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Re: What every lego town is missing....
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lugnet.town
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:36:25 GMT
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> In lugnet.build, Christopher Tracey writes:
> > 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. ;)
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 houses
A phone parlor and a travel agency or two
If I'm feeling really mean, I'll build a tax consultant.
The hard part is illustrating what the shop does on a tiny little sign out
front.
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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 (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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