Further Developing the LEGO City Layout!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Today I continue working on the new LEGO city layout! I want to try accommodating a boatyard and train yard in this new city, as we have much more space. I also plan to incorporate some of my previous dioramas that weren't previously part of the city. I'll walk through my plans for developing this new city and some of my ideas for a potential layout. We also take a trip to the hardware store, where I find something that will come in handy while working on the LEGO city!
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It's so awesome that you're back into Lego city construction. Don't rush it, because the longer you take, the more episodes we have to watch :D
Like the idea of a river running through the centre of the city! It would get rid of the greyness and the squareness of downtown.
It is exciting to see the city come back together. Have you thought about building a hockey rink? With the new space, it would be feasible.
Perfect for the winter area
Brilliant idea! He could make an outdoor rink with custom printed minifigs with Edmonton Oilers jerseys. 😁
Make the Ice Rink a cover for one of the holes that could be removable if he needs to get through the hole at a later time.
Love the river through the city with the ocean in front. A park next to the ocean would be great. Bike paths. Etc. like Chicago lake front
I think you should move the beach back by one baseplate for more space on the water
I like where this is going, but if I were you, I'd put the beach a baseplate back and create a bit more sea around it. It makes a beach pop out more when there's more water around it imo. It also creates more space for water activities.
here's an idea! Build a separate table, (Island Table) And the build a Suspension, or Cable Stayed bridge to cross it!
Like magneto did in x men final stand lol
This would only make sense as a foot bridge. It would look silly if there was a massive road bridge going to a small island.
I always step on my Mils plates to ensure that the bricks are fully down... Benjamin was doing a great job at doing the same.
I put a chair leg on one of my MILS plates that I forgot was on the floor - was wondering why my chair was wonky
Those things are so tough!
The cloud background is even more amazing now that the city is on the tables
30 minutes of bricksie? Yes please! 😂
Thank you so much!
@@Bricksieof course! i love the daily videos
@@StrykeSZNyour profile picture looks like my cat 😂
Now that there is a city started on the tables, the cloud paintings look even better.
They look soooo good as a backdrop when he looks at the downtown across from the other side
Hope you can find space for a raised trainline again. Loved that in the old city.
YES! Love the idea of the water and canal. Need some car and pedestrian bridges too.
Warehouse city is getting better with each video. Here's a suggestion: How about building the mountains towards the back where residential currently sitting? It would help you blend winter village into the mountains. Plus it wouldn't block the view and help the horizon transition into the cloud wall. I think that would look great.
Coming along great. It would be very cool to have a gradient of foliage from spring to summer to fall to winter through the countryside section to the winter section. Could look really cool and help with the transition to winter.
Take your time, I loveeee seeing and hearing the thought process. Everyone dreams of having a space like this, but seeing it come together and become real is fascinating. I feel like we’re learning alongside you, and that’s super cool. Plus it full of shots of awesome builds and sets displayed. Super entertaining
You should do a bigger beach like you had before. All the stories like the sand castle competition were cool.
Amazing how your City seems small, only because the table is Massive! Love all of this!
Yes! Extend the water! I think if you treated it as an island more than a city, that would be awesome. Do water the whole way around, it doesn't need to take much space. Maybe just 8-10 studs on the outermost edge. Maybe a bay for the boat yard??? Then the extra tables for the mansion and stuff are their own little islands!
For the island tables you were talking about you should have them as peninsulas on each end, one could be open water leading to your mansion island. The other end you could build a cool wrap around harbour or just a cool ocean front part of the downtown with ocean walking paths etc.
Hi Bricksie, great work so far. Just a suggestion is to stain the visible 2x6 table legs to the same color as the 4x4 legs if it’s even possible at this point. Would make it look super clean. Also, about the mountain, maybe it’s in your plan, but making it snow capped would look great, and gives reason for water to flow down the mountain. ❤
Oooh oooh! For the pop up holes, I don’t know what you said you would do for them before. But you make a custom extending table on castors and build parks on them for the city that will help keep the weight down when lowering them for access. And city will feel more complete
What about a big red bridge, like in San Fran, leading over to a big island, with mountains, maybe with lodges, ski slopes and the mansion? Your dock could be here as well.
Using Excel to plan your layout was a great idea. I loved all your construction videos but is so good to be back to the Lego. All your hard work is paying off.
