Personally, I wouldn’t include the road AND the railway. Why not just the railway and fashion some kind of rough looking winding track to take any motor vehicles? That would be more in keeping with the village 'feel'. Too much transportation could (in my humble opinion!) make it more urban looking than it ought to be.
Once the holidays are over, you can re-utilize that space for an airport! Like, on the long part you can build a runway, and the more wide part would be dedicated to the terminal
You could put a toy assembly factory under the workshop into the mountain space, kind of like a basement for the elves to work in with different themed areas like a toy making, gift wrapping and maybe even a baking area
You could move the track back 4 studs to give it more space at the front, and then leave the back of the mountain open so that you could include a hidden scene in the mountain, like the elf one in the Lego House. You could also build the track into the road like real tram lines to save space
You can get the Trolly to go back and forth on a single track with no loop using a colour sensor attached to the powered up hub. Using "Pybricks" you can program a color activated motor direction change. The program will be uploaded into the powered up hub and will run automatically when the hub is switched on, so its set and forget.
maybe do away with the road, make it a walking village with courtyards/squares where the village tree can be, and a Christmas Market with shopping stalls, etc. seems like the rather large road is complicating and taking up a lot of space
Hi Jordan You could think about leaving the roads away. This would give you so much space for other stuff and here in Switzerland in the alps the roads are quite small, one way or not usable with a car. I think roads don't have to be the center of your village. You could use horse sleights, snow mobiles, pedestrians, etc. instead.
I would love the trolley to be In the village, but with how much space it takes up now, I think it would do more harm than good. I think the straightaway trolley line by the road would be great, and instead of its giant curve, maybe make a little residential boulevard with the gingerbread house, Santa’s visit and alpine lodge, and maybe it would provide an opportunity or more space to incorporate the home alone set into the residential boulevard, as well as creating a more downtown area of the village with hogssmead and the other city/business building lined up like a strip mall to walk down. It looks great and I’m super excited for whatever you decide on!
You should definitely have the holiday train and keep the track. Have the tram run along the road and the train run under the mountain. The tram function you need is easy just use a power up set with sensor and the sensor uses colour plates any that you have to change direction. Read up on it. It is very easy to do .
Wow! You amaze me with all the huge projects you undertake! Thanks for taking us along from the early stages of planning this new winter village. It is so interesting to hear all about your thought process and how you develop these ideas. I like the idea of having the circular train track going under the mountain. And those Ikea boxes--what a find!! Can't wait to see how this village develops. Last year's was awesome.
Wow, can't imagine pulling all of that apart, no way, seriously, you are a very strong person. Easier to destroy than to create. it's going to be awesome, though!
Can I just say Jordan. I watch you every single day. You bring so much joy to my day… I’m from the UK so 3pm I’m waiting, ready to watch! I love seeing the twins and honestly you’re such a good person and that really makes me feel good 👍! Thank you for that!! 🎉
Id put the wood shelf back, have the tram/train oval underneath it with a small station. And build a sloped road from the mountain end up to the woodshelf, making the road go over the track
I'm not at all into the whole winter village theme and christmas theme even less, but it is interesting to watch you create a mountain and slopes and maybe a tunnel... Looking forward to seeing you create a wooded area; various wilderness scenes are probably my favorite type of things in Lego.
On Rebrickable there is a 10308 Tram Powered UP Modified with color Sensor by Miro. I used it on mine tram last year and works great to go back and forth stopping how you programmed it. Also love Brick Artisan's MOC's for finishing the buildings, the only one I modified was the fire station to be able to park the fire truck within. Keep up the great work, I look forward to all your videos.
At 11:20, Jordan, you said, " Sorry about the last clip. I forgot to clean my camera lens from a fingerprint." I thought it was my fingerprint, lol😂. Great video anyways Jordan.
Love what you’re doing with this years winter village. One idea for the train is to make it go on top of, or around the mountain, rather than underneath. That way you can watch the train all the time. You could incorporate a train stop for a ski lift or cable car into the mountain as well! Really looking forward to seeing how it all turns out.
For the tram/road on the long part of the village, you could embed the tram in the road (like part of the ground line in the main city is) so the tram and cars share roadspace. Would mean using tiles instead of road plates though.
For whatever reason I find myself rarely commenting on your videos. But I love these. They help me learn the mind of a builder and then I can work on my own projects too
Hey Bricksie. Nice start with the winter Village. I don't want to critisize anything, cause your ideas are very good. But, when you come down the stairs into your legoroom, do you want to look at the back of your huge Mountain? Maybe it's better to place your Mountain on the other side. It's Just an idea. Love your video's. Greetz from Holland, Evan
Excellent layout, your winter village is going to be amazing. I really hope you choose to put the train track through the mountain. Best of luck and enjoy your build.
