Just your ordinary haunted pizza parlor...

This is the only building in Totally Normal Town that I did not build. It's "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza" -- designed and built by Nico using elements from FNAF-themed sets.

(The Five Nights at Freddy's sets are not Lego brand, but they're mostly compatible.)

I think the blocky style with irregular grey stripes and black trim really capture the creepy atmosphere of the FNAF franchise.

The building opens to reveal a two-story interior featuring haunted party elements. You can see it has been abandoned for some time. (The animatronics are being stored separately by Nico.)

All-in-all, it's a fun component of our Totally Normal Town, as you can see from the photos below:

A walk in the park

 When you think of Lego, you probably think of buildings (or vehicles), but a good city design has green space, and Totally Normal Town is no exception to this rule.

I'm quite pleased with how our central park turned out even though it's super simple -- full of trees and bushes and benches and paths that are all based on ones found in sets.

The one element that is my own original design is the fountain, which I'm quite proud of.

I think the carousel may have been inspired by a carousel from a set, but not a set that I bought. I don't remember how much of it is my own original design -- I just remember that I googled for ideas of small animals to make out of Legos for the kids to ride on.

It has a flamingo, a zebra, a sheep, and possibly a duck.

I'll include a few more pictures of the park below:

Our Totally Normal Apartment Building!

This apartment building is essentially my own design, but it was strongly inspired by a few different Creator sets.

The original inspiration was one of the b-side designs from set #5891 in which a square house has a top floor and a roof module that each lift off.

If you look at our apartment building in the original (pre-Grim) version of Totally Normal Town, you can see that it's just that set with one additional floor added.

For the 2019 build, I started with the same idea, but decided to make it look more like an apartment building than a weird, tall house.

The window trim and other decorative elements are largely inspired by the bike shop and café set #31026 (which you'll see more of later in this series).

I'll include some more pictures below so you can see the whole building, plus some pictures of a fruit and vegetable stand of my own design (which was also partially inspired by a tiny vegetable plot in the same bike shop and café set).