In the middle section you should do an open field that you can swap out pre made modules. Like a small Christmas display, a spooky dilapidated house for Halloween, you get the idea.
An idea for the tramline would be to add an 'obvious' main road in your city (with multiple lanes for example) and than let the tram integrate in that road. I think that would look awesome!
I feel like you should add wildflowers or dandelions between the train tracks because i feel like it needs a little bit of color. Where I live, there are always sunflowers in the ditches because we used to have sunflower fields around my town
I would love to see a pumpkin patch in the empty space between the village and the city. Pumpkins would be so cool to design with different sizes and types, and the orange colors would stand out so well against the green.
I'd be affraid the staircase will fall down due to vibration of people moving around the LEGO set, so i'd suggest adding some support. Metal strip or piece of wire across it so it would be more secure :)
I was thinking the same thing. It looks like there's enough room for technic bricks to be put between the baseplates and the platform ground. Then just run some beams down to technic bricks under the structure.
Just a suggestion for your elevator next to the railway station: instead of adding space to the top of the elevator shaft for the cables and pulleys, you could have an elevator that is pushed up by a piston at the bottom, which is a more likely elevator design for an outdoor elevator that just goes from street level to below-ground.
An ‘underground’ (under table) traintunnel could be interesting, especially if you use lighting in the tunnel. That would give a spectacular view from the traincamera.
If you ever decide to build a beach of some kind in front of the sea with a cliff behind it in the future, you could make a cliff railway similar to the one found in a place called Oddicombe, in England. It is like a tram that moves diagonally upwards and downwards, carrying people from the top of the cliff to the beach. Perhaps it could even connect to the pre-established tramline in some way? :)
I don’t know if this is a European thing, but in the UK, the street violinists would have a hat for collecting coins, you could add a bucket or something to show that and add some coins to it infront of them.
For the elevator you could use a rack and pinion system from technic to put the motor underneath the elevator (That way you don't have to extend the top) and push the car from the bottom. Many elevators do this by using hydraulic piston instead of cables.
Don't know why, but this reminds me of a district of Warsaw where I live. It is split in the middle by a railway, and to get across, you need to use one of two underpasses, one of which connects to the railway station, which is a sort of centrepiece of the district
What you can always do is buy some (lego-compatible) small LED-strips and glue them inside of buildings and roofs in order to illuminate everything. I always think that it adds a lot of life to a city. As an alternative, you may also might like to use some LEDs below the wood structure and redirect the light into the city using fibre-optic cables and diffusers.
@@unknown6656 Lego should start making illuminated lego pieces (basically translucent pieces with LEDs inside) and a set of standard lego pieces that have metal conductors or something on the studs that would allow you to distribute power across your lego layout.
He already had a lighting system in his old old layout (before this channel was started but it's still on the German channel), so I think he has an idea how to do it, not to mention he also added the space between plate and baseplate to run wires through. Some of the stuff he illuminated was the subway station, cinema and traffic lights btw. Relatively complicated ones as well. Edit: If you are interested in seeing what I mean, watch "Letzter Lego-Stadt Rundgang im alten Layout" (last Lego city tour in the old layout) from 31:10 onwards, there you get an idea what he already did and will probably improve on when he can
Congratulations! I’d like to see you connect with tram the lower section to the upper section… it would be a little challenge to deal with the slope. Good work
In order not to miss the lighthouse, it might also be possible for the tram to go through a small tunnel. The lighthouse can then be built on the hill by pulling the rock wall forward.
Love your videos, I was thinking maybe you could make the sand green building into some kind of small souvenir shop for the tourists visiting the city.
That minifigure is at serious risk of falling off the platform and onto the tracks!My suggestion is to move the bench further from the tracks, to the other side of the station building and adding a colored band to the platform edges for visibility and disability accommodation. It could even be textured using yellow or white 1x2 radiator grilles...
That building really feels like a coffee shop! It has a variety of Public space around it, and would fit well with the general vibe of the area between an old and new town.
