All Modulars Ranked
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this video I attempt to rank all 15 modulars released by TLG. It took some time and effort and there was a little bit of shuffling before I finally made up my mind. This is all based on my opinion so it will likely be quite different than most lists out there. Enjoy!
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“The detectives office doesn’t really fit in”
The diner: 👁👄👁
Brick Bank is underrated imo, I love how it looks abd the interior is awesome
I have a brickbank and its not that short or small compared to another modular building. And the interior is pretty good too!
yeah I like it alot
Me: tell me something about this house.
Realtor: 15:48
Uh I think it’s 15:49 but still lol
😂😂
That was a neat little rundown of all the modulars, thanks for that! The Bookshop is my very first modular, and I adore it. I will probably pick up the Downtown Diner next, though I don’t think it will look right next to the Bookshop, so I guess I’ll have to get Assembly Square soon after that. All the older modulars do look great from the outside, but Lego sure seems to have raised the bar with the interiors with the last half dozen or so, and I like that the newer ones come with fancier minifig faces. They better keep these coming for another decade or so. I’m hoping for a chocolate shop eventually.
Ranking these buildings is so subjective. My order changes heavily on my mood. Cafe corner is one of my favorites too. I hardly ever look inside them so the exterior is the biggest factor in my rankings. Thank you for posting.
As much as it stands out, I think the Diner is the best modular. It makes a really nice display with the garage next to it.
I have the Parisian Restaurant at a very clear #1. I like just about everything about it.
I agree it's such a great set, wish they didn't retire it😔
In 2008 (at the ripe age of 11) I bought both the Green Grocer and Cafe corner, still have these two sets in pristine condition all these years later. Even brought these two sets with me to uni abroad. Now that Im working, finally bought my third ever modular set, boutique hotel, and boy do those three sets looks beautiful 😍
Assembly square is my favoutrite!
Thanks for your top, great job!
I like how different people's opinions can be about the modulars depending on very personal experiences.
I would rate them:
1 Assembly Square
2 Parisian Restaurant
3 Bookshop
4 Brick Bank
5 Detective's Office
6 Pet Shop
7 Green Grocer
8 Corner Garage
9 Downtown Diner
10 Grand Emporium
11 Fire Brigade
12 Town Hall
13 Palace Cinema
14 Café Corner
15 Market Street
Nobody:
LEGO head quarters: we have the main idea (shop/pet store/cinema etc) but need something else!
One random man: tOwNhOuSe?
Great video Alex, I've been an avid lego star wars collector and now i am building all the modulars. I was so excited to build the fire brigade but the dark red pieces were so brittle that alot of them broke so it kinda ruined the enjoyment for me. I'm saving cafe corner and green grocer for the last builds. Keep up the great work, god bless
I have a few ideas for future modular buildings:
Courthouse
Schoolhouse
Hospital
A theatre for doing plays
I just finished Assembly Square. It was my first Lego set in more than 10 years (and first modular ever), and it resparked my love of Lego. I just cant decide which modular should be next!
Bradley Estus Downtown Diner OR Detective's Office
i would say downtown diner
Detective's office and bookshop look good next to the right side of assembly square
So I recently got back into Lego after a lone time, and thought to make a mini city. So I bought the Assembly Square and the BookShop.They honestly pair up really great together and look amazing on a shelf as display
Parisian restaurant will always be my favourite. It's just such a nice build overall, both in its interior and exterior.
To be honest, I love brick bank
I’m so happy to see Town Hall at number two on this list, especially as it is rated poorly everywhere else on UA-cam. As far as I’m concerned, it is not only the biggest but also the best modular building. It’s the heart and soul of my LEGO City and we will never see anything like it again.
Wow you’re almost at 59K subs great job my favourite is Parisian restaurant
I totally agree. The Parisian restaurant is an extraordinary set, both inside and out. For anyone interested, search the internet for the 2nd and 3rd floors, where one is a bedroom with a Murphy bed and the other is a attic art studio. Architecturally, this set never gets boring to look at, and the outside seating gives dimension to the set that many of the other models lack. Considering the tight spaces to work with, the interior is a masterpiece. The one thing I agree with Alex on this particular set, is that while the restaurant isn't technically a corner piece, it works best serving as one.
