WORST TO FIRST: Ranking All 18 LEGO Modular Buildings! (2007-2023)
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- I've teamed up with my friends, Shy and Josh, to determine which is the best (and worst) LEGO modular! Let me know your ranking in the comments!
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I don’t care what anyone says my Mount Rushmore is
1 Parisian restaurant
2 detectives office
3 green grocer
4 assembly square
Because Market Street was NOT a LEGO-designed modular. It was a fan-based design that was part of the sort-lived Factory theme. It's like that cousin no one talks about LOL
Love this collaborative ranking with Shy and Josh :) These have always been setting a new bar every year for the first 10 years (2007 - 2017). There have been some "plateau" releases recently but the developers have never failed to deliver new types of detail techniques.
Nice set but not comparable to a creator expert modular. It feels more like a regular creator 3 in 1 building but upsized
I think Parisian Restaurant is one of the best. I put it in my personal top 3. Especially to build. There are so many smart building Techniques. With the walls build sideways, That unique roof, Those poles at the front. It looks great. The color combination is in my opinion one of the best and unique. It might not have the wow factor when you see it compared to some of the later ones. But if you pay more attention there is so much going on. And I also feel like Parisian Restaurant put the bar higher and made a new standard. I think that without Parisian Restaurant. in the modular evolution. You would not have something like Boutique Hotel. I mean those lego Technic pieces to use as a decoration. The car Mud flaps to make those round things at the top. Those little panels around those pillars combined with Star Wars Droid pieces to make those arches. I mean seriously how can this modular not be higher. I think it is the most clever building of them all.
Josh has no right to be this funny and nearly steal the show
He elevated the video to another level! Haha
These 3 are a great combo for Modular discussion. So entertaining ❤🎉
😊😊😊 a good way to start the year!!!
The crossover we never deserved, but absolutely needed… Well done! 😊
Haha thanks Matt!!!
The detective office looks great in my opinion. It reminds of small town store fronts.
Having been a day one buyer of every modular, the cafe corner and especially green grocer are criminally under placed on this list. Green grocer was such a landmark, building it redefined what Lego could be for me
Going off our rating rubric accounting for interior, exterior, purpose, story… where would you put them? Take away the set’s impact on the modular line. Comment the list… we want to see them.
What is your list
Yes, The Police Station is so awesome.This video made me feel better about taking so long to build it. There are so many details!! LOL
My ratings: Exterior (worth 2x points) / Interior + Back / Building Experience / Play fun
19: Market Street 1/1/1/1 = 10 points
18: Cafe Corner 5/1/2/1 = 26 points
17: Pet Shop 4/3/4/3 = 36 points
16: Fire Brigade 4/4/4/4 = 40 points
15: Town Hall 5/4/3/4 = 42 points
14: Grand Emporium 5/3/5/4 = 44 points
13: Green Grocer 7/3/5/3 = 50 points
12: Palace Cinema 10/3/3/4 = 60 points
11: Sanctum Sanctorium = 6/7/6/7 = 64 points
10: Corner Garage = 6/5/9/7 = 66 points
9: Downtown Diner = 5/9/9/6 = 68 points
8: Jazz Club = 8/7/8/5 = 72 points
7: Police Station = 7/7/8/8 = 74 points
6: Book Store = 9/7/8/4 = 74 points
5: Brick Bank = 7/7/7/9 = 74 points
4: Boutique Hotel = 8/9/9/5 = 78 points
3: Detective Office = 6/9/8/10 = 78 points
2: Parisian Restaurant = 10/9/8/5 = 84 points
1: Assembly Square = 9/10/10/7 = 90 points
I have no idea why these people are so obsessed with the story lines. These work best as architectural sets and sets like the detective office are basically ruined by play features that nobody uses.
Play features are kinda dumb, yeah.
Oooo this will be fun
This is so phenomenal ❤ excellent work by all 3 of you 👍
Josh’s commentary 😂 is next level.
Just getting into LEGO after watching so many LEGO CZcamsrs. Please do more of these Collabs!
Together with the bloopers reel from Shy, this is next-level content from you all. Josh, you're killin' in. Keep up the great work team. 🍻
I think Senior LEGO designer and a fixture on the LEGO Master show, Jamie Berard might be upset that most of his models are ranked at the bottom.
Josh is so underrated, every time I see his sub count it baffles me how it's not higher
Agree 100%. Hrs my favorite in the Lego community. Hands down.
Green grocer, Grand emporium, Parisian restaurant,and assembly square are in best of my list even though assembly square is the only one I have I just like how those 4 look
As a standalone set, the Diner is by far and away my favourite, however it doesn't really fit with the era of the other modulars. Maybe with enough of that era models, you could have an entire street of that era and people's opinions would change.