I would like to see you do one section of city in which the train track is established first and the city is built around the track ... and a second section of city in which the city is established first, and then some buildings are moved or modified to make the train track fit. In the real world, one or the other is usually in place first and has to be worked around. Might be interesting to have the track have some shives and bends in it to show that the city was there first.
I still say the pop up holes in the table could be covered and made into small parks or ponds that could be lifted and set aside if you had to crawl back under to work.
I'd love a city layout where it's not entirely flat but has hills and more elevated ground
Epic Lego table time! Look at that river baseplate! Auction that on Whatnot. Love those knee wheels! I have a set, so useful. For a second table, you have enough space for a 120+ square foot (10'x12') table along with 2 smaller "island" tables. With the medieval stuff on a secondary table, you have space on the main table for an expanded theme park & zoo (which looks so small now!), and still have the mansion on its own island table. You will want that extra space for farmland, countryside mountain, and more residential. Cheers!
I can't tell you how happy I am to see the city again. The studio build was interesting but seeing the city back warmed my heart so much. I just can't stop smiling thinking about what it will look like a year from now!
The downtown is epic. I love your ideas. Your Excel plan was awesome. Great use of Excel. It makes great sense to have the train yard close to the shipyard.
Love the city layout! My only suggestion is: I don’t think the train track should go right along the beach in front of the down town. I would turn it sooner and have it go thru down town
Also, under your mountain range, you should cut a slot in the table where your under table subway can come up onto the main table via a large ramp, so it’s all connected!
Great vid, in my opinion, the trainyard location should be swapped with the amusement park. My reason for this is because the amusements tend to be closer to seafronts and marine areas and train yards tend to be in remote countryside areas
7:05 I was also thinking that maybe there should be a river going through the center of the city.
13:11 awesome idea
Maybe the river should go down the mountain to the waterfall
It would be great, I hope you do it
18:45 I was thinking the same, its basically a small industrial area
Train line plan is great, the other line going through the mountain makes sense to be a freight line. Also something to keep in mind is room for train stations
Just an idea, the Venetian houses & havanna hotel are a great way to get the river to connect to a built up ocean front
in every European city and NYC the main train depot dumps you out into the middle of the city and usually into a grand plaza....i would love to see this in the lego city.
You should do the 7x7 island and connect them with a road rail combo suspension bridge that can be lifted out as and when needed
Absolutely this. PLEASE build at least one big 'centerpiece' bridge, somewhere.
You should push the beach and water front back a half bp or a full bp itll give you room for the boat yard and make the beach look bigger. Yeah itll be alot of water work but ill give the effect that theres more water goin off the edge of the table plus like i said itll give you more room for boats. Also i wouldnt make your mountain that big and if you were to make it that big dont make it such a rectangle. Make it a more natural shape ie. A square or l shape just something not so square
When Lego started making modular buildings I don’t think they had any idea the lengths dedicated fans such as Jordan would go to to maximise their impact. The effort over the past few months financially, physically and mentally is extraordinary. I’ve never heard so many mentions of melamine in my life but the journey makes it SOOOO worthwhile!
Every day updates are just insane Thanks Bricksie
I love the river idea and having a harbor against the downtown. Most cities are built along rivers and bays. That opens up a lot of possibilities with riverwalks and bridge designs, too. I say go for it!
Hi! If I were in your place I would use those separate two island tables, which you want to establish in front of the big city layout for a medieval layout, and the other could be an " always changing" layout like winter village, mansion, maybe a western, or a Star wars scene layout dependig on your mood what to create.
As the beachfront is (currently) sitting directed the large unused space putting a table there could be a great space to build fantasy worlds. Fantasy worlds at 'undiscovered islands' in the ocean. A way to let the full creativity go at work no matter if it's fitting into a city or not. A bit the same way you had the mansion and ski hill at a different diorama as it didn't fully fit the city then.
Are you planning on lighting any of your Lego buildings. Also your backdrops are nice but I think 1 wall with mountains might of been more realistic. I have a 10x20’ Lionel trains layout and at first I did the same for backdrops of clouds and blue skies however I felt it didn’t look good like that so I got a backdrop of the mountains of glacier National park. Just a suggestion. I love your lego city
You are a true inspiriation brother. This is going to look awesome when done!
It's your city so build it how you want. But I do wonder if the medieval layout would look better if it was on a table all by itself and not integrated within the more contemporary city layout. Just a thought!
