Ranking 19* Lego Modular Buildings
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- Colin likes modular buildings...a lot! So he spend way too much time studying the 18 official modulars plus the Sanctum Sanctorum* in order to rank them. Disagree with his rankings? Get in line...
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My number one is parisian restaurant. Bought it when it first came out and our first child was a baby. Never had time to build it until 2020 haha. It was still in the box. Assembly square is my number two.
Synergy! I'm glad you got the PR when it was out. Wonderful build.
Good call on both
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
It is interesting, but we mostly share the same thoughts regarding modulars. I also rank ones like the Book Shop and Pet Store lowest, while others like Green Grocer and Parisian are at the top for me. I can tell you did a lot of research when making this video to give this ranking. It was a great watch and I look forward to more!
Great minds think alike!
Parisian Restaurant was the set that got me back into lego after 20 years. I was blown away at how much lego had grown. It really was the one that broke a trend of relatively uninspired builds. The brick bank would be my #2, very cool unique elements.
Parisian Restaurant did the same for me! My dark age of LEGO (what we AFOL’s call our non-LEGO days) lasted not nearly as long as yours, but still around two to three years. Parisian Restaurant resurrected my passion for LEGO and practically started the collection that I own today!
Great list. The detectives office was my first modular and perisan restaurant, followed shortly a few months later, then it took 7 years to get my 3rd favorite the palace cinema. The last important one I want is a brick bank. Then I will atleast have all modulars from 2013 to now once I get it.
Nice! Brick Bank is a dense build on the first level. It's roughly half of the entire build.
Great list! I would have the Police station at #2 but that's just my opinion, I love the Brick Bank but sadly I was never able to get it
I can't begrudge moving the Police Station up a bit more. In fact, that's one that I could see rising up the list over time. I was just looking at it again (comparing it to the new Friends modular set) and was admiring it.
I’ve seen a lot of lists like this and you are the first I’ve seen to really give the Parisian restaurant it’s due. I could not agree more. It is my favorite, along with Assembly Square, of the ones I own, although I haven’t built the Jazz Club or Sancto Sanctorum yet. Working on my theme park right now before I go back to city streets. Great job with this ranking and I specially enjoyed hearing your thoughts on each one. Well done. Cheers.
Thank you! Great minds think alike :)
I like how everyone ranks the modulars differently, except poor Market Street always takes last. Personally, I find its build quite charming and It’s simplicity refreshing.
Great list. Here's mine (I don't include the Sanctum)
18. Market Street
17. Cafe Corner
16. Pet Shop
15. Downtown Diner
14. Grand Emporium
13. Jazz Club
12. Green Grocer
11. Palace Cinema
10. Brick Bank
9. Corner Garage
8. Bookshop
7. Fire Brigade
6. Boutique Hotel
5. Town Hall
4. Police Station
3. Parisian Restaurant
2. Detective's Office
1. Assembly Square
Great review! My ranking of the 2nd generation:
1. Detective´s Office
2. Assembly Square
3. Natural History Museum
4. Police Station
5. Brick Bank
6. Parisian Restaurant
7. Downtown Diner
8. Jazz Club
9. Bookshop
10. Boutique Hotel
11. Corner Garage
My Personal Ranking of Every Modular:
19. Market Street
18. Cafe Corner
17. Green Grocer
16. Pet Shop
15. Daily Bugle
14. Sanctum Sanctorum
13. Detective Office
12. Jazz Club
11. Grand Emporium
10. Town Hall
9. Corner Garage
8. Parisian Restaurant
7. Palace Cinema
6. Fire Brigade
5. Downtown Diner
4. Brick Bank
3. Police Station
2. Boutique Hotel
1. Assembly Square
Interesting! We have a little bit of overlap (DD, AS in top 5) but have very different views on some (GE, GG, PR). That's the beauty of modulars - we like them, but some mean more/look better to us.
I need the palace cinema and the town hall so badly.
I agree with most of the list (diner should've been higher). Also, the ninjago modulars would top all of these if they were included
Perfect rankings!👌👌👌
Thanks! Great minds think alike!
Very good list. I agree with a lot of your choices.
I appreciate that! It think some of those rankings could change a bit, but for the foreseeable future, those are my rankings. I could see the Police Station rise up the list over time.
@@buildingtogether4171 I definitely favour the sets with hidden easter eggs and thorough narratives. The Police Station was the best to do it since the Brick Bank and Detective's Office!
I'm curious how your kids would rank them! Great video!
I would have a hard time ranking them as I think of them as part of a giant growing set. I guess some are not as eye catching on their own as others but they look great together. The only exception is the Marvel set. While it matches in size and can connect to the other sets, I personally do not think it fits in stylistically and overall I don't care for it's design very much.
I disagree, the Daily Bugle goes perfectly in a LEGO city!
It could, if there are other tall buildings to fit next to. In a city of just regular, unmodified modulars, it would stick out a bit. That said, there's no reason to not include it if you have it!
Great video! But I’m curious, what was your kids favorite building?
Wow someone actually has the Sanctum factored in, I’m planning to purchase that set so it’s inclusion amongst the others was valuable since I have all except the original 3 and wanted to see how it stacks up.
Overall good list. I obviously have some different opinions (I rate the book store and palace cinema way higher because they capture a architectural style that I really like, and I will defend the town hall because it’s just such a imposing build and works great in a city layout. In contrast I’ve always struggled to place the corner garage since it sticks out next to anything except it’s 50s twin the diner: and I’m not really a fan of the Cafe corner although I appreciate what it established)
I like that other themes are providing competition to the official modulars - in the end, they'll push each other into designing better sets.
