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Her houses are great!
I know what you mean with baseplates, but has she actually complained about having to make a patchwork? Trying to streamline this sounds to me like a bit of an adult perspective. Also, the issue with baseplates is, of course, that they're floppy. I'm sure it's difficult to impossible to carry patchwork base houses around, but with base plates, you can easily ruin what's on them because you think they make things easy to carry, and while they probably make it easi-er, you can inadvertently destroy something by being too confident about the baseplate, e.g. walls fracturing.
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That's an older one - they've got bigger and more elaborate now.
She has complained a bit, mostly because she's so keen to get on with the interior decor she neglects the internal structure and then they collapse when she puts weight on them. I suppose rather than baseplates I actually mean a bunch of the bigger rectangle pieces, just so she's not trying to stick together lots of 2x4 pieces into an entire floor.
I wouldn't employ her as a structural engineer any time soon...
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I'm sure I'll enjoy, even if she doesn't...
Maybe won't make it part of actual birthday presents and introduce it at another point.
What I should actually be buying her is numerous base plates so the floors in her elaborate houses aren't made up of a patchwork of smaller bits, but that's far less fun to shop for.