The LEGO Neighborhood Book 2

This is the followup to the Lyles brothers utterly jaw droppingly amazing Lego Neighborhood Book. The First book is perhaps the best book a Lego fan could ever get their hands on. This one is not quite that good, but is easily the second best of potential Lego books. Much like the first the brothers start off with some easy to follow guides for capturing real world architectural details in Lego form. And some excellent examples of different styles or periods of architecture converted to Lego. There are tons of amazing pictures. The book also gives some examples and instructions for scenic detail builds and a great guide to miniature city building. Which is fascinating, but sadly probably not the thing most buyers of the book are looking for. What those buyers almost always are are fans, builders and collectors of Lego's Modular Standard Minifig Scale Creator Export type Buildings. And much like it's predecessor the real value in this book is in the nicely laid out instructions for creating one of the Lyle Brotehrs amazing custom designs for your city. This is where the book falls a hair short of it's predecessor. The Corner Pharmacy abd Soda Shop instructions found in volume 1 are one of the best Lego projects and are easily on par with any of the officially released sets. This volumes Courtyard Apartment building while really really nice, lacks some of the intrest and utility of that prior build. Don't get me wrong, it's nice. But it will likely be used as more of a backdrop building in your City display. Whereas the Drug Store is a front and center building. If you have an advanced Lego Builder in your Household these two books, Vol 1 and 2 are the best things you could ever get them. But I would strongly recomend getting Volume 1 first as it is the stronger offering. Volume 2 is nice, but not as stand alone.

I can't believe that I'd missed getting this book when it first came out. I just stumbled across it. I have the first book and I'd purchased some of the Lego building designs before that. I loved the first book and my Chili's building. I barely have time to build the official Lego sets. I don't buy these types of books with immediate plans to build anything. I did manage the Chili's set several years ago and I still get complements on it. What I like about these books is just the creativity on display. You see how much fun the authors are having with Lego. It also shows anyone flipping through the pages that you can literally think outside of the Lego box. I hope they have a 3rd book coming out.

I love this book,gives you a lot of tips and tricks to building you city! There was a lot of information I didn't know and I do now that will help spark creativity.

This book is as good as the first book in this series! great details and parts list. My son had a boatload of legos, as a kid, that I still have in my basement. The only thing stopping me from pulling them out and trying some of these, is that the parts are all mixed up and would take a while to find the right pieces to build with. But once I do organize the whole lot, I will definitely be playing with the legos and using this book! Will be great to entertain the grand children too!

This is more of an accompaniment to the first book rather than a stand alone. Keep in mind this feels more like an inspiration book rather than a "show you how it's done" example book. Build instructions are generally limited to small builds like the piano as pictured in the sample pictures. Techniques and ideas for building the general structures may be mentioned and pictured but it's up to the reader to use their imagination and available parts bin. This is not to say it as a bad thing but it's worth noting if you had different expectations about what this book is about.

Great value for the money. The illustrations are creative and easy to follow, which will allow me to apply the techniques when building my LEGO city.

I love this book! The ideas are all very fun to make! *I bought it used and I would say it's not in "good" condition--so maybe beware as far as the seller is concerned

Very helpful book with lots of ideas for lego builds. Already trying some out.

Good little book

Really well done with lots of great ideas and all the pictures are very helpful.

Se si vuole veramente cominciare a capire i Lego, si parte da qui; se si ha un'idea in testa e non si sa da dove partire, bisogna leggere questo ed il volume 1, sono la base per ogni AFOL e per ogni costruttore Lego

Trevlig och inspirerande bok.

modèle pour une maison plus quelques "trucs" de construction