Adding the Jazz Club to your modular street
Posted by Huw,
10312 Jazz Club is designed to connect to all the other 17 modular buildings so there is almost an infinite number of ways to do so.
Obviously, then, I can't show you every combination, but I've dusted off a few recent ones so you can see how it looks next to them.
Having a straight frontage makes it easy to put between any of the others. Here are some examples.
10297 Boutique Hotel, jazz club, 10278 Police Station
The club building is 2 bricks shallower than the hotel and the pizzeria is also narrower than the cake shop next to the police station. However, it looks good in this configuration, particularly the trellis which looks like it's attached to the cake shop wall.
10278 Police Station, jazz club, 10297 Boutique Hotel
This arrangement looks OK too, although the club is quite a bit deeper than the police station annexe. The right-hand side looks fine, again with the trellis looking more natural next to the art gallery's wall.
10297 Boutique Hotel, part of 10270 Bookshop, jazz club
The bookshop matches the club's depth and height so works well next to it, both to its left...
10297 Boutique Hotel, jazz club, half of 10270 Bookshop
... and right.
Want to see how it looks next to others? Let me know in the comments and I'll see what I can do. However, although I have every modular building some are still MISB. Here's a list of those I have built, so restrict your requests to those!
Where do you plan to add it on your street?
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I might be interested to see how it interacts with the Parisian Restaurant!
Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)
If you have the 10182 Cafe Corner and the 10185 Green Grocer it would be interesting to see how far the modulars have come over the years - and how much they've shrunk XD
They should make filler sets that are smaller but make it feel more like a real city. A vacant lot, an alleyway. Make them half the size just to create some depth instead of a bunch of buildings crammed together
I'd like to see it on either side of the Detective's Office if you could manage it! I feel like in terms of subject matter and layout the two might complement each other well.
@blidablat said:
"Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
"You are technically correct, the best kind of correct."
I liked the "garish" colors. Seeing them in a row reaffirms that. Now, let's hope the color-matching and long-term piece fragility issues with dark red don't raise their dual ugly heads.
Let's assume for a moment that we want to ignore corners and line up all the buildings in a straight line. Then remember that 10270 and 10218 both have two separate halves. That gives us 20 buildings that we can place in a row. So, we are looking at potentially 20!=2.43 x 10^18 different ways to place them in a line. Isn't math fun!!!
@empire0 said:
"They should make filler sets that are smaller but make it feel more like a real city. A vacant lot, an alleyway. Make them half the size just to create some depth instead of a bunch of buildings crammed together "
I doubt anyone would buy a "empty lot" set, as it would be just a baseplate with not much on it. We got a Modular size park as a Chinese new Year set, though
But yeah. I don’t really like that every building now has a different depth. The Hotel went 2 studs too far into the street, so the unsightly side is always visible no matter what building you put next to it and the yellow Pizzeria exposes a plain wall of another building. Streets are usually not that chaotic and the fassade line is quite consistent
@blidablat said:
"Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
If you are just putting the 17 in a straight line, I believe there is over 350 trillion combinations. While not sure how you would even begin to calculate it, if you want to consider a city layout, or some other methods, I don’t think infinite is the right number, but it has to be astronomically high.
@empire0 said:
"They should make filler sets that are smaller but make it feel more like a real city. A vacant lot, an alleyway. Make them half the size just to create some depth instead of a bunch of buildings crammed together "
What’s holding you back?
@blidablat said:
"Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
Well... this is a base case of permutation, so 17! which is 355,687,428,096,000.
If Huw is fast and can re-order all buildings and take a picture in 1 minute, then trying out all the possible combinations would take him 676 million years.
Likely enough time for a new modular to come out so he can start all over again.
I likewise have all the modulars thanks to being a collector since the start. I display them in pairs and am thinking I will pair this one with the police station. They match up well.
The 10246 Detective's Office either on its right or left might work quite well. Would be interesting to see both combinations. It also has a lower and higher section, NYC architecture and a flat roof
Can you please put it on the other side of the hotel or next to the blue house in the bookshop thanks
@blidablat said:
"Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
18 Modulars, without splitting them would give 18! Combinations. 6.4x10e15
Whilst nowhere ‘near’ infinite, that’s quite a few.
Chuck in the spring lantern festival, and split those that can be that’s 22!
1.1x10e21 only a factor of 10 to the number of stars in the universe.
It works great if you put the Boutique Hotel to the right of it, that vined partition works well against the Boutique set, then to the left of it the Bookshop.
All those colors work together well.
Bookshop-Jazzclub-Hotel
I believe the designer also did the Boutique Hotel so it seems like he designed the pizza shop to be next to it on the hotel's left hand side.
I have a feeling that the Jazz Club might work well with the 10190 Market Street (Market Street on the left and Jazz Club on the right). If you can take a picture next to it, that would be great!
@blidablat said:
"(...)I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
You can't get anywhere near it, but you can always approach it.