Jeffrey Moss yeah
Its great to watch your ranking of the modulars. I wish I had of known about Lego back then as I need the Green Grocer and Cafe Corner (not keen on Market Street). I only started with the BookShop and realised what I've been missing so now have from the Fire Brigade on. Great video 😁
Cafe corner is my favorite too, even if I don’t have it in my lego city yet. It’s my biggest problem to purchase the set due to the high price that people are asking for. Hopefully some day it will be part of my city.
The only thing I’m surprised about is the Parisian Restaurant being so low down. Don’t have the first three released and haven’t built the last four yet, but Parisian restaurant is by far my favorite of the ones I have. I agree with the look of Cafe Corner, I’m just never going to own that one unless they re-release it. And I just can’t bring myself to buy a fake. Sigh...... Great video as always.
Just ordered my first modular building as a 29yo. First Lego set in I think like 15 years for me. Assembly Square seemed like the best starter and I can't wait for it to arrive. I feel like a kid who finally can afford those fancy expensive sets. Back in the day, 50ish bucks for my budget
Really Enjoyed this video!
My Rankings would probably be
1. Assembly Square
2. Parisian Restaurant
3. Town Hall
4. Cafe Corner
5. Green Grocer
6. Brick Bank
7. Detectives Office
8. Grand Emporium
9. Downtown Diner
10. Fire Brigade
11. Pet Shop
12. Bookshop
13. Palace Cinema
14. Corner Garage
15. Market Street
I started building the modular sets and I when I went to order another one I was so sad when it was retired these are like the best sets😢
It would be nice to see a followup video containing all of the sets that are not considered part of the modular family. Like the Old Fishing Store and similar sets.
Alex, this is a fantastic video. Easily one of my favorites, not only from you but in general. I always love to see people’s perspectives in these buildings. And I especially appreciate yours given the length of time you’ve been collecting and your dedication to your city. I don’t have the first three sets released (and I don’t think I ever will due to price) and still have some to build, but I’ll get there at some point. I think my only surprise was that the Parisian Restaurant wasn’t higher. I love that thing.
I do have a curiosity question for you though, that doesn’t have much to do with this building in particular. Have you ever considered adding lighting sets to some of your buildings, especially downtown? Just curious.
Bookshop is top 10 easily. Otherwise you got it mostly right! Nice job!
I dream of a setup like this for my kids. Each one of these lego owners have to be a millionaire. The envy. :)
I live in a country where the I inflation rate is high. So where as a set could cost $100 it would cost around 1300 in my currency and money like that isn't easy to get. So, all Legos are out of the question for toys and gifts
Same :(
16:10 Bruh that passenger airplane. That's the first Lego I ever bought.. The memory.
Do you have any more pictures of your old LEGO city? Also happy ya got a better job and are not pour anymore :D
I have many pictures of my older cities. Not as a kid, but when I fist got into my first home. I may have to dig them out to show it from its humble beginnings.
Alex Nunes you should would make for a great video!
There was a 3 building set that was a “50 year anniversary” that came with an auto repair shop, movie theatre & town hall. It also feautured a fountain with 3 golden bricks.
Asdf Jkl And......? What about it? 🤔
Don’t know if anyone else noticed it, but the building with the helicopter pad sticking out of it reminds me of a building in HoChiMinh City in Vietnam. Been there twice to visit my now wife who was born and lived there.
Modulars have changed lego forver and I love it.
Awesome story at the end, respect dude
Conclusion: the sets become better if you buy two. I can only agree.
Couple things that bother me about the Bookshop are; 1. Looks strange having a tree with fall leaves, a child with a scarf on and then two convertibles driving by (Palace and Diner sets) and; 2. the grandfather clock is nice, but the time doesn't match the clocks used for the other 14 sets. I guess the best place for the bookshop in a LEGO city is several times zones away in another hemisphere....