An idea for both the train and tram stations: most of the real world stations have a yellow line close to the tracks to prevent people from standing too close. It's a small detail, but I think it would give a more realistic look!
The ebb and flow of these videos is perfect. There’s no filler, just you showing your style and what you want to do with your city. I’m hooked and I cannot stop watching!
Love how the sheet music at 3:10 appears to have the notes to "when you wish upon a star", and not some random musical gibberish. It's the little things that count!
An idea for the train tracks. Add a worker mowing the tall overgrown vegetation. So you have both a clean look and an overgrown look at the same time. And a talking point of a city worker in action.
The new building can become a kiosk or information point where visitors can find flyers for interesting things to do in the city. Btw, I love these videos. I just like eating my snacks/dinner while watching you
Would be awesome to see here some kind of whole underground part of the city - subway and abandoned sewers/tunnels - in which the bad guys story would take part.
It's super awesome you did the underpass! It almost felt out of character for you to have the stairs leading down to nothing. For the building by the tram; It would be fun to have a platform on the front for the tram and turn it into a tram station/tram historical building.
Ahhh I enjoy your content so much. It is perhaps the most relaxing 8-10 minutes of my week. I'm glad you are back to weekly updates. For that one building you mentioned, you could make it as a postal building. Granted it's not super ideally placed to be a "main" postal building, but what about as a smaller, secondary postal building? I would think tourists would take the tram to "see the sights" and it would then end at the postal building. So if you added a postcard shop next to the postal building, it would be super easy for tourists to mail postcards home to their loved ones.
A suggestion for the Tram line. Have a stop where you have built it right now. then let it turn under the elevated part of the city and have an underground stop there with elevators all the way to the top. Then let the tram dive below the table and have another underground stop somewhere where the cityhall is.
Perhaps add some more plants to the smuggling cove so it's not so visible from the town above? Maybe even some fake camouflage, like a net or plank ceiling (visible from below) covered with plants on top. Cool little details for the children which will have a lower POV than the adults!
Maybe have the building as an old school ticket master sort of stand and in the field either a farmland (pens, crops, etc) with some trails between them or a sports/multipurpose field with a playground and skate park in it :) happy building!
For the elevator moving up and down could you create a piston effect underneath, where the elevator is pushed up from underneath and lowered back down. Then you won't have to try and cram a motor in the roof to try and pull it up. 👍
Any concerns about cutting a baseplate are more than forgiven by your commitment for building the barely visible underground walkway. Beautiful, and I'm sure the minifigs appreciate it being functional.
few ideas : - maybe you can add a public basketball field, the orange of it would add color - you can also putt a football pitch, and why not even a stadium ? :) - you can also add a water pond or big fountain to add some blue in the front as well - also you can add a road with some parking spots in the front, for now no road connects to the building in front of the railways, how can the shopers for example bring their products to the market ? - on the upper platform, to make it not just a big city with buildings, you could create a park - don't forget to add barriers to the stairs from the lower to the upper platform
The small building at the tram station could be tram driver lounge hub, maybe with some lockers for cloth changing and some monitors for tram scheduling and more stuff.
Idea: would there be room for a zoo and/or sports venues in or near the city? I think it would be cool features to have, maybe on the rural side so that people from the village can easily go there too.
I love how you've made all this look in the new space. These videos are a joy to watch. I hope your museum is well loved, very profitable, and will provide you with a great place for your creativity to roam free.
At the 7:45 mark I spy another city or a castle layout either way I'm excited about it. Your city layout is top notch, in my opinion it's actually the best on RU-vid it rivals most Legoland builds and is better that alot of legoland layouts. This is impressive my friend.
This is just amazing. The new building could be a steak out building for a spy organisation, trying to find the source of the money laundering operation, just to tie in the entire story. The building could have big computers and agents trying to find criminals.
You could do a windmill for the area between the two, motorized would be something that draws the eye there. Perhaps an observatory could work as well. With the other end of things, perhaps on an edge go with a zoo design. There's enough animal figures in scale that it would look neat and having just part of it visible would work with the rest leading off from it...or, perhaps, go with a safari park. Also, in the city, you ought to grab one of the Lego hotdog carts and put it somewhere. It's a rather cheap set and just a fun thing to have.