If you wanted to make the road smaller and still use the double road plates you could have the snow creep into the street on both sides so it would look like it was plowed just down the middle. That would create more space that the road would otherwise be using and look pretty cool!
The winter village sets are one of my favorite sets from Lego. I also like to display them around christmas time. Can't wait to see your finished winter village.
I love the idea of a gondola instead of the train. Santa's workshop is remote and wouldn't have a need for a trolly. At least in my story, I won't need a train/trolley. Love the rest of the layout.
I'm sure you'll come up with a great idea but I would keep the tram on the outside of the mountain, at least at the sides, and build an overhanging mountain above the train, I.e. like a mountain pass has been carved out of the side of the mountain
For the tunnel why not make it a cross section at the front to begin with, so you can see in the tunnel from the side. Then you don’t need to worry about building the cliff face right on the edge and you could add a few details in there like miners or something?
I have been getting in the holiday spirit too. Bought the Santa's Visit and Main Street during double points. Going to build them in November. Also have the Lego House you pointed out in Billund on back order. Someone pointed out to me that we can actually buy some of those sets in the UK. Not sure if it's always been that way or if Lego have just decided to make some of those sets less exclusive to Billund.
Sensor/power functions on a straight track - but have a tram garage at one end so the tram just appears - bit like the Disney tram. Good luck with the build - great seeing the ideas evolve
The train back & forth can be accomplished with an NXT & color sensor. OR PF switch & a heavy flywheel geared down to the wheels with enough momentum to flip the switch. So, it can be solved many ways. I prefer the mechanical answer.
Could the track theoretically fit behind the buildings? So making a circuit from the front of the road, loop around the mountain, go behind the buildings, and return to the front of the road? Maybe if you used custom roads rather than road plates? Idk, just eyeball mathing how you could have a full service trolly car
Hi, I caught up on your videos because since August, I didn’t have time to watch them. In the video where you modify the pet shop, you talk at the end to leave the signal of the batman on the roof of the police station and to add a batman on another roof. I immediately thought of the 77903 set, the one we could have in a comic-con a few years ago. It could be nice to add this figurine with the cape floating in the wind
You should look into buying some of the old 2x windows and doorframes. They make for great support structure and are very cheap on bricklink. I’m sure you could also find some at your lego stores nearby like the brickbin. Also, not sure if you have any of them left, but don’t forget about your old support pieces you used for your old raised train line.
Don’t eat the yellow snow lol . When we have gone to the snow , once you hit the snow line there are no roads . Everyone travels on skidoos or in jeeps with chains on. Maybe you could do without the roads and add more fun stuff . . This is going to be fun tfs
I think you should make the winter village tram only, because if you’re in a heavy snowed in area, most people aren’t gonna drive anyhow. I feel like a little less realism would make it so you could put more stuff in the village
I'm doing my first lego winter village this year. Any tips for just starting out? I'll have the Winter Lodge, Santa's Visit, Holiday Main Street and a handful of the smaller things (Santa/Reindeer, Polar Bears, Xmas Tree etc). I was planning on getting that fabric snow to lay down to put everything on top of. Never done mils before, not sure if I'd want to go mils though just for this.
I think just the one loop is enough then down the long straght should do buoldings both sides with a road in the middle trees xmas decs ect lots of space for stories. And i think a forest on a raised platform would look good then under the mountain a hidden elfs work shop with the tram going though coming out under the forest.
It would be cool if under the North Pole mountain the base at the front was cutaway, supported by pillars. You could have a north pole train station underneath with an elevator to the surface. Kind of like how the hogwarts goes from the more real world 9 3/4 to more fantasy hogwarts. Excited to see how this comes together. 👏
so cool this is going to be my first year building up a lego collection again since I was a kid and i'm starting with halloween possibly and then Christmas or I might start with Christmas. this looked so cool though.
I wouldn't do the train since you don't have the room to do justice to the train and the village. The small Santa's workshop could be built into the front of the upper mountain so it looks like the main part of the workshop is inside the mountain.
Personally, I wouldn’t include the road AND the railway. Why not just the railway and fashion some kind of rough looking winding track to take any motor vehicles? That would be more in keeping with the village 'feel'. Too much transportation could (in my humble opinion!) make it more urban looking than it ought to be.
