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Posted:May 7, 2016
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From: Charlotte
From:  United States
Age: 25-34
Customer Type:  LEGO Fan
Building Experience:  Intermediate LEGO builder
Purchased For: Self
Build Time:
07hrs
Play Experience: 
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" This is my favorite modular set out of the five I have built. It is very detailed and they do not leave a lot of wasted or empty space. It is a rather tight space to work in. The pool hall has a beautiful pool table and ceiling fan. The "glass work", "POOL", and "AL'S" signs on the front side of the building are very attractive. I rather enjoyed the amount of detail they placed in the detective's office which included a secret letter behind the picture, a wanted posted, a cluttered desk with a very nice desk lamp, hat rack, magnifying glass, fan on a storage cabinet, safe, etc. The bathroom across the hall didn't seem to fit with the rest of the building but has an element of humor to it. I was glad that there were secondary options in the set for hair/head pieces for the characters. The news stand is a welcome addition and helps make the modulars when placed together look more like a city street. I have the Parisian Restaurant modular to the left which shows off the brickwork on the side of the detective's office. I do wish that the pieces used to hang up the picture and the wanted poster were the same color as the brickwork as those fairly visible from the outside of the building. The ladder in the middle of the buildings just kind of hangs there and it more of an aesthetic piece and is not very functional. The height of the building is relatively close to that of the Brick Bank which I like because it gives bank robbers another route of escape and another element of the law to run into. Speaking of the law... the story line that goes with the building is a "sweets" prohibition era story that I rather enjoyed. The passageways aren't easy to use but creative and fun. The lady upstairs is the one baking the sweets. She does have a cat sidekick. There's a "Bricking Bad" pun in there I'm sure. It was a fun build and I'd like to see more like this. "
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Great build awesome playability!
Posted:December 30, 2016
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From:  Australia
Age: 14-18
Customer Type:  LEGO Fan
Building Experience:  Expert LEGO builder
Purchased For: Self
Build Time:
04hrs
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" I got this set for Christmas and have to say I haven't stopped playing with it for days, it has so many play features and it just looks great. Al's barber shop is so awesome the reflective mirror is awesome and the cookie smuggling feature is the best. The pool table is well built and looks great.i love the pull chain toilet oh though it is very hard to get a mini figure to be placed on the toilet.The detectives office is cool and comes with so many cool pieces and the desk is amazing. The third floor has some really cool details like the uni kitty tail. All up this has to be my favourite modular building out of them all. It has great playability and some awesome detail. "
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Looks stunning but not a expert level build
Posted:January 15, 2015
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From: Chicago
From:  United States
Age: 35-44
Customer Type:  LEGO Fan
Building Experience:  Advanced LEGO builder
Purchased For: Self
Build Time:
06hrs
Play Experience: 
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" I am a fan of the whole modular building creator expert series. I have several of these sets and most of them are fun and challenging to build and look stunning.
The Detective Office finished build fits perfectly in my lego town main street between the Pet Shop and Grand Emporium. The color scheme of the building makes it pop out on the street. The building size is smaller than most of the buildings. However if placed between the right size buildings it looks good. The pool hall side works best next to the Pet Shop because that building itself was small. The Barber shop side works better next to Grand Emporium or Palace Cinema as there roof lines almost match.
The actual build however was a bit of a disappointment. Most of the past buildings had many advance building techniques and made the build enjoyable. The Detective office first off comes with many very small parts. Most are 1x2, and 1x4 bricks that make up this building. All past modulars I built before this one, had way more bigger bricks that also included 1x6, 1x8 and even 1x10’s The Detective office does not have many of these type of bricks and should have.
I felt this building was lacking in many areas. It made it feel unfinished in several areas.
The first floor between the pool hall and the barber shop hall way area. Both store fronts walls are open and do not go up to the ceiling. It would of only needed 10 to 15 more bricks to finish that off. It makes it not look or feel like an official lego expert set.
The stairway next to the barber shop is exposed, there no wall. It would have been better if the stairway work like it did with the pet shop and was enclosed.
Top floor kitchen has you use several 1x1 black round plates to fill out areas that should have used light blue , red brown or medium street gray 1x1 plates. It looks bad and everyone that sees that floor points that out.
For the cost of this set, what is the point of not adding several extra parts to finish it off right? Specially when there always over 30 or more extra parts anyways with all these creator sets.
Lego had a storyline with this building. To me I felt this was to market this set to a younger fan base than the recommend 16+ fan base. I think that might be the reason why this set felt more like building a Creator 3 in 1 than a Creator Expert level set. And maybe why it was missing many challenging build techniques, that past expert sets had.
If your a fan of the modular buildings it still a great building to have. It just not as good as many of the past sets in parts, advance building techniques and overall challenge to build. The Detective Office however still looks stunning and fits in any Lego town. "
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Great fun!
Posted:February 4, 2018
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From:  Sweden
Age: 25-34
Customer Type:  LEGO Fan
Building Experience:  Advanced LEGO builder
Purchased For: Self
Build Time:
10hrs
Play Experience: 
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5 / 5
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Level of Difficulty:
Average
" My first modular set and the first set I bought for myself since I was a kid. Who am I kidding anymore? I like to build lego and thats that :)
This piece is great fun to build. Not a lot of repetition and some interesting design decisions which was a delight to build! As some others have written; quite narrow rooms to play with, at least half of them, but overall its a very small minus in such a wonderful set all in all! "
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