Cafe Corner

This weekend, I finally got around to building one of my Christmas presents, the Lego Cafe Corner -10182. It’s easily the largest set I’ve ever put together, and took a fair amount of time to build. This set was also record-setting in that it was the first set I’ve ever built that had a defective piece.

broken


Now, that might not seem like a big deal to most of you, but understand that I’ve built about 100 sets, and have NEVER, until now, found a piece that was anything but perfect. I also have NEVER, and still have never, been missing a piece from a set. In fact, I have such confidence in the Lego folks that If I can’t find a piece while building, I check the floor and bags before I even think that it might not be there.

So, the Cafe corner.

box

This is what you find inside the box.

open_box



The bags are numbered so that you can build in stages. I made the mistake of dumping all of the stage 1 bags together on the table. Normally, this isn’t a problem. This kit has so many pieces that it slowed me down a lot, hunting for small detail pieces in the pile.

starting


You can see my constant assistant Finny in the right hand side of that shot. While I built, Finny brought his Batman and Robin Lego minifigs over to “help”. I got stuck in, and looked up after a while to find this:

coffee


Finny had used extra pieces to make a full coffee bar.

And later, Batman and Robin enjoy some TV inside the partially built cafe.

tv


I finished the first floor, and called it a night.

1st_floor


Next day. I went over to the table where I was building, and found that something strange had happen overnight. (Or possibly earlier in the morning when my 5 year old was on his own).

Batman had clearly dealt with some time of break-in, which resulted in an injury to the shop keeper (seen inside).

batman_attacks


After that, the second and third floors were built without incident.
And here is the completed piece.

complete


Finally, here is a close up of one side of the set.

close_up


This set was fun to build, and taught me a couple of interesting building techniques, which I think I can use to add to the town. Apart from a set feature pieces, I have most of what I’d need to add a few more buildings. Off to bricklink for some windows.


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