u/BrownBear71

This was a quickie. I had a tiny island set up for years and the parts were tucked into storage. A large percentage of this is real L*GO.

Most of this is built using stock parts and figs. The TF babies are from a Sluban party yacht, and Fred, Shaggy and Scooby were from the k/o Mystery Machine. I liked the quality of those figs much more than the crude ones that came with the k/o Mummy Museum Mystery.

Velma is a custom. I had posted a tutorial on how to make a Velma by using standard parts and decals.

Mr. Roarke is from one of the Skibidi sets. I ended up repurposing the Skibidis, and using their cameras and TV set heads for other things. And one of them just happened to be wearing a completely white suit. Quick head swap, a little dremeling of standard gray hairpiece and sponge-painting and ta-dah! Mr. Roarke.

I might have enough parts for a Tattoo. No white short legs so maybe light gray will have to do.

Somehow I think there isn't a great future in store for the Sluban TF Babies....

(parts of the post and photos had to be redacted/blurred because of reddit rqmts)

This was a 2 month project. So the challenge of this project was: Can I make this L*GO store, and have AliExpress pay for most of it?

I was sitting on a large amount of AliExpress gems, and the (now obsolete) "Saving Wednesdays/Saving Mondays" program that used to get $5.00-$8.00 in shopping credits. At the time, it was possible to get more shopping credits by cashing in the Ali gems for various $1.00 and $5.00 amounts.

The parts were purchased in multiple orders, with packages arriving every week. So in the end, I paid maybe $10 out-of-pocket to buy the instructions from rebrickable, a trip to the Dollar Tree for a cheap 100 bulk white brick pack, and a dollar here and there to get my packages up to $10.00 on Ali to get free Choice shipping.

This build heavily uses custom decals (about $5.00-$6.00 on Ali) and the cheapest inkjet printer that Best Buy sells. L*GO legitimately released several small L*GO store sets. The technique is to scour the internet for photos of L*GO sticker sheets, load them into a graphic editor, clean them up and sharpen them. And then print out a bunch of these replicated decals, and apply them to tiles.

I sort of went over and beyond the original design. I felt the upper interior walls were too bare so I added shelves with more L*GO/alt-bricks sets on them.

But... is this made from L*GO?

Well... errrr... it has L*GO parts.

• Streetlamp
• Red 2x4 brick in window
• heart plaque
• hinged window
• Some of the pick-a-brick rounds
• Most of the 1x4 white tiles
• The black staircase
• tan boxes under the stairs
• blue pennant
• Purple 2x4 brick in window
• most of the 1x1 flowers
• The minifig customers (Tony Stark, Lady Iron Dragon, Scuba diver, Ninjago Zane). Mostly. Some have Alt-bricks heads and hair. Nobody judges them. The line between L*GO and Lepin is very flexible here.

BTW, for people who just want a packaged set without the multiple small orders parts gathering, there is an Ali store that claims to sell the entire MOC in one set: "Shop1105202331 Store". I am not vouching for them. I can't speak for their promptness, quality, or completeness.