Building a LEGO City Boatyard 

The idea of submerging the boats it great, could also put some trans blue cheese wedges around the edge of the boats to symbolise very small waves around the edges of the boats, maybe even the same around the edges of the actuals docs too. is the underwater area going under the beach or the boat docs I wonder :-)

Looks great - for the ramp you could build a mils plate then just add ramps to it such as the ones used for train crossings and use hinge plates for the centre lane

1:30 Instead of using black plate, you can try yellow plate. It will become safety yellow line similar to train station.

I really like the tiling you did for the water plates. Makes it look and shine like real water. And I think that taking off tiles that are underneath boats is a good idea, but a lot of work.

This area really needed it and it looks awesome and super functional for the Lego city.

Its nice to see the boat docks get its own large enough area so that it can breathe and its not all squished together. Great job!

Be quite good to follow the water from the waterfall from the temple mountains right through ninjago and the campground to then come out at the sea. Would be a nice link between city areas. Gives you something to play round with MILS detail wise too. 👍

5:09 that tanker truck was my first lego set🥲

Keep it versatile so you can change up the boats. Looking great Bricksie!

The tiling makes an amazing difference to the water! So great. You’re idea to submerge the boats is brilliant! One idea - where the control room is, make a river that runs into the camp ground. Good for kayaking and fishing etc!

The new boat docks look amazing! But I actually like the white tiles on the top better than it being all black.

New Boutyard looks so awesome

Omg this is one of the craziest videos I've ever seen! What an amazing Lego room that is!!!

I got an idea! Get all the Star Wars ships and hang it above your Lego city

I really like it. I Think it would be cool if there was a train tracks next to the crane. Then there can come cargo trains in, and then the crane can lift the containers on to the ships. Good video as always👍

A coast guard or customs office would be fun. A bunch of superhero comics and shows have fights in and around shipping containers (Daredevil, FATWS, etc.) Recommend a row of shipping containers that is 3 containers high. Looks really good though.

Amazing updates, and fire video!!!!!!!

A lot of boat yards have a travel lift and a boat fork lift spot to put the boats away for the winter, it would be cool

awesome video jordan the boat docks look amazing lots of great detail great job

Seeing as you want the boats to sit better in the water, maybe you build a frame that slides around the boats. That way the boats will be slightly submerge and not permanently fixed to the plates. Meaning you can move the boats into any order you like...

ice skate pieces would look good as tie offs

Looks fantastic.

Beautiful detail!

Looks stunning

Amazing, great job!

Looking very good. Great job. 🔥

That dock looks amazing!!!!! I love all your idea's for water. Working on a water section for my granddaughters Friends area. This will come in handy.

I like the look of the white tile under black plate around the edges.

I think that a cool thing will be if you make a big stack of containers were the existing ones and that green wheel thingy is. And then maybe make one of those cool giant forklifts (like in the new train set). I thought, wow this dock is amazing, then you said “well time to tile it” and then it was very amazingly amazing!

Spreading out the boats in different sections is an improvement and more natural than having them all lined up in a row. Need lots of seagulls for the area.....LOL

the new boat docks looks so good the tile is a hard work Thank you LG

Maybe add some post with chains connecting each one, that run down the sides of the docks. I'm guessing they use them for safety, so keep people from getting too close to the edge

Wow, it makes a huge diffrence with the tiles on the water! For the transition to the campground area (road), you can modify your existing MILS plate in the dock area, to sort of have the road stuck into the plate, if it make sense. So remove some parts in the middle of the plate and make your own road, without the roadplates. I would suggest using 18 degree angled slopes, which isn't too big a "hill". So two 18 degree slopes, should do the trick to match up with the other "normal" MILS plate height.

I was here when you were at 10k it's amazing to see the city evolve and I changed to mils because of you.

The fact you had even considered adding depth to the water, you should have held off on tiling. You are going to absolutely dread digging that up in the future just to do it all over again. The dock area looks great though, the light reflecting off the tiles already gives the water a realistic shimmer.

