Comments on: 10197 Fire Brigade, vintage LEGO fire station, coming Sept. 2009 [News]

By: onetruescotty

onetruescotty — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:52:56 +0000

This set is amazing, just F.Y.I.

Also: stop complaining about the flag and brickbuild your own if its such a big butthurt to you.

By: mbellishments

mbellishments — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:47:15 +0000

A direct quote from Wikipedia regarding colors, etc:
A challenge faced by the designers of these sets is that they are not able to work with the full palette of Lego bricks and colors ever produced when designing. Instead they are limited to the bricks and colors currently in production by Lego at the time of the product design. As an example, for Café Corner, the designer wanted to include a bicycle piece in the set, but at the time, the machine that made bicycle pieces was broken. It had to be fixed in order for the designer to be able to include the piece in his design.[2] With Market Street, the fan designer was limited to only the bricks and color combinations available as ‘active components,’ meaning bricks that were already in production. No new bricks could be introduced.[3]

There have been scheduling challenges faced in the design of the Modular Houses sets. For the Green Grocer set, the designer believed that the set could have benefited from another design iteration before release. The detailed nature of these sets requires a greater amount of design time than a normal Lego set. It is expected that future sets in the series will not suffer from such schedule pressures.[9]

During the design of Café Corner (and presumably with the other sets in the series), the designer had to work closely with the building instructions team due to some of the “unorthodox techniques” that he used “which have not been tried before in official LEGO sets.” [2]

The reason interiors were not included in the first two models in the series, Café Corner and Market Street, was because they could not be seen in the pictures included on the packaging. Once the success of Modular Houses sets had been proven with these first two sets, for the third set, Green Grocer, the designer was allowed to include interior details in each of the floors. As a result, many of the interior details of Green Grocer are not visible on the box and are only discovered while building the set.[9]

By: gptee

gptee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:58:45 +0000

does this look familiar to you? :)

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3939735

By: Thanel

Thanel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:15:37 +0000

Refrigerator!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:19:01 +0000

For all of you subscribed to get comments by e-mail, I’ve added a link to photos from 1000steineland in Berlin, showing the interior of the upper story. Yes, there’s a ping-pong table.

By: PonchoPenguin

PonchoPenguin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:01:21 +0000

^All of which are kind of expensive.

By: Puddleglum

Puddleglum — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:01:11 +0000

@legomason: Think so? Dark blue 1×4 bricks come in large quantities in 3 sets (Cafe Corner, Market Street, VW Beetle), and they still sell for 26 cents each on average.

By: legomason

legomason — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:47:04 +0000

If you wait a little, the prices Puddleglum refers to will come way down due to the influx of supply of these pieces.

By: gptee

gptee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:33 +0000

well i dun mind a fire station for a modular building just as long it’s different from the city theme fire station. fire brigade is packed with loads of stuffs and details. i am buying 2 copies of this and make them sit side by side so it will look more impressive. :-D

hopefully lego will continue giving us more modular buildings of the cafe corner standard. :-)

btw, i think cafe corner and green grocer can be european – if i am not wrong. fire brigade looks NYC.

By: nxtquy

nxtquy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:43:27 +0000

^Agreed. You’d be surprised at how seemingly inexpensive sets were just a few years ago. Though it doesn’t have as many pieces as Green Grocer, I prefer these colors over the sand green.

By: Rocko

Rocko — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:22:37 +0000

I have to admit I would have preferred a more Ghostbusters looking firehouse but this is very nice too. Also, it’s a must buy because of the price to parts ratio. Everything else seems to have gotten way more expensive this year.

By: Puddleglum

Puddleglum — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:09:52 +0000

@Brickwares: Sure, if ALL you want are the dark tan and dark red elements, BrickLinking them will be cheaper than buying the set. But you have to be willing to pay hefty per-part prices for rare part/color combinations. (For example, dark tan 1×2 and dark red 1×4 bricks both run about 30 cents a pop on BrickLink). I would have a hard time paying, for example, $50 for 200 parts out of a 2200-part set that cost $150. Not to mention the shipping costs that can add up quick if you have to place multiple orders. But I guess some folks’ collections have grown so massive that they only want to grow it by BrickLinking the exact parts they want.

Despite their high price tags, I think the CC-series of sets (and MMV to boot) offer some of the best value out of LEGO’s entire lineup. Great per-part prices, and you get large quantities of useful parts and rare colors that are difficult to amass without lots of expensive BrickLink orders.

By: Parax

Parax — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:15:24 +0000

Would look great with Ecto1 parked out side…

By: Brickwares

Brickwares — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:18:56 +0000

Seems a strange choice as the long awaited 3rd set. Agree with many comments about it’s lack of continuity with the first 2. Definitely doesn’t look like it would be on the same block as the other two.

I’m confused by the number of comments saying that it would be great for the coloured brick etc. Surely it would be MUCH cheaper to hit bricklink and buy a load of that colour?

By: The Mad Physicist

The Mad Physicist — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:08:06 +0000

Yes, it looks very American and yes, LEGO do seem to do rather a lot of fire stations and the like, and yes it does have rather a lot of grey, but I for one think that this is a great set. The truck looks good, the set has got some great parts and it’s great to see an official set with numbers built with SNOT work! This has shot to the top of my wish-list for this year (displacing the merry-go-round).