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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 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) Eric, I'm supprised with you! Arn't you from New England! Substitute Starbuck's with Dunkin Donuts and doublt the frequency if you want a more local flavor! Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) 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)
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(...) Heh. True. But then I couldn't have made the crack about Generica, and I'm in a cynical mood right now. Anyway, I don't know of too many DD's in downtown Boston, but I can think of several Starbuck's (and I don't go into Starbuck's myself, so (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) 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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I thought of building a Best Buy for lego town especially since I work there but I always had a problem with scale because if I used teh correct scale the building woould be say 150 studs wide and 100 studs deep. Extremely huge for any lego (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Real World... I don't have to have brand-name stores, but I want my town to have: More than 1 laundromat At least 2 Chinese Take-out Probably 3 pizza places An extra diner if I can fit one in (I've got 1 now) More real estate agencies than (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Are you going to have white 1x1s for those cute little folding containers they use? J (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) A lot of places near me now use black trays with clear tops- that could be done with a black 1x2 plate topped with a clear 1x2 plate! I would swear there's some set right now that has sais clear 1x2 plates... Wow, now I want to build a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) 2556 Shell Ferrari has one. (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Bi-Wing Barron, (URL) , has 2. james (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I think The B-Wing has a number of 1x2 plates in trans Yellow... Orange Chicken anyone? Eric Kingsley (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Maybe Eric Harshbarger's next sculpture can be the Best Buy price tag guy from the commercials. :) junior (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) And more pawn shops than real estate agencies. Or the place I passed in Daytona Beach once, a strip center consisting of a gun shop, a pawn shop, and a mattress store. junior (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I think we have 2 HD's here in the Bronx. I went the other direction with my town though: Used auto shops, cheap hotels, junkyards & garbage transfer stations. They zone the Bronx really well, all the above on one block with apartments & (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) And add several massively huge parking lots. (23 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I think it would be cool if many many towns all came to BrickFest 2001, and we had exaggerated the "local color". I don't see any of those type of establishment around me, but I bet we each have a local recipe for excess. (23 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thank you, I will use that! (23 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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