On a different note, I think you should add the BL designer program Lego store into the list, as I'd consider that a proper modular, fits perfectly with them, no ip influence and not a totally different idea like ninjago city etc. It would be a nice bonus to see.
"Haven't you seen, 'You Got Mail'?" -- I'd love to see the analytics on how many people are going to get that AOL reference
And the surprise to me was the Joshclub Modular. While it certainly had a bad rap, it managed to pull the strings enough to groove it's way to the top. Bravo 👏
I am so excited
Ranking the sets _in toto_ is tough, because there’s the display value, the building experience, the build techniques, and the parts, and in many cases those are unrelated to one another.
But just considering display value, I think Palace Cinema is my #1, and I don’t think anything is gonna bump it anytime soon. I only have room to display 3-4 of the modular buildings, so I have to unbuild older ones periodically. I normally unbuild the oldest modular when I need to make more space; Palace Cinema is the only one that has broken that pattern, and it’s still built while several newer modulars have been disassembled or are due soon [I’ve got 5 unbuilt in my backlog, plus the Natural History Museum when I can afford it].
At the other end, Brick Bank and Market Street had the shortest display runs for me, by far.
When I got Market Street, I had neither the space nor the inclination to keep Lego sets on display. At that point, the only set I had kept on display for any length of time was the UCS Y-Wing. So it honestly didn’t even occur to me to keep it built for long-but I don’t think I would’ve, even now. Great set, but it’s more of a play set than a display set.
The story in Brick Bank is fun and the build is awesome, but it’s one of the least-interesting modulars to display, IMHO. Most of what’s really great about it is hidden inside, and even the stained glass windows aren’t much to see with the roof on (unless you install lights). It was an easy decision to unbuild it instead of Pet Shop, Palace Cinema, Parisian Restaurant, or Detective’s Office.
(The other reason Palace Cinema is still built is that it’s not very exciting as a parts pack. So I haven’t had any particular desire to unbuild it competing with my desire to keep it on display.
I started collecting when I saw there is not only the Cafe Corner but also a second one available. So, I was lucky to get all modulars from the Lego shop. And the modulars belong to the few sets that made it together with me to the US when we moved from Europe.
As a 15yr old, I hope to also be well recognised in the Lego community on CZcams in the near future as I'm growing my collection and my love for Lego(And my YT channel). I just want to give appreciation to all the Lego fans and content creators out there.
I absolutely loving josh in this episode
here is my ranking (in my opinion worst-first(value not included))
18. Market Street 1/2.5/1/3 = 7.5/20
17. Pet Shop 2/3.2/1/2.5 = 8.7/20 }SETS THAT I LIKE THE LEAST
16. Grand Emporium 1.6/3/1/4 = 9.6/20
15. Café Corner 1/5/1/4.5 = 11.5/20
14. Bookshop 3.6/3.8/2/2.1 = 11.5/20
13. Palace Cinema 2.1/4/1.5/5 = 12.6/20 }SETS I DISLIKE BUT STILL LIKE
12. Boutique Hotel 5/3/1/4 = 13/20
11. Downtown Diner 3.7/3/2/4.5 = 13.2/20
10. Fire Brigade 3.2/4.8/1/5 = 14/20
9. Jazz Club 4.65/4.5/1.1/4.2 = 14.45
8. Corner Garage 3.5/4/2/5 = 14.5/20 }SETS I LIKE THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE TOP 5
7. Green Grocer 3.8/5/1/5 = 14.8/20
6. Town Hall 2.7/3.9/3.5/5 = 15.1/20
5. Detective's Office 4/3.7/5/2.5 = 15.2/20
4. Police Station 4.1/4/4.3/4 = 16.4/20
3. Brick Bank 3.9/4/5/4.6 = 17.5/20 }TOP 5 FAV MODULARS
2. Parisian Restaurant 4.8/5/4/4.5 = 18.3/20
1. Assembly Square 4.7/4.9/4/5 = 18.6/20
i have some of the newer sets down low because some of them i don't see a story from and/or its really difficult to place it in your city without any gaps between buildings which doesn't look so great to be honest, while some very old sets are quite high because they look amazing no matter how old they are, they are still really nice to look at. I'm mostly disappointed in Grand Emporium, while it is a requirement because everyone needs clothes and bowls for their homes, its just the lack of interior when we look at green grocer which came out 2 years before it, it has way more detail and its mostly on 1 floor, while everything in Grand Emporium could do the same job on 1 floor but it spread out on 3 floors leaving way too much empty space.
