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Re: What every lego town is missing....
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:17:34 GMT
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While I do agree that these are great models (I thought it was a picture of a real home depot in  the brickshelf gallery thumbnail), I have to
disagree that every lego town needs one of these.  I typically model dense urban areas where these stores would look out of place.  If every LEGO town
had one of these, what would we have?-  oh yeah a model of the real world. ;)

-chris

Michael Perri wrote:

I can't take credit for this but I just needed to point it out because I
like these designs and I even thought of doing the same thing too.  I think
this is what would complete any lego town.
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=774

-Mike



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: What every lego town is missing....
 
The real world, no kidding. I have been trying to figure out how to model America (as oposed to Europe) for my train layout and it just hit me. It is really a sad commentary on us (US) but it still works! I have a Circuit City almost complete and a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
  Re: What every lego town is missing....
 
(...) Ok then, replace Home Depot with Starbuck's. About 5 of them, if your layout is more than 4 blocks. Welcome to Generica! eric (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
  Re: What every lego town is missing....
 
(...) Dense urban areas... There are 3 Home Depot stores smack in the middle of "Impossible To Zone For" Queens, NY. I was shocked to discover I am just 0.7 miles away from the latest one. Happily, we also got a Target as part of the Big Box (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
  Re: What every lego town is missing....
 
(...) I'd disagree that every real town needs sprawl-marts. My LEGO town, Abston, doesn't issue building permits for them, or for McChoke-n-pukes, so you won't see me modeling such stains :-) Nice models, though. Amy (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)

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  What every lego town is missing....
 
I can't take credit for this but I just needed to point it out because I like these designs and I even thought of doing the same thing too. I think this is what would complete any lego town. (URL) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)  

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