Random set of the day: Pet Shop
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 10218 Pet Shop, released during 2011. It's one of 5 Advanced models sets produced that year. It contains 2032 pieces and 4 minifigs, and its retail price was US$149.99/£119.99.
It's owned by 26,603 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $265.80, or eBay.
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It may be a pet shop, but there aren't many pets in it.
But even still, there doesn't seem to be enough room for the dog inside! It has to sleep in a box outside.
That cat is clearly being chased by that dog, and you're smiling!
This is not okay. Someone please help that poor kitty.
@MCLegoboy said:
"That cat is clearly being chased by that dog, and you're smiling!
This is not okay. Someone please help that poor kitty."
Eh. My dog is scared of my cat, so...
My first modular building! (I’ve since gotten the entire series).
This is the 4th most popular set in the Modular Building line.
Dang. $250 was a lot less than I expected for one of the first modular buildings.
First Modular building I got. It was a nice intro.
The apartment above the pet store is my favorite living space of what I've seen in the modular line thus far.
Another Jamie Berard masterclass in Novel Parts Usage.
@Maxbricks14 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"That cat is clearly being chased by that dog, and you're smiling!
This is not okay. Someone please help that poor kitty."
Eh. My dog is scared of my cat, so..."
If yours is anything like my first cat, the dog would have good reason to be afraid.
Started collecting modulars from Palace Cinema on my return to Lego. Got Pet Shop and Grand Emporium second hand before the prices got silly, when I gave up on the earliest ones!
But what do the West End girls think about this set?
@Librarian1976 said:
"My first modular building! (I’ve since gotten the entire series)."
And thus become the envy of a good chunk of Brickset's membership.
@Rabrickzel said:"But it sure isn't Little."
That's more or less what I was thinking.
This was my second modular after Grand Emporium and I remember being blown away by the parts usage of the skiis and the inverted dome pieces while building.
Drat, @WemWem beat me at making a Pet Shop Boys joke.
So I have nothing really to say now, except pets are cool. I am more likely to trust you if you have a pet, unless you can’t afford one or are allergic.
That brick built lettering brings me back. It was very typical for AFOL buildings bacl in the day, so its usage in Modulars used to feel like they were very much by adult fans fo adult fans. With today's extensive part selection there are more options in MOCs and official sets alike, but back then seeing something like it, and the NPU here was a sight to behold.
It also tied some of them together, like the Café Corner, Firehouse and Grand Emporium
And of course the amount of 'giant' sets wasn't as overwhelming back then either of course.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"It may be a pet shop, but there aren't many pets in it.
But even still, there doesn't seem to be enough room for the dog inside! It has to sleep in a box outside."
it's just how they display the figures so you know which ones are in this set, but I guess you could have them sticking their head through the window
Absolute classic! I love that the pet shop is only really 1/6th of the set and the rest is plain old living space. Regular-type apartment buildings or houses are something that's sorely been missing from the lineup. The only other one was 10270 Bookshop which was actually quite similar to this.
With the dog and cat on the street and a parrot on the rooftops, think the pet shop might have had a breakout...
The idea that the apartment in the brown building is under renovation is creative, but at the same time, I do wish that they had instead done something else to fill the empty space. There's never too much LEGO furniture!
@Maxbricks14 said:
"This is the 4th most popular set in the Modular Building line."
Which I don't understand. This is one of my least favourite modulars.
It was the first full residential modular we got, and yet was almost completely empty.
If an AFOL was making a row of houses and was running out of pieces I think it would be creative having one being moved into/renovated. But for an official modular it's quite scabby. Especially when this was around the time they were moving away from empty interiors.
The Pet Shop was okay for the time but is very basic by more recent standards.
Likewise the architecture. It's not terrible but it really doesn't stand out to me even with Pet Shop contemporaries. Fire Brigade and Grand Emporium for example just look better and have aged well compared to this.
As for the splitting apart function, yeah it's cool but hardly the best thing since sliced bread. We have the Bookstore now which also has that ability.
I don't see how the option of two 16x32 buildings makes Pet Shop worthy of the top 5 best modulars ever created.
It was a great set. I had it, and I loved it so much.
A nice local apartment for your LEGO town. Under-furnitured, sadly, but we can help on it. Lego should put +200 items to build some beds, cupboards, or anything else. 9.7 point to 10 :))
I dont undarstand why is it an "Advanced model" why not "Modular building"?
This was either my first or second modular building and is still in my modular street on a cabinet in our bedroom.
I love the possibility to split it up and have done it, so that the pet shop part and the brownstone part are on either side of the parisian restaurant.
To the left of the pet shop is 10246 Detective's office - thus the brick built signage reads "AL'S PETS". ;-)
I really loved my annual modular build - but I eventually ran out of shelf space.