[EDIT]: i gave Market Street a high ranking for requirement because if you think about it, nothing is nicer than the freshest products, and with Market Street minifigs can get the freshest products
Detectives office and fire brigade that low ? 😮
Couldn’t disagree more with at least half of this list, especially the Green Grocer, Detectives Office, Fire Brigade and Bookshop. The first 3 should be so much higher and the Bookshop in 17th place imo. Only Market Street is worse.
Bookshop is the most "filler" of all the modulars...And calling it a bookshop is laughable.
The fact that only Market Street is worse (the first ever modular; designed 15+ years ago by some dude) is really saying something
I have assembly square, boutique hotel and the bookshop, theyre all great and i cant wait to get the jazz club.
I started buying modulars In November 2021, I was all caught up by The end of 2022. I pieced together Café Corner, half of the Green Grocer, & Market Street. I also replaced 90% of the gray bricks in the Fire Brigade.
You could probably slowly scratch build or alt build a Market Street. 98% regular bricks. There are a couple of ususual elements that you could make substitutes for
Really like that new modular but I have a feeling in the original design of the Jazz Club modular, the 2nd attached building was a bar not a pizza shop. But then lego corporate stepped in and said it cannot be bar, so the designer changed it to a pizza shop (altering the colors a bit as well). Evidence for this is there are still cups and a bottle on the jazz club tables. I mean you see bars attached to (or part of) clubs all the time but almost never a pizza shop.
I absolutely can agree that the police station is top tier. Really cool video!
This was a fun one to watch!
I had my Boutique Hotel next to the Police Station, like how it's shown here, but I didn't like the fact that the penthouse suite windows faced the jail 😂
Great job all of you enjoyed very much
I love the petshop I dont know why i just love it for aome ramdom reason
Great video Emily have a great weekend ♥️
Hi Emma, the Jazz club is included?
Awesome video emliy brilliant 😀
Man alive, Lego Expert sets and Modular buildings in particular sure have come a long way huh. Tch, remember when these things could cost $90? Because I sure don't, and I was THERE for the start of this along with the other greats like Hero Factory and Ninjago.😅
Wow, jazz club would be around 14 or 15 on my list. Can’t believe how low you ranked Detectives Office.
exactly my thoughts. the Detectives Office is a great set imo - lots of character and story.
They are so expensive now. I wish I bought them when I was 6.
Good god I am thinking of getting into the modular line of LEGO but I'd be limited to the newer sets, which is sad because I REALLY want the bank. But its like $650?! Good lord! I'll probably still get the museum and see where I go from there.
Great video! :)
One tiny detail about the jazz club that just messes with me is that the jazz club sign leans forward on my set a little bit, I’m not sure if it’s just the way I’ve built it or not but it drives me INSANE
This video was one of the best. I loved the Collab. Josh was hilarious 😂.
My first modular was the police station, so its one of my favorites, also because of how good it is. Town hall is my most wanted modular, it would be higher on my list
Re-rank we have the museum, lol. I just started getting back into Lego and the Modular’s. These are scary addictive. I started January 29th of 2024. It’s Mar 20th 2024. In order of purchase. Boutique Hotel, Jazz Club, Birch Bookshop, Natural History Museum, Assembly Square, Downtown Diner, Corner Garage, Police Station, and Parisian Restaurant. Also, added a Brick Artisan UP House MOC and soon a Family Reunion MOC. As you can see I have a problem! I agree with your bottom three for sure. The others I don’t have are hard for me to Judge. I feel like the Diner dropped way too much from your 2022 to 2023 stacking. Not that it’s number 1 but a 12 it is not.
my order of purchase is Police Station, Jazz Club, Boutique Hotel, and Natural History Museum. I was planning on buying the Bookshop but do you have any recommendations
great video, nd can't complain about your rankings
I’m just glad I got them all at retail as the resale prices on some are crazy
Now you were thinking ahead!
Honestly I don’t like the fact that the pizza/jazz, and donuts/police station are connected without being able to disconnect like you can with the pet shop and townhouse. I feel like it forces you to place it a certain way and kind of messes with the creativity of where you can place it in your city
Also the billboard on the side of the police station makes it a hard placement because I feel like it looks dumb when you connect a building to the set because it is directly facing a fall and can barely see it from the street until you’re basically under it
Slight correction - the Boutique Hotel was designed by Anderson Ward Grubb, not Jamie Berard. He’s also the designer for this year’s Jazz Club.
We were talking about jamie being the coffee barista in the set… not the designer.
@@SHYTIMEismyTIME I see, then I misunderstood. Sorry!
I've been collecting the modulars since the beginning and had no interest in Market Street, so it's the only one I passed on, and still have no regrets. While they are not part of the Modular Collection, I LOVE the Monster Hunters Haunted House, the Fishing Store, and the Sanctum Santorum.