These rankings are so subjective, and I certainly can't fault any of these sets too much. After all, I never dreamed Lego would make such incredible buildings 20 years ago!
Very nice video. Good to hear someone else’s opinion on the modulars. Just one thing is bothering me: The music is way too loud. One wants to hear what you have to say.
Duly noted - we will work on that!
Kids are so lucky to have father that loves lego!
We want more videos like that
I absolutly agree with parisian restaurant, its the best! (I don't have it, but I really want it) I disagree with bookshop, It's my second favourite!
The only one I ever got was Assembly Square. I wanna start collecting some more Modular’s but they are so expensive and some are just hard to come across now. From the new ones, I really like the police station and the Jazz Club so those would probably be the next two I go for.
I'm lucky that I started collecting them from the beginning. Had I not done that, I would be in a similar spot as you: wanting to get some of the old ones but being priced out.
My personal top 5 would be café corner, fire brigade, assembly square, parisian restaurant, palace cinema. I don't really like the town hall, corner garage, bookshop and boutique hotel (because of the light nougat) but I like all of the other ones. I don't own any but I started parting out my most wanted one, the café corner. I got all the rare pieces, only replaced 2362b with 2362a, 4460a with 4460b and black turntables instead of grey ones for maximum fidelity and with the common pieces I still need to buy, it would have to cost me around 400€ instead of 800 at least.
Doing modular but leaving interiors blank n moc the outside to my vision wish we could buy interior blank sets for way cheaper
15:53 This radiator is super cool
My first modular building was the cinema palace I’ve built it as a 12 years old and I felt like a king because it was an adult set 😂😂
This shows its about taste 😉 the first 3 I agree based on taste. But the police station is higher IMHO. It has one of the best stories told regarding modulars
I love Lego but their raking in the $ hand over fist. There should NEVER be a sticker sheet for a $200+ set imho. I even cringe when they have one for the smaller sets. I simply refuse to believe that printing special pieces for high end sets is so detrimental to the bottom line profit that it would mean they wouldn't make any money. I mean stickers really do effect the final product, and not in a good way.
To go even further it technically should be illegal in the Lego system. The point is to work with what you got. Printing out a sticker sheet is the epitome of "cutting corners" for the sake of profit. I really do hate them and don't always use all of them, but unfortunately some are mandatory.
All said I still love Lego lol. It really is a fun hobby and nowadays some of the building techniques are for real hard enough that a little kid wouldn't stand a chance of following the instructions.
Hello good sir,
Love this video, but you invite critique. Apologies, personally, but I have a single quible...ranking should change to 1) Integration, 2) Detail, 3) Value, 4) Fun, 5) Technical
i 100% agree with your top 3, all of them are amazingly beautiful sets. and yeah market street is the worst
I came into the video expecting to totally disagree with you, but was shocked that I really didn't. Of course there are buildings I'd rank differently, but overall a good presentation.
I own all the modulars except Market Street, Fire Brigade. I have to admit that I've modified many of my modulars with upgraded interiors, extra floors or extra width to make them even better imho. The only one that I've changed nothing on is the Parisienne Restaurant, which is nearly perfect and well deserves the top spot.
I'd have moved the Cinema up a spot or two because it is just a really creative build with a gorgeous facade. The Boutique Hotel would sit solidly in second for me because it ticks off so many positives; it's a creative, gorgeous, and fun build right out of the box and it lends itself to endless modification without changing it's core essence more than any other modular in my opinion.
I think I liked the Corner Garage more than most, mostly because of reasonably simple mods I did to mine from the get go, such as drain pipes to hide the angle gaps, closing off the stairwell, removing the Vet and making the second floor an autoparts store, and making the top floor an inventory warehouse for the parts store.
Those Corner Garage modifications sounds like a great idea!
IMO Sanctum looks weird with the modulars. It seems to be smaller scaler
Nice Video. But the background music is a little lo loud, makes it little hard tu understand, especially for me as non native speaker.
This video is almost unwatchable. Some of the music make it very hard to hear
Hi, the Boutique Hotel is not ranked ?
ngl the parisian restaurant is easily #19 for me, ugly asf. the downtown diner also sucks IMO. the rest of the list is fair I would just move those two to 19th and 17th respectively
I only have the police station and the jazz club, and I’ve seen the bookshop in person, so I’d put the police station at #1 based on what I’ve seen. But based on the pictures, either cafe corner or palace cinema is my favorite
EDIT: Brick bank is probably my favorite actually, but it’s pretty close with cafe corner and palace cinema
My top 3, Boutique Hotel, Parisian Restaurant, both for their architecture and Assembly Square, architecture and size.
I like Pet Shop and Book Shop a lot because of building the two buildings on their own plates. This gives some freedom of choice how to place them. And because the second o es are just "ordinary" houses for living. I think the whole serie could have some more living quarters.
I don't like the trend of building more than one house on one plate. Police Department was extreme in this, three different buildings. A police precinct should have deserved a full baseplate.
My bottom three are the Cinema, the Diner and the Jazz Club. In my opinion they didn't fit into the line, especially Diner and Cinema. The Jazzclub is the third in a row with two buildings on one plate, the Pizza/taylor part tiny, as the stage at the club. And it lacks of a story. I won't buy these 3 sets.
On my wish list are Green Grocer, Town Hall and Brick Bank, but possibly I won't buy them, too, due to the unbelievable prices.
The music totally destroys your video since no one can actually hear what you are saying.
Downtown diner is a travesty. I took mine apart because it clashes so much with all the others. Never again, LEGO!