r/legomodular

I have three choices.

1. Start a Lego City

2. Sell these on Marketplace

3. Keep them locked away.

Which would you do???

Here is my Daily Planet Modular Building MOC. As a big fan of the Superhero Modular Buildings, and my favorite Superhero being Superman, I knew I had to take a crack at this iconic structure.

This seven-floored structure sits on a 32-stud baseplate and rises to 31.8 inches tall. It is 6085 pieces, and all the interiors are fully tiled off and detailed. There are six interiors: the Lobby, Reporter's Bullpen, the Newspaper Printing Room, a Conference Room, Perry White's Office, and a Maintenance Closet.

As soon as LEGO announced last year's Arkham Asylum (76300) Modular Building, I knew they had opened the door to the Daily Planet after incredible skyscrapers like the Daily Bugle (76178) and Avengers Tower (76269). I hope the easter egg of the poster of the Daily Planet in the jail cell turns into a real set, but I decided to make my own rendition in the meantime. I finished designing this MOC in February of this year, but I am just getting around to making the instructions for it.

This is directly inspired by the Superman (2025) movie starring David Corenswet, directed by James Gunn, and DC Comics, as well as the AT&T Huron Road Building in Cleveland, Ohio, which has long been believed by Superman fans to have inspired Siegel and Shuster for the Daily Planet, following its beautiful Art Deco design.

Superman has been my favorite Superhero since I was a kid, and I am very proud of my rendition of the building. I was very happy with last year's film and its rendition of the Planet, and I can't wait for Man of Tomorrow! Please let me know what you think. This has really been a labor of love.

Instructions are available at:
https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-273372

This build transforms the Italian Riviera set into a modular form that can fit perfectly into your city. I wanted to preserve as many features from the original set as possible and keep its layout this time and still on a one-baseplate footprint.

This modular building consists of three distinct buildings, with a backyard filled with seawater.

On the first floor, the right building houses an ice cream parlor, while the left building contains a fish shop. The building on the corner features a scuba diving shop. The backyard is accessible through the ice cream parlor.

The second floor of the ice cream parlor contains a kitchen along with a sleeping area and connects to the second floor of the scuba diving shop, which features a sofa, TV, and balcony, as in the original set. The second floor of the fish shop can be reached by outdoor stairs in the backyard and contains a large kitchen for making pasta.

A staircase leads to the third floor of the left building, which contains a bed, shower, and balcony, just like in the original set.

The roofs are nicely decorated, though there is no way to access them.

I genuinely adore and love this set, but I think some minor changes to the pieces for the flowers in the shop are a good idea. I love the original, but I just think more modern pieces go a long way for details!

My latest custom modular, the City Library. It sits on a 48x32 baseplate and is a corner building. Highlights include stained glass windows, a bus stop on the sidewalk, and lots of books/bookcases!

My video overview with a lot more angles and details can be found here.

Added the Police station to my slowly growing street.. found a good deal on Marketplace.

I am happy for now focusing on adding the modulars from this decade. (Whether 2020 counts is a different story haha).

Have the Tudor corner on backlog (early birthday present during the double points week that I am not allowed to build until October haha)

Suggestions welcome on layout and adding a scenery/ story around. My only plan is to add the Shopping street between the Botique hotel and Police station next year and add the Tudor corner to the right corner - pushing the BDP further right for connection reasons. Maybe add one road all along?

I’m now considering picking up a second-hand assembly square, detectives office or palace theatre to finish it off

Here's the full tour of my Hollywood Corner MOC:

https://youtu.be/gfJfB5\_Z38M?is=l-Gch5RAdMgaVg5s

I plan on cutting about 1000 pieces out of the build (mostly by cutting a floor of the tower) and making it my first submission to Lego Ideas and/or Bricklink Designer Program.

For sure the city is far from done.
The wife and i will be moving everything to another room soon where we can expand the current layout to 2.5 or 3 times current size.
Ideas are to eventually add a beach area and raised areas for the bugle and avengers tower.
Also we’d like a forest and countryside area as we saved a few awesome mocs for that.
Also need to do allot road and sidewalk work as we plan to switch to lighter gray sidewalks (gets to dark in combination with the roads also being dark gray).
Next addition will probably be a town square with botanical garden (shes working on this).
I will expand the chinese area, by the sushi rest. With a chinese garden and parade.

After that we’ll see but then were probably already moved everything and have allot more space.

Picked this bad puppy up today as a gift for me.

I know, I know.. box pictures. But chuffed to bits that I can add these to my modular collection!

I'm planning to create a modular style base for the upcoming BDP Kiosk and share instructrions for it on my Rebrickable profile. With the building being 14 studs wide, I decided to build it on a 16x32 baseplate. Before I do so, I thought I'd ask you for your preferences!

- Should this base be a 'straight', a 'corner', or a 'double corner'?
- Should the building be at the front of the baseplate (~6 studs from the kerb) or in the back, creating a little plaza in front of it?
- Should the area behind the Kiosk be tiled or not?
- Any other preferences?

Looking forward to hearing how you would like it best :)

I bit the bullet and pulled this beauty even after retiring 8 months ago!

My son just finished his Lego