Welcome to New Orleans on Mardi Gras!

The model consists of a typical New Orleans French Quarter corner building, in which a cozy cocktail bar found its place. The main attraction on the ground floor is the counter, behind which you can find an enormous rack of bottles to make the finest cocktails in town. The bar also features a piano underneath a typical staircase that swivels up 90 degrees to the first floor.

On the first floor you can find a seating area and the entrance to the terrace that overlooks the festivities in the center of the city. The room is dominated by a large model of a red classic car.

The outside of the building is characterized by a large porch stretching the entire width and side of the building over both stories. The porch contains the typical wrought iron finishes, giving the building its typical French Quarter look. The porch is decorated by flowering plants and flags in the usual green, yellow and purple mardi gras colors.

The model furthermore contains a parade wagon in gold, green and purple, having a large carnival figure as its main feature. Also present is a lovely gold and red popcorn stand and a chef who sells the goodies to the people observing the parade.

The model contains 11 minifigs: two carnavalists on the parade wagon, a popcorn chef, 2 bystanders, a barwoman, a pianist and 2 couples enjoying drinks in the bar.

The biggest challenge in this design was to find a good design for the porch that goes around the corner and the effect it had on the placing of the windows and doors in the building, causing a built ‘between the studs’ kind of building of 24,5 studs wide. As a consequence, the building ‘jumps’ all over the place 😉.