Once the holidays are over, you can re-utilize that space for an airport! Like, on the long part you can build a runway, and the more wide part would be dedicated to the terminal
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Love this idea!
Definitely lovecthis idea. He's got a fair few aeroplanes and helicopters
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Great idea! I feel like we could use a January Hoth moc though
You could put a toy assembly factory under the workshop into the mountain space, kind of like a basement for the elves to work in with different themed areas like a toy making, gift wrapping and maybe even a baking area
You could move the track back 4 studs to give it more space at the front, and then leave the back of the mountain open so that you could include a hidden scene in the mountain, like the elf one in the Lego House. You could also build the track into the road like real tram lines to save space
Having the track built into the road like a tram track is a great idea
You can get the Trolly to go back and forth on a single track with no loop using a colour sensor attached to the powered up hub. Using "Pybricks" you can program a color activated motor direction change. The program will be uploaded into the powered up hub and will run automatically when the hub is switched on, so its set and forget.
This is the way
that's how my train runs with a color sensor to stop at every station😊
exactly this is how it should be done.
EggyBricks had a detailed video on that
This year's winter village is going to be epic bricksie. Really like the train inclusion keep up the great work.
maybe do away with the road, make it a walking village with courtyards/squares where the village tree can be, and a Christmas Market with shopping stalls, etc. seems like the rather large road is complicating and taking up a lot of space
Hi Jordan
You could think about leaving the roads away. This would give you so much space for other stuff and here in Switzerland in the alps the roads are quite small, one way or not usable with a car.
I think roads don't have to be the center of your village.
You could use horse sleights, snow mobiles, pedestrians, etc. instead.
I would love the trolley to be In the village, but with how much space it takes up now, I think it would do more harm than good. I think the straightaway trolley line by the road would be great, and instead of its giant curve, maybe make a little residential boulevard with the gingerbread house, Santa’s visit and alpine lodge, and maybe it would provide an opportunity or more space to incorporate the home alone set into the residential boulevard, as well as creating a more downtown area of the village with hogssmead and the other city/business building lined up like a strip mall to walk down. It looks great and I’m super excited for whatever you decide on!
You should definitely have the holiday train and keep the track. Have the tram run along the road and the train run under the mountain. The tram function you need is easy just use a power up set with sensor and the sensor uses colour plates any that you have to change direction. Read up on it. It is very easy to do .
Fortunately for Santa, you just upgraded the city’s hospital. I hope he is alright!
Wow! You amaze me with all the huge projects you undertake! Thanks for taking us along from the early stages of planning this new winter village. It is so interesting to hear all about your thought process and how you develop these ideas.
I like the idea of having the circular train track going under the mountain. And those Ikea boxes--what a find!! Can't wait to see how this village develops. Last year's was awesome.
You have inspired me to have a go at building my own winter village. I'm terrible at MOCs but it will be fun regardless. Thanks Jordan!
Wow, can't imagine pulling all of that apart, no way, seriously, you are a very strong person. Easier to destroy than to create. it's going to be awesome, though!
Hmm The Avengers tower destroy and rebuild either before or after Black Friday depending on if Bricksie scores a freebie
Can I just say Jordan. I watch you every single day. You bring so much joy to my day… I’m from the UK so 3pm I’m waiting, ready to watch! I love seeing the twins and honestly you’re such a good person and that really makes me feel good 👍! Thank you for that!! 🎉
❤❤❤❤❤❣️💯🤩😊😉 Thank you very much for Great Ideas IV my winter 🥶 city 2023 PLEASE make more videos like this one
Id put the wood shelf back, have the tram/train oval underneath it with a small station. And build a sloped road from the mountain end up to the woodshelf, making the road go over the track
I'm not at all into the whole winter village theme and christmas theme even less, but it is interesting to watch you create a mountain and slopes and maybe a tunnel... Looking forward to seeing you create a wooded area; various wilderness scenes are probably my favorite type of things in Lego.
On Rebrickable there is a 10308 Tram Powered UP Modified with color Sensor by Miro. I used it on mine tram last year and works great to go back and forth stopping how you programmed it. Also love Brick Artisan's MOC's for finishing the buildings, the only one I modified was the fire station to be able to park the fire truck within. Keep up the great work, I look forward to all your videos.
At 11:20, Jordan, you said, " Sorry about the last clip. I forgot to clean my camera lens from a fingerprint."
I thought it was my fingerprint, lol😂.
Great video anyways Jordan.
