10182-1: Cafe Corner

Add realistic architecture to your LEGO Town!

Developed by LEGO fans and designers working together, this detailed and realistic street corner scene features plenty of special colors, rare LEGO pieces and creative building techniques, as well as authentic interior details and modular construction to let you enlarge the neighborhood as your LEGO collection grows. Built completely on minifigure scale! Includes 3 townspeople minifigures! Street base measures 10" x 10" (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm) and building stands over 14" (36 cm) high! Realistic features include opening front door, caf © tables with umbrellas, striped awning, "Hotel" sign, trash can, street light, bench and more! Top two stories lift off to reveal inner rooms and staircases! Connectors at base of model allow you to join 4 Caf © Corners together!

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Instructions and parts list

Instructions for this set can be downloaded from LEGO.com:

Filename File size Format Notes/Region
4513878.pdf 7391Kb Book 1/2
4513879.pdf 9391Kb Book 2/2

Instructions for this set may also be available at Peeron.

A parts list for this set may be available at BrickLink and/or Peeron.

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Great exterior - no interior

Posted by darthdc in United Kingdom on 03 September 2009

Like other reviewers, I bought this set when I had already acquired the Green Grocer set. One thing that inspired me to get this set was the principle of a 45 degree corner on a building (how was it done?). Other than that, it was the general look of the building.

Ground Floor:

Exterior - nice detailing, especially with the two main doors (the archway over the hotel door is a really good feature). The word "Cafe" is written in tiles where the tables are, though the letter F is partly underneath the building.
I'm lost for why a door was put in the side of the building where the tables are. Not only is it a built up door but it poses a problem for those interested in decorating the interior. The HOTEL sign is well done, the E is cleverly made.

The interior is - well nothing at all. Even the green base plates are visible. Interior designers, heres the blank canvas you need.

First Floor:

The tallest of the two upper floors. Designed so that if you buy multiple sets, you can stack several of these floors together. Again, the exterior has all best features - nice brick work.
The interior is left to having a railing on the stairwell. the plates used for the flooring is black, the back walls are brown and the front walls: dark red. The colour scheme could have been better - it is too dark.

Second Floor:

This floor is better in that the interior walls are generally lighter. the floor is still black however and the furnishing is left, once again, to a railing at the top of the stairs.

Pros

Nice exterior - great show piece
Takes a while to build - all day
Clever building techniques

Cons

No interiors
Bricks/Colour rationing - why are some colours restricted to certain bricks - the lower floor consists of 1x2 and 1x4 dark blue bricks - 1 layer is almost entirely 1x2 bricks
First floor is too dark

The lack of interior is the main con on this set and is why I give it 4/5. The saving grace being that the exterior is so good.

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Awesome exterior

Posted by cameljockie in United Kingdom on 30 July 2009

This was thefirst of what has now become a line of succesful, exclusive, and large building sets of the lego range.

The ornate classical european architecture is captured brilliantly, with some really innovative building techniques not seen before. The canopys for example are made using bricks instead of canvas, which actually suits the overall look. The use of minfig skis as a door decoration is brilliant.

The colour scheme is brilliant with some lovely Dark red, browns, tan and rare dark blue pieces. The pavement is ornate in places which although time consuming to place, they give the set that extra bit of realism not seen before.

Obviously a lot reasearch and design planning has gone into this. But Fundamentally the one thing this set lacks is an interior. Its all well and good having stair cases and banisters but there are no details to speak of; just empty space. No furniture, no beds no kitchens, no bathrooms nothing.

The ground floor which youd imagine to be a cafe with a counter and till, does not exist. Lego has marketed this set as a collectors model, and for the price range, perhaps it explains the lack of interior design.

Having said all this the set is designed to you can add an interior yourself, which I have done with great success. Its just more expenisve doing it yourself, especially if you are trying to match the design scheme of this model.

The figures are a nice addition, as is the becnch and cafe tables.

So heres the low down:

Pros:
-Beautifully well designed architecture
-Rare and interesting pieces.
-Really nice colours
-Realistic designs.
-Highly adaptable for MOC.

Cons:
-Really is just a display model rather than a typical playset
-No Interior
-Plain figures.

This is a set owrth buying if you have the money and the time to build it. But once constructed you will forever be gazing at it in awe.

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One of the best kits I have built in a while!!

Posted by shnake in Australia on 11 May 2009

I bought 6 of these great kits with the idea of building a huge hotel/cafe complex, but the wife made me sell all but one of them.
I like the fact that it has empty floors, which means that I can create my own layouts with existing parts and fit it out just how i think it should be.
I would have prefered a few more minifigs, perhaps a waiter or chef for the cafe.
I highly recommend anybody with the cash to buy this kit as it will make a great addition to any collection and it fits in perfectly with my Market Street.

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Fantastic piece of lego art

Posted by Parkseonyang in Singapore on 04 April 2009

I've just completed constructing the cafe corner this morning after purchasing the set on Thursday. I must say this is currently the largest Lego set I've ever built (because I'll be putting up the green grocer set soon!)
The external facade of the building is simply fabulous, with amazing details from the top floor right to the bottom. I find the grey frogs and parrots used on the roofs are kinda amusing though.
Let me begin with the pros, not that I haven't begun... the process of building this whole thing is just enjoyable (taking me roughly 5 hours to complete over 3 days), if you are a true lego fanatic. There is an old 50s feeling this cafe corner provides which is amazing what lego bricks can create!
Here are some of the cons, I believe this is what other reviewers would agree as well, the ground floor inside the cafe is really bare, with just the green plate, so it's up to you to design the interior which is what allowed me to do. The 2nd and 3rd floors are bare as well, and I realised that this building lacks a toilet! haha. But that's a really small issue for me.
Despite the cons, I must say that this is really a great set that any lego lover has to get if cash isn't so much of a problem.
I can't help but constantly admire the cafe corner adorned with lovely details!

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Great But Could Be Tweaked A Little More

Posted by Menwhosmilerbrave in United States on 26 March 2009

So I get this Cafe Corner Set for Christmas, and I look at the picture and one word comes to my head WOW! I was really excited to build it. When I finished building it I was very happy, but kind of disappointed.

Pros
Cafe Corner is the best Lego set I ever built. It is very interesting in the design and very realistic in my opinion anybody who is a major Leg fan should have this set even though what I say in my next paragraph. I like it for 2 reasons
1. The new and almost unheard of design.
2. This sets instructions only tell you how to build it, not how to play with it/ use it. As I did, I use the 3rd floor for a newspaper shop and the 2nd for the Hotel itself and the 1st floor for the Cafe and Hotel Lobby
Cons
This Lego building is very interesting on the outside, but the outside only. I noticed that after a few weeks (or about a month) the floor pieces either detached/broke off or fell through the rest of the floor. Also there are no interior decor or furniture. So in a cause and effect you try and furnish it(which i did try and could only fit in a 5 Lego brick heigh wall and 3 4x2 Leg bricks in the second floor and some other little stuff in the third) and you break the floor pieces. Then after struggling to put the floor back together. You break it again and you fix it with curse words (as my dad did) and then you can only rest people on the furnishings, and not attach them in fear of a floor collapsing.

If you just want to put it on display I would think it would be an awe'er though.

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