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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 19:09:46 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Erik Olson writes:
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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. ;)
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> Real World...
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> I don't have to have brand-name stores, but I want my town to have:
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> 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
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> If I'm feeling really mean, I'll build a tax consultant.
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> The hard part is illustrating what the shop does on a tiny little sign out
> front.
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
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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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| (...) 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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