The staircase and elevator under the tracks is awesome and not something you see very often, in fact ive never seen this in any other lego city before. Just remember to save the pieces of both the table and the baseplates that you cut out. That way if you have to remodel or something you can at least glue the table piece back in.
IDEA!!! For the "underground" areas you should hook up tiny spy cameras and have a screen on the wall showing the feeds like security cameras. Keep up the awesome work brother, loving the updates.
I feel like if you moved the smugglers cove to the right a bit you could connect those rocks to the rocks by the tunnel without getting in the way of the tram tracks
Maybe you could put a big lake between the village and the edge of the city. You could fill that with minifigs fishing, swimming and doing watersports. The whole city looks awesome btw!
Awesome work so far! Just food for thought, that the tram station should be more elaborate seeing as it will be at the front of the city, closest to everyones line of site. A clock tower or an extended platform could be great. Also if possible trying to design a old church or medieval church to put in the city would be a cool addition!
Maybe the green building at the tramline could be a tourism information point? Could maybe make good use of all the printed tiles you now with maps and such.
I feel like that building could be an older Railway Interlocking Tower that maybe got turned into a small train museum or shop when all the railway switching was retrofitted to use electronic switching instead of mechanical.
Maybe once you get further built you could add some LED's in the street lights, buildings, and vehicles? Then some fiber optic on that rear panel for nighttime stars. Could pretty awesome with a train ride at night! :) 👍 A small hunters lodge with elk, bear or wolves and an led fire 🔥. Does Lego have wild animals? Maybe a small theme park, carnival or circus. Some lit up carnival rides/stalls would look cool. A campground with different campers like the winnebago, or the airstream. Led campfires and tents. Could be enjoying 🛶, mini golf, horseback riding, or riding around the campground on their golf cart. lol
You could add yellow flowers to the grass/flower stem parts in between the two tracks to represent those flowers associated with weeds (don't know the name of them) as they are usually found along train tracks. Or at least where I live anyway. Love the videos
I think that little green building would make a decent coffee/tea plus baked good shop so people waiting for a train can grab a quick snack like a coffee and a muffin or tea and a biscuit
The tramline building reminds me of the green shelters dotted around London for taxi drivers. I think you could take inspiration from them? Turn it into a little café...
you should connect them under the table, along with a nice window view inside of the people walking through, maybe a busker, so little kids can spot it.
I'd personally make the building next to the tram line I to like a switchboard house for those running the tram, so gauges, screens, guys sitting at desks making sure the tram and trains are running correctly and not intersecting into each other.
The little building up front could be a small coffeeshop where the figures can pick up a cappuccino on their way to the metro line and/or train station!
You should add a lumberyard next to the train tracks somewhere. Maybe a little beyond the village. Ofcourse this would take time to build, but it would be a great addition to the lego city.
I think one thing that could be nice is that you open lego doors and have the characters "caught in the moment/slice of life" when they are about to pass trough into a building.
The tunnels are such an awesome add! Definitely want to add those to my city when I have the space to go from a shelf to a table city! Specifically for subways!
The station could be another part of the money laundering business, for example, there could be some people taking the tram with money filled suitcases, and trasfering them trought the station, to the secret cove and off city via ships.
You could put the motors for the elevator below the shaft and use pulleys like some real ones do. This is so the elevator doesn't need to become taller and stick out too much.
Awesome, love the enginuaty and satsfying building of new sections. It would be super cool if you made a full subway system, or at least a full station.
I was smiling the entire video, seeing the progress is amazing and the city is looking awesome! Love the elevator shaft and all the details around the new area
I stumbled upon this series a few months ago and I'm so happy I did because this is awesome to watch this project keep expanding. What a crazy, strange lane of RU-vid but it's fuckin awelsome.
Imagine being shrink down to the size of a LEGO minifigure, walking around this beautiful city only to realize that the elevator system doesn't even connect... !
