum was too big for my set up. So it has been 3 years since I last purchased a modular. I am hoping for a corner module that is cute and small towny, like birch books (my favourite).

The residential rumour is interesting, do others see this as a full use of a corner modular? I can’t personally .

The instructions are on Rebrickable....I have been saving up parts to build this set sooner rather than later. It looks fantastic!

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-164038/Rich_Herbert/hardware-store-and-apartment-renovation/#details

[jolobas]

we will be getting a townhouse, jaysbrickblog was spot on