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LEGO released 10182 Cafe Corner in 2007, setting a new standard for large-scale modular buildings. Since then, LEGO has continued to release new structures in the modular building series — 10190 Market Street, 10185 Green Grocer, 10197 Fire Brigade, 10211 Grand Emporium, 10218 Pet Shop, and 10224 Town Hall as of 2012. Meanwhile, LEGO fans have adopted the “Cafe Corner standard” and built hundreds and hundreds of beautiful buildings that fit with the official sets. See some of the best here on The Brothers Brick.

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

UPDATE: 10197 Fire Brigade is now available from the LEGO Store online.

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In news that I strongly suspect reveals the mystery question mark in the 10194 Emerald Night announcement video, LEGO announced 10197 Fire Brigade at LEGO fan events in Germany and Portugal.

Here’s the full announcement from The LEGO Group:

10197 – Fire Brigade

Ages 16+. 2,231 pieces.

US $ 149.99; CA $ 199.99, UK £ 97.85, DE € 149.99

Build an authentic vintage fire station!

Ding ding ding! There’s a fire in town! The fire brigade drives to the scene from this detailed and realistic 1930’s fire station. Designed to fit with other modular buildings like 10182 Café Corner and 10185 Green Grocer, the station features rare LEGO® pieces and innovative construction techniques. It includes a ‘30s-style fire truck, 4 minifigures, a fire-dog, an opening station garage door, and a removable building roof for interior access. It also includes 2 fully-furnished floors with fire-fighting tools, racks for the firemen’s helmets, fire-pole, ping-pong table, kitchen with fully-stocked fridge, couch, bookshelf and a roof with a water tower and bell. Measures 14″ (35 cm) high and 10″ (25 cm) wide.

Includes a 1930’s-style fire truck, 4 minifigures and a fire-dog!

Features lots of realistic details including fire-fighting tools, racks for firemen’s helmets and even a fire-pole!

The station house features an opening station garage door and 2 fully-furnished
floors including a kitchen with fully-stocked fridge and a ping-pong table!

Remove the roof for interior access!

The roof is equipped with a water tower and bell!

Fire Brigade features rare LEGO elements including bricks and plates in dark tan, 1×1 dark red tiles, a red hot dog and the 3x6x5 Belleville® arch. It also features gold fireman’s helmets, a tan hand bag and a red sliding garage door!

Measures 14″ (35 cm) high and 10″ (25 cm) wide.

Add Fire Brigade to your LEGO® Town and combine it with other modular buildings like 10182 Café Corner and 10185 Green Grocer!

September can’t come soon enough for me, and you can guess where my second fire station will show up in October.

I’ve uploaded a full gallery of photos to Flickr:

UPDATE: Andreas Haase has photos from 1000steineland 2009, showing interior shots of the upper story:

Check out the album on 1000steine.de for more event pics from the event in Berlin.

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Sebastian Arts’ Reality Dysfunction will eat your city

Run and hide your Cafe Corner, Market Street and Green Grocer! This creepy creation built by Sebastian “Aliencat” Arts will consume all!

Side note: haha, take that Nannan, I finally blogged a Black Fantasy creation before you!

Taking back our streets from the LEGO zombie horde

BrickCon is just around the corner. In fact, if you don’t register before September 8th, the price goes up to $60 and you won’t be guaranteed personalized stuff like engraved brick badges.

My contribution to the LEGO Zombie Apocafest display we’re organizing is an auto repair shop and a fire station in a diorama that I’m currently calling “The Outbreak”:

Zombies converge on the residents of my modular buildings as they attempt to fight back. The architecture may have been the focus of my building energies for once, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t neglected some good, old-fashioned minifig action:

Please see my Outbreak photoset on Flickr for a ton of pictures.

Rocko hunkers down for the Great Panic

Rocko reveals another LEGO creation he’ll be bringing to BrickCon in a couple of months. This modular building is Rocko’s contribution to our LEGO Zombie Apocafest:

Don’t miss Rocko’s Brickshelf gallery for lots more details.

Izzo goes to town

Izzo admits that of the hundreds of LEGO creations he’s posted over the last few years, only a handful haven’t been mecha. As much as we love Izzo’s amazing robots, it’s nice to see him change things up.

His latest batch of creations includes a trio of modular buildings. My favorite is this gray building with a green roof:

Here’s Izzo’s full lineup of buildings so far:

The buildings in Britain conform to the Cafe Corner modular standard

We certainly love the airplanes that Ralph Savelsberg builds, but he’s recently on a Town kick.

His most recent buildings include iconic British buildings — a corner shop and a pub:

Here they are together with the rest of Ralph’s buildings and vehicles:

Spanish-style modular cafe by peachtree

Japanese builder peachtree (Brickshelf) has completed a Café Corner-standard building in a lovely Spanish style:

There’s so much to love about this beauty, from the awning, exterior staircase, and window details to the interior, ivy-covered walls, and mottled roof.

(Via Brick Town Talk.)

Enjoying fish & chips with Ralph Savelsberg

Following up on his delicious Curry House, Ralph Savelsberg adds a purveyer of fish and chips to his modular street:

Here they are together:

Ah-choo! I think I’ve caught the Town bug.

Whether it’s the World War Z diorama I’m working on or the fact that I just finished building the amazing 10185 Green Grocer (favorite LEGO set of the year so far), I have increasing interest in LEGO Town creations.

This means I’m spending a lot more time on Brick Town Talk, an excellent LEGO blog about City and Town creations. I spent a couple hours there recently looking for (and finding) inspiration for future projects.

Particularly inspiring is Tom Snellen‘s large layout. Here are the two wonderful buildings featured on Brick Town Talk:

If you’re interested in trying your hand at LEGO Town, a good place to start may be the Building Tips section on LEGO.com, which includes several videos featuring Café Corner and Green Grocer designer Jamie Berard:

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Enjoying Indian take-away with Ralph Savelsberg

I have Indian food at least two to three times a week (at least in part because the cafeterias at work regularly serve a selection of curries), and it’s the one cuisine I could eat exclusively for the rest of my life.

This wonderful English curryhouse by Ralph Savelsberg (Flickr) makes me crave baingan bharta or okra masala from Bengal Tiger:

The lettering is perfect! Ralph’s modular house would make an excellent addition to any city street.

Buy LEGO: Complete modular street now available from the LEGO Shop

All three of the modular building sets are now available from the LEGO Store online.

Left to right, that’s:

Yay! But don’t you find the gaps in the product numbers intriguing? I do…

Mini 10185 Green Grocer

Chiukeung from Hong Kong minimizes the latest Green Grocer LEGO set. The model uses over 450 lego pieces and took two weeks to design and build. It looks very nice, and check out the mini renditions of Cafe Corner and Market Street below: