Ten years of Modular Buildings!

Mechanic's shop. Something with tools, a few cars, perhaps one in pieces, a lift inside, possibly an MOT pit with room for a few minifigures, and anything else you might find in a typical garage.

I was really hoping for that construction building to be accepted in that last LEGO Ideas review. It would really have helped break up what I believe to be a monotony between the buildings. Not that they don't all look different from the outside and in, but that construction site really broke the mold of what is an accepted era in the Modular line. This is why I promote a Modular park almost every time I see one on LEGO Ideas. It just needs something new. Its a great base to build off of at home, and each set has been better than the next. I can't wait to see if they decide to mix it up a little.

Interesting and informative video. Good to see that the Modular line has a future.
I personally would like to see a Police station/precinct or something medical, whether thats a small hospital or a doctor surgery. Also a Grand post office would be good but could be a while since we've not long had a Bank.

I think the sets continue to get better, but I would love to have smaller modulars in the middle of the year; half the footprint, half the price, in 16x32 plates (kinda like selling the Pet Shop separately). This would allow for more variety of buildings in different industries (since, not all the buildings need to be 32x32. You could argue that the regular Creator sets do something similar, but they're not on par with the big modulars.

Great point about the 1/2 Modulars. Wait, quit spending all my money!

I would love to be able to buy one for staters but I will name a few things that would really interest me: a sea port with one cargo ship a a few cranes on a 32x32 baseplate and with a contractor office and a wagon yard, a medical practice office (look the Friends line is getting a full blown hospital), a spaceport to give the figures more jobs, a park.
Edit: a zoo with a couple of the animals being brick built.

The two major missing items from the LEGO City-verse are a Police Precinct (though the Detective Office gives a nod to law enforcement) and Construction. Police, fire, and construction are such mainstays over the years that have a parallel modular seems like an easy decision. The IDEAS construction site would have been awesome, but the era conflict may have been part of the decision to not realize that design. I also wouldn't rule out that the approval of the Old Fishing Store had some impact there as well.

Police Precinct
Construction Site (era appropriate, maybe with a nod to "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper")
Post Office

And then its a bit of a pie-in-the-sky wish because I was late to the modular party, but I'd love to see TLG do what they have done with the Star Wars series and reissue some of the earlier modulars with interiors that are up to the standards of the later modulars. Would probably destroy the cache of having an original CC, MS, GG, etc... but hey, a guy can dream right?

i would like to see some kind of medical clinic or a post office like many others have suggested

Police Station, Car Repair, Hospital for me.

+1 for 1/2 modular in the year (for 90€)

I'd like to see a Post Office, Café or Supermarket with a flat upstairs

I think that doing a half modular every other year would be nice. even if it is something more along the lines of how the petshop was and is just two different buildings together I really liked them. I kind of wished that the assembly square was a 32x32 and a 16x32 that could be positioned by themselves.

with that being said I have taken to building some of the modulars in the mirror image to make them seem different. it has been challenging at times but with sets like the Christmas build up provide pieces that can bridge the gap.

I can see an ice cream parlor happening in the future.

I agree the line needs a police precinct. I'd also like to see a school and, of course, there must be a Lego store!

I have no real preference for any particular future Modular building, but it's interesting to see that LEGO, at least, considers Market Street to be an official Modular building...

I would like to see more models from the past modulars, Jamie! WITH instructions :-)
Supporting the half modular idea!

Tube station.

I hope this is not a question Lego asked you to present to your readership because in the past few months, many fantastic Modular creations have been proposed and have all (so far) been rejected. I am talking about: (1) Modular Lego Store ( https://ideas.lego.com/projects/137814 ), (2) Modular Construction site ( https://ideas.lego.com/projects/129250 ), (3) Modular Train Station ( https://ideas.lego.com/projects/101885 ), (4) Modular Library ( https://ideas.lego.com/projects/64145 ), (5) Modular Natural History Museum ( https://ideas.lego.com/projects/46720 ) and (6) Modular Apple Store. Aside from the Apple Store which IMHO does not contain any interesting new building techniques, I would have bought all of these sets. Maybe Lego does not want to share royalties when it comes to this line but then again they should mention it in the rules and prohibit Modular proposals to avoid false hopes. As Jamie mentioned in the video they may have had to change the colour scheme a little bit as most of these buildings have the same colour but people have voted for these so clearly there is an interest. As other mentioned, police precinct, hospital and train station would be nice. The train station is probably the most pressing item for now as most Lego layouts usually include train of some sort. Such a build would probably need to be 32 x 64 or 48 x 48 (double track with ramp 1 & 2 and overpass would be nice). A simple apartments building with a gated alley to an inside yard parking lot would also be nice but would also need to be larger than 32 x 32 - that said parking lots are not expensive to create!