Counting the two modulars which can be split as two each, it works out as 2.4 quintillion (2,432,902,008,176,640,000) combinations.
That's about a third of the number of grains of sand that scientists estimate are on the world's beaches.
@ryanameek said:
" @blidablat said:
"Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
If you are just putting the 17 in a straight line, I believe there is over 350 trillion combinations. While not sure how you would even begin to calculate it, if you want to consider a city layout, or some other methods, I don’t think infinite is the right number, but it has to be astronomically high. "
If you randomly select 1 of the 18 existing modulars and place it on a table, then placed one of the remaining 17 next to it, and so on (without regard to some being a corner and others not being a corner), you should have 6,402,373,705,728,000 possible configurations.
That's over 6 quadrillion.
@sitrukdarnok I didn't see that you already did the math on this, and with a few more variables.
@empire0 said:
"They should make filler sets that are smaller but make it feel more like a real city. A vacant lot, an alleyway. Make them half the size just to create some depth instead of a bunch of buildings crammed together "
This illustrates a problem I have with the Modular Buildings series: as an "adult collectible", so many AFOLs arrange them (or, worse, try to store them MISB to flip later) without actually iterating on them or combining them with their own MOCs. Creativity suffers and the Modular Buildings become analogous to Funko Pops with some assembly required. It's Lego goddammit build your own vacant lot
@empire0 said:
"They should make filler sets that are smaller but make it feel more like a real city. A vacant lot, an alleyway. Make them half the size just to create some depth instead of a bunch of buildings crammed together "
Do it yourself or incorporate other sets!
Thanks Huw, these are fun shots!
@tomthepirate said:
" @blidablat said:
"Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
Well... this is a base case of permutation, so 17! which is 355,687,428,096,000.
If Huw is fast and can re-order all buildings and take a picture in 1 minute, then trying out all the possible combinations would take him 676 million years."
Just a couple of small problems with that:
1. Despite LEGO being extremely durable, it is unlikely to last 676 million years, and
2. Despite Huw being extremely durable, he is unlikely to last 676 million years.
The maths is getting interesting!
If we were to restrict the options to sandwiching the jazz club between two other buildings, to make a row of three, how many combinations are there then?
I count 28 modular units when you add the BrickLink designer program modulars, Marvel modulars and split Market Street, Pet Shop, Book Shop and Chinese Gardens
@Huw said:
"The maths is getting interesting!
If we were to restrict the options to sandwiching the jazz club between two other buildings, to make a row of three, how many combinations are there then?"
If there are 17 modular buildings in total, you’ll have 16 options for the left side. For each option on the left side, you’ll have 15 options for the right side. So 16 x 15 = 240 combinations in total. Doable but tedious :)
@Huw said:
"The maths is getting interesting!
If we were to restrict the options to sandwiching the jazz club between two other buildings, to make a row of three, how many combinations are there then?"
If we apply the counting logic of the trolls of Discworld, especially those who like Jazz, the correct answer is quite simply, 'lots'.
@Legonk said:
" @Huw said:
"The maths is getting interesting!
If we were to restrict the options to sandwiching the jazz club between two other buildings, to make a row of three, how many combinations are there then?"
If there are 17 modular buildings in total, you’ll have 16 options for the left side. For each option on the left side, you’ll have 15 options for the right side. So 16 x 15 = 240 combinations in total. Doable but tedious :)
"
Thanks -- I'd have to build half of them first, so very tedious!
There's 18 modulars, so 17 options for the sides, but three of those are split ones and can be arranged in two ways (I forgot about Market Street in my earlier calculations), so effectively making an additional three modulars. So 20 options for one side, plus 19 options for the other side equals 380 different ways.
You have 10 bullt (not counting Jazz Club), but two of those are split ones, so effectively 12 built. 12 options for one side times 11 options for the other side is 132 different ways.
I am very curious how the the Jazz Club would look to the right of the Detective's Office, as I've read some concerns that the various shades of blue would look muddled together.
@sitrukdarnok said:
"Let's assume for a moment that we want to ignore corners and line up all the buildings in a straight line. Then remember that 10270 and 10218 both have two separate halves. That gives us 20 buildings that we can place in a row. So, we are looking at potentially 20!=2.43 x 10^18 different ways to place them in a line. Isn't math fun!!!"
Market Street also has two separate halves. So 21!
I hadn't realized how odd everything looks next to BH's non-gallery side.
I think mirror-building it and placing it on the right side of Police Station works best.
I'm surprised nobody has developed a webpage that lets you line up a string of 3-5 modulars virtually. It's beyond my skills, for sure, but it shouldn't be any harder than something like camerzasize.com or pxlmag.com's size comparison that even lets you add lenses to each comparison.