Loving the huge space available Bricksie for countless building options and my suggestion for the one of the two seven baseplate areas. To allow for your boat yard why not move the castles on to their own table area giving you a separate environment for the castles and medieval space. I think this would be awesome and allow for further expansion. GL
once its done you should get a small remote control car and drive it through the city
that's a great place for a boat yard between beach and town!
expanding the beach town back a bit would be cool. no roads just wide walking paths maybe
how cool would a custom monorail be!!
Bricksie I have an idea for the mountain in the middle you should make a tunnel that goes through it for both cars and trains and could do something in the tunnel like maybe have a cave!
Perhaps a Wayne Manor and Batcave in the mountain
Even you couldn’t believe it when you said “Really, Dads at work”. Enjoy this time with your kids!! You are lucky to be able to do what you love.
Okay... hear me out.... This is a BIG BUILD suggestion (for a ways down the road).... but.... you've talked about having the mountains being in the middle of the display.... what if one of those mountains SURROUNDED* one of the Access Holes?! (possibly Top-Left in that digital layout?) You pop up and are met with 360° of UNDERGROUND/INSIDE THE MOUNTAIN scenes! (maybe a Volcano, so there's an excuse to leave the top open? xD)
A few examples:
Barad Dur: from the outside you'd only see the tower, but from inside the mountain, you'd get to see all the interior details (likely customized/expanded for extra detail).
Snow White's Cottage: Cottage is in the main layout... go inside the mount to reveal THE SEVEN DWARF'S MINING OPERATION!
A hidden train station (an excuse to have the train run through the mountain; it would also work out perfect with the train layout you have digitally)
*You could customize a trap/access door, or maybe removable modules to allow access to the surrounding area. This way you're not completely taking away the access holes use.
@@MileHighWino See the bottom of my comment. I addressed that.
@@MileHighWino but think of the UNIQUE SCENE POSSIBILITIES! :O
Water around two corners of the city gives you so many options to tell stories or have other sets incorporated! Need to get some of the HUGE cargo ships with the single mold hull from the east 2000s
You should put a model of your studio into the city
Very excited that all the prep is finished and the city is ready to be designed and built. Probably the most anticipated thing over the last couple months haha
Can just tell that it's going to look awesome
I personally love the mountains so add more please
I definitely think a river flowing through the city and downtown core would look amazing! Especially if you were to raise the core up a few brick heights, just to give a better definition in height. But a river would definitely break things up and look great.
Love the water idea !!! Also , the dad in me knew where the kids were going with Lego on the floor lol I thoroughly enjoy Ben just walking over the “ bridge” .
I think a bridge connecting to a separate table in that space holding the mansion or winter village layout would be a perfect use for that space. Maybe even multiple islands for different scenes
Having a lot of fun following you the process! I would place the train yard underneath the mountains however, it kinda takes up a lot of space. And it would be great to maybe attach some black curtains to wrap underneath the tables and hide the underside.
you add a waterfall at the end of the table on a lower mini table where you add kayak,bears,forest....
Mount a camera a top of the city ( attack it to the roof ) ,so u have a top view whenever u need it .
Greetings from the UK, have you thought about room to add new sets - how about moving the zoo behind the boardwalk and making the train go through the zoo (what a great view !) and would give you the chance to add more animals and enclosures - also the botanical and park area would look great as a central town square surrounded by the town hall and principle buildings as there seems too many roads downtown at the moment ... just my thoughts - good luck !
I hope you stay on this exploring phase for a while! It's fun to see how you change everything up!
I think you should consider having the train yard in parallell to the train track. It will be more efficient use of the space and it will be easier to get space to park full train sets. If you make a small hole in the table you could also get the subway come up from the underground and in to the train yard.
You should definitely make some roads not square to make the layout more interesting
Take your time, it’s looking awesome and we are enjoying the process. ❤
Make the mountain city of Shangrila! I loved the movie Lost Horizons - both color and old black and white. I would love to see you make it.
Then you have something in the middle of the mountain.
This is goin to be awesome man. And lots of Work, and lots of fun 😉✌️
For the water in the city, are you imagining it to be similar to West Edmonton Mall with the water with pirate ship?
You can out the winter village at the tallest mountain to conserve space but also make it super cool. I think it makes sense for it to be high above the ground. Ans finally the lego building has started! Can't wait to see what you will make Jordan!