Cool video, thank you for making it! I definitely disagree pretty strongly with some of your opinions here, but they were well articulated and it was a super fun video to watch regardless! The differing perspective is always interesting, anyway. I'll throw down my own ranking with a 1 sentence review for the heck of it.
N/A. Market Street: Probably shouldn't be ranked at all given how its development history.
14. Palace Cinema: Horrible trends like stickers, unfinished floors, and poor immersive design plague this one.
13. Cafe Corner: Completely unfinished, some weird scale issues with the upper floors.
12. Grand Emporium: Big empty box, aggressively bland.
11. Corner Garage: Unfinished ground floor, overpriced, somewhat
underdeveloped facade and fascia, asymmetry distract from some honestly outstanding design work on the windows.
10. Town Hall: Impressively dense, but its only curb appeal is scale, and it spread itself too thin so its many features feel underdeveloped.
9. Pet Shop: Lacking in polish and features, but has its moments, like the clever doorbell.
8. Fire Brigade: Honestly quite lovely except for the very empty, bland ground floor.
7. Bookshop: Better than Pet Shop in all regards, and the details that ARE there are fabulous, but it just needs more (size and detail).
6. Brick Bank: Gorgeous color blocking, fun story and great usable features, ultimately just missing that "wow" factor.
5. Downtown Diner: Amazing charm, style, and design, stellar interiors, left side feels underutilized and compromises space.
4. Green Grocer: Unbeatable style and visual impact, colors, and design, just missing too many interior details to crack the top 3.
3. Detective's Office: A bounty of details and storytelling, lovely colors and concept execution.
2. Assembly Square: Perfect homage to the history of the series, dense with things to discover, everything placed and detailed with care.
1. Parisian Restaurant: best-looking as a standalone model, incredible details, techniques, and color, gorgeous curb appeal, great use of interior space, and exterior open space is actually used effectively this time.
I too am lucky to own them all, though haven't built the Book Shop yet. Personally, my order would be entirely different - I'm not too fussed about internal detail as once they are on display, I never open them up. So for me, it is all about the external architecture. The Parisian Restaurant is beautiful, but Cafe Corner will always have a special place in my heart. Oh, and I also love Market Street!
Brilliant overview!!!
I found if you have the two open sides of the Parisian Restaurant and the Downtown Diner together it look much more presentable amount other buildings
I wish I had Cafe Corner! It is the only missing Modular in my collection :'( Great review and I totally agree on Market Street... urgh
Alex: casually talking
Me:how do I translate dollars into pounds
look at that City it's incredibly beautiful I love them all wish that I had them everyone of these is a keeper and more Lego bricks means you can expand houses and buildings making these even bigger larger with even more space.
@alex; if you would add the ‘21 Police Station, which position you you give it and why?
Lego Factory was straight one of the most genius things that company had done
Parisian restaurant should be higher on the list. It is by far the most detailed modular and the price/piece ratio is great
Thank you for this fabulous video, I just love these buildings
Me too
My top 7 favorites
1. Fire Brigade
2. Pet Shop
3. City Hall
4. Palace Cinema
5. Assembly Square
6. Book Shop
7. Detective Agency
Interesting to see Town Hall so high given I don't think it gets much love. I wouldn't put it that high but agree it's better than most give credit for. (Maybe I'm misreading the consensus!) I have all except the first three and IMO the only really disappointing one is the cinema. Its not just the interior - even the facade feels a bit half-done with one-sided movie set style roofing.
Love to own them all however the price of many now is way to high! Happy to own many of the newer ones though.
Imho the pet shop is one of the very best modulars ever.
The Grand Emporium containing only one escalator per floor isn't really a flaw as there are escalators that change direction..
1 Detective's Office
2 Assembly Square
3 Pet Shop
Where would you put the police station?
where would set 10278 (police station) go?
I have Town hall. Bought for 170$ as a kid for almost everything I had back then
Grand emporium is my favorite
That is another good one too.
Why is there a missing piece in the assembly square on the music shop outside
I have the diner LEGO!
