I love the downtown area and the hills a grassy area is great but maybe have the downtown area expand ver toward the Eiffel Tower I really want to see that incorporated into the city.
I am a Urbanist student so here are a few VERY theoretical and umpratiical solutions: More plaza(cities need spaces for interactions) but you need a focal point something that makes people go to a plaza, for instance cities in Europe and latin America have a big church But you can also do a museum! I like that your city has a lot of nature but I would be awesome to see some interactions between architecture and nature. More Public Transport is also always great Today we have access to many forms of transportations: like Trams(Light Rail) and Cable Cars like in Rio de Janeiro and in other Latin American Countries, since your city features different terrain elevation a Funicular or Cable Car would work great, but the terrain is also a dissagevantage when it comes to Subways(metro or Tube) IRL but for lego you could have the station beneath the Modulars and exit out of the tunnel or you can make an underground High Speed Station Like in Barcelona. Another important thing for cities is their heritage and history it would be great seeing a backstory to the city or a castle or palace.
I think you are doing great with the design. Something that could add more depth and entertainment value is if you added a storyline to your city. Could start simple but would be cool if you slowly expanded to it with little scenes, hidden easter eggs for your followers who watch, etc. From watching you I think this would also make the Lego city more rewarding for you over the future years. Maybe start with a simple story of how the city was founded then bring in a few character story lines. Just a thought if you wanted to add more creativity outside just building! Keep up the great work!
It's looking great! Your city really reminds me of the country of Monaco, it's a city state in France and the whole city is built on a massive hill with stairs and such. If you wanted some inspiration with how to navigate a tiered city, I would google photos of Monaco / Monte Carlo to get a great idea of how they do it.
You should move those walls to be between the city layers, and not have a wall between the modulars and the grass/waterfront. So that way, it's more like a park that leads to the water, rather than a gated city.
She should turn the water front into a beach. That would make more sense. Having a city overlooking the beach. That would be pretty cool. To me streams and pounds are found in the woods. That area doesn’t seem woodsy to me.
Hi Em, so if you want to make it look more natural, I would recommend using dark green, dark tan, some tan, and maybe some variants of green besides regular green. I would add like some random bits of rock on the hill to make it look more natural if possible. I think maybe add some large trees in random spots, mixed with different size trees and bushes. Also I feel like that guy is just having fun in his old age. He seems to want to relive his youth as a ship captain. I like the waterfall idea. It looks cool. I think you are doing a splendid job. If you could, can you check out my city.....I would like to hear some feedback. I use sticky tacks to add blue construction paper as my background.
Hey Emily!! Am loving what you did to the LEGO City!!! LadyBurg is looking sooo good so far!! :D One idea I have is for covering up those wooden leg posts, on the side of the City, you could build some walls with vines crawling up the side! Maybe you could even be brave enough and try glueing some plates to the side of the posts to stick vines and floral pieces too!
You should definitely put in some ADVENTURE sets. Like the 'Vacation Getaway' Set. Add some kayaks and other activities along / beside the river. And lastly have the Lego Surf Shop closeby to blend the mountain activities with the beach.
I really like the idea of a lookout area for the nature area. I think that it's looking great, but that is a lot of physical space you've devoted to the nature area. Tell Ross his waterfall is cool looking and a suggestion of using the popcorn piece (also used for smoke or ice cream sometimes) at the bottom of it for the water landing.
Great video, Emma! I loved seeing the new LEGO City expansion. The waterfall and river look so realistic, and I can't wait to see what you build with them. The downtown expansion looks amazing too, with all those new buildings and vehicles. I can't wait to see more of your LEGO City updates. Keep up the great work! I'm definitely inspired to make some changes to my own LEGO City, but I'm not quite sure where to start. Maybe you could do a video on some tips and ideas for expanding and revamping LEGO City layouts?