I'm not sure I understand this fascination with the elusive Police Precinct. It was all the talk before the reveal of Assembly Square and continues to dominate. Meanwhile, how many comments do you read bemoaning the seeming rehashing of police stations each year? While simultaneously wishing for a hospital or something totally different than what established themes provide? That, after all, is part of the advantage to the modular line: they give Lego the opportunity to go big and go different. And, personally, my Lego city doesn't have nearly that rampant of a crime problem to warrant another policy station. :-)

I love these buildings. And people react so well to them. I use them to teach Latin on the website, Legonium.com. All of the fabulae (stories) take place in Legonium, an imaginary town of Lego Modulars. Well, except episode seven which was filmed entirely on the amazing Lego Pompeii of Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught. The site has been very popular, due in no small amount to people's love of Lego and these wonderful modular buildings. If you love Modulars and have any interest in Latin, you should drop by the site. Just Google Legonium. Cheers.

I did google Legonium and enjoy the counting from 1 to 100 very much. Brilliant idea!
I would LOVE a Performing Arts School!

@MrJackson -

And see, my city is currently overrun with the Batman Rogue's gallery and the GCPD. These officers need a home base!

An Hotel could have the reception, bar/restaurant and spa/gym room on the first floor, the rooms on the second floor with vending machines, cleaning cart and ice dispenser and the suite on the third floor. Lego could even decide to sell floor 2 separately for those who wants a very large and tall hotel.

@Hobbes. A modular building is not an unique idea, because it exists already. So it will probably never pass.

I´d lik a school, a hospital, a historic museum, a kindergarten school, a really old, very decorated, church and of course a big Zoo.....etc...

There are some great modular compatible design ideas at BrickBuildersPro and BrickCityDepot. They sell pdf instructions if anyone needs more modulars in their city. I have bought from both and I'm very happy with them. (I'm not connected to either seller; just a happy customer.)

@HOBBES: I think there's a very good reason why modular buildings don't pass the LEGO Ideas review: it's an ongoing series that is already operating at capacity. If LEGO thought there was a market for more than one new modular per year and had the production capacity to take advantage of that, they'd surely already be taking advantage of that. But otherwise, releasing more modulars risks oversaturating the market, leading people to buy fewer of the other new and still-available modulars.

There's a similar risk with projects for other ongoing themes like Ninjago or Star Wars. LEGO puts a lot of thought into how many new sets from each of their product lines the market can bear in a given year. That said, the market for a line with numerous low-priced sets may have more flexibility than the market for a line that gets one high-priced set a year. A smaller modular on par with Market Street might stand a better chance in the LEGO Ideas review, but no guarantees.

Anyway, this was a very fun and informative video!

I'd get strongly behind half modulars at around £80 or £90 - that way, I could be more economic with money and space, only choosing the ones that interested me the most. I currently don't buy the modular buildings and I know I'm missing out, but I can't buy everything I want all the time, so as usual, Star Wars (and anything else that piques my interest) will consume most of my funds.

They did a Firehouse, I am surprised we haven't seen a Police Precinct or Emergency Hospital.

How about a building that releases a new floor every year?

@Speed champions fan: I totally agree! That's an idea I've had for awhile and wanted to make into a modular at some point. Set 75875: Ford F-150 Raptor & Ford Model A Hot Rod had that shop interior which is a great little start to something bigger. Plus with all of the cars in the Lego universe it seems a no brainer.

And what a great little video btw, nice they did this to showcase my favorite line of Lego products.

@mrjackson a city police station and a modular police station are two different things. Modular buildings connect, and generally look good next to each other. City police station are usually play sets designed more for kids. There are many modulars I would like, but would require more than one baseplate. Then there are others that won't fit the LEGO code of no sex, guns,....

I think that since they had the big 10th Anniversary, they should switch gears and produce modular victorian buildings (10 years of this, then switch to something new)

I would like to see a wood working shop. You know with an old craftsman designing and building wood furniture and toys in one area of the building and on a different floor another craftsman experimenting with plastic toys. Hmmm. This would be fun to see in a modular building...

An Art Deco hotel like those found in Miami Beach.

I'd like to see a doctor's office and a butcher's shop.
Other than that, I like the idea of half-sized modulars sold separately, and a port office sounds nice too.

It's interesting how Café Corner is a ground floor shop, but most of it (the second and third floor) is actually a hotel, as seen in the big sign. So... should it be called "B&B Corner" instead? :]

Mini Modulars Volume 2 is about due for those not committed enough to the full size models. ;D

...or the over-committed.

I didn't buy any of the modular buildings and I am really regretting it.

Wow, a really informative video. I hope the modulars continue for many years. It's a shame I haven't bought any yet.

It's funny, or not, but I remember first seeing Modulars in 2009. I was broke, finishing up grad school, not into LEGO, but I thought I would peak at one of their catalogs for fun. I see these incredible buildings and then I look at the price tag (which is cheap compared to today) and I can't help but laugh (or cry) about me thinking I'd never spend that much on a LEGO set. I wasn't out of the dark ages yet anyway AND I wouldn't have had the money, but looking back it stings a bit. Oh well. I like seeing the new creations and coming up with my own designs.

Sweet video. I think adding some 16 x 32 row houses in different styles would be nice (and affordable)...something along the lines of what they did with the MY TRAIN theme many moons ago...where TLG provided us with various affordable stock to compliment our layouts.