I love Brick Bank and the Grand Emporium
What sucks is, as a new lego collector..i will never be able to purchase the older sets. Unless i sell my kidneys...i wish creator expert sets were never retired.
One word: lepin
Same, just started buying these sets and it makes me sad to see the ones that I have missed. Hopefully Lego makes similar versions of these sets in the future for us.
Is it possible that price per piece is a flawed measure? I get that it can be a helpful metric, but not all parts/colors/molds cost the same. Unless there's a significant difference (more than any of the modulars), I don't think it matters. Look at the Green Grocer, one of the cheapest, but the interior of the top two floors still feel unfinished.
Am I the only one that wonders why cafe corner is a cafe but says hotel?
I LOVE UR LEGO CITY!!!!
Great video 👍🏻
Assembly Square takes my number 1 spot i think
It has a front.
*AND a back!*
The diner is the best one
Doesn’t a modular set have a mini 10181 Eiffel Tower in it or is that a different set?
Yes, I believe Assembly Square has it.
"STEP PETS"
Yess!
Do a lot of people really care about a fraction of a cent difference in price per piece? If I looks good enough I'll buy it for sure.
How much do you think a brand new sealed Corner Cafe should worth?
As much as it cost when it was released :) lol
I generally think the 50s diner is the worst building made for this line, and i frankly dont understand how LEGO thought this was up to standard.
It doest fit with the style of any other building, its extremely flashy, its the first set to move away from simplified LEGO faces, it contains a metric ton of loose bricks and details, that falls off when ever its moved.
And the worst part of it, 1/3 of the building is entirely flat in solid dull colors, even the oldest of modular buildings has more texture and depth on the exterior than the biege section of the diner.
I saw assembly square at the lego shop
These were the ones i always wanted but never got the shot
Yeah, the Town Hall and Fire Brigade are awesome! (I have them both)
My favorite is the diner
list disqualified the number 1 would be daily bugle if it were updated
woooo ,!!!!!! Nice set
no light kits ?
They shouldn’t retire modulars
I agree
They didnt
Only now it’s not called expert but just 18+
@@vincentsgames9876 They mean individual modulars. Like how they stop selling some
I agree. I only just recently rediscovered Lego and would love the whole modular series but all the early ones are retired.
I'm so mad at myself for selling my Town Hall and Fire Brigade at a garage sale when I was younger. They were such good sets
Lol, why did you do that? :D
NEVER SELL LEGOS!
Glenn Jenkins rip
@@martintillemann Plural of LEGO is LEGO. ;-)
@Glenn Jenkins how much money do you make for selling it? :/
About the Parisian restaurant, here in Europe it is quite normal to have an open kitchen in a restaurant. So being a Parisian restaurant it is just super okay.
Planespotter Patrick good point, I love open kitchens
Old days was kitchen not part of restaurant. Now days is more common.
It's a common thing stateside nowadays, too.
In amsterdam we have a restaurant where everyone sits around the kitchen while watching the food being cooked
@@LuCreates_stuff benieuwd wanneer we eindelijk weer eens een tafeltje kunnen reserveren😕😉
I hope he doesn't put the Market Street in the bottom 5.
"#15, Market Street"
*Loud screaming*
lol, sorry!
erik goble... you into ytpmvs? ;)
@@割 Yeah, why?
your profile pic gave it away lmao
also a quick ask man, but have you got any of these modular sets at all?
@@割 Not yet, but I hope I can get one soon!
1. Assembly square
2. Parisian restaurant
3. Detective office
A very solid top three.
@Mel J Yes, I know, it's a huge amount. But if you can't afford it, you can have them for less than half the price as very accurate chinese copies, but the the company that was producing them has been sued by Lego. Si it doesn't exist anymore, but you still can find theire products online
I have just bought Assembly Square, want to get the book shop and Parasian restaurant but this is my first set in this group.
@@littlemissgiggles165 In my opinion, the book shop doesn't deserve to stand along those 2 sets. The interiors are poor, and the price per brick is relatively high. There are other Creators sets that are much more interesting and beautiful. But yes, after all, it's a question of personnal tastes
@@ulysse21 I love the look of the outside of the book shop but not a huge fan of the inside. I think I like it as when I was younger I used to spend all my time with my head in books or in book shops but now I spend a lot of time with lego so incorporates both
14:55
“I’d also like to add that THIS building looks great from the back as well...”