Ok so how about moving the mountain to the far left corner. You will save space in the middle of the city you could still build the ski village plus you could have an open back to the mountain that you see when you walk round which would be perfect for a visible Batcave.....just a thought.....
It's so cool to see the lego city up and running again. I've been waiting a long time for that. I'm super excited to see what you come up with.
Can’t wait to see the boat and train yard, I think the train tracks should be level with the road or sidewalk in the downtown and amusement park area transitioning into ballast in the countryside
Take your time bricksie. Enjoy the process, don’t stress . Get back to what you love to do. Tfs
Looking good. Sounds like a solid plan to get things moving. If you're going to run a train line through the mountain you could hide a couple of sidings underneath for additional storage too. A riverwalk along the front of the downtown area is pretty common in a lot of real cities and should work really well here. Doesn't need any sand in that area either so it can be very space efficient. This will be fun to watch develop.
Brick side, this developing your new city process is fun! One suggestion, some of the worlds’ most beautiful cities have a river (or two) running through them with great bridges. I suggest you follow that thought that you had today of having a river running through your city to the ocean.
How about put the “up”house between the high bldgs like in the reality.
Love to see the lego city content coming back. I got an idea for you : you could do lower table in front off the water area and make a underwater scene. You could top it off with a plexiglass and transparent blue piece and wave.
Dude love everything so far, really happy for you. I hate giving my opinion but i will this one time. Wouldn’t it be most efficient to build the mountains in the center then build out from there? I know it would suck but it seems like that would ultimately save time. You would have the perspective of the mountains and then be able to build the transitions between the different areas of the city once. Imo
I’m so hooked on this channel that I’m foregoing sleep to watch the latest updates!
Absolutely love how this is going and so excited for the future one thing I could recommend is putting the residential area in the green space behind the beach I feel it would a lot better than being behind the tall skyscrapers
The deep sea area would look amazing below the current beach and boat yard position as means you can see it easily from up top or when you walk in from the display rooms
Love watching your city change. I wish I could have a layout this big.
I have a suggestion for your open space where there is no tables.
I know you said you didn’t want to extend the city table.
But I think it would look good to extend the city tables just a little and have an OCEAN SCENE coming off the city.
Bricksie sliding baseplates again!!! The best!
AMAAAAAAZING! So happy to see lego again. So many options and fun to come!
Wow love the new plan. I did think it would be cool to have one of the islands in the open space with castle ruins .... the ideas are endless. Great job!
Your city is now big enough to house the retired Sydney Opera House. Would look amazing near your beach area
mr.B i think that you are blessed with space now so what about you make bigger water front with harbour/dock/port, some hotels on the beach and from that ocean is begin at you river
i feel like the trainyard/boatyard should be closer to the city and the beach be closer to the country side, it makes more sense like that
It looks great in the thumbnail well done jordan
A train station for the beach and zoo area then one stop for downtown. Looking great 😃
The layout of the city is starting to look great! I do think given the enormity of the space you have now, you could probably slide the beach back either half a base plate or a whole. As is, that sliver of water for what would be the beach looks really small in the grand scale of the space you have now. I think adding depth to the water there would really fit the overall display better
I know all your pirate ships are on the shelves, but it would be cool if your boat yard had at least one one display as a little tourist spot in the boat yard next to a MOC battleship or something.
I will sugest one thing: airport theme somewhere in the city? :) it is a modern thing..and lego has a lot of airport/planes.. :)
the lego city is looking fabulous Bricksie and your little ones made me laugh taking all your mini figs
How about a curtain under your tables to hide the legs?
Even if only at the “entrance “ end of the studio.
Looks awesome Bricksie.
I like the river idea with maybe some bridges connecting two cities or something.
I’m a big car guy as well and a car show scene would be pretty cool as well since they have so many muscle cars and cool creations nowadays. You can even create a Lego rat rod
I think the ski slope should be like the end of the mountain
I am loving the whole process! Have you ever thought about using fewer roads? Less roads is more place for other (in my opinion) more appealing stuff and buildings can easily be connected through some pedestrianstreets with flowerpots, trees, benches etc etc.
Love your idea of more water up front as well as a river and waterfall... I think you should do it!!
Looking good! Take your time with it and have fun. Don’t try to rush through it.