I hope for the 20-year anniversary, they bring them all back for a limited time.
not gonna happen
Nah you did the pet shop dirty
FYI = Meg Ryan movie -- You've Got Mail __ Remake of -- Shop Around The Corner !!
Poor diner
I have 3 Modulars… 15 more to go!!!
the botique hotel is a aborable one 👍
Josh really made the video :)). He won a subscriber
I saw the video where was the bookshop?
1:20 that got dark fast 😦
Entertaining
Really enjoyed this… Josh is hilarious!
What does “shelf” mean on the stats screen?
I think it means how long it was on sale before LEGO discontinued it
All of the best Lego CZcamsrs rating Lego modular buildings 😮 Yes
I am new here...These sets are so much expensive omfg.....
Wow! The prices on some of these 😮.
This rocks!
To have corner garage ahead of assembly square is laughable
Spot on on most rankings. Although palace cinema and emporium just look terrible for that high of rankings
Ranking the Detective Office so low is insanity.
Fire brigade got snuffed
Nice!!!!
I don’t understand haha. 1:19 new is $149.99 (retail) and used is $961?!
You should start a discord server just for people to exchange their thoughts :)
Green grocer and Café Corner at the bottom?
They have no interior, story, or playability, which was mentioned in the beginning of the video.
@@SHYTIMEismyTIME thanks for the reply :). At the end is a personal preference but as a collector since the first one, I strongly disagree. The good thing is that the modulars are still rocking and each year new fans and influencers discover them. :). Wish you the best with your channel and keep going !
Ignoring the lack of interior, they’re not very pretty. They look outdated in my opinion
3:18 poor knox 😂
Bring your dog to work day!
BrickTsar quality is job 37
I think I used the same B-roll from you 3 years in a row now. Haha
@@SHYTIMEismyTIME lol
@@SHYTIMEismyTIME surely somebody will have done thing better one day 😜
2:02
The puns are killing me😄.
I add interiors to all of these
I have only one
you should put a farmers market in the lego city
That would require them to have talent
I think the Home Alone house is also considered modular. You guys have an amazing video thanks for review.
I love the rating, but Josh's puns are 1#!
Josh had me laughing in this. More collabs in the future
I’m sorry. Emma’s rankings are purely subjective. Just what she’s feeling in the moment. Her comment on the café corner proves it. It used to be one of your favorites and now it ‘just isn’t’.
To be fair.. as said in the beginning, I had her use my ranking rubric. So based on my system.. they changed. But still… you’re right… ranking is still subjective.
I’m with Josh on this one, lol. I don’t care for Modulars, but it was awesome having 3 LEGO greats in one video!
This was really good. Josh had me laughing
how can anyone who isn't drowning in money realistically spend $900 on a plastic house to display that they didn't even really want. Not to bring up the whole "there's people starving in the world" argument, and people can work hard for the things they truly enjoy, but come on, it's like they regret the entire thing and it's MUCH too expensive for a Lego set, no matter how dated.
Buy a used one? No real point buying a sealed set if you're not keeping it sealed for collection purposes
Maybe they have the money? Or maybe you dont have a lot of money and are jelous? Likely the latter.
You'd think these people don't even fucking like Lego the way they talk about these sets. Fuck are they doing??
@@santylestari7457 Jealous that I'm not an idiot with my money? Not really
The American Josh type humor is hard to swallow for a European, but other than that, great episode
American? Na; thats not American humor. Rodney Dangerfield and Norm are examples of American humor
@@timewarpdrive77 I think I see this kind of humor from quite a few Americans, but I hope you're right
oh my gosh l’m about to 🤯 it’s to late……..
I quit watching after I saw Detective's Office at #14...all validity of this list when flying out the window at light speed at that point.
Wow, modular buildings used be $140 retail. They're doubled in price
Certainly did not double. You can find many old sets in the $150- 200 range on bricklink in used/excellent condition and new sets are $229
@@ymckrgb the most recent modular building (museum) is retailed at $300. So yes it’s doubled.
@@Ash-Ketchup2 well that's a big set, 4k+ pieces, most others sets are 2.5-3k and cheaper
the josh guy XD
also... FLESH colour? WHOSE? WHOSE flesh is that colour? Oh right there's like a million shades of skin colour from libght pink to dark brown! Be careful saying FLESH to mean only YOUR FLESH! AND.... YOU CAN CHANGE THE COLOUR OF THE HOTEL!!! IT'S LEGO!!!
Sorry she will make a new video for overly sensitive politically correct snobs. Take care and have a salad 😊
Boy; get over yourself. The color used to literally be called "Flesh" offically by the lego group
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Avengers tower is the biggest MODULAR line building of all time!