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    Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Christopher Tracey
   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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Steven Barile
     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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Michael Perri
      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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
     
          Re: What every lego town is missing.... —William Brumbach
      (...) Maybe Eric Harshbarger's next sculpture can be the Best Buy price tag guy from the commercials. :) junior (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Erik Olson
      (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Jeff Johnston
      (...) Are you going to have white 1x1s for those cute little folding containers they use? J (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
     
          Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Eric Joslin
       (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
      
           Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Frank Filz
        (...) 2556 Shell Ferrari has one. (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
      
           Re: What every lego town is missing.... —James Simpson
        (...) Bi-Wing Barron, (URL) , has 2. james (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
      
           Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Eric Kingsley
       (...) I think The B-Wing has a number of 1x2 plates in trans Yellow... Orange Chicken anyone? Eric Kingsley (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
     
          Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Erik Olson
      (...) Thank you, I will use that! (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —William Brumbach
     (...) 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 (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Erik Olson
     (...) 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. (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
   
        Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Eric Joslin
     (...) Ok then, replace Home Depot with Starbuck's. About 5 of them, if your layout is more than 4 blocks. Welcome to Generica! eric (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Eric Kingsley
      (...) 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) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
     
          Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Eric Joslin
      (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Tim Culberson
      (...) And add several massively huge parking lots. (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
   
        Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Erik Olson
     (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Jonathan Lopes
     (...) 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 & (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
   
        Re: What every lego town is missing.... —Amy Hughes
   (...) 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 (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
 

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