*red arrow pointing at attractive blonde lady*
😂
Hey, I can see my house from here!
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Great list, though I was surprised about pet shop ranking so low. It’s not as detailed in the interior as some newer sets, but it just oozes a cozy charisma. It does feel like and end to an era set.
13:12 the blue building in assembly square is clearly missing a piece
epic noob that’s annoying
That is annoying
"The Designer did not cut any corners"
I see it
@@tlazo3627 well, the builder did.
I really like brick bank. Especially for the details!
And that includes the in-joke reference with the bank and laundromat.
It is my second favourite modular after Assembly Square. I like it fot the story, details and plain, yet very structural facade. Walls made of gold bricks are so great!
I love how subjective the Modulars are for people. No two lists of favorites are the same. Every one of them is somebody’s favorite. They are all so well done. One thing I have noticed. I recently started lighting my city. How the buildings are lit, and how they are displayed makes a huge difference in your subjective opinion of a given building. My City is a shelf setup that runs around three walls of my small office at shoulder height. So you largely view my city at Street level. With lighting the Downtown Diner, the Palace Cinema, and the Corner Garage are astonishing at how they change and come to life at that viewing angle. The Diner especially becomes something akin to an Edward Hopper painting.
Can you add captions. For deaf and hard of hearing people like me who enjoy legos and want to see your opinion. Thanks!
Edit:
1+ weeks seriously Alex I would like to be able to understand what is your opinion as I’m very curious and been coming back to this video daily.
AncientZoned well, I don’t know if that’s a joke, but if you are deaf you can definitely not hear his opinion
pignna28 I mean see what he has to say...
AncientZoned yeah i know what you mean, i just thought it was funny the way you formulated that sentence
Turn it up
Captions have been added. Thanks for letting me know.
As a person who has JUST started collecting these, thanks for the list.
My top 15
15 market street
14 pet shop
13 book shop
12 firehouse
11 grand emporium
10 palace cinema
9 Town hall
8 green grocer
7brick bank
6 cafe corner
5 detectives office
4 corner garage
3 Parisian restaurant
2 diner
1 assembly square
A good and solid rank there. Thanks for sharing. Some similarities with mine.
Personally I have pretty similar, I really like diner and surprisingly Corner Garage which I feel nobody likes. I just would put maybe Cafe corner and Green grocer lower, I don't like them that much
Surprised to see town hall at #2. That was the easiest set for me to sell. I just always thought it wasn’t up to par with the sets that followed. I think I purchased at the time for the piece count. Nothing else impressive.
It's the Palace Cinema that will hold a special place for me...I had just paid off my student loans and finally had extra money burning a hole in my pocket. The set was just released, and I had never seen any of the modular sets before it...it was just so much different/mature than other Lego sets I was familiar with from my childhood. I have 6 other modulars, only one of which - Assembly Square - made your top 5.
I've been collecting them since the Palace Cinema! I'm 14 now! I always saved through the year and asked for money instead of presents at Christmas so I could get the new set. Over the years, I have bought from a few private seller and I'm only missing the Cafe Corner and Market Street.
Have you gotten the two missing ones yet?
@@theminesweeper1 Yes I have! I also have the new police station
@@Alex-vm6gy Congrats! how much did you pay for the missing discontinued ones?
@@theminesweeper1 they were a nightmare to find! I managed find someone who had both sets and it was roughly £1000 but I certainly felt that price because I did all sorts of chores and chipped in the money I'd saved over a year to eventually be able to afford them. Do you have any of the modulars?
@@Alex-vm6gy I have grand emporium, green grocer, pet shop,and fire brigade
I just found the Detectives office and Parisian restaurant at our local antique mall. They were complete sets with everything in the box. $200 each plus the booth had 15% off. I think my son is going to be excited for these on Christmas 🎄 🤞🏼
Very nice find!