I would take the green shrubs off the beach/sandbar. Would be fun to expand the sandbar/beach a little and have a cool beach scene. Also where the pumpkins patch was, maybe keep the space changing all the time for seasonal build. Keep up the great content E-saurus! Also shout out Ross Dawg!!! Happy new years y’all!!💚💛
With the newer Friends set designs, you could have a really great city for them! The colors are great, and most of them can be built more than one way. I think it would be a nice complement to your city.
Those hills look great! But yeah the only way you learn and grow as a builder is by actually building, tearing down rebuilding. The river,bridge,wishing well and the wall they all look excellent.
Great city. In between the two levels you could create a facade of buildings to cover up the timber. It just needs to be a few studs deep. Then when you reach the next level extend the facade to create a whole building for the next level. They don't need to be too tall on the top level or you'll block the view you're trying to keep.
The sculpting you are doing on the terrain is great. I'd like to see more of that incorporated on the city levels too. Can you do me a favor and try something (and make a video on it): Take a MILS plate and attach it on a slant using an angled technic pin.. then cover up the gap with more plate
Hiii Ems! An Idea, I know Ross would be interested, on the Hill maybe integrate some hobbit holes, like Bilbos Hobbit hole set but into the mountain area... with a path and stuff. Excellent update!
Keep up the great work! One day I want to make a Lego City and you make it seem more possible (though still extremely difficult) compared to those people who already have an overwhelming large established city. Thank you!
For the sand it doesn’t look natural on the edges like that. For some info you can look up Indiana Sand Dunes ecological succession For more info on how sand interacts with plants and shrubs
At a later date you could incorporate all the sets you have put off to the side into a theme park that would occupy the same space. They'd all make sense considering there's two roller coasters and two castles and you could moc the spaces between those sets like a regular theme park. :)
You should buy a wrecking ball and knock down every wall in your upstairs in order to create on humongous LEGO city room! I’m just messing around, cities looking great!
The leaves over the sand bar do not make sense. Maybe reeds, or bamboo, but not those types of leaves. Also, you all should put that huge tree where you had the pumpkin patch. It would look cool there, and you can make like a picnic area or something there...and the kids could play in the tree?
Loved the update, hope you both had a great new year How about a petting zoo for the green space where the pumpkin patch was Go Ross for the waterfall as well, he’s missing from the video as he was off out to find more 501 battle packs? Between the levels I think the walls would make the most sense and then you could put stairs up then as various places or maybe say a 16x8 plate with a look out/coffee cart sort of thing to join the two levels together, this would be raised up from the lower level and sit 1/2 way between the two levels like a mezzanine level Looking forward to seeing how the castle comes out, keep up the amazing positivity
city's normally have professional Graphiti art or just rogue Graphiti on walls, maybe experimenting with the dots sets could inspire some cool ideas for art on walls instead of grey masonry?
Could make the pumpkin patch area a seasonal thing. Like keep changing the theme to whatever holiday is going on at the time. Looks so cool tho great job
I would build walls to cover the the layers, I’ve done this to my city which can be seen on instagram 😀 it’s very piece intensive but looks really good. I really like what you’ve done with the hill and the river, I would be inclined to remove the leaves by the sand area but other than that it looks great 👏
Really impressive progress, I’ve managed a single fountain in the last month in my city. I’d suggest the leaf pieces beside the river are rather too consistent. I’ve no idea what sort of are you live in but in the UK there would be lots of shingle, mud, rock, reeds and trees all along the sides of this type of river.
It could be cool to have a market similar too the Chinese new year temple fair set in the front green area or other types of market stalls could look nice
This looks amazing! Great job guys. Wanting to suggest something I will either add some flower pieces on top of the green leaves along the river and/or alternate the color with some darker leaves to add a bit more variety.
I love the texturing on the hillside! I think a small village of cottages and farmland with a cobblestone path would look great in the old pumpkin patch area and tie into the small bridge you've got :) (Think like quaint old English village)
It might be more realistic to have the biggest part of the water /pond under the waterfall instead of a river leading to it. The green area could be a nature reserve or park with paths going through and animals. Putting a wall between the layers would look nicer. Blue wallpaper as a background is a great idea. I like the whatnot billboard Great city update
K suggestion, so your putting up the blue walls. Hear me out what about making led Nano Light clouds to go on said blue wall that way it could act as a moonlit sky!!!
