Today, I wanted to show you the latest updates to my McDonalds MOC modular building. In 2024, we added a second floor seating area to the fast food restaurant. This year, we decided to kick it up a notch by adding lighting!
In case. you haven't seen my older blog posts about the McDonalds building, here's what it looks like.
The entire second floor is completely surrounded by windows and there's an outdoor terrace where diners can get some fresh air while they are enjoying their meal.
My favourite part of the McDonalds restaurant is the drive thru lane, which you don't see in other modular MOC buildings.
I admit that the backside of the building is really ugly. I still need to get some new red bricks and panel walls, to replace those weird coloured bricks from Sluban.
I think I might have changed the back door colour since the last update. It's now yellow, but I think I had a brown door before. A new change that I made was adding a second door under the staircase so that from the back door you can go right into the kitchen.
I also added some red and yellow inverted sloped bricks to tie into the canopy design on the main floor.
The McDonalds crew hasn't changed. The burger flipper, the french fries mascot, and Ronald McDonald minifigures are still holding up the fort.
You can't really notice the lighting when the room lights are on. There's a strip light that is mounted to the underside of the roof to light up the second floor interior. There's also another light outside to light up the terrace.
Lighting is a combination of Lightailing/Briksmax lighting components and third party light strips I got from Temu. They aren't compatible so I used the Lightailing wire converters to join the elements from the two systems together. You can find them here: https://www.lightailing.com/collections/accessories/products/connector-converter-resolving-compatibility-issues-between-new-and-old-connectors?ref=Na3aPUQJDUmtv
Here's my blog post about the third party LED light strips I got from Temu: https://altbrickdeals.blogspot.com/2024/04/teedoo-lego-component-lighting-kit.html
On the main floor I added an overhead light that illuminates the drivethru lane.
And finally, I have a light strip that lights up the main floor interior.
Here's another view of the lighting for the drive thru.