@ryanameek said:
" @blidablat said:
"Almost an infinite number of ways? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anywhere remotely "close" to infinity. :)"
If you are just putting the 17 in a straight line, I believe there is over 350 trillion combinations. While not sure how you would even begin to calculate it, if you want to consider a city layout, or some other methods, I don’t think infinite is the right number, but it has to be astronomically high. "
Technically, 10190, 10218, and 10270 can all be separated. This number gives you 21! combinations which is roughly 51.2 quintillion combinations if you were to line them all up in a line!
I was also about to comment to complain that 17! (Or (20!, or whatever other large but non infinite number) is not almost infinity. I see that plenty of people have made the point already so I would think that Huw won't make that mistake again, unless he wants to get a lot of maths in the comments!
I think a combination of several of the Modulars that feature smaller, narrower buildings would be interesting to see.
I'm sorry to be that guy who always corrects people when they say "locker combination" not "locker permutation", but in combinations the order does not matter where with permutations it does.
@Vladtheb said:
"I count 28 modular units when you add the BrickLink designer program modulars, Marvel modulars and split Market Street, Pet Shop, Book Shop and Chinese Gardens"
You’re Forgetting the Ninjago Modulars, so 31.
Comments about LEGO AND math?
I might come in heaven!
@Librarian1976 said:
" @Vladtheb said:
"I count 28 modular units when you add the BrickLink designer program modulars, Marvel modulars and split Market Street, Pet Shop, Book Shop and Chinese Gardens"
You’re Forgetting the Ninjago Modulars, so 31."
32 since the most recent Ninjago one is another two-parter
I like the first layout. I would do this but sadly I display my modulars in a Billy bookcase so only 2.5 fit on a shelf so the bookshop may need to replace the boutique hotel
@StyleCounselor said:
"I liked the "garish" colors. Seeing them in a row reaffirms that. Now, let's hope the color-matching and long-term piece fragility issues with dark red don't raise their dual ugly heads."
There’s already a broken Dark Red piece in the review on this set…
@Boettner_Builds said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"I liked the "garish" colors. Seeing them in a row reaffirms that. Now, let's hope the color-matching and long-term piece fragility issues with dark red don't raise their dual ugly heads."
There’s already a broken Dark Red piece in the review on this set…
"
Ouch!!! Not a good look. Another person pointed out bad color-matching as well. I haven't looked that closely. Perhaps, @Huw could let us know if the color-matching is as bad as usual?
@Vladtheb said:
" @Librarian1976 said:
" @Vladtheb said:
"I count 28 modular units when you add the BrickLink designer program modulars, Marvel modulars and split Market Street, Pet Shop, Book Shop and Chinese Gardens"
You’re Forgetting the Ninjago Modulars, so 31."
32 since the most recent Ninjago one is another two-parter
"
Don't forget the 2 Marvel mods.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @Vladtheb said:
" @Librarian1976 said:
" @Vladtheb said:
"I count 28 modular units when you add the BrickLink designer program modulars, Marvel modulars and split Market Street, Pet Shop, Book Shop and Chinese Gardens"
You’re Forgetting the Ninjago Modulars, so 31."
32 since the most recent Ninjago one is another two-parter
"
Don't forget the 2 Marvel mods."
And don't forget the D2C Diagon Alley set that fits together to make two, two-sided modular buildings. I really like that one.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @Vladtheb said:
" @Librarian1976 said:
" @Vladtheb said:
"I count 28 modular units when you add the BrickLink designer program modulars, Marvel modulars and split Market Street, Pet Shop, Book Shop and Chinese Gardens"
You’re Forgetting the Ninjago Modulars, so 31."
32 since the most recent Ninjago one is another two-parter
"
Don't forget the 2 Marvel mods."
They’re included in my initial comment :)
@Boettner_Builds said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"I liked the "garish" colors. Seeing them in a row reaffirms that. Now, let's hope the color-matching and long-term piece fragility issues with dark red don't raise their dual ugly heads."
There’s already a broken Dark Red piece in the review on this set…"
Turns out it was not a crack but the scurge of many of my photos: a black cat hair!
Curious to see the Jazz Club in combinations with the Parisian Restaurant & Detective Office, as well as the turquoise house from the Bookshop modular.
I'd like to see it next to 10246 Detective's Office since that's the only modular I currently own.
As the Jazz Club will only be my second modular building after the Bookshop, I'm pleased to see that they look alright together, although my plan is to pair the pizzeria with the apartment building, with Birch's Books on the other side (whether of the apartment building or of the Jazz Club I'm still undecided). Unfortunately the trellis might look a little weird next to the steps of the apartment building.
For me I think I'll be placing it with the Boutique Hotel on the right and Assembly Square to the left. I have yet to really see them together but I think the red accents on Assembly will look really nice with the red of the Jazz Club. And as shown above the art museum looks great with the pizzeria so definitely going for that!
All of my Modular’s (full collection!) are in storage boxes as I just moved house. Wasn’t going to unpack them but now I’ve seen these pictures I want to unpack them all and display them. Half need a full build and half just need to be taken out of the boxes. Still, it’s gotta be a full week of building.