Love what you’re doing with this years winter village. One idea for the train is to make it go on top of, or around the mountain, rather than underneath. That way you can watch the train all the time. You could incorporate a train stop for a ski lift or cable car into the mountain as well! Really looking forward to seeing how it all turns out.
For the tram/road on the long part of the village, you could embed the tram in the road (like part of the ground line in the main city is) so the tram and cars share roadspace. Would mean using tiles instead of road plates though.
this years village is gonna be absolutely epic, I am so excited to see the finished product
The streets and roads look amazing, great detail
Loved last years winter village; can’t wait for the new updated version this year
For whatever reason I find myself rarely commenting on your videos. But I love these. They help me learn the mind of a builder and then I can work on my own projects too
Hey Bricksie. Nice start with the winter Village. I don't want to critisize anything, cause your ideas are very good. But, when you come down the stairs into your legoroom, do you want to look at the back of your huge Mountain? Maybe it's better to place your Mountain on the other side. It's Just an idea. Love your video's. Greetz from Holland, Evan
Excellent layout, your winter village is going to be amazing. I really hope you choose to put the train track through the mountain. Best of luck and enjoy your build.
Yes. Keep preaching, "Build, Destroy, Repeat....."
It's how I grew up with LEGO & how you become a better builder.
If you wanted to make the road smaller and still use the double road plates you could have the snow creep into the street on both sides so it would look like it was plowed just down the middle. That would create more space that the road would otherwise be using and look pretty cool!
The winter village sets are one of my favorite sets from Lego. I also like to display them around christmas time. Can't wait to see your finished winter village.
winter time laps love the new layout
I love the idea of a gondola instead of the train. Santa's workshop is remote and wouldn't have a need for a trolly. At least in my story, I won't need a train/trolley. Love the rest of the layout.
I'm sure you'll come up with a great idea but I would keep the tram on the outside of the mountain, at least at the sides, and build an overhanging mountain above the train, I.e. like a mountain pass has been carved out of the side of the mountain
For the tunnel why not make it a cross section at the front to begin with, so you can see in the tunnel from the side. Then you don’t need to worry about building the cliff face right on the edge and you could add a few details in there like miners or something?
Sounds good. It will be a lot of work, but well worth it!
I have been getting in the holiday spirit too. Bought the Santa's Visit and Main Street during double points. Going to build them in November. Also have the Lego House you pointed out in Billund on back order. Someone pointed out to me that we can actually buy some of those sets in the UK. Not sure if it's always been that way or if Lego have just decided to make some of those sets less exclusive to Billund.
Great vid, one suggestion, dont bother with a road, have your village serviced by a tram only, there are towns in Switzerland with no cars!
could tighter corners be made with the flexi tracks under the mountain?, so not as close to the sides of the mountain? Loving the development ideas.
awesome video jordan the winter village is going to look amazing
Sensor/power functions on a straight track - but have a tram garage at one end so the tram just appears - bit like the Disney tram. Good luck with the build - great seeing the ideas evolve
The train back & forth can be accomplished with an NXT & color sensor. OR
PF switch & a heavy flywheel geared down to the wheels with enough momentum to flip the switch.
So, it can be solved many ways. I prefer the mechanical answer.
Could the track theoretically fit behind the buildings? So making a circuit from the front of the road, loop around the mountain, go behind the buildings, and return to the front of the road?
Maybe if you used custom roads rather than road plates? Idk, just eyeball mathing how you could have a full service trolly car
Looks awesome, I always love the winter sets as it starts to get cold outside :)
You can use the lego spike essentials, too add a motor and hub to to control it. Then do a little of simple programming to make run back and forth
Hi,
I caught up on your videos because since August, I didn’t have time to watch them.
In the video where you modify the pet shop, you talk at the end to leave the signal of the batman on the roof of the police station and to add a batman on another roof.
I immediately thought of the 77903 set, the one we could have in a comic-con a few years ago.
It could be nice to add this figurine with the cape floating in the wind
You should look into buying some of the old 2x windows and doorframes. They make for great support structure and are very cheap on bricklink. I’m sure you could also find some at your lego stores nearby like the brickbin. Also, not sure if you have any of them left, but don’t forget about your old support pieces you used for your old raised train line.
You should still put the switch track and have it not go under the mountain. Just add a little station or something. Thanks for the vid by the way!
