I was a little nervous about this because, yes, it's made of flesh colored bricks. Definitely not the pinkish color this stock image would suggest. But if you think if it as peach instead, you can quickly get over the fact that you're building a modular building out of human skin. Honestly, the different color is a refreshing addition to my city because there's nothing out there that looks anything like this.
I was not missing any pieces, and nothing was malformed. Many of the transparent pieces were scratched and/or cloudy.
The instructions are absolutely ridiculous. You will not get bored building this thing; it basically has you put a few random bricks on each wall, rotate 90 degrees and put a few more on the next wall, and so on, until you get back to the first wall and actually finish the thing you started building. I haven't a clue why the directions are the way they are. It almost seems like it was done intentionally because there's no logic to some of the steps sometimes.
The whole contraption is quite sturdy, with the minor exception of the front wall on the 2nd and 3rd floors over the bake shop. The design adds some nice texture, but there's not much to hold it in place. Also, that fabric thing over the coffee shop is awful.
There are a handful of stickers for the menus in both buildings, which means no printed bricks. Everything gets mounted on a tile, and the stickers are the exact same size as the tile, so no room for error. The sticker for the menu on the coffee shop is too big for the 2x4 tile that its assigned too, so you'll need to add a 1x2 beside it.
The windows are absolutely fantastic. For some reason, the front and sides of the building have the small pane below the large pane ... but the back has this backwards. I switched the rears for continuity.
This exterior staircase (fire escape?) is the only connection between the floors.
It's a bit taller than I thought it would be. Here's the Palace Cinema and the Green Grocer for comparison:
Some of the bricks are VERY similar colors, as seen below. The dark bluish grey and this shiny/pearl dark grey color are hard to differentiate in the instructions. Same goes for the two orange colors. If you build this, remember that the dark orange is for the bake shop and the light orange (nougat) is for the coffee shop. There's also tan and black, to confuse you even more.
The sidewalk is pretty dumb too. Not sure why they had to differentiate from the standard dark sidewalk/light curb thing, but they did. The curb in this is black; I'll be changing that shortly.
First floor interior:
Second floor interior:
Third floor interior and patio:
Roof. Not sure why there's a table up there since there's no access. Solar panels are cool too:
Other comments: The rear peg hole on the left side (of the bake shop) is placed back one stud too far in the directions for some reason. That is, if you use the technic pegs to connect your buildings, this wouldn't line up on that side. It's easy to fix as you build it, and you don't need any different pieces. The one on the coffee shop side is in the correct location.
Sign outside the coffee shop is nice, but it's placement would hide it entirely when adjacent to another modular. You can remove two pieces to turn it 90 degrees.
Album with more pics: https://imgur.com/a/0vvs0Gq
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