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2007 City Buildings

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OK, when I saw the following on Eurobricks a month or more ago I was in love:

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But now they have revealed this little (2,000+ piece) gem for 2007:

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And I am totally gobsmacked. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

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Wow that is one I saw discussed on Bricklink just a moment ago as well.
It looks like one of those must haves. The conjecture on price is around $140 US - with a release date of March 10 -wonder what it will be in Canadian?

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bannear wrote:The conjecture on price is around $140 US - with a release date of March 10 -wonder what it will be in Canadian?
Well, the Sandcrawler is 1600+ pieces and priced @ u.s.$140. The price for Canada is cdn$200 so I expect about the same for the Cafe. The piece count difference is, I think, caused by the licence fees inflating the price on SW sets.

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I'm really curious about the details on this set... it looks amazing! this sort of stuff definitly shows that the Lego mothership is monitoring us surface dwellers and what we do with the bricks. this totally reminds me of any number of incredible houses that you can find on brickshelf for some amazing train display. I'm wondering if the road is tiles or shleim, and what the hey is that white fan, is it bionicle or a new element altogether? also is the house just a facade, or did they go the distance and make it a 350 minifig house?

I'm not sure if I'd get this set though, it looks like a very decent array of semi-rare colours, but would really have to evaluate how much new or hard to get pieces are in the set to validate getting something like this over the millenium falcon ( or a straightup BL order ) regardless this is a great direction the company is taking, definitly taking their set releases to a whole new level ( do you hear the afol community collective saying your welcome for the inspiration? we also had our thumbs in exoforce doncha know )

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Joseph wrote:...is the house just a facade, or did they go the distance and make it a 350 minifig house?
360 °, I think.

If you squint at the box art, one of the pictures seems to show the three levels as being built to take off and they appear to have full floors.

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