Not sure if possible, but could you mils plate your boats? make them modular with the water plates so that they're modular? That said, I am really impressed with the boat yard. Too bad the Oilers haven't been converting their efforts as much as you have been. Here's to hoping 4 straight wins from now onwards..

I like the looks and layout. To bad such a loud busy place will be next to a peaceful and serene wooded camp group area.

Amazing n fresh n yall are the best lego RU-vid

very cool

Looks brilliant

Hey Bricksie great video! I feel that submerging the boats would look cool but be a lot of effort and also you should make a custom MILS plate for the road entrance to the camp ground.

Your always in such a good mood I just love watching your vids and every second I see a new vid I stop what I’m doing and watch it

This is awesome 👏

I like the layout for the docks, and I like how it's all raised up like that. I do think that using the new road plates to add roads to the raised area makes sense. I have a couple of suggestions for you, too. 1: Around the classic cargo crane, if you wanted, you could modify the crane so that it's fully functional. I dunno how much it can do by default, but it'd be cool if it could pick up a container, then move it and place it on a truck. It should also be able to roll side to side on the dock. 2: On the docks, some tie offs for the boats would be needed, yeah. Also just piles and piles of nautical stuff. And birds. Crates, nets, floats, old buoys, cable spindles... Stuff that would have at one point been on a boat, and someone said "just put it on the dock, we'll get it later" and that was 15 years ago. 3: On the sides of the docks and the raised area: the bumper pads are a good idea, but I think it'd be a really neat and realistic approach if you could find a way to pad those edges with a lot of old tires. I'm sure you have plenty of extras; they always seem to be in no short supply, so having some of them along the edges might be really cool.

Hey Bricksie, I have a crazy idea for the water. I think you should add studs of white and light blue or turquoise on top 2x2 plates for depth and the submerging effect. In addition, I think you should add RGB lights under the studs with the right shade of blue or teal and brightness would make the ocean more lively since the sun creates a glistening effect on the water.

if you could incorporate the water all the way through somehow maybe make a river from the sea to the mountain, then the link between the dock yard and the road could be a bridge over the river instead of a ramp that would look quite cool.

Maybe you could take off parts of the bottom of the boats to get the submerged look. Then you could place them anywhere on the water. 👍🏾

The tiles adds the reflection effect in the water, I like it

I think the white peaking through on the dock border looks cool!

Dang Bricksie! You're a pro! Your city is looking phenomenal! Almost as much as your stache'!

Your city is great man

The submerge idea is great..maybe to help is come up with a standard size for the "submerged" area so that ensures that if you decide to move the boats they can always fit or a few raised areas in the water so it just looks like something is going through on that certain side no matter the size.

I love your videos!

Nice work on both the yard and the dock, and the water looks as realistic as it can get. I'd say if you plan on moving boats around, leave it the way it is as you said so it isn't so permanent and stuff gets stuck and so on. I don't know if you plan on adding more details to the shipping yard, but it looks great so far. 👍

it would have been cool if you added car tires between the boats and the dock! That would have added a nice touch since thats how its looks irl :)

Bait and tackle shop on the dock!!!

Love to see the old 6542 back there… That set originally also came with a small pilot boat, which might be an idea to fill the quite empty section back there. The big ramp element from that set also exists in (old) dark gray… Maybe that's an idea to fill the gap to the normal roads?

I like what you're doing with the boatyard area Jordan, looking good Well, 5th June is my birthday 🥳 so I've been celebrating by building the UCS Landspeeder that I've had since release, finished bag 5 and loving the build, like you said mainly system building so more enjoyable that lots of technic! I agree with a comment below that it would be cool to somehow link the water from the mountain all the way through to the sea, this could include a culvert/drain so you don't have to visibly see the water all the way. Great video as usual and I'm looking forward to seeing the next evolution of your MILS plates - at least 4 bricks high?! 😂😀

So cool

I am in the coast guard and can provide info if wanted in regards to how we have building and boats set up 👍 happy brick building

Awesome LEGO vid

You could add a stream/river that starts at ninjago city, runs through the campground and empties into the boat yard.