Don’t eat the yellow snow lol . When we have gone to the snow , once you hit the snow line there are no roads . Everyone travels on skidoos or in jeeps with chains on. Maybe you could do without the roads and add more fun stuff . . This is going to be fun tfs
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I think you should make the winter village tram only, because if you’re in a heavy snowed in area, most people aren’t gonna drive anyhow. I feel like a little less realism would make it so you could put more stuff in the village
This video has given me some amazing ideas for my winter village
I'm doing my first lego winter village this year. Any tips for just starting out? I'll have the Winter Lodge, Santa's Visit, Holiday Main Street and a handful of the smaller things (Santa/Reindeer, Polar Bears, Xmas Tree etc). I was planning on getting that fabric snow to lay down to put everything on top of. Never done mils before, not sure if I'd want to go mils though just for this.
PUT A TOY FACTORY UNDER THE MOUNTIAN!!!!
Hi! You could have only a one way road across the village, so you can add back wall to the houses.
I think just the one loop is enough then down the long straght should do buoldings both sides with a road in the middle trees xmas decs ect lots of space for stories. And i think a forest on a raised platform would look good then under the mountain a hidden elfs work shop with the tram going though coming out under the forest.
Yeah the ikea things are awesome, i saw sol bricks using them and the fact that they are in system makes them incredible for building in or on.
if you want a chair lift, in an old friends set there is one you could use the instructions as inspiration
I think a big Christmas tree with a roundabout would look nice where the long table meets the wide one
Yeah, just modular the super skinny buildings. Do you need a road? They’re a pain in winter! Maybe just trams and sleighs?
I like the circuit train without the line in front of the houses. Feels like a winter village inside of the winter village. Mini amusement park?
The holiday train or the tram running as a line not a circuit would be awesome. You could get rid of the road and have walking and train only?
you can use powered up and a color sensor to get a back and forth movement.
I would lose the road completely. Just run a tram and horse drawn carriages. Give it a more contemporary vibe.
It would be cool if under the North Pole mountain the base at the front was cutaway, supported by pillars. You could have a north pole train station underneath with an elevator to the surface. Kind of like how the hogwarts goes from the more real world 9 3/4 to more fantasy hogwarts. Excited to see how this comes together. 👏
Eggybricks has a great video for setting up a back and forth train.
Don’t forget about the Chinese new year set with the skating pond, skate shack and lots of great winter items!!
Have a look at that automated MoC which pulls the skiers up a slope before they glide down as inspiration. Might be easier than the lift 👍🏼
I like the tram but such a small build it does take up so much space especially with the road.
it would be cool if you made a bat cave for Santa Claus on the mountain.🦇🎅
It is more of a Xmas village than just a winter village. 🎄🌲
What about making the tram line go through the road on the bottom side light rail trains do so you only need one lane for the other side of the road?
I think you should keep the loop of track but remove the straight section. Having a road parallel to a train track is too much grey all in a row.
Ski lift would be awesome
so cool this is going to be my first year building up a lego collection again since I was a kid and i'm starting with halloween possibly and then Christmas or I might start with Christmas. this looked so cool though.
If you had 9V track im pretty sure you cold solder on to the rails a shuttle unit like people do on the model railway Hobby
You could set the train car up as just a display in front of a winter building as a photo op for lego families?
I wouldn't do the train since you don't have the room to do justice to the train and the village.
The small Santa's workshop could be built into the front of the upper mountain so it looks like the main part of the workshop is inside the mountain.
With the power functions i build the tram in a way that it goes back and forward on a single track
What are the ikea tables called you have inspired me to do my own winter village lol
nooooooooo !!!! santa down!!
Great update. Try to keep the trolley.
it would be amazing if you tried to recreate the Griswold's house from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation lol
A cobblestone road with 1x2 dark gray tiles would be part intensive but look amazing.
1x2 dark ingots. Awesome.
can you share a link to all the shelves you have?
I am looking forward to next video!
Keep up the amazing work
I'd vote for no road in the village. Make it more of a ski village with just shops and eateries
This is kinda Project Zero. Zero degree: metaphor for cold (winter). Zero: from scratch.
Love the videos ❤
you should make another mountin for the grinch as well!!!
Do a rope pull up the slope, just hold the line and it pulls you up standing
What are the shelves under the winter village extension?
I use the power up feature on my lego tram in my winter village set up
No hagas la montaña muy alta. Que después tienes que guardarla debajo de la mesa.
You need to add 4 more reindeer to Santa and his sleigh
I think the curved train track could work with the road; i remember finding a tutorial.
I'm excited
you could do a hawkeye fight with the marvel cmf series 2 hawk guy kate bishop and echo minifigs