Looking awesome, Emily! Some ideas... what about putting the Castle up on a hill. I think the elevation changes really add to your city. Similarly, how about creating a cut-out in your stone wall so showcase a subway and subway station scene under the city? For the side, I would consider taking advantage of the availability of the cross-section to add underground scenes... the aforementioned subway, animal families, underwater scene, sewer system scene. Add a train that moves will add life to your city, as well. The hillside looks great - instead of something generic, are there any local-area parks, bike trails, etc. that could be represented? It's also pretty easy to see the lines in the breaks of the baseplates, so maybe meld them in a little bit to make it more seamless. Love the LEGO Friends downtown area - we have one and it's awesome. Ninjago district, carnival fairgrounds, etc. could be ways to incorporate those sets on the side. Hope these ideas help. Enjoy! Paras.
City looks amazing! I think for the sand bar maybe try removing half of the green leaves to make them more spaced out may look nice? The brick wall looks amazing too I love the arches. Only feedback for the wall, and I know it'd be a pain in the butt, but you could try adding random smooth 1x2 bricks in it to break up some of the masonry stones, but that would be a big pain to have to dissassemble parts of it 😂
"Make it look not like LEGO I guess" - please don't! The good thing about LEGO is that it looks like LEGO. One thing I don't like about some modern sets is that they hardly look like LEGO anymore. Everything smooth and a new part for every particular shape. It's beautiful, but it doesn't always feel like LEGO to me. Your city does! :)
Howdy! First time viewer here. I love your city layout! Very unique and fascinating to watch. I think for the left side of the hill/beach area you should convert to a continuation of the beach with a life guard tower on the left and that whole bottom half space on the right side continuing that beach section and maybe even including some beach front shops next to that building at the end of that right side green section
I would remove the green on the sandbar, in Nature you wouldn't have that. You could put in some of the brown plant stem pieces, those do grow in sandy areas.
Hi am am also a huge fan of the lego city and how much progress you have made, I am trying to do something similar with my lego city. Also how do you do the hills they are one of my favourite part but don’t know how to get that natural look like you have so please mention how you do that in a future video that would really help. So exited about the new and improved lego city.
You need more mocs. A city that is built up out of your own creation makes yours a lot more authentic whereas if your just have a bunch of sets put together with some roads it just looks like every other city out there
The water area looks a looks a little bare. try adding some trees and bushes. Also transformer the stream into a beach. Maybe that might look better. Then that whole green area you could make a forest or a camp ground. I don’t believe a Lego friend’s word would look that great to be true. One of the hardest things about building a Lego city. Is trying to keep it realistic. I think a lot of people struggle with that. Coming up with their own ideas. Adding that adding this. The Disney world/friends world just didn’t look all that great to me. Yea adding color to a Lego city is good. I just didn’t think all that color with the friends sets was necessary. If I were you I’d try to keep it as realistic as possible. The Lego city tunnel’s I thing is a good touch. I think adding a sidewalk on the other side would would be better the taring it down and rebuilding it. And one other thing that’s been annoying for me. Is the sidewalk tiles on the upper platform. Yea there a nice pinch of detail and color. But I just don’t think they fit the city that well. Question: why not paint the back wall instead covering it in wall paper??
Though my opinion is extremely expensive and will cause u to break the city core I just had to say it. I thought you could add a slanting road from the base of the city to the top area where the townhouses are and make the buildings in a stepwise layout in which the road is in the centre and takes u to the top
First I don't know how anybody could be mean to you put on your River okay where you have the sandbar should be more of a hard rock surface and The Sandbar should be on the opposite side where that's where you have The Sandbar coming out and that corner should be where the sandbar is in nature hopefully I explain that well enough but if you put the SandBar or you have the bend in the river and make the current send bar rocks that's what nature would have