Looks great. Yeah would definitely like to seem some plates underneath for water depth at some point like how they do in ninjago city

Cool

looks amazing.....consider parking the boats backwards (facing away from dock).

Might be cool if you build a small bridge to transfer from the road plates on to the dock entrance and move the security shack to the bridge

beach part and doc s looking great now I got that octane servo set and car wash set s .😊.

Maybe on the docks how about the studs on the side which the rope from the ship to the harbor holds them once in. Also I would have gone the far part near the wall to make it a dry dock and have a ship looking like its getting built.

Once again amazing job!! Btw at 1:36 the white edges actually look better than the black. They create a nice contrast!! Just my 2 cents. Take it or leave it! :)

Looks good! I saw a comment or two about adding motion next to the boats. That was my thought as well. Instead of sinking the boats add some water motion next to it? As even is a boat yard there would be water movement with other boats rocking against the docks or the wake from them leaving or coming.. if they still sat on top of what you have done but it would be less to remove if you decide to move the boats

I like the white plate border more than the black as it adds some extra detail. I thought the farm was supposed to take some of that space??? Anyway, it does look good with all that water tile.

Been wanting to see what you do with the boatyard. I think it would be cool if you found the space to build a little airport area for shipping. You've kind of inspired me to look at my own city setup and that is what I'm currently trying to build.

Honestly if you’re using the modern scale for shipping containers and they’re in your harbour on the dry dock, you might want to sacrifice the 1991 launch and load seaport or modify it to handle containers bigger than the vintage 4x8x4 containers

you should put a minifigure on the edge of one of the docks and make him fishing

the white plates look better than the standard black i think, they give the thing more character

What would look epic would be a big truck ferry or a cargo ship in the port

You should build a ferry dock/ramp!

If you had 1/2 base plates, you could probably modularize your boats but not mils plates just base plates to keep the same original height.

Looks great so far, for the question... I think it would look better if the boats looked submerged a bit and some ripple effects maybe, of course it would be extra and like mentioned to move the boats around would be more work. Did the oilers win, the other day I saw a family come in to where I work all with oiler jerseys on, I thought "oh if Jordan makes a video I bet there will be a game".

I'd rather see more cranes and water and boats being unloaded than all that surface, no matter what you do it's going to be a gigantic gray tile display. Trains would really set it off too, they don't have to actually function with a full loop of track.

I actually like the white bricks on the side

The water look clean, but I agree it would look great with the extra dimension the plates would give. For the ramp leading up from the road you could try a side ways brick built roads to connect. they can be shaped to fit. Check out Brickcrafts RU-vid channel for an excellent example.

You should put the titanic in the boat yard to see how it looks there 🚢

An idea for a set to add is 10294 it’s a good submarine that would fit well in the ocean part under the docks

All the decisions don’t need to made now. Take your time and enjoy yourself.

Can the Zoo project be next? Been a while since there is some progress in the zoo. It's the most hype for me when you were visiting Zoos to get ideas to build.

might be stupidly expensive but you could build up a one brick wall around the edge of the water and fill it with trans blue and clear studs

why not just add the blue tiles to the bottom of the boats so when you move them they move with the boats if you know what i mean

You should add the pirates of the Caribbean Rowing boat with captain Jack into the bottom right to fill some space and contrast to the big boats ¿

Shipping containers are a massive part of boat yards look at Port of long Beach ⛱️

Idea for ur ramp ro the docks u could try using 2 by 3 ramp/slopes pieces

I would recommend maybe some more containers or like a container ship

Make each boat have its own plate so they are modularized.

How about a mils “ramp” by the octan gas station? Has that been made yet before? Could be helpful!

Campingground next to an industrial area with a gasstation doesnt want me to go camping, there needs to be a sort of transitionarea between it in my opinion

You could put some cargo trucks there

Jordan, great videos. I know that you are an Oilers fan, they have been playing well, probably better then the scores reflect. I live in Colorado and am an Avalanche fan…sorry.

I real think you should add a sewer system and add some TMNT stuff and maybe a subway system

Can u make a little stream going from the campground to the boat yard?

It's sad the oilers are in a drout against the avs