This set lacking minfigs of two specific boys is a sin....
Even with the few bits of clever parts usage, this set is really showing its age compared to modern Modulars.
I'd love to get one of the modular buildings because I think they're insanely cool but then I'm gonna want to get more of them and I don't think my financial advisor (my wife) would like that very much.
@Brickchap said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"This is the 4th most popular set in the Modular Building line."
Which I don't understand. This is one of my least favourite modulars. "
Same here. I could have bought this when it was around, yet consciously decided not to. And I have zero regrets.
It's my least favorite Modular. Only Market Street is less attractive to me, but I don't even count that as a Modular anyway.
Compared to my favorites like Detective's Office, Assembly Square, Parisian Restaurant or Downtown Diner, this one doesn't hold a candle imho.
I think I got this after my first modular which was the Parisian Restaurant in 2014; I think I even got it discounted from eBay and then gradually got the rest of the modular buildings (or in the case of Café Corner and the Green Grocer built my own versions via Bricklink. It sort of kicked off then and the buildings have been moved to a dedicated room with a proper street layout and MOC buildings / adaptations; the Pet Shop building now has an extra floor which didn't cost a huge amount to Bricklink as the parts are common. If only it didn't all get so dusty...
This was my first modular and I always reccomend people interested to get one that splits like this first, since you immediately have an alternate display option. I know we've only had the bookshop since, but fingers crossed for another one soon!
@AustinPowers said:
" @Brickchap said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"This is the 4th most popular set in the Modular Building line."
Which I don't understand. This is one of my least favourite modulars. "
Same here. I could have bought this when it was around, yet consciously decided not to. And I have zero regrets.
It's my least favorite Modular. Only Market Street is less attractive to me, but I don't even count that as a Modular anyway.
Compared to my favorites like Detective's Office, Assembly Square, Parisian Restaurant or Downtown Diner, this one doesn't hold a candle imho. "
The relatively low prices that new and sealed sets are available at, even ignoring sellers in the far east, indicate that this isn't a particularly sought after set.
This is a special one for me. Like several others have commented, this was my first of now many modulars, though I don't have any of the older ones... But this is also the set that brought me out of my dark ages. It opened my eyes to the fact that building techniques had come a very long way since the late 90s and early 2000s.
This set became my favorite modular to base MOCs off of. I ended up making a butcher shop, bike and board store, and brownstone in other colors
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First modular I bought. My wife built the Pet Shop and I built the brownstone. Easily my second favorite set (I tend to bump up favoritism by good memories), behind the 10228-1 Haunted House (also tag team build).
The low price is more a reflection of the almost complete lack of unique parts in this set rather than it's quality. I believe the green bicycle is the only relatively expensive part. Most modulars (older ones in particular) have several doors, arches, garage door parts, plates, or bricks in unique colors that can be $100+ on their own.
That being said, I have all the modulars and I agree that it's towards the lower end in attractiveness and interior finishing.
@chewron99 said:
"It was a great set. I had it, and I loved it so much.
A nice local apartment for your LEGO town. Under-furnitured, sadly, but we can help on it. Lego should put +200 items to build some beds, cupboards, or anything else. 9.7 point to 10 :))
I dont undarstand why is it an "Advanced model" why not "Modular building"? "
The Modular Buildings Collection has never been its own theme; it's always been a subtheme. First of Advanced Models, then of Creator Expert, and now of Icons.
@Mica85
Do you have pics of your modulars posted anywhere?
@Miyakan said:
"First Modular building I got. It was a nice intro."
Same for me
Ah, my first modular... and also my last, since I decided the display value didn't match the cost, since all the best parts were hidden in the interior. Still a fun build and good pieces. :)
this seems to coincide suspiciously with the release of bricklink's new designer rules against modular buildings... Huwbot spitting in the face of BL...
@BlackFalconBirdman said:
"this seems to coincide suspiciously with the release of bricklink's new designer rules against modular buildings... Huwbot spitting in the face of BL... "
Or shilling for “the man”…
I am sorry but am I the only one that is not able to find the today's RSotD article?
@Agent_Brick_007 said:
"I am sorry but am I the only one that is not able to find the today's RSotD article?"
Yes. It’s Saturday. RSotD takes a pause once a week while Vintage Set of the Week fills in. VSotW went up as expected.
I always loved the gimmick of this one having two half modulars instead of one full one.
@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman said:
"The idea that the apartment in the brown building is under renovation is creative, but at the same time, I do wish that they had instead done something else to fill the empty space. There's never too much LEGO furniture!"
I think the idea was that you could fill it with whatever furniture you wanted - much like a real home!